Happy New Year! Happy New Paul McKenna Thread Number 11. Healthy Weight Loss Without Restricting Your Enjoyment Of Food! Come Join The Paulettes For Support And Chat.

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Welcome to thread 11 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. After all, eating a meal is not a competition.

Many people have issues around food. Many of us have been brought up by the 'clear your plate' parents of yesteryear which leave us feeling guilty if we leave even the smallest morsel of food, but we are working through this guilt or any other hang up we might have, and we are learning to leave a bit on the plate; return to it another time if we really want to or even feed it to the dog or the bin!

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 and make 2013 your year to drop a dress size or several.

Hi all,

Been doing this for 3 weeks now and lost 2lb. Quite disappointed as have 3 stone to lose. Still, it's going in the right direction and it isn't THAT hard, though I find myself eating much more often, if not completing meals.

HiStarlight it's a good start and that's what happens with the meals . Are you finding that your clothes are looser?

No really, but then I don't wear clothes my size anyway as I hate shopping so still squeeze into the ones that I owned way before I got this big. They still dig in.

2lb isn't really that much % wise for me.

Are you doing the chewing for 15 to 20 times (with your eyes closed sometimes) sitting down and eating consciously thing?

Yes. I don't always do it right, but it's becoming more and more usual. I don't like the eyes thing. I have 3 very young children and they talk to me non-stop, so impossible to have no distractions at all.

I feel 'better' overall though. Just a bit disappointed.

I totally understand how difficult it must be with L.Os I admire all the posters on here who have them and are doing P.M. It CAN be done once you get into it though Don't give up you're doing well (even if you have a few blips its soo easy to just pick it up again).

Hi Star....Trust me....2lbs in 3 weeks is good. If you are eating as you want and enjoying your food and not dieting but still managed to lose 2lbs then whats not to like. Its not meant to be a "diet" as such but a way of eating for life so you lose gradually and never have to diet again. Youve only just begun and it takes time for the body and mind to understand the process. The chewing thing pp mentions really has helped me alot as it helps me to be really present in the eating process. Ive been doing it for 4 weeks or so and have lost 6 lbs. In the first couple of weeks I went on this thread moaning about the fact that I hadnt lost anything and until last week I hadnt. But I carried on doing the process and its started to work.

YAAAAAY aws

Thank you aws.

I'll stick with it. I haven't been miserable so even if I only manage a 1b a week, Ill be a stone lighter after 3 months and I'm pretty sure 3 months ago I was saying the same thing but not achieving it.

And 3 months is spring which justifies a new wardrobe

Thats the way to think about it. Think how much you could lose in a year with eating mindfully. You could be approximately 3 stone lighter this time next year OR you could go on "diet" after "magical diet" starting off full of excitment and believing this is the one only to fail yet again when you binge and find yourself this time next year still with 3 stone (or maybe more) to lose again.
pp....Thankyou!!!

Hey guys- do you think the 3 150ml glasses of pinot grij I've managed to consume since 5pm () will count in PMc? I was drank them all consciously and chewed them really well .

I am a disgrace and will stand in the corner accordingly.

But actually I am utterly self-sabotaging as I weighed this morning and haven't lost anything since last Friday (Fri is my weigh in so WHY??)- so why drink about a million calories in wine??!

I will do 30 mins on the treadmill in penance!

And re-weigh on Friday.

erebus you know this is NOT a cal.controlled diet if you had the wine don't eat until you feel hungry, drink water to stop dehydration though!!! I remembered you don't like water (it might give you a hangover of course) . Just start again tomorrow no probs.

Isn't what he says about booze not to drink during a meal because you're less conscious of your consumption?

Yes he also says that he's never seen a fat alkie I know quite a few fat people who drink too much.!

IME alkies come in all shapes and sizes and their shape tends to depend on their poison - obviously best vodka is less calorific than say beer or cider, however they tend to be nutritionally compromised because excess alcohol depletes the appetite.

Erebus.....some of the posts you write seem to show that you are still conscious of calories like pp says. ie....calories in a can of coke compared to cals in diet coke and talking about spoiling your day because youve had some wine. This way as Im sure you know is about eating and drinking anything that you like as long as your hungry and and stoping when the food loses its flavour and that usually means your full. Its not about good foods or bad foods in any way (unless you have problems or allergies ). Maybe re read the book?

Faith....hows you and are you getting very very big now? And wow!!! your weight is great considering your pregnant. So are you still conciously doing PM ?

