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!

Glad you had fun BBB! I'm considering the iPhone app myself.

I'm really sad for my friend - she was far along - due next week I think - and afaik totally unexpected. We trained to be nurses together and although we don't see that much of each other but we always got along well. She's such a sweet girl. She lost her Mum to breast cancer a couple of years before mine so we had that kind of bond from that. It just seems very cruel.

I did recognise that I was eating when full due to comfort and resisted an ice cream!

Ive just said hello on the other thread.

Apparently a lot of them have not had any cravings for sweet things at all. I like the sound of that.

Oh Faith so to hear about your friend xx

It's so sad. I'm not sure what, if anything, I can do. I'll just make it clear I'm here if she needs me.

Weird food day today - didn't have a lot early on - slice of pizza for breakfast and then two slices of toast with poached eggs for lunch. I had a massive slump. Really tired, crying a lot and had an awful headache. Came to bed to watch the last set of the tennis. DH brought me a bowl of strawberries and cream (yum!) and I suddenly perked up. Didn't think I felt hungry all day (tmi? But maybe because I've been constipated). Must be aware of that in future!

You poor thing Faith - not surprised today was a bit weird / emotional though with sad news like that. Your idea to just text your friend sounds lovely. I'm sure she would find it a comfort to know you're there for her if she needs you. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like for them . Do you live nearby to her?

I hope everything is okay today faith.

I have got the app (although in ebay CD form) to try, just for a change. The principles are the same, so I'm staying here and will probably do the programme of that then carry on with PMK.

Work today. Am so shattered. I was hoping to do some exercise today, but I feel really grotty from lack of sleep and sore throat (run down). My Mum thinks I should get signed off for the last two weeks of term as I'm so worried about DD and we don't know what will happen, but I'm equally worried if I do that, I will get a formal warning and start a process at work that I really can't cope with at the moment.

Anyway, my task today is not to start mindlessly shovelling food into my mouth because I feel so crappy.

2 weeks to go... 2 weeks to go...

I'm ok thanks kinky. Better for an early night. I've decided I am going to ring occ health for an initial appt re counselling. I'm personalising my friend's grief - applying what I remember from when my Mum died - and I know that not helpful/healthy. I think counselling might help to balance my thoughts.

With your sickness - I would think most of the time off you had would be carers/compassionate leave so it should be classed as different to sick leave because you're stressed? Not sure how your work classes it. But if you feel you can get to the holidays maybe it'll be easier, knowing there's only 2 weeks left! :)

Good start to food for me today - porridge with a banana - I found GF instant porridge and it's really nice!

Having a chat with a counsellor will be good. I eat my pain; if I'd have spent more time talking about the past year to people, I suspect I would be quite a lot lighter at this point!

Good luck Kinky, good luck everyone :)

Faith sorry to hear about your friend, that must be devastating :(

Kinky are you a teacher then? I used to teach - hugely stressful job especially when management have decided not to be supportive, which is how it sounds, I don't think they can use sick leave signed off by a doctor against you to start formal proceedings, only an excess of self reported sick days. In fact if you are off with doctor certified stress they may have to take a step back and offer you reduced hours/ gradual return after the summer - do you have a union rep who is any use and you could perhaps discuss this with?

Got the book in the post yesterday but haven't opened it yet as didn't want DH to laugh at me , but he kept asking what was in the parcel so has laughed at me anyway, I wish he wouldn't do that, what hope do I have when he just laughs and teases and assumes I won't stick to it - then he says he is doing it so I won't give it up to prove him wrong, but that kind of chiched and childish reverse psychology is just patronising and makes me want to eat Nuttella out of the jar, not come over all Nemo about it ... (and anyway I don't think he was doing that)

Hello everyone :) Much better day yesterday.

Faith I am so sorry about your friend :( A friend of mine had a late miscarriage a couple of years ago, she was 18 weeks. I didn't tell her I was expecting DS2 for ages, because I just didn't know how to tell her. :(

Kinky I can see why you want to try and push through to the holidays - the stress of possible procedures and what used to be called 'management focus' at my last job negates a lot of the benefit of being off work!

Morning ladies!

EnglishWoman - sorry about your DH. I can imagine how you feel - my DH might well have tried the same if he were ever really aware of what I was doing. Or he would have monitored my progress which is equally gauling. Thankfully DH is also overweight so he could try having a go at me but at least I am doing something rather than blaming a lack of dog/a sore toe/arthritic knees/Uncle Tom Cobley for not losing weight. I hope your DH could stand to lose a few pounds so you can challenge him to follow your lead!

But most importantly whether you feel you are being manipulated by reverse psychology or just have a sneery husband, don't let it stop you. You aren't doing this to prove anything to anybody except yourself and for your own benefit. Don't let him put you off before you have started even if this means hiding the book and only reading it when he isn't around and never discussing it with him. It is possible to do this without affecting anyboby else so if you don't want to discuss it or to be put off by unthinking comments then simply keep quiet and let your new svelte and trim figure do the talking for you.

