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.

Hello. Wondering if I can joing too. Got the book and reading it. Trying, but I think it will take a LONG time for me to get on track.

I spent my early childhood being punished for eating too slowly, and then my late childhood with 3 greedy brothers who stole food off my plate if I didn't eat it fast enough.

My habbits (why have I only just realised this?) appear to be to simply open my throat and pour food in, usually before I've even sat down with it.

Morning and a big welcome to emmie and starlight about yr. childhood; good that you're aware of it now though One of the many brilliant things about Paul Mckenna are that he does address issues like yours if you get his book and DVD and CD (I watched him on T.V. and borrowed the book) though I got his cds free!!

Afternoon ladies....Welcome emmie and starlight.
I agree with pp....its good to realise where your eating habits come from Starlight. Mine are my mother "dieting" me and not allowing me to eat, even when hungry. I was only allowed to eat when she gave me food otherwise I was given black looks and made to feel fat and bad.
emmie...I listen to mine whenever I can be it during the day or before bed. Once i get into it and provided its on low and husband cant here it, it helps me to drift off and sleep. Mind you it makes me sleep during the day too ha ha.

Oh that's awful aws Mine dieted but NEVER forced us to eat or diet or anything; she was a bit about white sugar, though she didn't ban sweets .
I remember one of our friends stealing from our sweet tin because they were banned in his house.
I was also careful to allow our DCs to buy sweets with their pocket money so they soon wanted to spend it on other stuff! it worked quite well. I DID ban coke and other high sugar fizzy drinks but not at their parties

I LOVE listening to P.M. for an afternoon nap! esp. if I've got up early and need to stay up late.

I know it sounds a bit silly but i didn't tell DH as i thought he wouldn't get it.. But even though i wasn't totally relaxed i feel something has worked as i feel more positive today, not just around food but in all areas.. Is this coincidence?!? - i will go to bed before DH tonight and tell him to come up 30 mins after me... doh, why didn't think of that?!!!

I am a bit skepitical about the tapping techinique... Does this really work?!!

Hiya everyone

I can say that the tapping technique does work. I sometimes suffer with panic attacks especially on a night. The other night I felt one coming on and used the tapping and it really calmed me down.

I am doing the gastric band book which comes with its own tapping dvd I was unsure at first but after trying it a couple of times I found it did help.

Thanks bopper (btw, I have liked your FB page, hope this is okay? it is motivating to read your blog )

Will give tapping a go

I still haven't found boppers fb page!

Solo, Bopper's FB page is called Paul McKenna I can make you thin, my journey and her profile pic is a chocolate cake with smarties on top.

Morning all!! It's brill that you're all so positive !! I've outed myself on bopper's FB page BTW Solo How did the party go?

Hello! Can't believe we are half way through January already. Thank the Lord! It isn't my favourite month for many reasons.

Solo - The link to Boppers page again.

Took me a while to find where I posted it - it is lost in the mists of time back at the beginning of Jan which is why I can't believe how far we are along now!

ppeat - I saw you had outed yourself. So did I. Only the eagle eyed would have spotted it though so more of a peek than a full outing!

Hello 8BB* I don't mind January it's my and DS's birthday month though my b/day was a non event 'cos DH sprained his ankle and we couldn't go anywhere- slightly annoying when the DCs and all my family and friends- are saying 'Have a lovely day' . He's off to Prague now so we'll have a nice meal somewhere when he gets back.

Hello everyone! Sorry I've been AWOL, life has been stressful and I've been in hiding from important things like addressing my eating..

Anyway - DH finally has a new contract, he starts on Monday. Good on two fronts,

a) money
b) getting him out from under my feet!

I find that we get up later because there is both of us to sort DS1 for school and get him there, and that then we end up sitting around chatting about things and drinking coffee for most of the morning and bugger all gets done.