Hi aws I'm well thanks! I am pretty big! I'm measuring spot on for my dates (I'm 27 weeks). I think I could pretend I wasn't pregnant with my big coat on (which still fits!) but just jumpers I am clearly round!

In some ways I'm better at Pauling than ever - totally eating what I fancy. Bit rubbish at concentrating whilst eating although I told DH I have to eat at the table from now on because otherwise I just drop food down myself as bump gets in the way! :) I am trying to focus on including my 5 a day in my diet by taking veggie/fruit snacks to work.

I have managed to reschedule my glucose tolerance test for Monday so I'm just hoping that is ok but if its not, my friend is a dietitian who specialises in gestational diabetes so I'll be set for advice!

Hi all. January is a nightmare at work for me so haven't been Pauling much but just wanted to come and wave.

Morning everyone (waves to Thedoc hope the nightmare will be over soon!)

Sounds like you're doing brilliantly having and pat the little Paul or Paulette for me!! Oh another thing excess alcohol does is Fxxx up yr hormones.

Sorry ere you'll be thinking we're health freaks on here ( I am careful with my health because my dsis had the big C, she's okay now but always has something wrong bless her!) it IS better not to be ill isn't it!!

Snatch, you aren't an accountant are you? January is pretty hellish here too. Damn those tax returns. Only a week to go.

To keep the office happy in the face of the tax return pile and after seeing the unsightly scramble for a sugar hit with the stuff left over from Christmas, I have been buying them biscuits, first Christmas ones in the sale and now just any old thing. The rest of the office guzzles them down and I virtuously refuse and go home and eat cake.

It strikes me that deep down I still regard food as a treat or a comfort even when I am dishing it out to others and not eating it myself. Probably not doing myself any favours thinking like that.

Faith - bet you are enjoying all the ice! Being pregnant in icy weather is guaranteed to make you feel slightly more vulnerable than usual as I remember. Ironically, the only time I actually slipped over when pregnant was at about 12 weeks with DS1. I slipped on a banana skin would you believe.

Take it easy. I can't believe you are this far along. I always thought of 28 weeks as one of those landmarks in the pregnancy road. Not sure why - it is the start of the final trimester I suppose but I think it was because the vast majority of babies survive if born after this date so early labour is slightly less scary. Not ideal but not the worry it was. You are nearly there. Hope the glucose tolerance goes OK.

Yes I fell over last week (bit of plastic hidden under snow!) which rattled me a bit. Been super careful and wearing my nice sturdy doc martens :) DDad described me as 'heavily pregnant' today...I'm not convinced I am quite yet but definitely round and can't walk straight....definitely more of a waddle! I've got a week's annual leave next week, can't wait.

BB work sounds stressful! Great plan re sharing out the biscuits - sugary foods do seem to boost morale. I know what you mean about food being treats and/or comforts. I think it stems from my Mum and how she treated food. She had weight issues in childhood and was paranoid about us getting fat ha and we swung between almost deprivation at times (we never starved! But like low calorie intake, constant monitoring about the amount of butter on toast etc) to 'treats' in the house where we could often end up bingeing because you never knew when she'd take them away again.

I suppose that's why I love Pauling - most 'diets' tap into that cycle - eventually you fail at depriving yourself. Pauling makes you look at why you're eating the way you are. I love being pregnant because I finally feel like I have permission to eat well and not deprive myself :)

BBB, not an accountant but the stress is 31 Dec related

Nearly home now but more to do tonight, sigh.

aws and others- believe me , the 3 glasses of Pinot didn't spoil my day at all! Rather iced the cake, tbh!

TBH, I understand why there might be 'concern' that I continue to be 'calorie-aware' but I just am. I am aware that a good couple of slices of malt loaf are serious calories whereas a couple of slices of say dark rye bread aren't. I like both equally so if faced with a choice, I'd go the rye bread every time because I know it contains significantly less calories than the malt.

Anyway, I was a bit disheartened that after an 3lb, 3lb weight loss over 2 weeks, this week appeared to be a big, fat zero- but this morning (one day prior to normal weigh-in) I'd lost 1lb which is fine- AND AF kicked in. I'm very peri-menopausal so it came as a surprise but also an explanation as to why I'd been so mindful of my food intake yet had slot so little. Next Friday it'll be a fair bit more, mindfulness permitting.

I am also big into there being no 'good' and 'bad' foods. All foods are equal. It's the quantities and why we choose to eat them that matter!

slot so little? lost so little!