Paul McKenna would be so proud of us on THREAD 9...No Pain, NO PAIN!! The Non Diet for those who really want to lose weight. No calories, no syns, no humiliation, just shedding stones amongst friends.

[Solo]

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. This is a new way of living for your brand new life!!

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 and listening to the cd's can really focus you.

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

Please feel free to join us, whether it's 10lbs or 10 stones you want to lose.
We are friendly, supportive and successful, but we're not hungry OH NO we're not!!! so come on in and start living your new life today!

Not sighing at you Thing3 and yes, do come back :) I'm sighing at the weighing scales me!!

Thank you solo, is everything ok?

I'm determined to do it this time! I have been listening to the CD for the last few nights and even though I haven't been following the rules I don't think I have eaten as much as I was before whole large bars of fruit and nut dairy milk in one sitting

I'm Ok, just having a crisis of confidence and some personal blips (menopausal monster) and I'm at war with my Dc's and I hate myself and dislike my Ds a lot...

Really hope things improve for you solo it sounds tough! I have had the worst 2 years of my life! My now exDH walked out when DC3 was a week old 2 years ago and started sleeping with someone else. I was a complete mess and ended up in hospital after taking too many tablets. Since then we have been on again off again, every time I have started to feel better I have been dragged back down. Now at last I have finally decided that I don't want to be with him at all and feel so much better for it.

DD1 has at times been awful and I have felt the same about her. At the moment I am getting help from school with alsorts and they are going to recommend she sees an educational psychologist.

I don't know why I have just told you my life story, I guess just as an example of how things can get better. Are you having to go back to work soon?

On the pauling front I haven't over eaten today and have done an hour on wii fit plus. I was saving a yum yum for when I finished but didn't fancy it.

I'm going to listen to my cd now, night all.

Can I join you? I was here a few years ago and lost 21lbs in 12 weeks on PMcK. I found it quite easy. So why the hell did I stop? I stopped thinking about the rules and started obsessing over food and have put most of it back on! A few times I've gone to start it again, but some sort of 'fear' of 'diets' throws me back. I panic and start eating loads and binging. But I've had some joint troubles recently that aren't helped by my weight. So I'm back on the wagon - have been almost a week now.

So far so good. I'm rubbish at waiting 2 weeks to see weight loss so I've done a quick check already and reckon I'm a good pound or so down. Certainly the right direction.

The way I see the plan is that I just have to not be a total pig. Quite often I eat my dinner (at about 8pm by the time DH is in) and then stuff down a glass of wine, a bar of chocolate and a packet of crisps. Much as this ritual is lovely, it's no good. Now when I feel I want that stuff but I'm not genuinely hungry, I tell myself I can have the crisps and chocolate for breakfast. When the next day comes the last thing I want is that for breakfast. More than anything, I'm trying not to obsess about food and panic about what I can and can't eat.

Hello suzi2 welcome back :)

Hi Suzy.

I know exactly where you are coming from with the after dinner snacking. I had to ban it completely. It was one instance when eat what you want if you are hungry didn't work. Most of the time I pretended to myself I was at least peckish which I probably was by bedtime! I also can't just have a chunk of chocolate, I have to have the whole bar. Banning is the only way for me. After months of stalling I am finally losing again. The rest of it is really easy as you say. Well done on your lb. I hope it is one of many.

Waves to Solo. Hope you are OK. Children are a delight sometimes, aren't they?!" I had DS1 screaming at me yesterday to go away (mildly amusing because his voice is breaking and he sounds like Scooby Doo but I can't let myself laugh). Since we were sitting in my sitting room at the time, that didn't work for me. I sent him to his room to calm down. My mum was there - I think she was quite shocked! Bloody teenage hormones. I am hoping that since DS is starting early he will finish early. Knowing my luck he will be still stroppy at 18.

Welcome back to Thing3 too. Sounds like you have had a horrible few years. Time to do something for you.

And hello to everybody else.

How was the wedding Ali?

Hello! Welcome to the returnees

Wedding was fab, I felt great and the boys behaved so well. DH and I even got to have a dance! Staying in the bar until 4am wasn't such a good idea though.....

I am tired today, which can be dangerous on the food front so I need to watch myself.

I'm convinced tiredness and boredom are the cause of my excessive eating in the past. Hard to control the cravings when you're tired.

Massively struggling.

Fairly good initial weightloss - then tapered off and then plateau'ed.

Got a bit fed up with it if I'm honest.

YOU CAN DO IT! YOU HAVE DONE IT BEFORE AND CAN DO IT AGAIN.

Morning everyone - its a beautiful day here! Now then you lot!!!!

Thanks for the pep talk arfur - sunshine here!

Does anyone else talk themselves into thinking they are hungry? [fed up] But not giving in as I know I am not hungry. Dinner is hours away though .

Ooh yes justfab I do! Sometimes it's a bit if a pinocchio thing with little critters on my shoulders one saying yes I think you are a bit hungry, the other looking all . Another boost for me today just weighed myself and down a pound ish but super high tech scales say my body fat has gone down just over 10% !! it's still in the high range but I am well chuffed with that! No wonder I've been FEELING better! Xx

I can only dream of %s like that. Well done!

I am not sure if what I am about to say is a downer, a reality check or actually a bit uplifting but I read somewhere yesterday (can't remember where) that diets don't work because once you stop doing them you put the weight back on. Researchers found that your body doesn't like losing weight - it wants to hang on to it just in case famine and starvation are round the corner so the minute you stop dieting the weigh piles back on again. Pretty self evident I suppose. The only way to keep the weight off is to keep dieting. Admittedly this sounds pretty grim but and it is a big but (bit like my own butt ) we aren't doing a normal diet, we are Pauling and so keeping this up for life is easy! Hooray for us!! We can carry on eating what we like and never be hungry forever.

Don't you just love research?!
(That came out as quite up lifting research in the end -well I think so).

Another astonishing statistic, admittedly from Steve Wright factoids but I am sure based on sound research, is that 50% of people don't ever taste their food because they all eat in too much of a hurry. There was some astonishing stat which said something like 75% of people couldn't telll the difference between pork and beef in a blind test because they have lost the abiilty to taste food properly.

Now it seems to me that this might be part of the reason for the obesity crisis. We eat without thinking. We get a general sensation of food in our mouths but we don't savour and enjoy it It is all to easy to just shovel it in and over eat.

Except that us Paulettes are meant to savour our food and eat consciously!! Hooray for us again!!

All in all I think PMcK is sounding like a pretty sensible way to live. We can't help but be successful if we just keep to the rules!

Good post Bertha.

Yay Bertha! Amazing how a bit of sunny weather brings out our positive sides!

Bertha

Hi, can I join please?

Am I right in thinking I can eat whatever I like be it chocolate or carbs? As long as I dont over eat or get too hungry? Definately worth a try for me.

Any tips for a new starter?

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to say hi, and ask if anyone minds me joining in? Have just dusted off my books and journal and want to start afresh. I've had the books for about three years but have never had the courage to see it through, thanks to that good old fear of failure, drummed into me by getting on and off of various diet wagons! I lost two stone on ww last year, but put it all back on and am so ashamed of how I look.

That all stops today, as I know in my heart that this is the way forward.

Looking forward to getting to know you all,

Mem x