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!

Hi ppeat, yes we are lovely (are we allowed to say that - it seems a bit showy) and I feel slightly ashamed of having rekindled the debate about the alleged sexiness or not of Mr McK's voice.

BBB

Yes we are allowed to say we are wonderful.

I've had a bit of a word with myself the last couple of days and I'm in a more positive frame of mind. Have managed to listen to the CD a couple of nights in a row as well which has helped I can tell.
Glam wedding is two weeks this coming weekend, I really would like to lose just a couple of pounds and I would feel a lot less heffalumpish

OOh what are you going to wear Ali?

Never be ashamed BBB especially of rekindling the TRUTH (there's no debate as far as I'm concerned) !!!

can I join please? I lost 5 stones with this about 2 and a half years ago but after hysterectomy last year the weight has crept back on and I am now pushing a size 14/16 which I hate after being an 8/10

Hello and welcome better!! Welcome to the best Way Of Eating ever. Tis brilliant. It really works. Do you have the book and CD?

Opps sorry - welcome back!

No it`s ok not welcome back .I did it by myself last time. After reading the book I just did the 4 step thingy and listened to my cd night and morning

Being on this thread is te junky thing that's kept me on it. Like applying the advantages of the social side of a slimming club but with the brilliant workable rules of Pauling :)

Welcome betterthannext i've gone from exactly the same vanity sizing 14\16 to 8\10 and am maintaining (just) it does work on the all the rules but i've always eaten by my blood type for health so don't eat what i want exactly.

have I love the 'junky' thing we're not that bad are we? morning all BTW our DD is coming over on sat. and I'm off your side of the channel next Wed. for a while so won't be on here much; keep trucking everyone

Hi everyone :) How are we all getting on.

I read some of the book last night in bed, and tried doing the tap-tap cravings away on biscuits because they've become a problem item recently! Wasn't sure if I could notice anything at the time, but this morning I cannot bring myself to go near the biscuit barrel even though I am actually hungry!
I am going to do the same for cheap chocolate and also crisps.

Interesting about the tapping impact. I find regurgitating an excellent way to avoid certain food stuffs (but I wouldn't recommend it). I saw my GP last night and have my first ante-natal appointment booked for next Thursday. He did say something about 'a little bit of a weight problem' obviously that puts me at higher risk, especially of GD so I've had bloods done today for fasting blood sugar, thyroid and FBC. Immediately on getting home I was motivated to go for a 3.7k walk! I'm determined not to let myself go whilst diffed. Scales today say 13 stone (yay) so that's what I was before I went on holiday and is over 8lb lighter than when j was weighed at the gynae clinic 6 weeks ago so I'm rather proud of myself. I've decided to plough on with the cd regardless imagining a healthy pregnant me :) last night I only got as far as make the image bright before I konked though!

Well done Faith! Are you very short or something? 13 stone doesn't sound wildly over weight to me and I think I was that when I got pregnant with DS2 (heavier than when I gave birth to DS1 though) and nobody batted an eyelid. However, you were talking to a doctor not the midwife so I suppose they go by the book, not being experts maybe? It helps to lose a lot in the beginning I think. I only put on 16 and 18lbs with my two pregnancies, lost it all within 2 weeks of giving birth. It was the end of bf that saw me piling on the weight. Sadly, post DS2 and no more babies, there was nothing to stop it keep on piling!

I have never done the tapping. Don't know why. It sounds like I should!

I'm 5'4 1/2 so not very tall but not tiny. Look slimmer than I weigh I think!

I think the BMI that the medics use now is very low (before instigating it medics went by a different yardstick) I remember reading that it made average weight people become overweight!

I agree. I'm 5'6-7 ish and I would like to get down to a weight of 11st. And I mean that is my ideal target that I'm not sure I could ever actually achieve. According to the BMI charts this would put me at the bottom of the overweight category . I would so not be overweight. The BMI things say I could be as low as 8.5st and still be ok, but I was 10 stone when I came back from travelling for 4 months and I was perfect (weight wise, well, alright, in every sense ) so no way I could be 1.5 st lower than that without removing some bones.

