The Paul McKenna Thread Number 12. A Simple Title, for Simple Weight Loss and All amongst Friends!!

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Welcome to thread 12 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, it's about enjoying what you are putting in your mouth, but not feeling bloated and uncomfortable (or guilty) afterwards!
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 may 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!! Let's get lighter for those summer clothes!

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 ~ 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...if we can get into a smaller size for summer, just think how we could look for next Christmas!

yes i know what you mean, am actually back to pre preg weight too - but i was at my heaviest when i got pregnant so its nothing to be too pleased with! but yes, my shape has completely changed -and not for the better! really struggling with clothes and finding things to wear.

ive only read a couple of chapters of ICMYT this morning, but have been out for the day celebrating DHs birthday and have already been doing a bit of groundwork for this new way of eating. Didnt eat anywhere near as much as I usually would, and left a bit of everything I have had today, just to get used to that idea.

Will weigh myself tomorrow and see what I'm starting off at...

Hi can I join too? You lovely ladies are doing so well supporting each other. I have done this system before and lost I think about a stone before losing interest. Prior to this lost 3 stone on WW and was around 2 stone under heaviest after second child when I joined slimming world and lost over 2 stone.

So from heaviest to slimmest over the years I have managed a loss of 4 stone 4 pounds which to write down sounds unbelievable. But I still can't help over eating! I have managed to put on 5.5 lb which I know is not much but I am so scared of it all creeping on and I am fed up of being so obsessive about food it dominates my mind and it feels good to write this down.

Thanks for your responses. I don't have time to look here every day but I'll nip in whenever I can to try to pick up some tips. I'm definitely eating more consciously and I'm definitely thinking about food less which are huge successes. I'm slightly worried, no, let's be honest, I'm really worried about separating food from my life too much. Food is one of my hobbies and major interests and something I'm good at. I'm not arty or musical or creative in any way except in what I cook. I don't want to stop thinking about new ways of cooking stuff. I just want to stop eating it all.

I think I need to figure out how to eat mindfully at the times when it's convenient for me to eat rather than focussing straight away on the only when you're hungry bit. I really need to get to grips with leaving stuff on my plate - may need brain surgery to assist with this bit.

I'm really glad this thread is here. I so want this method to work but was feeling a bit disheartened before I found you. Now I'll have another sip from my small glass of sauv blanc.

Faith - how did your first day back on this WOE go?

No good - you've inspired me with Shred. Maybe that'll be enough to make me feel like I'm seeing some quick(er) progress towards my ideal figure!
Thanks for the motivational talk too, it's all been very helpful I've also been reminded that one of the reasons I'm trying to get healthier/slimmer is to be a better role model for my girls and them seeing me only drinking shakes, not eating proper food in moderation like you mentioned, isn't doing that. Even though they're only v young, my 2 year old especially copies everything I do! A few days ago I stubbed my toe and was limping around for a while until I spotted she was doing the same, very seriously, with no understanding or questioning, just "mummy does that now so I'd better start too"!

nappy I understand where your coming from but if you love food then following the four golden rules is what enables you to eat all your wonderful food. You can eat whatever you make...just eat when your hungry and your body wants fuel. Try not to eat when your not hungry cause your body doesn't need it and that's when the weight goes on. Thin people eat whatever when they are hungry.

Howi - another advocate for Shred then? I'm very unfit though so I expect it to be awful at first.
I'm the same re my shape post baby. I have a real baby belly wobble which I'm having problems finding clothes in my old wardrobe to cover.

pp what's wrong with tea and coffee???? I love them. And Nettle tea to lose weight....?? I'm trying to eat normally not look for diet tips

And I eat late at night cause sometimes that's when I'm hungry.

Tinwe it was ok thanks! Easy due to still recovering. Just had breakfast properly chewing, tv off. Realised before the last bite I was full!

nappy it sounds like you're in the right place! There's no reason you should stop cooking and enjoying making food, you just need to retrain your brain to stop when you're comfortably full. The irony is when you crack it it'll taste better than the food you overeat!

Re caffiene - ppeat had previously suggested it can be detrimental to weight loss. I think I'm going to have to cut right Dowb again - Faithlet has reflux, last week I had a couple of days with little caffiene and she was asymptomatic. Yesterday I had a fair bit and she was awful so in going to phase it out (can't go cold turkey!).

Hello ladies , old and new

Happy Monday! Just popping in to say hi. Very busy at the moment but I hope to have a bit more time from next week.

Sorry to read you have been ill Faith, especially after your hols. Being ill with a bf small baby is horrible - it really brings home what it means to be a mother ime! Nothing like juggling a baby and being ill to make you realise your priorities have had to change. Grim. Hope you bounce back quickly.

Tinwe - don't give up on Pauling. I know it feels really slow sometimes but better to do it slowly and keep the weight off than do a quick fix and be back to square 1 in no time. It would be so lovely just to wake up one morning slim though, wouldn't it.

Fwiw, nettle tea is a diuretic. You are bound to lose weight drinking it but you'll soon put it all back. There are no quick fixes!

