Thread 10 already for the Paul McKenna's Paulettes, losing lbs with No Pain! No Pain!! and Definitely No Calories, No Syns, No Humiliation. Come and Join In To Lose Weight With Supportive Friends!

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Welcome to thread 10 of the Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Thin weight loss system.

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

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 really 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.

You don't have to buy the book and CD, but we have found that they do help and somehow they keep you on track, so it would probably be a good investment and will cost you far less than a couple of trips to WW or SW meetings, so do consider having them in your life.

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!

Evening ladies :)

We've been down seeing MIL and step-FIL this weekend and had a lovely time. I managed to Paul in parts, although the vat of wine I consumed last night possibly wasn't the wisest idea...
They were when we arrived at how much slimmer I am, which was lovely

My arms aren't too bad, although I think they will go unless I do something - Shred is definitely helping, they are less wobbly and more defined in just 3 weeks. Must persevere!

Kinky that is great progress, well done!

Faith that sounds a lovely day, I love weddings :)

to everyone else!

Hi girls. Happy Sunday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful time.
Wishing you all happiness and success!

Evening all. I've not been on here for a while as I have been rubbish.

I keep looking at myself and feeling so ashamed of myself. I know what I need to do and I know why I need to do it so WTF can I not do it?

Right - tonight I listen to PMK again and tomorrow I follow the rules......

Am currently 15 stone 12 lbs and 8 ozs.

Hi all . Thanks for all the kind words .

never I know exactly how you feel: it so hard when food is your addiction of choice. Even though we know what we are supposed to do, we don't. I started again at officially 15st 3lbs on the scales, although some days it was creeping towards 15st 7lbs. I am just trying to take each day as it comes. I am now 14st 11lbs. A long way to go yet, and I just want to wake up at 10st 7lbs, but I have to take deep breaths and plod on. If I lose 1lb a week, by next year I will be 3.5st lighter... Good luck .

never I know what you mean. I've been hiding behind being I'll and using Pauling as an excuse for eating crap. I almost felt like with TTC issues my life was put of my control. In the last few weeks I've stopped complaining about finding it too difficult to clean the house and started to do a room a night (this works for me, I realise it will not be that simple when we do have kids). I've also realised no-one else is going to get my BMI under 30, I have to do it. So I'm planning my meals more carefully - aiming to eat a more protein rich diet, eat less junk food. I'm using the food suggestions from the Curves diet but not the calorie restrictions. I think the Paul principle of making healthy choices/choosing fresh food (I'm sure I've heard him say that in his CD) has kind of passed me by?! I've done a protein rich pack up for work tomorrow and walked a 4k route round the village despite being tired and having the sniffles. I can't keep making excuses!

I will try to put a pic of my outfit for the wedding on my profile if you guys would like to see? I'm in the lilac dress :)

Ooo yes Have. I am nosey.

Am having iPhone issues. I will wrestle with DH try to get the laptop we bought on Friday (which I haven't used yet!) tomorrow night and put some on :)

Ok I have control of the laptop so the photo is up!

Today I have eaten well and done a 6k walk! I am rather proud of myself...

Dress is very pretty! You look lovely. Weren't you cold? I'm still in big cardigans .

I've stuffed my face tonight. I can't wait to finish work for summer. It will take some pressure off and hopefully I will get a better grip over the next 6 weeks. 4 days to go, with some serious work to do in the meantime.

You look lovely Faith. I wish I could wear a dress like that but I wouldn't look as good as you in it.

Doing OK today but I am very tempted to eat something at the moment so I am in hiding in the loft. (Don't worry it converted - I'm not sat in the dark with the spiders, trying not to fall through the ceiling). Will have to venture down at some point or DH will think I have left him!

HALF you look lovely!! :) am a little bit .

I have a wedding to go to on the last weekend of this month; I have no idea what to wear and I have definitely gained some of the weight I lost :( I will also be seeing an old school friend that I haven't seen in 30 years! and she was always the lovely sweet one y'know?! so I'm cacking it here wondering what the hell to wear and how to wear it without looking like crap... I'm sooo stoooooooopid!

Kinky (((hugs))) to you honey.x

Hi everyone I've missed...come and hold my hand and get me back on track please...

