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!

Right. I've weighed in this morning. I have lost half a frigging lb . Again (second week in a row). So I've lost 1lb in 2 weeks and 3lbs in total.

I'd tried quite hard too so feel a bit meh about it all. DH has lost 6lbs this week . I'm pleased for him but too so that makes me a bad person .

Still waiting for my PMK book to arrive.

Hope everyone else is ok today

first weigh in today and I have lost 6 pounds! :) only another 6 stone to go but its a start!

biscuits dont be disheartened. It is still going in right direction and if you think about it 3 pounds is quite a bit. If you imagine what 3 pounds of sausages looks like that is quite a bit of flesh :)

Aww biscuits stick with it, slow and steady wins the race!

Had a lovely coffee with BBB yesterday, and my DS2 took a proper shine to her!

Biscuits how demoralising when you've tried hard - but as the others say at least you are going the right way, if you lose 1/2 lb every week that would be 26lb in a year... don't know how much you have to lose but also I found in the past (only just starting this time) that sometimes the loss seems to kick in the following week. Could you be retaining water due to totm or anything? If so you may see a bigger loss next week!

Can anyone tell me what PM's take on alcohol is? I hope its not "banned" ordered my book and it is being shipped today apparently so only know the golden rules at the top of the thread! Am wondering where 3 beers fits in between "eat what you want" (drink in this case) and "stop when you are hungry" as obviously I wasn't satisfying hunger! I am quite pleased I didn't snack after dinner despite having beers with DH once the kids were in bed, so I guess that fits with "eat consciously"...

Of course my toddler was up twice in the night and for the day at 4.30am, so I should just have had a cup of tea and gone to bed by 10pm, but that's what I do 5 or 6 nights a week, sometimes I want to live like somebody who can expect 6 solid hours sleep!

Hi englishwoman pmk does not say that much about alcohol other than you are not fat because of what you drink but he does point out that drink can be a way of avoiding dealing what is going on in your life.

The pmk system is designed to give you a process of continual change so you do start making healthier choices because you feel you want to not because you are told to. He does suggest that at first you just dont eat when you drink and vice versa as long as you do still follow the other rules.

Morning all!

biscuits just remember how long it took to gain that weight and remember you haven't really started Pauling yet!

English His take on alcohol is that it's ok but you shouldn't drink while eating because you're less conscious about what you're consuming.

English I'm still fully bf ds2 so don't have totm yet.

I suspect I could put on at least half a lb a week if I tried Faith . But you're right, my weight has gradually gone up from just 'overweight' to where I am now over about 5 years (with various ups and downs in between). And I do want it to be slow and steady weight loss that stays off I'd just rather it was a LITTLE less slow .

Overall I would like to lose 3 stone - that would put me in a healthy place. My first goal though is to lose the 1.5 st I've put on in those 5 years since we started trying for ds1.

Choco the sausage thing made me

When I went to WW they told us to look at butter in the supermarket. 3lb butter is a lot! At my old :( gym they had a Squidgy bag that was heavy represent a pound of body fat (they measured body fat % on a clever machine) and would hand it to you. That had an impact!

If you want a quick fix, Pauling isn't it I'm afraid. But how many diets fail?! Wouldn't you rather do it slowly and permanently than have a rapid weight loss (saggy skin!) and end up putting it back on and more?

I'm rather chuffed. I've got round to weighing myself - been putting it off - and I've lost 2lb :) -that's in about 2 weeks- just by applying to rules and making cleaning my cardio! Motivated to keep going now!

That's great stuff Faith well done .

I do indeed want steady weight loss - that's exactly why I'm here. I don't do (or agree with most) diets that restrict one particular food group. Not for long term weight loss. I guess cutting out carbs of you want to lose a few lbs to squeeze into a particular dress or whatever is ok, but I don't think it's right when you want more of a long term / bigger weight loss. Sustainability is what it's all about.

But DH did the same and lost 6 lbs!!! I would love quick results from a sustainable methodology in my fantasy weightloss world. So I'll have to settle for slow and steady .

At least it's going in the right direction.

Thank you so much though for all your support. What a lovely lot you are

Yes when DH tried he sheds lbs so easily not fair is it?!

Choco - congratulations on that loss, that is amazing!

Oh gosh yes - I meant to say well done to Choco .

That's awesome!!!