Sadly it's all academic at the mo as I'm still in the obese category - mind you a couple more lbs and I'll graduate to 'only' being overweight

Yes I have to be under 10st 10lb to be 'normal'. I would be very, very slender. I believe I am designed to have curves!

BBB - I am just a shade under 13 stone and my BMI is horrible because I'm so short - you are quite tall aren't you?

I have to be 10st 3lbs to have a normal BMI. Which is realistically not going to happen. I would be so happy with 10st 10lbs, because I would be a nice 12/14 and still have my boobs

I'm 5ft 7" so 11st 4lb is the gateway to 'normal' for me.

If I was 8st 5lb I would look just awful. My lowest weight was 9st 7lb and I was told I looked gaunt. Like Faith though, I think I look slightly less than I am. I read about people the same height and weight as me who are 2 or even 3 dress bigger than me so I am obviously a bit dense.

Sadly, I am a long way from being overweight. I am still firmly in obese but I am working on it. I am just short of a stone lighter than I was in February. I wish I was making quicker progress but I am glad to see that for the last 6 months I have at least been going in the right direction consistently rather than being up and down as I was before.

It is a shame that midwives are using BMI now. I don't think it is a very good measure really (too big bands and unrealistic for several body types) and I prefer hip to waist ratio and waist measurement. I have read several things recently that suggest the HCP are having doubts too.

Meant to say that my DS1 was recorded as being overweight at some school measuring thing, I think when he was in yr 6. His BMI was too high for his age. What it didn't take into account was that he is as tall and well built as somebody 3 years older than he is who with the same weight and height would be deemed to have a normal BMI. He is slim but muscular (hitting puberty quite early I think) and yet he is supposed to be verging on obese. He couldn't care less and I don't think he even read the letter but it could be quite damaging if the child found out. I don't know whose stupid idea it was to give children a BMI!

BBB - my parents are HCPs and consider BMI to be a load of shite, as do many of their colleagues.
I think that as people become more aware of the benefits of a larger lean muscle mass in terms of helping the body deal with sugars etc, the more BMI looks outdated because it takes no consideration of what the weight is made up of.

Sadly I carry all my weight round my stomach so my hip to waist ratio isn't much better!

Thank goodness for that Ali!! I have had several run-ins on MN over the years about BMI because it just seems so random to me but some people seem to swear by it. I even got told that there is no such thing as different frame sizes - that big boned was a myth put about by the overweight to make themselves feel better. And yet if differing frame size is such a myth, why would one person at 5" 7' look slim and healthy at 8st 5lb or whatever it was and another look gaunt and ill. Surely it depends what sort of frame it is all resting on?

And, whilst I am on my soap box, if we are all identical under our various layers of blubber at 5ft 7" and the differences are only fat, how is that one person can have size 4 feet and others size 7 or 8 or that one person can weight more than another and still be the same dress size?

Buy, stepping off my soapbox, no matter what way I look at it, I can't kid myself that I am anything but obese. Sad but true!

Well put BBB - DH and I were having just this conversation the other day about how people we each know that are the same height as each of us are much smaller / bigger boned (mostly they were smaller!) but I have a friend who is the same height who has been 8st ish - she was pretty thin but I swear she has a more 'petite' frame. I mean for starters I have massive boobs. Even when I was 10st and a size 10 they were still an E/F cup. I'm not saying they weigh a lot exactly but it all makes for a different build. I have a fairly muscular build (under the current layers of fat!).

Also we were talking about it while watching the Olympics about how some people just have a different build, or different attributes that make them better at a sport.

And like Faith I carry my weight around the lower stomach so my hip: waist ratio is probably about 1:1!

How are you doing btw Faith - I'm still about your news!