Thanks for the compliments! kinky I had a pashmina too but that was the end of the night after lots of dancing so I warmed up! I was a bit self-conscious but with suck-you-in tights I felt nice :) DH insisted I didn't need my magic knickers but I had them on stand by!

kinky I admire you for sticking with it. Just think, you'll have time to get on top of your life in 4 days!

Ali is there anything in your wardrobe you could update? Do you have the budget to go shopping? Mine was only £24 in the Debenhams sale (bargain!).

BBB you need nice/healthy snacks in the house! Hope you've escaped the attic! Thinking of that, to EnglishWoman, friendly, everyone lurking :)

I'm assuming you mean Solo and not Ali HALF! :)
I'm looking at old stuff in the wardrobe most of which wont fit...and it's a pain isn't it? you find a dress but it wont go with your hat and if you wear the sandals that'll go with the dress that wont go with the hat then you can't wear tights even though you badly need to wear those suck in tights, so you'll then have to find another hat and wear winter shoes...

Yes I did yes in the end I realised only a dress I bought at my very heaviest would fit/be appropriate/ not have been seen before so I bought a new dress but wore old accessories. Frantic purchase of tights in co-op as we left the village since I put my fingers through the only pair I had left! Oops!

Faith you look fab, really lovely and happy

Solo - it is a pain isn't it? I am in a dilemma about what to wear to a wedding at the beginning of September. I have nothing smart and summery, it is in Italy so it will be hot.

I will hold your hand, having a bit of a wobble myself atm. Exercise is going well but my eating is somewhat hit and miss

There is a conspiracy amongst the tight manufacturers - all tights are designed to self destruct when you try to put them on if any of the following conditions prevail.

1. you are in a hurry
2. you only have one pair
3. you are going to a 'do'
4. all or any combination of the above.

They know. I am not sure how, maybe the tights are bugged, maybe we are all being watched, maybe it is one of the spy satellites watching our every move but they know.

BBB Yep, tights work evil. They guarantee that if I wear them to work, someone will jack the heating up and I will spend the day mafting. They also always fall down on me, which means I have to do the highly alluring trick of big knickers over the top to hold them up. I don't tend to bother for these reasons along with yours . I will wear my pasty, veined legs with pride.

Solo Monsoon? Next have some beautiful dresses at the moment. And, depending on size, my current shop of choice is Evans and they had some lovely dresses in there. Either that, or nice top and trousers usually smart and comfortable combo. I speak like I have a clue about style. And like how I assume you'll go for something new! This is why I am skint.

This was gorgeous, but I'm not sure if black is nice at weddings? It's something I would wear to one (in my head):

www.evans.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&catalogId=33054&storeId=12553&productId=5955142&langId=-1&sort_field=Relevance&categoryId

Must stop looking at models. Makes me all narky.

www.next.co.uk/x502100s2

I like another pale one in there, but can't find a picture. I would wear the one above in a size 20, or 18 if I'm lucky. The empire line would give me a flattering 6 months PG appearance, and I would have a big cardi over it so I could hide my arms and pull it round my belly when I sit down. Even with control pants. Minxy.

ALL I think a few of us are wobbling this week - it was very quiet over the weekend. I need to get past tomorrow then really try. If I'm honest, I'm not really following any of the rules. Tut. PMK would be shaking his head in silent despair.

I think there's a psychological thing with me that I'm still going to look shocking 4st lighter because of skin (think awful chat-mag photo of incredibly sagging woman pleading for body lift on NHS). I suppose I know the damage is done. If I had it in my head I would look lovely, then I'd be much more motivated. Anyway, at least if I get thinner, I can start saving for aforementioned surgery. It would be nice to have a period in my life where I feel normal.

Right, 4 days.

should say work of evil.

Hmmmm...nope! can't purchase anything at all sadly, but thanks Kinky :) I loved the pink one.

I did have some Matalan vouchers; £53 worth in fact. Some were refunds I'd saved up over a long period and £20 was a birthday gift from March this year. Ds needed new trousers and pants and wanted a Polo shirt (own clothes week this week), so I ended up spending £30's worth of vouchers on him last Friday evening. Then this evening, we went into Matalan (me thinking that I'd see if there was anything for me for said wedding in the sale) and Ds goes and picks up another pair of trousers and hunts around for another tee shirt with me protesting that it's actually my birthday money!!! but he was undeterred and I spent it on him :(
Actually, I wonder if Sainsbury's have anything...a lovely friend sent me a gift card at Christmas which I was saving for larder emergencies...hmmm...