I have been much better with food the last 3-4 days, all the Christmas things are gone and I've managed to get off the sugar roller coaster.

emmie - I listen in bed before going to sleep too mostly, but I have told DH what I'm doing so he knows not to disturb me Actually he has started listening to the 'Control your Stress' CD and reading the book, and it is proving pretty successful so far.
I do want to get to the point where I can listen to it earlier in the evening and then wake up and have my evening before I go to bed, but there is too much tidying and sorting to do once the DSs are asleep at the moment - hopefully it will get easier as they get older!

I haven't managed to listen to the CD yet, keep meaning to see if I can get it onto my Ipod - has anyone managed that?

PPea, thank you for the nuts & fruit tip. I bought a large bag of trail mix & have been carrying little boxes of that around with me, in the last week alone I have saved £10 from not popping into a cafe when feeling peckish!

Ali good to hear from you it sounds like you have a nice DH well done on the new contract! Mine is nice .He works from home so he's in the sitting room on the computer ALL the time, when he's not abroad, so not much time for chats.

tilly you're welcome!

ppeat thank you :) He is my best friend.

tilly - yes, if you burn the CD into iTunes then you can make a new playlist with just that in and put it on your iPod.

Yay! Well done Mr Baba ..... or should that be Mr 40 Nappies?

What a weight off your mind Ali. Life can get back to normal for a bit. Is it a long contract and local? I hope it doesn't unsettle your boys. DS1 used to hate it when DH was home for a while and then went back to work. DS2 is more philosophical..... and a mummys boy so wasn't that bothered whether his father was there or not. That has changed now that football is so important. I don't cut it as far as footie goes. Hooray!!!

I'm hanging out for half term to finish before I can get me some normality. The rest of January is a write off until the gazillion tax returns are filed and DH isn't wandering around muttering and looking stressed or just not here at all. I suspect I will get the call up to do more than normal hours any day now. And then once that is over, I have 2 weeks of jury service which may or may not mean I am out of the house all day and sitting around pondering the meaning of life waiting to be called up. I suppose I could always listen to PMcK on my phone! Providing I don't look like I have fallen asleep and I don't do somethink embarrassing like dribbling or talking to myself whilst I am out of it, of course .

Or maybe I will do something embarrassing like type somethink. Well, I is an East Londoner, innit?

Thank you for liking my fb page I am on there all the time, well not all the time, just when I have a spare 5 mins. But everyday even if I dont post I am there, lol. If that makes sense!

Hope everyones having a good day. I had a bit of a choc slip today but not feeling bad. I know why and am back to it now, didnt even enjoy it really which is a first!

Thanks BBB - it is 6 months and London with the possibility of up to another year if it goes well. I would far rather him being going there and back every day than up in Manchester or wherever for 4 nights a week, that would be grim.
The boys will be ok, although DS2 does walk around ALL day saying 'Mummy, where Daddy?' ad infinitum which can get a bit wearing!

Hi....have asked who is BBBertha and who is ppeatfruit on Boppers page? You will see who I am if you go on.

Hi all! Good to see this thread moving quickly again, new year enthusiasm!

tilly I managed to rip the cd to my computer and then add it to my iPhone no problem.

I am getting rather rotund now! 26 weeks today :) loving my pregnant body though. I'm getting tired now, especially since I did nights at the weekend but no more nights now til after mat leave (phew!).

Keep up the good work!

Thank you! I have liked :)

BBB where do you live? Are you on half term ? That's early! I always thought there was 6 weeks between holidays!

OMG I remember my jury service it was fairly awful

Having glad everything is going well Lovely not to do nights (In my ideal world no one would do nights)!!

If you look carefully you'll see me on Boppers FB site aws there's me and DH and DD2 on my pic. I'm trying not to say my RL name on here! I'll pm you if you want!

Hi everyone. Got the gastric band book yesterday, read it from cover to cover as told to do. Today I am feeling great not to be dieting any more, feel like a huge weight has been lifted already. Not even listened to cd yet, but today food is already not as important to me as it was 2 days ago.

The book is anti-diet, and I love it! Going to re-read it, and write notes this time, as he says an awful lot of important things.

Cant wait to shrink my liver and get my band fitted in a week or so.

I would love to go to the seminar, but feel scared about going London on my own