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!

It feels like failure to me as I am a comfort eater along with other food issues so drinking wine when uber stressed is the same to me.

Well, I'll be having wine shortly < salivates > but I don't think it makes me (or you) a failure.
Hope you feel better soon Fab.

Anyone else if at silly o'clock? I kept waking up and gave up trying to get back to sleep at ten to 6 as I have to bake cakes for the school fair. 2 in the oven already. GUtted as was having quite q nice dream. Up duff by Simon Cowell .

On a less exciting note, PPEAT!! I have 2 misbehaving toes now. WTH is going on????

And JFnotCat hs peed on my lingerie bags. I stood on them [fed up].

JF not Cat

I've been up since silly o'clock 'cos it's an hour later here. Anyhoo Morning!! I've got my haircolour on. well JF As i said on yr post in the Health section the same applies to 2 toes!!! i also firmly agree with the other posters about the failure.
You know i thought of you last night 'cos I sometimes watch the most amazing telly preacher called Joyce Meyer and i'm not religious at all but what she says is such commonsense about us allowing our childhood bad experiences to colour our whole lives. Something that P.M. is about as well without talking about God or Satan.

I'm just stirring. I have very few skills when it comes to baking so I admire you both!

I flippin' luff Joyce Meyer but I am a fully inducted member of the God squad She written loads of books, mostly aimed at ladies and they're inspirational. One book I've read is called 'Eat and stay thin' very much along the lines of PM - about eating consciously,
drinking more water, exercising. I think the trouble is we've been bombarded with false messages about how to lose weight that the reality takes time to stick. The last book of hers I read was 'Battlefield of the mind' where she talks about challenging negative thoughts. In fact I'm planning to read it again when I've finished my current total fluffy rom com novel.

I need to come back to your post ppeat as I have a feeling I might confess post stuff. No one want s to read that.

Off to make cake number 6.

Oh Faith what are you reading? I could do with a fluffy book!

Periods have returned, finally! DS2 is 15 months! I don't think they stayed away this long after DS1.
Yesterday was a disaster with food, crisps, Jaffa cakes, all sorts.

I haven't been listening to the CD, and I must because I'm sure it will help when AF strikes!

I bought 3 for a fiver from Poundland. They've been brilliant! Lent the first one to DSis so dunno the title I'm afraid. I'll find out though - it was good. All about a girl who gets amnesia during a car accident in a snow storm. She gets rescued but is snowed in with a weird family!
Last one was The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz - about a family of PIs, current one - I heart LA by Lindsey Kelk about a Brit who works as a journalist in NY who gets to interview a Hollywood movie star. Fluffy, predictable, easy reads.

HaveA I'm really glad to meet someone who loves Joyce Meyer IMHO she is amazing so different from all the other screaming dishonest god botherers! I 'made up' with someone who had been treated as a pariah by my mum for something that my rogue of a D did to her (she was the victim) and she was so pathetically pleased that i had contacted her; I was inspired after listening to Joyce. That book Battlefield sounded something that fab needs.

Ali 15 mths without flo!! I was only ever 6 months without even after bf. DS for 2 years. I would recommend strong camomile tea to help normalise yr hormones.

Morning all. Sorry, I haven't read the thread to catch up and I really don't have the energy, so probably wont (ME is really bad right now). I am not doing so well here. I can't focus and still not able to listen to PMK which wont be helping at all...

I hope you are all doing well :) and I hope to rejoin you all properly very soon.xx

{{{{hugs Solo}}}}

Sorry to hear that solo

I have a question. If you're sick and therefore unable to eat, when you start eating again does your body store the food as fat incase of another fast? Or does it know you have been ill and therefore use it as energy to help you recover?

Ive not been too well today (caught something off DD1 as she was ill on Thurs night) and have only eaten a quarter a slice of toast and a breadstick. While I was eating my toast I felt really full so had to stop, I think it was my body telling me not to eat as I was ill. Im just a little concerned that tomorrow I will be eating, but it will all be going to my belly (as this is my problem area).

Hello ladies.

I have to post as you dropped of my 'Freds I'm on' again. Not that I have given up Pauling, more that I am not very good at posting at the moment. Life is a bit hectic in a bitty sort of way.

Solo - sorry you are having a tough time.

Kinky - really glad to hear from you again but sorry that things are so grim.