(I didn't meant to totally derail the thread with my whinging )

So true Faith. It's not even like he is comparatively fatter than me. If I lose my 1.5 st I'll be where he is on the BMI scale (ie middle of overweight instead of obese ). In fact we probably have the same amount of weight (3st) to lose its just he's 6'6 and I'm 5'7!

Ah thanks. I suspect weight loss will slow down a bit once body is used to new eating habits but as havealittlefaith said slow and sustainable is the way to go.

biscuits hope you get your book soon. It really is eye opening. I cant believe how positive it makes you feel about food. You dont feel like you are depriving yourself at all. I hope it really works for you.

And my dh is just the same grrrr. He eats probably twice as much as I do but NEVER puts on weight. He does have an active job though so it just goes to show exercise is key.

I'm really looking forward to the book actually. I know I'm overweight because I comfort eat etc so I'm hoping this will help me to change my habits to avoid the problem in the first place rather than deal with it after the fact iyswim?

just checking in as its been a while.

How did the tests go kinky Hope there was some positive news.

biscuits Im only losing a little bit at a time. It was 4 weeks ago I think when I got my book and Ive lost 3lbs in that time, but Im feeling a lot more confident in myself and that the weight will keep coming off. The slower it comes off the more likely it will stay off. You hear about people losing weight rapidly then they put it back on again and more.

I liked the sausage idea. Or imagine a load of lard. Thanks for that idea.

Well done on the wieght losses and hello to the newbies.

Read the book last night and it all seemed to make sense. Am Pauling from this am and although I only need to lose about 12 pounds I can't seem to lose that last half stone ever so am hoping this will work. Positive thinking!!!

Well done on weight losses! They are all fantastic!

fart tests are all next week: waiting for Thursday . Am very stressed. Ate loads yesterday in an unmindful, stressy panic. Apparently, though, I am now intolerant of MSG (it's taken 3 times of being very ill after pizza to convince me). No more takeaways for me. This is probably a very good thing.

Anyway, in the shower this morning I decided to try and lose a pound a week. That's nothing, and should be acheiveable. I'm always wanting to lose 7lbs a week! But now, I will repeat the mantra, 1 pound a week, listen to my CD and consider getting a hypnoband. Although, hypnoband may have to wait as oven is now officially broken and will need to pay £250 to get new one fitted. FFS. It's those bloody stars again.

Hello Tubby and good luck with it.

kinky I'm the same with Chinese take away. Just had to give up!

Sorry to hear about the oven! :( but why not try the app rather than paying out for the band?

Ok I'm feeling way more positive now (thank you all). The important thing is that it's half a pound that I haven't got to lose again because I'm only going to lose this once and it will stay off. I know once I get to a sensible weight it may go up and down a bit but definitely this first 1.5 st is going and staying gone. Fact.

So it doesn't matter if the weight is going slowly - important thing is that it's going.

My loss slowed to about a pound a week, though I wasn't concentrating on the rules. Still about 12lbs down in total now since mid May. BUT... was on holiday this week at centerparcs and despite loads of exercise, I ate loads and have put on a couple of pounds. Still, at least it isn't a couple of pounds on top of my starting weight I suppose.

Back onto it today and struggling a bit. So hard to change the habits of a lifetime! I'm trying hard to teach DD to stop eating when she's full and enjoy her food. She's 5 and shovels it in before it hits a taste bud! She never gains weight and is skinny, but I was the same as a child and I think those habits started then. DS on the other hand really eats to his hunger very well.

Well done ladies!!! keep going! :)

It's funny suzi my Dd is 5 and rarely eats her entire meal. I hink she's a natural Paulette!

And Ds is 13 and shovels it in, doesn't chew and eats far too much!

It's interesting what you say about the children. DS1 naturally stops when he's full and I've learned to respect that rather than trying to get him to clear his plate. It was sooooooooo ingrained in to me by my parents that you had to clear your plate. I think it's one of the aspects of parenting that my mum is most proud of that we would clear our plates? And I still do it now. But I've realised with ds1 that there is no point trying to get him to eat more of he's full up. It just encourages the same bad habits I have now. And both grannies are terrible for trying to coax him to eat more when he's full. 'go on, have 5 more spoonfuls' etc.

I always think he either really is full when he says so, or he isn't in which case he'll soon learn not to do it if I take his dinner away. BF babies eat just what they need so I will be trying to make sure I keep this good habit with DS2 when we get to weaning and try to learn his cues.

Sorry, I wandered way off track there with my ramblings