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!

[Solo]

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!

Oh dear You could do the Stephen Chang stretches\massages gently

Crap day today after I was so good at the meeting on Tuesday. Bought some soup for lunch which wasn't very nice so left half of it then ended up eating biscuits all afternoon instead of going out and getting something else. Now I'm hungry! Will have a nice nutritious something to make up for it tonight.

Sorry you are suffering Solo . How long does a flare up usually last?

Morningthedoc and solo It's getting quiet on here isn't it? It sounds like you've 'got it' thedoc That's what I do anyway That's the beauty of P.M. you can pick it up any time!

I just did 4000m on the rowing machine. Go me! (I have no idea if this is a feeble amount but I don't care).

I used to do less because I have to stop about every 500m to catch my breath (and not cos I'm going super fast, trust me) so instead of carrying on I'd pretend that was all I intended to do and wander off. I think that PM is helping me realise that I'm doing all this for me so shouldn't care what anyone else thinks, apart from the person who loves me in the visualisation of course.

I am getting much better at leaving food in the shop too, where I used to be a magnet for new or limited edition stuff eg I just had a latte in the coffee shop not one of the NEW cakes for winter as I wasn't hungry and I can now tell myself the cakes, or some other nice food, will be here another day if I am hungry then.

Does that make sense?

How are you doing ppeat?

Yes it makes sense Thedoc I'm doing okay for asking I find it's harder maintaining the weight loss than really going for it IFYSWIM.

What type of shop do you work in? sounds VERY interesting Do they do wheat free cakes ?

Just checking in to say hello. Well done to those who are still plodding on.

I'm not doing so well at the moment. There is a lot of stuff going on and so consciously eating is slipping off the radar. It is difficult to remember to eat slowly when you should be doing something else. I have also lapsed back into eating for the sake of it which isn't good. I had that cracked for so much of this year and I am frustrated that I am not keeping it up. It is frustrating because I hoped to lose another stone by Christmas and instead I haven't lost anything, maybe even put on a lb or 2.

However, I dusted myself off a bit and had a good evening yesterday so maybe I can claw this back. Should have started this earlier in the week though - weekends are always much harder than weekdays so my rediscovered discipline may be lost before I have even got it engrained again.

Solo - sorry you are suffering? What happens if you are still not well when you are supposed to restart work? Can you get signed off or is that it, no more leeway? It must be very stressful - I'm really sorry you are having a tough time.

Aww BBB that's a pain. But you can start from where you are, don't think about the previous few weeks.

Ppeat, I don't work in a shop, sorry, I meant when I visited the coffee shop this morning (my day off) after dropping the DCs off, they have all the winter specials on. Costa has some gluten free cakes in packaging by the till, have you tried those? Are you at your happy weight then, ppeat, focussing on maintaining?

Hi everyone

ppeat thanks for the massage, I'll make a note and try it when things have calmed down.

Half term is now over, but it's been a very very long 2 weeks. Not so 'd'd, came home in a filthy mood, which has lasted the whole time, and has blamed it on - her period, her cold, the amount of homework she had to do - not started yet, the weather etc etc. Tonight, when I was soaking in the bath so that I could get my increasingly hard toe nails cut to the required length for my sexy hardly bendable operation stockings, she barged in, left the door open so I froze, and when I asked her to close it when she went out, she did so, saying 'goodnight, bitch'.

I'm sure I have a very neat row of holes in my tongue for the amount I had to bite it after that. She shoved me yesterday afternoon, and I snapped, and called her big fat and ugly. Yes, not nice, I know, and I apologised, but her response was to bite me hard on the cheek. Fingers crossed for the pda/autism evaluation next June/July.

solo hope you're feeling better soon

doctor well done, that's inspiring. We've still got our plan of hiring one to buy if we like it, and have been moving furniture around.

I'm off tomorrow to the clinic, but hope to be back soon, and without the stockings

Bloody hell tb :(

solo I'm sorry you're having such a rough time :(

Sad faces all round

I've fallen off the wagon a bit - argh. It is weekdays which are the problem, rushing here and there and trying to squeeze in meals between school runs, naps for DS2, getting DS1 to activities and keeping on top of the house etc. I am just shoving food in on the run, and eating all the wrong things and bleugh.
Really need to get a grip.

Hey all. I'm still here ~ heavier! but still here yes, still suffering, exhausted and with much pain in my legs, but still here.

Tb sorry you are having such problems with Dd :( it must be difficult all round. I have enough trouble with my very hormonal Ds.