Have a good week everybody.

morning! Rules I mentioned cutting down on coffee and normal tea to tin because she was talking about WW for fast results. Too much caffeine isn't good for weight loss especially if it's every day every day. IMO and E it clings on to the water in your body; DH thinks it' s good instead of a meal and he CAN'T lose weight. DM is the same .

I gave up a daily cup of proper ground coffee years and years ago and immediately lost weight (but when i do have it occasionally then it works to speed up my metabolic rate weirdly )

I'm much better thanks BBB! It was rough but only 24 hours and in some ways it's boosted DH's confidence. He's had a tendency to hand her over rather quickly whereas he took care of her until I got up.

Well I've only had 1 caffeinated drink so far today! Had a couple of decaff and about to have a redbush vanilla...so far, so good :)

Hi all, happy Monday and sorry to have caused some confusion. I wasn't thinking of WW, can't be doing with all the counting and measuring! I was and still am a bit tempted by a shakes diet, CD or LL or similar for a speedier loss. Just finding it a long slog as I was also trying to lose weight for a while before I started Pauling and I've been 'spoilt' by getting a quick weight loss following one of those diets in the past. I think I need to either see results quickly or have something new to focus on to keep me interested (until the basics become habit) so I've decided to focus on drinking loads of water and see how that goes for a week. That's part of Paul's advice and always a good idea anyway

Bigboobied- TOTALLY agree with you re being ill with babies. It's the pits, especially if they're ill too. Cleaning up diarrhoea when you're gipping yourself is grim

Make mend- well done on all your weight loss! It goes to show you have great will power when you put your mind to it.

Nappy - I think you sound perfectly placed for this WOE! You love to make food special, enjoy the foods you like and that's the way this WOE encourages it to be. Not just "shovelling it in while watching tele" like I do most nights It must be possible as even the most indulgent chefs you see on tv are rarely very overweight! By relishing and savouring food it stops becoming an automatic thing IYSWIM.

Morning pp.....I understand why you were saying it now but in my experience coffee speeds up my metabolism and it also causes me to spend a lot of time on the loo evacuating (sorry ha ha tmi). Tea on the other hand doesn't have enough caffeine in it anyway to cause any problem and it has many health benefits, anyway, I enjoy my cuppa but love Rooibos vanilla tea too!
Tinwe if the shakes worked then you would lose the weight and keep it off forever but they don't. You starve the body and then when you have achieved goal you have to deal with real food and forbidden food and that's when the trouble starts. Most people I know who have been on LL or other similar diets find that when they allow themselves to eat again that they start binge eating and spiralling out of control and the weight piles on. This mindful eating might be slow and might take a couple of months to fully be understood and applied but even if you only lost half a pound a week that would be 24 pounds in a year which means that by this time next year you would be nearly 2 stone lighter than you are now. Doesn't seem much at the time but when you think you can eat what you want whenever your truly hungry then I think that is really sustainable for life. Of course if you follow the 4 rules and eat mindfully all the time then it can and does happen much quicker.

Oh definitely agree about coffee. It has the same effect on me. I don't drink it except for the odd decaf because of the way it affects me. I can quite see why the coffee diet works but I bet it isn't pleasant.

Tea goes straight through me too but then it is supposed to be a diruetic. I don't drink tea before a long car jouney - there would have to be too many stops

Same here BBB! No tea an hour before a journey!

Well I've hardly snacked today! Certainly not done the prowling the house for more food that I was doing.

I think there's something key in what rules said - with any diet, you go back to eating like normal, you put the weight on again. I've tried various diets including WW and eventually they get tiresome and the weight goes back on. By Pauling we are redefining the 'normal' way of eating, changing the rules to a healthier approach. It's more manageable than any diet because there's no deprivation or will power, you just need to apply the simple rules!

So its got to be the best way ever hasn't it. It really is just how a slim person thinks about food. They don't overeat. Why would they. They are not hungry any more. Food is just fuel for them. That's what I have lost the ability to do.

The thing I love most about this WOE of eating is even if the weight loss is slow, the point is you're in total control of what you're putting in your body whether it's fruit or chocolate, and most importantly you're losing weight eating WHATEVER YOU WANT!!! That's got to be better than any quick fix starvation diet!

Right so did the cd last night found it difficult to relax at first but defiantly did go into a day dream eventually. I feel more in control today and not wanting to binge on cereal etc. I did the mirror exercise this morning too.

Today I have eaten 1 slice of toast with butter and honey. Half a banana lunch was half a sandwich with cheese chutney and sausage. Tea was pizza shared with my two DDs and later on I had date and walnut pudding with custard not particularly healthy but hoping that I will naturally go for more healthy options in the future.

In agreement with others re this system beings way of taking control of food issues and so simple as in following rules what comes natural to slim people. I would like to get to the bottom of why I feel the need to punish myself by over eating! Ah well.

What is WOE?

RULES I am really feeling motivated with what you have said about half a pound a week over a year is over a stone really put it in perspective for me thanks.

way of eating

Morning all and a big welcome mendand I think it's a great idea to have a pudding as a 'meal' because its impossible when Pauling correctly to eat a pudding as "afters' IFYSWIM (it just makes you think how much we all overeat when having a three course meal ). I enjoy it much more. Due to the conscious eating I suppose!