Good luck!

I think my DH inwardly rolls his eyes every time I start a new thing, but he does hide it.

The Englishwoman I've had A LOT of time off. For example, in the last 4 weeks I've missed 2 days each week with DD (all unpaid). Financially, it is a struggle. Emotionally, it is a struggle. I can understand why things are going the way they are at work, but it's so horrible as I can't do anything about it. Meanwhile, DD is just ill. She is again today . If I get signed off sick, I'm already on absence monitoring which builds up to termination. It's been 19 months, but we still have 9 months to go. I'm a bit of a wreck with it all. We need me to work FT to pay the bills; DH doesn't earn the same as me. If I lost my job now, I would have to go to charity (we already get some DLA, but will not be enough to cover overheads). But, even if we scraped by, I would have to get a job later, having been out for a couple of years and on UPS2, so more expensive than younger teachers. It's all about money in many schools now. So fed up with it all.

I can relate to the DH part, thats the reason why I dont want that other CD to be delivered. I don't want to tell him Im trying another hypno one. He doesn't outwardly laugh at me or roll his eyes, but I can tell he's thinking "here she goes again" and I know he'd rather I just didnt bother at all, but I know if I didnt the weight would just creep on. I can get away with my weight and size now (12 stone, size 16), but I dont want to get any bigger and ideally know I should be smaller (ideally 10 stone, size 12) so I have to do something about it.

Ive not had a good day today and know I have over-eaten and feel sluggish again. I will get there though, its just one of those days.

Hello all. I am feelng fat and fed up. I am not naturally fat, I ovr indulge too much and can conquer this. So it is time, i thnk, to dust of my PMK book and lose some weight by eating less.

Top tips anyone.

Welcome! I would recommend:

• reading the book from cover to cover
• posting regularly here
• turning the tv off/leaving your desk when eating
• listening to the CD each day
• binning 'low fat' foods
• putting your scales away from easy access so you don't just keep jumping on them (mine are simply propped against the wall but I have to move them to use them)

How's that for a start?

I sent a card to my friend offering to do any jobs like washing/shopping - will wait to see if she wants any help.

Thank you!

And you can do my washing i f you want lol.

:) I don't offer all the time! Sadly my friend lost her baby when she was full term - I'm local so I thought I'd offer as I expect it's the last thing she's capable of doing....

Morning All - Just checking in.

HaveaLittleFaith sorry to hear about your friend. :( Hope she is going to be ok.

So far week going well. Was worried on Sunday as had a bit of a hangover and that is usually an excuse to eat junk all day and order a massive Chinese in the evening but found I didn't really want to as had been out to dinner night before so ended up cooking a nice healthy dinner instead.

I also appear to have become addicted to roasted crispy kale which turns out a little like crispy seaweed but much healthier. Cannot get enough off the stuff at the moment.

Hope everyone's week is going well. :)

Faith, so sorry about your friend.

Well, today is day one. I have read the book, tried thetapping and finger techniques (not sure Inhave mastered them yet) and have listened to the CD.

Amnow going to shower, drop DD at the cinema and go shopping.

I really, really fancy mince and tatties for tea, so that is what I shall have.

Oh, and I visualized never craving crisps again lol.

I like the middle finger squeeze thing for a sense of wellbeing and fulfilment, it is amazing how quickly that works.

Oh please tell me how you roast crispy kale, it sounds lovely.

Morning Greta

Recipe here: crispy kale

It is marvellous stuff.

On another note cannot believe that PMK has managed to get rid of my mayo addiction. I know I have already mentioned it upthread but I am astounded at how easy it is. I am NEVER going to buy lowfat mayo again. It is now going to be small amounts of full fat occasionally :)

Hi everyone, quick question - when on earth do those of you with small, home in the day, children get an uninterrupted half hour to listen to the CD? I joined a gym with a babysitting room and hoped to listen to the CD on the treadmill, as it is the quietest time of the day, but I think from skim reading the beginning of the book that wouldn't "work" / be effective? Is it OK to listen while exercising? Can't think when else short of in bed, and 1) that is not guaranteed uninterrupted as my toddler is a very bad sleeper who is up multiple times a night, including sometimes soon after I get into bed, and 2) DH will either see it as a rejection/ ignoring of him and/or laugh his head of at my craziness...

I don't have kids yet but I do it at bedtime. Say goodnight to DH, roll over and listen to Paul. Definitely should be lying down and close your eyes so treadmill probably not appropriate!

Hospital today to find out if she needs a bone marrow (if leukaemia is back). I don't think it is. She's definitely having her quarterly spinal chemotherapy, then we have to have an Xray too, and we should finally get MRI results. I fear I shall be at hospital for some time, trying not to go in and eat lots of cake at Costa (they get everywhere nowadays).

I have been eating a lot on evenings this week, but it has been healthier stuff, so I am hoping I still lose some weight in spite of all the stress.