Paul McKenna's No Pain, No Pain, Non Diet for those who really want to lose weight. No calories, no syns, no humiliation, just shedding stones amongst friends. Thread 8

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The Golden Rules that will aid you on your journey with our like minded support system:

1. Eat what you WANT
2. Eat when you are HUNGRY
3. Eat CONSCIOUSLY
4. STOP eating when you are satisfied and full

This weight loss system is about re-educating your body; learning to listen to it and in doing so losing weight and inches. So forget diets; they may work for a while, but they aren't permanent solutions.
The Paul McKenna system works and is easy to maintain.

I've C&P'd our previous threads links as they are helpful.

Here are the book choices on AMAZON which is all you need to get started! they aren't compulsory, but they do help! it's something to refer to.

This is the tapping technique EXPLAINED - this can be useful to combat cravings.

Please feel free to join us. We are friendly, supportive and successful but we're not hungry!!! so come on in and start living your new life today!

And I'll bet ex will be high-fiving his mates with the whole 'sisters' thing. Boak.

Is he properly supportive of Yr DD Kink? If so apart from contact about her you're lucky that you don't have to see him more.

I've got 3 half sibs i've seen once in my life !! honest! I s'pose unless you've been bought up together it doesn't much matter whether you see her or not?

She wants a close relationship with us. We see each other a couple of times a year as we live at opposite ends of the country. When we found out about her (she's older than us; I met her when I was 16 and she was 24) I made a huge effort and wrote to her lots. I was the one who she used to talk to, and I took her out. However, we quickly clashed as we have some similarities. So our relationship has been up and down since. It has been on an up since I got married 5 years ago. However, now we can safely say it has once again taken a down turn.

Relationship with ex is fine. We are friends normally. We go out together. It is because of this he has been able to get close to half sis, as I would have them both out with me around Christmas (I don't have a lot of friends, so socialising tends to be with my 2 yr younger full sis and her mates, who I've known for ages, half sis, and ex). E.g. Ex stayed here last week and we had a takeaway together with DH. I was actually on a night out with him when I met my husband! He'd split up with his girlfriend, and asked me to go out where he lived as he'd just got back from overseas. I went out with him, he was trying to chat up a girl he knew and I got talking (harrassed when pissed) my now DH who was working at the nightclub!

I want both of them to be happy, I do. I also know they will either be perfect for each other - they are so similar in interests, life goals, etc - or they will clash awfully. However, I am very, very pissed off about how they've gone about everything. I'm also cross at lack of concern for me at what has been a difficult time. I also don't know what they heck they expected - I think they wanted me to embrace them and wish them well .

Yeah i can see how you'd be peexx off about the way it's happened and their selfishness.I spose it's down to your fragility at this bad time as well. I wish you luck with it all; you've got to do what you feel happiest with and I'm sure they'll both be very happy

Weirdly that happened to my friend, well it's her step sister but still, they grew up together. They're kind of ok ish now but it is weird. I hope you are ok kinky.
I'm well still doing rubbish but I ordered the book so hopefully I will be back on it. Af is in town so that doesn't help.

How are all the newbies getting on?

I did ok most of today but this evening dad came together and brought with him a HUGE syrup pudding. I was aware I was actually full after dinner but it looked so nice and I wanted it.... I was even aware I'd feel sickly after it but I still ate far too much of it (and do now feel so full of sugar. Yeuk. It was nice at the time though). I just wasn't able to eat just a bite when dad was there eating tons....

I'm trying to see it positively that at least I was aware of what was going on....

(just catching up on the "soap opera" above
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Ps - this was on a friends facebook today and has really made me stop and think..

using that's why I'm narked - it's because they've made my life into an effing soap opera . Thanks for link. Shouldn't have skived off the crosstrainer tonight...

It was very interesting that they showed activity + obesity took away the risks to health of inactivity + obesity.

Phoenix I wonder if it's more common than we'd like to think. Creepy. Keeping it in the family and all that . I actually knew somebody who had an affair and then 2 kids with her sis's other half.

Gosh Kinky - what a nightmare :(

I certainly need to move more... not sure if my random walks from car - to - xyz really count. It looked like walks of 20mins plus each day were better. Still one thing at a time and I'm trying to get a hold of what I put in at the moment.

Being aware is good using and now you're aware of how rubbish it feels after too so next time you will have motivation to say no, or only have a little if you're already full, a good start id say.

Kinky that all sounds so stressful, I do hope things start to improve soon.

Has anyone else got pm on fb? He's just put a post on saying that his (i think his) hypnotic gastric band things should be out in the uk around may time, duo us to see this.