Hi everyone, thanks for the wave Faith :) Glad you got to look lovely at the wedding :) Haven't been on the thread as I feel a little bit of a fraud, having still not properly started Pauling! I have tried to listen to the CD but the toddler (who is a terrible sleeper) has woken every time, whether I try to listen during his nap or when I go to bed, he knows!! So I haven't listened all the way through yet! I have a new plan though... the gym I joined a couple of weeks ago has a "quiet room" - I am thinking that after my workout I can listen to it there, now that DC3 is used to the kids club there... worth a go, though likely to be scuppered by the summer holidays as I am not sure whether my older 2 will be very co-operative about going to the gym kids club, which they are allowed to go to in school holidays but really the toys etc. are geared to under 4s... Exercise is going well at least (I am motivated by being able to shower uninterupted after :) ) and I am trying to "eat consciously" and listen to my body with regard to hunger signals, though I am not very good at recognising I am full and hate leaving food on my plate partly because it means I have to compost it rather than stick the plate straight in the dishwasher

Kinky I am a bit late saying but so glad your dd's news was good, about not needing the bone marrow. You are amazing still losing weight through all the stress and waiting about at hosp apt etc. !

Ooops time to get DS1 to Kindergarten, DS2 gets up so early I have hours in the morning, but suddenly the last half hour slips away if I open MN when the kids are dressed and fed but just playing til its time to go!

Oh and Solo sympathy on the wedding outfit dilemma - BIL got married in May and I made sure I held the toddler in front of me in all the pictures!

Solo blummin kids! Mine do that to me all of the time. It's a bugger as Matalan have some nice things in. I like their plus-size stuff too. (And dream of the day I won't need it...)

Thanks English. It sounds like you have a good plan! I love your reason for finishing it all too!! I am waiting for "summer" to start. I know that DS will try to thwart me at every move, but I've let it slide this week because of work related stress. I am rubbish under pressure. Carbs are my nemesis. I ate chocolate, sweets and chinese food last night. I don't even like sweets that much. All because I have a lesson observation today, and I'm worried about it. Sigh.

3 days. Clawing my way to the finish line, and looking forward to a nice long lie down.

Morning

Sorry I've not been on - was waiting for my book to arrive and then trying to find the time to read it.

Omg, as an aside, ds1 wanted a bit of help with something he was doing on the iPad and has just shouted 'Mum, here, now' . Errr, that's not really how we speak to people now is it!

Anyway, where was I?

Ah yes, reading the book. So I started reading it yesterday. I've read 3 chapters so far and I think it makes a lot of sense. I do struggle a little with the idea of eating when you're hungry - not in terms of principle but in terms of practicalities when I've a house full of people to feed. How do you lovely ladies do that bit?

I've just read the mind programming chapter this morning and i'm struggling with that a lot bit. I read the exercise about seeing a movie with slim-me in it, but I literally can't actually imagine it . I can hear my voice (same as now) but I can't actually picture myself thin. I can't even insert a picture from when I was thin . So I tried to picture myself now as a starting point and I can't even do that . Has anyone else struggled with this bit? I am fairly sure I have a strong 'self-destruction' element when it comes to food which is part of the reason I over-eat and I have trouble with thinking I'll always be fat so no point trying. This is a big part of what I need to fix. So knowing the problem is step one but any tips as to how to improve this bit?

I'm going to put the CD onto iTunes today so that I can try to listen before I go to bed. Wonder if it will impact ds2 who is still sleeping in our room.....

Oh I have just dropped DS1 at preschool for the last time :(:(:(:( The staff are all in tears, I was in tears!

Solo Sainsbury's might be worth a visit, they have lovely clothes I think, I buy stuff in there for all of us.
:( at your DS, he is just at that thoughtless age but still :(

Much better day here yesterday. I just need a couple of weekends where there isn't anything sociable going on and I can still exercise. I do well Tuesday-Friday and then Saturday/Sunday I lose focus and Monday I eat because I'm cross with myself about the weekend!!