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.

Do you mean me? I'm 25 weeks, due end of April. I've suddenly gone from people saying Oh, early days then to Ooh won't be long! 10 weeks left work!

I think you may have hit the nail on the head with the metabolism - the good news is you can change the dysfunction of the metabolism by kick starting it. Can you bring yourself to have breakfast each day? Get things going in the morning?

Ooh Paul interview in The Sun by the way - please note I'm only purchasing it for the cheap holiday! :)

Aws - would it be possible you have sort of hormone imbalance , maybe a dodgy thyroid or something? It seems weird to me that you haven't lost anything at all. Like most eating plans, when you follow them to the letter, you would expect ot lose more at the beginning than later on so if you have cut back then it should be having an effect.

Alternatively, if you have always eaten the PMcK way (like me - small portions, stop when full - I can't bear being full) could you perhaps be eating the wrong thing? i know I do and one of the reasons I am here. I have so much to lose at the moment that I can lose without changing what I eat, and just focus on how much and when, but you have a lot less to lose so maybe you have to start making helathy eating choices more often as I know I will do one day.

If going to the gym and eating normally didn't work and eating less doesn't work by itself, have you actually done the eating less, moving more combo? PMcK doesn' have a lot to say about exercise but it might be what you need.

It must be tough though. We all want to see results from our efforts and if we don't get them it can affect motivation which won't help at all.

I reckon you'll get the balance right eventually though. Stick with it.

And in other news - my new book has arrived. Just got to find time to read it now!

aws Don't worry about counting cals at all ( i never do and have never done) just eat when you're hungry; it takes time for your body to become used to this WOE esp. if as you say you don't eat all day sometimes. THAT is the reason you're not losing IMO.

DH weighs probably 6 stone more than me and he does this "a coffee or a sweet is as good as a meal". So of course can't lose weight he doesn't think the P.M. is any good (despite the evidence of his eyes .)

Cross post with everybody!

Faith - glad you are OK(ish) It isn't a flare up of your old troubles is it?. Take it easy. I am sure you will anyway but still. I can't think of anything else to say that will be of any help. Will keep my fingers crossed that the next 15 weeks are plain sailing.

ppeat DH still insist Paul is 'voodoo'! Despite seeing what a difference its made to me!

Thanks BBB, I'm fine, just sleepy! Seems to be unrelated to previous pain - same side but different place. Chronic problem is down near bladder, this is up under rib cage. I suspect the scan will show..nothing! But hey ho. Better to get checked out when you're up the duff than leave it and have complications.

Faith, I had gallstones and the pain was all down my right hand side from under my ribs and around my back a little. They show up quite clearly on the scan and once they'd seen them, I was booked for keyhole surgery. All done and dusted within a month of the scan. I guess you'll have to wait until after the baby is born but in the meantime, cutting out fatty foods can help prevent attacks in the short term.

Aws, I agree with the others' advice, I hope you find it works soon

Hello! I saw the mckenna webchat and I am trying to help my elderly MIL lose weight as she wants to become more mobile, hope it is OK if I ask a question? I have seen the make you thin book and also the new gastric band book, MIL's main concern is that she gets very scared that there won't be enough to eat, so overeats in particular at night - she says that it is as if she is worried she'll wake up hungry if not full to bursting before sleeping. DH and I (and her GP) are helping her with healthy eating etc but was wondering if one of these programmes would be particularly helpful? Which one do you think would help her anxiety about lack of food/risk of hunger?

ICMYT does address anxiety about food shortage. Would a practical solution be for her to keep a banana or some crackers by the bed to allay anxiety?

Hi.....BBB I eat healthily, I dont eat alot and dont have a thyroid imbalance or hormonal problem (other than being peri menopausal which doesnt help) generally active and used to run but now just do weights and power walk. Think Im going to have to return to lo carb as I wonder if as Ive got older that my body cannot tolerate carbs and sugar now. When I go lo carb ( which i do for health reasons as it cures my ibs) my weight does go down and i feel less bloated and less sluggish and lighter. Is your blood diet sort of like that pp?
Sorry for the confusion Faith. You havnt got long to go at all and how lovely to have a baby in the spring (well with our climate it will most likely be boiling hot in April).
Sorry for asking about the baby Solo (ha ha ha ha). And.....any news on your new man yet?

That's a good idea TheDoctrineOfSnatch. I'll buy her the ICMYT and see how she gets on.

Morning everybody aws The blood type diet is fascinating I don't look at it as a diet more a WOE it has cured my allergies, arthritis, and eczema!! it goes by what blood type you are e.g. 0 types SHOULD eat meat (not pork though) and DH who is an 0 type always does brilliantly on Atkins type diets (shame he ever 'comes off' them)!! It sounds like you might be the same.

A types like me are much better without meat and 'good' carbs like rye and oats and of course veg. and fruit and fish.

I meant of course that A types are good with good carbs,veg and fish (not deadly nightshade veg. though )

Hello all. I have not abandoned you, honest. I have been reading but have been unable to post for a while. Hopefully this one will work out ok!

Scripsi I totally understand your MIL's thinking. Well, sort of!! because I felt the same. It is so weird now though, we have moved to Cambodia and i often cannot get food and can only get certain foods and our lifestyle is so very different. But now that there is a real possibility that I won't be able to have food in the cupboard then the fear of it has gone! I know that sounds strange, but I used to eat things because I had this weird sense that it was not going to be available, but now that things are just not available I am so relaxed about it.
I was given a bar of chocolate at Christmas. My first for 6 months and I am so enjoying having a small piece when I want it. Probably tomorrow it will all be gone, but I have enjoyed every last square of it soo much!

