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 everyone - I'm here too! Been feeling weird for a couple of days and not Pauling very well, and AF has turned up this evening which explains it all!

DH is off work this week so we have been having some family time and trying to get a few things sorted around the house. Went to a lovely national trust place yesterday, and this morning we braved town for the haircut/shoes/glasses/final uniform trip. I cannot believe my baby is starting school!
I also cannot believe that his feet have grown another size in the 2 weeks since I last had him measured!

Hope you are all doing ok

Hi Ali, I have a boy (DS2) with very fast growing feet which grow in spurts so growing a size in a short space of time isn't unknown but I think sometimes the 'growth' is down to the measuring. DS2 had his feet measured at size 4.5 about a month ago which is what they were about 6 months previously. He still ended up being fitted with size 6.5 trainers. Something isn't right there, so if it was Clarks I think there might be a rogue/rookie shoe fitter in there. Not that it helps much if you have shelled out for shoes and if you aren't sure which measurement is right.

I wish I had said something about DS's trainers actually because they look too big to me but I am never sure exactly how to get the right fit and he needed something as his old ones were falling apart. DS should have been a girl the way he loves shoes so tends to say what will get him a new pair and isn't always honest about whether things fit ime. He'd have a different pair of trainers every week if he had his way, and a new pair of converse every time his laces were anything less than bright white!

I remember the feeling of sending my PFB off to school on his first day. It is very bitter sweet so I wish you luck when your turn comes - you just don't know how it will be really. Thankfully DS1 took to it like a duck to water and didn't want to come home the first day. DS2 was a lot harder despite being nearly a whole year older as a Sept born than July born DS1 was. However, I was a hardened veteran of being a parent of a school age child so wasn't quite so emotional about it all. I am grateful I didn't get the hard to settle one first. I'll keep everything crossed that it goes well for you.

Thanks BBB I loathe Clarks, so we go to the Jones in town. DS2 is going to cost me a fortune in shoes - very high instep and an H width fitting.

Must sleep, the boys will be up at 7 as normal no doubt!

Hello my beautiful Paulettes!

Bonne chance with the little uns starting/returning to school!

I am ruddy . I had my first midwife appointment. She weighed me and put my BMI at....29! woo hoo! So I'm not 'at high risk'. Ace! I'm still listening to the CD at night although I fall asleep so quickly these days I barely get to imaging myself skinny :) can't wait to get a dining table (hopefully next week) to eat off properly.

Hope you're all well!

MOANY MOANY!!

Faith well done on the BMI!

I am having a bad few days, self-sabotage a go-go here. Going to take myself off to bed and read some of the book and then listen to the CD.

Very quiet round here, isn't it? Shall we all start again next week when we have sent got rid of the children back to school?

Actually mine don't go back until Tuesday and we are having a pub lunch tomorrow as we thought it would be a nice way to finish off the hols - we are taking my mum and brother too as my brother has the day off and my mum is free to go out whilst my dad is in hospital. Probably I shall have to start again really proper properly on Tuesday.

Scales looked a little too high yesterday but it is that time of the month when it all goes to pot so hopefully next weekend I shall have lost it all again. Fingers crossed anyway. I don't seem to have done too badly this year since school hols are usually a bad time for me when I put some on so I hope it hasn't all gone pear shaped in the last couple of weeks. I'm keeping the faith that I have done OK. It would be nice to reach a stone in weight loss since I got serious again in February for Lent. I was only lb off losing a stone but now I am 2.5lbs off target. Damn those periods.

Ali - when does your DS start school? I am guessing not this week but I have heard they have cut back on the amount of part time and staggered starts they do since DS2 started school 4 years ago so maybe he does start this week too. I know you are a bit wobbly but how is he? Is he looking forward to it?

BBB - he starts next Tuesday - very pleased it isn't Monday as our flight back from the wedding lands 5pm Sunday night!
He is doing mornings for 2 weeks, then morning+lunch for 2 weeks and then full-time.

We had 3 options, with this being the middle road. The very staggered option was messy we felt, and DS1 doesn't do change very well - he likes to know what is going on!

He got very wobbly last week, said he was so excited but felt sad because everything is changing (this is as much to do with his new glasses as anything I feel). He had a big sob, and we talked about things and he seems much better. He is really looking forward to going and his teacher and TA are coming to visit tomorrow morning which he is very excited about!

Hi all :) Ds is back tomorrow...I almost sent him in today, but luckily he was talking to his friend on fb and was told it isn't until Tuesday!!!
Dd goes back on Weds to year 1. How time has flown :(

I start back at work on January 3rd and I need and want to lose at least 14lbs before then. Please help me girls. I don't want to have to order bigger uniform, I want to go back in what I have in the wardrobe because I washed ironed the blooming lot nearly 6 years ago!! so I have to knuckle down and seriously lose some more flab!! If I can lose another stone, that'll take me to about 12.7. I'd be ok with that, though 12st would be better.
Pp would you mind sending me by PM your belly buster and the neck exercises too please.

Good luck with all the back to schools.

