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.

Yeah Faith, I thought you were a bit.... not told off exactly but put in your place, patronised a little may be. I don't know. It was a bit bossy I suppose. (Solo and Ppeat would probably call it masterful ).

Difficult though - he has a point I suppose. Again I haven't read the book but you wouldn't have a gastric band whilst you were pregnant and assuming this is like that to some extent, without invasive surgery, I can see why it wouldn't be good. But he could just have said, 'no I wouldn't recommend it', without the baby growing bit, as if you didn't know what pregnant meant.

On the other hand you have had it straight from the horses mouth not to do it. Real advice from the person who knows. That has to be worth a few points when the next 'Celebs I have spoken to' threads come up.

He's lost a bit of his good looks; I've gone off him and he's silly IMO if he thinks ALL foods are the same, they ain't IME. So there (flouncy emoticom),

Well, just ordered the book from Amazon.

I feel a little cynical about the fact he released a diet book on 3rd Jan but lets hope his marketing people controlled that. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. (Big of me )

Just hope there is enough that is different in it to warrant the £8.90 I spent.

Has age caught up with him ppeat? Maybe it was just the webcam thing. I don't find them very flattering either. I steer well clear of Skype at all times!

He has quite a pointy face. Perhaps he could do with fattening up a bit!

Yes it's disappointing he didn't say anything about food sensitivities really. Like I chose not to eat wheat for my IBS, if I ate whatever I wanted, I'd be a big bloated mess! I could eat wheat based foods for England. I also find if I have wheat, I crave wheat....shame he didn't address that!

Yes he's looking gaunt isn't he? Can we see it again do you think? 'cos i missed a fair chunk of it trying to find the link!!

Having I remember him saying at the seminar that obviously you don't eat what makes you ill!!

faith (ref. pregnancy comment) He's a bloke isn't he? he had to type fast and wasn't as sensitive as maybe a woman would be !

But I want cream cakes! Actually I did a gluten challenge where I ate wheat based stuff for 6 weeks before getting a coeliac blood test to be sure I wasn't coeliac. I really enjoyed the food but had already decided before the end of it to cut wheat out because I felt so ill!

Webcams are pretty unflattering...

It's possible to make wheat free cakes and brownies Nice ones actually with bit of cream! having!!

I always struggle with baking :( cooking, yes, but my baking attempts aren't great. I do have a GF cook book (my sister bought it, I lost it in the fire but recently replaced it) so I might have a stab at some baking again..

Hiya everyone

I cant beleive he answered my question I was very excited.

You can watch the live web chat there is a link to it that someone has added to my facebook page. Hope this helps.

Happy pauling! X

I had my question answered too....so pleased.

What did I tell you, I predicted right. He's on The One Show on Wednesday ladies.

I think we are going to have PMcK overload before the month is out.

Hi adies, weighed my self today, havnt gained any weight but havnt lost any and its been..... what....3 weeks I think...not sure as i cant get onto the last thread. I have really really followed it but am not losing. I know its good that I havent put any on but then I dont generally put weight on . Sighhh! Im not stopping just wanted some words of wisdom. Will be starting gym again this week but I did it for 3 months last year and ate normally and still didnt lose any. If i starved myself down to 500 to 800 cals i know i would lose weight(although I havnt tried this for many years) but I am not going to diet. Its not water retention although I am peri menoupausal and I kept a food diary over Christmas and I ate about 1000 to 1500 by PM ing but weight stays the same. Thanks.

I didn't think he was being weird with you Faith - I think he was meaning along the lines of 'give yourself a break' but the tone was lost - which it is on here a fair bit!

BBB I am tempted by the book.

Thanks for the good wishes re. DH and job etc

SOlo when do you start back?

Why am I up so late??? Argh.......

Is the app worth the money does anyone know?

Am veey tempted by the new book. I am an emotional eater so need sonethinv which puts me in tune with my body and feelings.

Morning all!!! aws are you chewing each mouthful 15 to 20 times mindfully? When i did that it somehow 'clicked' for me and then the weight literally dropped off. Also you MUST eat when you're hungry not go on and on and 'cos then your blood sugar level drops and you stuff down anything. IFYSWIM.

It does take time for your body to get used this as well; be patient

Sorry jake yes i think someone on here said the app is good I haven't got it though! it depends on how rich or otherwise you are feeling I spose!

Hi pp, thanks but I have always been a mindful eater and if you imagine a whole plate of food, I only ever serve myself a quarter of the plate if that makes sense, I dont eat alot and am always the one to leave food as I lose the taste and get full quickly and stop. Not bloody fair...lol . My daughter eats tons and is always a size 8. buggers. How long did it take you to see losses on this when you started. Sorry if I have already asked that. Will listen to the tape more and read the book again......

Well I'd suggest you eat more then! If you're eating nourishing food you're body uses up energy to digest it so you HAVE to eat when you feel hungry. It sounds like you do the rest with no problems.

I was a bit like Solo started off slowly and then it fell off when I started chewing carefully as I said above; it took over a year altogether I suppose have you much to lose? I DO combine it with food combining and the blood type though (naughty me ).

How did the party go solo?

If you refer back to the ICMYT book aws there's a bit where he talks about an experiment where they 'starved' people and they were in 1500 calories a day! I do agree you need to try to up your calorie intake initially to get your body out of starvation mode.

Well I spend last night in hospital had some abdo pain around where you might get preeclampsia so had to get it checked out. Course the OOH doc was extra cautious with me being diffed. Anyway, after being seen this morning they think it's my gallbladder. They sent me home and will scan me as an outpatient. Happily seen midwife for routine 25 week appointment and all is well with the baby :)

I lost quite quickly but I started in New Year after a bingey Christmas and I combined the Pauling with running, hence a fast weight loss.

Oh dear having glad everything is alright now!

Honestly it was a nightmare - three different patients with their own issues (one Dementia, one LD and one younger MH) all shouting out and different times all night I am understanding that they coudln't help it but at 4.30am my patience and tolerance had worn a little thin! I suspect I will sleep like a top tonight! :)

Thanks Ladies, Solo, glad your ok. How many weeks pregnant are you now?
I do not think I can consiously up my calories though not without counting how many calories I am consuming. And that puts me into diet mode cause Im watching what I eat too much. Ah well. I do chew slowly though.When I cut out all carbs I lose weight easily but thats no way to live is it. Im truly baffled I am and have been baffled for years. Think the answer may lie in my metabolism as I can easily go all day till 8.00 at night with no food and then have just a small meal and a couple of biscuits and an apple and be fine. But no weight comes off. Think , if its possible, that my metabolism was knackered by my mum in childhood.