Waves to everybody else ( we could do with a waving emoticon)

FB - that is exactly why diets don't work in the LT when the diet bit is over and the maintenance bit begins. When you have lost the weight and return to normal eating your body thinks that it should start storing fat incase your calorie intake drops again. Sadly your body remembers it used to be bigger and thinks that not having many calories is a bad thing because it suggests a famine rather than a good thing to protect it from all the issues of being overweight. Damn that biology. I read a study about it the other week in some journal or other. Sabotaged by our own bodies. The only way to successfully diet it to stay on a diet your entire life which seems a bit of a waste when you can just make a few adjustments, eat healthily and not have to be on a diet at all. It may take longer to lose the weight but who wants to be counting sins/points/calories for the rest of their lives.

Sorry you have been poorly though. What a bummer.

Hey everyone
It sounds like everyone is going through a bit of a hard time at the moment for all different reasons. Something in the planets maybe. I hope everything looks up soon especially you and your DD Kinky
I had half a bacon sandwich this morning for breakfast - I woke up thinking "bacon" and was excited to make it, even used hubby's white bread (I never eat white bread because it's 'not healthy') - I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. White bread doesn't really have flavour. But at the same time it overpowered the taste of the bacon.
I ended up having a half glass of juice, and gave the other half of the sandwich away... quite amazing really.
I think it is probably the hardest to do this when we are stressed - I keep going on and off - I tell myself I am doing Pauling and then after a stressful moment I eat heaps, and then I think well this didn't work and try a diet, and then another one when I fail, and then I come back to Pauling again...
I really just need to get to know that diets don't work...
Thinking of you all, hoping for a good week even though things are pretty crap
x

Oh by the way I hate to admit this but I really like PM's voice on the CD - there's just something about him !!! oh the shame !!! maybe he puts a subliminal message on the cd to make you like him haha - he's all smoothy voice... nice haha

Morning all YAAAY Chokey of course his voice is...... sexy!!!! admit it!!!! Solo and I know!!!

F.blossom BTW if you've gone off P.M.ing then you just go back on it again and the weight and belly drop off again (not literally of course!) esp. with the help of the amazing muffin top buster exercise! note to self..take yr own advice !!

BBB it's nice to hear from you

Hi I bought this years ago and never used it. Prob is I tried to
Listen last 2 night And fell fast asleep in 6 minutes. Does this work,?

Welcome rusmum Better late than never!! yes that 's what supposed to happen it becomes subliminal IMO of course you do better if you listen every day to start and then when you feel you need it, the book helps too.

Gah lost a long post!

So here goes again! Hello rusmum yes I always fell asleep by about 265 :) but I found the more I listen to it the longer I'm conscious. Either way it seems to impact. I found myself choosing healthier food, wanting to exercise (I even started running!) and leaving food on my plate. So yes I think it works.

solo sorry you're struggling :( I hope things improve soon.

Good to see you pop in BB and things are ok if manic!

I'm doing ok - still pausing the tv when I eat which is helping me eat less! Definitely leaving food behind and not going for pudding. Resolutely not weighing myself since AF is round the corner. BFN this morning so don't think I'm diffed :( roll on the next cycle....

Multi tasker me just laid on the bed with my feet up - for my toe - and listened to my PM CD - for my eating -, though had to stop as DD fell and hurt her ankle. Restarted and listened to all but the last 2 minutes.

HALF - it is still early so don't give up hope yet.

Gah. DD back in hospital .

I went away to a Hen do yesterday morning. My cousin is getting married in Cyprus in August, but we're not going because of DD, so I thought I would go to her Hen do instead. DD was with her dad.

Got to Manchester, was with my mum and other relatives. Had lovely lunch and a little shop. Booked in for 3 course meal, paid for the room, breakfast scheduled for the morning and I booked myself an indian head massage as I fancied trying the spa (it's something I never do). Then, low and behold, as I get ready for dinner, text from DD's dad to say she's running a temperature and has to go to hospital. So, train back (olympic torch had just been, so station was heinous), home for car, pack stuff for DD and met them at hospital. I dined on toast and hula hoops.

The thing that really got to me though was when we arrived at the hotel, I put my costume on ready to go to the pool with everyone and was absolutely horrified at how I looked. I'm not just massive, I have really slack, knackered skin, so it all hangs. I couldn't go. I stayed in the room by myself so I didn't have to show myself . I can't believe that I've let myself get this big again. I was there with loads of girls only a couple of years younger than me and with lovely figures and I just felt so fed up.

But, after hospital trauma and rushed return home, I ended up overeating again today. I just shovel it in and I could easily carry on. I am a total binge eater. I'm supposed to be having counselling for addressing how I eat to deal with stress, but it will take ages.

I feel so defeated by everything.

DD not too bad, so should be out by Tuesday, but there's definitely something going on with her at the moment. Lots of tests still pending.

Go go go justfab!!