I did actually take DS2 back to playgroup a week early once. He went to a nursery in the middle of nowhere and you could virtually see the tumbleweed blowing through the car park. I am thankful that because it was a small village there was nobody there to see us! I think we all do it at least once or nearly do it enough.

Ali - poor DS1. It sounds like an emotional rollercoaster which of course it is, for him and for you. It will be fine though. It is good that he is happy enough to go but he is right and very mature to notice, it is a big change and nothing will be the same again. Doesn't mean it won't be great but it certainly won't be the same. Looking back on the freedom of pre school days to now, I miss going on holiday when I chose the most. We used to like going in June although thankfully that would have been a big mistake this year with all the rain. The summer hols have been half decent weatherwise, haven't they? Not wall to wall sunshine and heat but enough nice days to feel OK about it.

Solo, I reckon losing 14lbs by Jan will be a piece of cake for you. It is probably a lb a week - haven't counted the number of weeks but it must be about that. it doesn't sound so bad when you say it like that. I would like to be able to match you. Perhaps we should egg each other on.

How are you feeling about going back? Resigned to it or looking forward to it?

The other thing I am working towards is our holiday next year which we are hoping will be a week abroad (France or Germany) so I don't want to be the size I am now for that. There aren't so many large people over there as here and it shows if you start looking too closely. Not a good idea for your self esteem but necessary for motivation I find.

I also need to sort DS2 out who seems to have put on a lot of weight recently. DS1 did the same thing at 8 and is now pretty slim without any effort. DS2 hasn't grown upwards for ages so I am hoping that will help when he finally has a growth spurt but in the meantime we need to think more about diet. I need to set a good example for his sake as much as anything.

BB I guess it does sound better at a lb a week... I am sadly resigned to returning. I'm dreading it, really dreading it if I'm honest. I don't know how I'll do it at all...I'll go to moany and go into more detail for this later on.

Oh and you reminded me of the time I drove Ds to school (before Dd, so he was under 8) before he was due back. I got him to scoot down in the seat so that anyone seeing me wouldn't know what I'd done!

Not having a great week so far.

Where is everybody?!

Hope you are all OK and doing a bit better than me.

And Solo come and moan on the moany thread. Nobody has had this month's big moan yet.

Hello hello.

Solo - we will do it together. I am feeling a bit cross with myself because I have lost no weight between the last wedding and this one this weekend. I am fitter, no doubt and possibly slimmer in some areas but nothing very dramatic.

BBB DS seems a lot calmer about everything, I think it is actually his glasses which are upsetting him the most. His TA wears them, and he has really warmed to her so I am hoping that will be a help.

I'm rather pleased because I weighed myself this morning and I've stayed the same since getting diffed :) still going outfit walks, although not as frequently because I'm so tired.

Hi, can I join you ladies please?
I'm on day 7. I have the cd and the 90 day journal. I don't have the book so I might get it.

I'm the heaviest I've ever been at 12st 1oz and only 5' 2". (that was on day 1 so hopefully I'm less than that now) I'm a size 16/18.

I just picked all day really during the school holidays (which were one day short of 11 weeks for us). I don't think I ever felt hungry as I was usually always full.

It took 3 days for not eating til I'm hungry to click with me. I was so used to eating whenever I got the urge.

I'm amazed at how long between eating it takes for me to feel hungry now and at how little I'm eating without feeling deprived.

I've never had a problem with eating whatever I want

I'm still working on the eating consciously and knowing when I'm full but hopefully I'll get there.

Wow sorry for the long opening post.

Hi Lucky - sounds like you're doing really well already! I'm hoping to redouble my efforts now ds1 is back at pre school and things are back to 'normal'. Ds2 turns 6 months at the weekend so will start sleeping in his own room so I'll be listening to the cd before bed (it used to disturb him so I had to stop ) and hopefully can make some progress again. I've tried to do all the rules over the hols but have eaten before I'm hungry so haven't lost anything (but haven't gained much either so could have been worse!)

Thanks Biscuitsandtea I'm doing well with waiting til I'm hungry to eat now but eating consciously and stopping when I'm full hasn't come yet. Hopefully, they'll click at some stage. I'll keep trying.

I think those two really go together lucky so eating consciously allows you to notice you're full and you'll get used to listening to your body and reading the full signal more easily. I think I could do with rereading the book.

Ooh fresh meat! Hello lucky! Sounds like you're off to great start and joining this thread will keep you going :) I've been Pauling for 9 months. Recognising true hunger and waiting to eat are the trickiest things. I would try and get the book if I were you, there's more in it than the CD covers and really opened my eyes.

I am hungry now (I seem to be hungrier since I started growing a baby!) but I am snacking on watermelon. Yum :) how times have changed. I bought plenty of fresh fruit to snack to be healthy and also to help things move along in the bowel!

Then factor in that I'm on regular codiene too! Nightmare! Going to GP to get advice on painkillers and whether I should have something to keep me going!

Congratulations Havea. Tinned pears used to work for me

Does the book have more information than the 90 day journal? I should probably get it. I find sitting down, eating slowly and putting the knife and fork down really hard. I'm used to eating and running or eating while running!