I enjoyed reading through the webchat with Paul and I am pleased he offered some of you (sorry, cant remember names and if I scroll I know I will lose this post!!) the opportunity to go to his seminar. If I was in the UK I think I would have been trying the gastric band thing, but life here is making the weight come off anyway and I am so restricted with my diet. I wasnt able to watch the hangout because my internet isnt good enough.
Good luck to those trying it out and keep us posted as to how it is all going.

Bye for now and keep going everyone!

YAY it worked, finally!!!

Wow the new book has a technique called 'Havening' to deal with stress and stuff. I initially dismissed it but woke up shattered and in a bad mood this morning and thought I had nothing to lose. Did it twice and completely lifted me - even though I did it with a two year old jumping on me. Book worth the price of that alone!

Hi ppeat I was interested to see that it 'clicked' for you when you counted chews 15-20 times. Do you mind me asking how much you've lost?

Best wishes
Sarah

Thanks pp. My husband offered to get me the full PM pack yesterday with the diary etc but i declined as there are 5 tapes in it i think i i dont often find time to listen to one. Will not go to full low carb as that only leads to binging. Funily enough the less i eat the better my ibs and dont get lots of wind (hate having to go to bed holding farts in as would hate farting in front of husband ha ha).
Hi Positive, glad you managed to post at last. What is it your doing over there and how much weight have you lost since being there?
pp.....where do you live in France and are you as slim as those frenchies and as stylish(god they are sooooo effortlessly stylish)

Hi sarah I've got to my target size 10 and I've dropped from nearly size 16 it's roughly (cos' i don't weigh much and it's in kilos !)nearly 3 stone.

Nice to hear from you again Positive!

aws DH lost most when he was on the Food Combining or Hay Diet/WOE (which I'm on all the time) It's not eating carbs and protein at the same meal; You could eat more often and its much healthier than 'normal' ways of eating E.G. protein and carb at the same meal. Less windy too!!!

We live in mid west. Fr. 2 hours inland from La Rochelle. But we're backwards and forwards between London and Totnes. Sorry to disillusion you but there are a hell of a lot of frenchies who NEED P.M. (they're into McDo's in a big way now ) Maybe it's 'cos we live in the countryside but a lot of them live in trackies or OTT frilly skirts (remember that fashion?) with anoraks!!.
The Parisiennes are better but I saw quite a few normal looking ones.Often it's us Brits who are the stylish ones!! I DO try when we go out 'cos some of the Fr. women like dressing up to go shopping which I like too .

He's on the One Show, now!

Hi ya everyone
Great thread.
Im new and just bought the book which has free cd and dvd. I must say its completly different to what I expected.
Struggling to get my head around it.

Any tips from people for a first timmer .

Hi Elainey, Did you buy the new book or ICMYT? I guess my tips would be to try to listen to the CD every day to start with. In terms of food, the things I found made a real difference were turning off the tv, eating at a table not off my lap, chucking out all the 'diet' food. I took up running using couch to 5k when I started which definitely kick started my weight loss and changed my body shape more rapidly than anything else I'd tried!

Hi Elainey, I'm a newbie too! I've started to make sure I eat when I'm hungry, not just when I stop being busy. That's been working well, I guess like most people I end up having smaller meals but more often, and my moods have improved as well!

Also I'm terrible for when I do eat for doing something at the same time whether that's watching tv or reading or just eating on the move. So again, making an effort to sit and eat consciously.

Good luck with it!!

Hi Elainey and tilly.....welcome to this lovely lovely thread....all nice friendly helpful ladies.
My husband did buy me the Pauly full pack with all the cd diary etc in the end. Told me today as a surprise. Bless.
pp....so glad the Frenchie ladies are not all we are led to believe. I have been to Paris and seen the gorgeous stylish dressed ladies there but I gave them a little run for their money as I always dress stylishly myself . Looked up the Hay diet .....seems a little like low carb.
I am over my little blip with feeling despondent though and back on track now. Im not going to concentrate on losing weight Im going to concentrate on just eating properly with this woe and the rest will take care of itself Im sure.

Hello to tilly and Elainey and welcome.

Awsangel - we are volunteering here, working with the families in the slum areas which is very eye opening. I cannot believe that people live like this in this century! BUT most of the people here, no matter how desperately poor and how little they have are the happiest people I have ever met!
I have lost a total of 4 stone and 3lb-ish in under 6 months. I started off huge, though!!! , so I am still rather big!!

A few things have knocked my confidence being here, though: firstly 99% of the Cambodians are undernourished, so being a fat white person makes me stick out like a sore thumb!!

Morning All A big welcome to Elainey A few tips on starting

It depends on how many 'crap' or 'normal' diets you've been on as to how your long your body takes to get used to being 'allowed' to be itself and for you to get used to the signals it's giving you (about being hungry and then being full!!). Read the book, listen to the C.D.s and watch the DVDs they're a great help.

I've lost the weight without counting cals. or anything.

Exercise helps but it's not the be all or end all. I use stretches,dancing about the kitchen. plies while washing up and acupressure I don't go to a gym or jog or run or nothing!!

Oh and the best tip of all for me was to chew each mouthful 15 - 20 times that REALLY got me going!

positive many congrats on the weight loss keep at it girl

SOLO where are you?????