Hi to everyone else...lets have a giant kick up the bum shall we?!!

I can't take more time off I'm afraid. I go back or I resign. If I resign, I lose benefits and everything included, so I'd lose my house. Just don't know how I'll be able to retrain :(

Hello everyone good idea solo ( the kick up the bum) P.M. gets a bit harder when it's cold doesn't it?

Ali It's harder when you're running about too.

BUT ARE WE GOING TO GIVE UP?? NOOOOO

No we are not going to give up. I am really angry with myself, because I have put a few pounds back on. All that effort wasted.

BUT. No more negative thinking, tomorrow is a new day - etcetera etcetera.

I have done much better today, partly because I've been so busy that there has been no time to stand in my kitchen stuffing my face. I did eat a cake at the PTA AGM this afternoon, but I shared it with DS2...

solo - big hugs to you my lovely. Is there anything that makes you better, or is it just a question of waiting?

Thanks for the hugs Ali waiting can help, but I think that I'm not going to get well this time because of all the stress and worry about returning to work and retraining...then a big relapse because my body wont cope with it all. It's a vicious circle and one that I've lived with for 12 years. Makes me sad and angry when I think of how fit and healthy I once was...

Hi.....are you lot still doing this PM? If so Im marking my place please.

Oh yes awsangel WELCOME you've reached the best diet\W.O.E. in the universe Morning All!!!

Pah! I wrote a big post a couple of days ago and it isn't here!

I obviously didn't press post!

I'm still here. Plodding along. I really must listen to the CD and get back in the zone but don't have time during the day and go to bed too late to do it at night. Excuses, excuses..........

Hi all. Still here. Welcome Awsangel

Morning everyone !!

Hello all! Hope you are all still benefiting from PMK. I am now doing SW as I needed the structure, but I mix in a bit of PMK 'I can make you thin' and 'I can change your life in 7 days' . The dual approach seems to be working. I'm down about 26lbs now since the summer. It is tough as I am currently signed off with stress - everything got a bit much recently. However, I have not reverted to type and started eating, so that is good so far. DD has 6 months of chemo left to go.

I thought I would pop in and say hi after bumping into BBB on my wistful sewing machine thread. Wistful because I can't justify buying one, even though I really, really want one!

Anyway, sending big, positive PMK vibes out to you all.

Hi Kinky! good to see you and 26lbs!!! good going :)
Where abouts do you live? my mum is giving away a sewing machine I believe.

Yes agree with solo It's good to hear from you and congratulations on the weight loss IMO and E P.M. needs to be used with a healthy diet.

In leeds Solo

ppeat It certainly seems to help - I needed the group and the structure, and I've made a couple of friends through it which is very helpful in keeping me on the straight and narrow .

Aw! that's a shame...too far! you could request one on freecycle?

High all, I'm back - with 5 staples and minus a gall bladder

I came home yesterday pm, having had nothing since the op except for plain pasta, potato purée, plain bread and no guidelines about what to eat. Oh yes, and Tues night, Weds am, they gave me a total of 4 codeine tablets. So, you imagine I was rather concerned - didn't want to be sick through eating the wrong things, but didn't want to get completely bunged up, either.

solo thanks for your concern, your life sounds a little tough too. Can I ask (sorry if I've missed it) what does your re-training involve? (pm me if you can't say on here)

FWIW, when I was retraining at the old age of 34 I broke a spine in my neck at work in a car accident in a pool car, and it was gross misconduct to miss a training course, so I didn't dare take more than 1 day off sick. 2 years later, I said that I was a bit worried in case I had to heave bales of cloth around at a stocktake, and they used that as an excuse to make me redundant.

Kinky I've thought of doing SW, but the trouble is that it's not really geared to food where I live, and tbh, it would be a bit too expensive for us.

I'm eating a sort of modified version of what I ate at the obesity clinic - it's a structured 1600Cal/day. It has a little bit of room to juggle, but not so much that you go off the rails. As long as I remember that Wednesday is croissant day, and Sunday is cake day, and not every day that I feel like it.

Feel free to ask any of you, if you'd like the details.

Just off to look at the pole emploi jobs site - and see if I can psyche myself up to re-jig my cv to make myself look like God's gift as an accounts assistant(e) Sometime I just feel like sending off cv's and letters of motivation for jobs paying something silly like ?100+k pa, just to see if the response is any different.

Morning all tb Are you far from a market ? (We get amazing fresh fruit and veg. 2\3 cheaper than in the supermkts and in London) in markets here. Good luck with the job