I think everything counts using as it gets you more active. That footage really did surprise me. I'm definitely dragging the DCs out to the country park near us tomorrow now! I was doing so well with exercise, but have found that it's started to slip now I'm into my 6th week. I need a virtual kick up the bum .

It certainly made me reassess how I'm doing things. I really want to be fit and healthy for the children and I am 2 stone overweight (and that would only take me to the top of my bmi, first thing in the morning, with no clothes on etc...) so very nearly obese and I kid myself its not such a huge problem health wise and am so used to being big. I always want to be smaller but for image reasons/self esteem - I don't think I'd really realised how unhealthy I am :( Still. Onwards and upwards all, and the PM thing is fab. Will try and finish reading the book tonight and might start the cd tomorrow. Finding time without a child awake is hard but I so want to do it :)

Hello can I join you? I have bought the book yesterday as it was on sale in sainsburys (£4 if it works it will be the best bargain ever). I am ashamed to say that somewhere in the garage there is a whole set of 4 PMK CDs gathering dust and spiders.

I have 2 to three stones to loose, courtesie of 3DC, a busy life and probably a lot of diets who ruined my metabolism. Went to join WW two weeks ago but I just cannot do it anymore. I cannot have my days revolving about counting points and obessing about food and buying WW crappy bars because I am starving.

So I thought I would give PMK an other try as really I want to feel healthy rather than thin and I am fed up to battle with food all the time.

Have you ladies had much success so far? Do you feel a difference rapidly or does it take a while?

Hey everyone, I've come back to join you all, I've been doing terrible recently and I'm thinking of joining weight watchers I have stated listening to the cd most nights again and have been more motivated to exercise again but am still eating lots someone tell me it will all get better...

Just listened to the cd and I don't really like it! I will persevere but its a bit weird. I had a hypnatal one in pregnancy and loved all the sea sounds, thinking lovely happy thoughts etc but his voice and the sound effects are just WEIRD.

There's no way I could listen to that with my husband home and it felt odd trying to switch off that much at night when I have 2 small children to keep half an ear open for (as husband is away)but I guess I'll get used to it.

Hmm harder than I thought! I love the book though - it makes so much sense.

I'm doing WW.

There, I've said it, my dirty little secret is out .

I find the two approaches have really worked well together for me. Before, when I did WW, I would only eat healthy food, and if I ate anything 'naughty' it felt like I'd failed, regardless of points. The PMK approach, to eat what I like, when I feel hungry, has fit in beautifully because I never want to eat more than daily and weekly points using his method, and I'm regularly eating my favourites, like pizza, chocolate, cake and toast, alongside loads of fruit and veg. It is suiting me down to the ground and I'm losing well.

I only joined WW because it was next to free through Quidco. I did that before I started this, but I honestly believe it is PMK that has made me stick with it and I do feel like my attitude to food is changing. I also feel more motivated to exercise (although admit I've gone off the boil a bit this week). WW alone would never have helped me to achieve that. I think part of the WW thing for me is liking to log things and see my progress.

I don't think anyone doing PMK needs to follow a diet - it isn't about that and it works fine by itself. I suppose I just needed the extra support to really make a go of changing things for good this time.

using CD is creepy. He's got his throaty sex voice going on, and is really trying to make us all fancy him with subliminal messaging... I think I only ever hear the first 5 minutes before I fall asleep .

Can I join you please?

I've about 2 stone to lose and was given the book and Cd by my sister. I did really well and loved it but fell off the PM Wagon big style the weekend before last at a party and have been struggling to get back on since.

I'm re-reading the book and I'm going to try to listen to the CD every day, but I think you ladies will be the extra bit of support I need.

Also please reassure me that sometimes the words all overlap each other/ that there are some weird effects going on too...

I felt a bit like I did when I was begnining to trip with GandA and don't like that feeling but it WAS just the funny words wasn't it!

Yes they overlap. Do you listen on headphones? It's bizarre. But it works, so he can say what he likes.

Hi Neenook .

That's reassuring that it isn't me losing the plot then! I only listened to about the first 10minutes before falling asleep! I haven't used headphones as I'm anxious about being able to hear children wake (and I fall asleep!). I had a little stereo next to the bed.

Well if it works I'll keep doing it anyway. 30minutes is such a long time though when I only get about 2 hours childfree a day! (after 7.30pm!)

Morning all welcome lifeis You'll find on here that we're at different stages; I was aiming at 2 stone off but found that I lost more with unintentional extra exercising - and I'm maintaining the extra off as well . I DO follow a healthy way of eating which I've been doing for so long I actually WANT to eat like it. While some of us have lost and regained some but getting back into it (that's another beauty of it) And some are just getting into it. It's not hard and it makes 100% sense.

using have you checked out the DVD? you might find that better and i know there's some short vids on google.