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.

AD is dieting and quite extreme dieting at that and I do not think it is similar to PM . You say healthy as anything our body needs and unhealthy anything it doesnt like "winegums" but that is the whole point of this WOE that you stick to the 4 rules and do not overthink any food because that just leads us back to diet mentality which is the thing we are trying to escape and the point of this thread.

Its nothing to do with dieting - its to do with being healthy. The same reason why some people don't eat carbs or wheat or whatever. I just don't want to start labelling food as good and bad That is very dangerous and more importantly, not necessary and so they are not words I would use. There is a double standard going here. On one hand you say you don't want to have to think about whether food is healthy or not and then on the other you say you already eat healthily which suggests you have already thought about it and are doing what apparently I am not supposed to do because that would be a diet mentality. I am confused. So I am supposed to lose weight and live to be a ripe old age by eating chocolate and crisps because that is what I want and so long as I eat consciously, chew slowly and only eat when hungry that is OK?

AD is extreme - for one day out of 2. The other day is perfectly normal. It isn't extreme in the same way as WW or whatever, where you are supposed to exist on something stupid like 1200 calories every single day and somehow not cave in to temptation because you never get to eat normally and whole food groups are banned. That would be unbearable. AD is totally bearable even if it isn't very practical.

Maybe I have had different experiences from you, never having been on a diet where you aren't allowed to eat certain things. I don't really know what it means to have a diet mentality. My only concern is about having a better balance.

ok BBB not going to continue with this as we have different views on this subject but that is good as it would be a boring world if we all thought the same. Good Luck with whatever you find works for you.

Some words are so loaded now e.g. diet (which basically means what we eat and drink though the dictionary gives more than one meaning also mentioning that it's a list of foods on which some are limited due to health) that it's probably better to not use it. I like using Way Of Eating.

One thing is very clear to me though BBB is that when I follow my Blood Type and the Hay I don't get arthritis, IBS, eczema and various infections etc. and when I didn't or don't follow it I get all or some of those things .

HAPPY MUMS' DAY EVERYONE !!!!!! helloo anybody there ???? I'll be nice honest

Hi PP....and a Happy Mothers Day to you and everyone else too .Hope you got lots of choccies and flowers and stuff . Im making my daugher make me lots of cups of tea ha ha!!

Thanks very much Dottie I'm in France on my own, DH is in London It's a bit actually my ex DIL and current DIL have sent me happy Mother's day wishes but my actual DCs haven't yet they DO get up late on Sunday though and their cards are going to arrive tomorrow Bless them

Awwww.....do you know what Ive decided a couple of years ago.....its a sign that we are good parents that are children dont feel that they have to run after our coat tails and try too hard to please us. They know that we will always love them unconditionally and they have turned out secure Adults. I always tried so hard to please my mother, tried hard to get her attention etc because she had never given me the feeling of being cherished and loved and wanted and never had the feeling that she was glad she had me. But my two grown up children know that they mean everything to me and our relationship is lovely and relaxed. Hence your daughter in law and ex dil try much harder cause they want you to like them. Does any of that make sense.

"our" children.....god my spelling is awful on the internet lol.

Yes ii makes good sense, and it has made me feel better because they DO say that they feel secure and loved.

about your DM but it's brilliant that you were aware enough of your DM's shortcomings to make up for them to your own DC's. So many parents are unaware that their parenting was bad and they visit the same on their DCs. I was lucky in that my DM realised her DM was shxx and tried her hardest to makes us feel loved and she succeeded.

Im sooo glad it made you feel better PP. My parents had nothing to do with me for 22 years so I had my children and brought them up without them.

feeling highly irritated.
during phonecall with my mum today, she said that my brothers were talking at lunch about how they didn't think I could lose weight.

what exactly am I supposed to do with that information. i'm doing really well, I know this, but that feels like a slap in the face.

Well never you can let it get to you and feel bad and maybe eat mindlessly or you can realise that people will do this to you because they are been a bit .....well.......sneery! They are used to whatever your old "diet" patterns were and that maybe you lost and gained etc. but they are not you and what they think really doesnt matter. Your mum probably shouldnt have told you what they said either but maybe she was being a bit "sneery" herself. Sometimes people do that and you mustnt let it affect you because then they are proved right if you give up. Probably best if you dont tell people what your doing and just do it and let them see the results.

BBB Im sorry if what I said came across as arsey.....reading my posts back they easily could have. Its just that I want to believe PM works exactly as he says it does with the four Rules and maybe I felt that what you were saying sort of meant that it didnt work with just the 4 rules. I think Im pre menstrual as I only get argumentative when I am...lol. But your quiet right that it has to be tailored to suit each of our own wants, needs and beliefs. So once again.....sorry x

my youngest brother has been really encouraging, so it's crappy to hear they think it's a joke.
twats.

am drowning my sorrows in a nice cold glass of tap water

Agree with dottie about silly/sneery people nevergoogle don't listen to them One of my sayings is " Don't give anyone the POWER to upset you". I'm really pleased you're doing so well

Wow.....snow snow snow....eira eira eira!! Blizzards.

Is that welsh for snow Dottie ? It hasn't started here yet but does look as though it might.

Yep. Blizzards all day. Settled as well. Im going to have to buy me a warmer hooded padded coat for next year. How you today PP.?

I had had that vomiting bug for a week or so the other week and was relying on club biscuits to stop me feeling sick....trouble is I then put 4 lb on but at the time all I cared about was not throwing up. Eating normally again now and the extra pounds are coming off . How about you....have you stopped losing weight now?

Ladies, this thread needs some Paul lurve :)

never they just don't realise you have a secret weapon now :) They will notice a change in you as time goes by!

Morning Having it sounds like they're quite positive on that thread which is good, are you over the infection you had?

Dottie Your snow sounds lovely as long as you don't have to go to work in it! I've got a sledge which i always take out in the deep snow I love it !! DH looks like at my sledging

I've sort of stopped losing ( I don't weigh though) I just go by my clothes, not putting any on even after avocado in my salad (I reckon it might have something to do with a supplement i'm taking to get over the flu its turmeric!! worth taking for lots of health reasons BTW).

That vomiting bug sounds worse than the flu you poor thing [ sad](i hate throwing up ).

I'm over the UTI but just feeling shattered. Only 9 shifts to work! Off to see the MW in a bit.

Hope all goes well