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!

one comment on my weight loss though which I guess goes back to my original c

comment!

And I apologise for all the disjointed messages - my phone drives me nuts!

YAAAY Well done on the 5ibs!!!!NoGood

Another Yay here too..

Thank you! This thread is the best incentive/support ever

Yay from me too Notgood!

Ppeat I think it came from downloading Firefox which is actually a legitimate web browser. It isn't just some random download. I am not sure why it is so rated as a browser (it does seem much faster than Explorer but then most things seem to be these days) now I find out after downloading it that this Babylon search engine has a way of hijacking it.

Wow Nogood! That is a great weight loss! Well done.

Have you just been following Paul or exercising too?

I really don't understand the compooter at all BBB how I get things on my desktop that I don't remember downloading ! Yes I know Firefox it's okay isn't it? i don't know fxxx about it really .There needs to be a MN course on it!

Thanks BBB and Tinwe!

Tinwe I've been Pauling about 80% of the time (still got lots of bad habits to break!) and I've been trying to exercise too - I've stupidly signed up for the Great North Run so trying to jog as much as poss (not easy when you've got a 3 yr old and 1 yr old to look after all day and then having to work 5 evenings a week - at least that's my excuse haha!)

You'll soon a positive ghost of yourself NotGood !!!!

Hi Tin I saw you on Pinks thread. I've been following since it started in the early hours. She will be having it any time now, I'm sure

Here's hoping!!!

Hi Rules! Spotted you there too! So exciting! Poor woman labouring in this heat. My worst worry is that I've over eaten a delicious tea tonight

Nogood - you're the kind if woman at mother and baby groups who puts me to shame I can tell... I arrive late, hot and sticky with bits of porridge on my clothes and face from feeding DD2, flustered, babies hanging off each hip and the biggest nappy bag you've ever seen strapped across my back and you're already there looking effortlessly fashionable, tanned, slim and relaxed, sipping a herbal tea and talking about the long run you went on that morning

Haha I wish Tin I'm definitely more slummy than yummy! Maybe one day I'll be organised, well groomed and in possession of a capsule wardrobe but that's certainly not today!

Hi everyone
I started ICMYT on Monday and have been reading this thread for a couple of weeks. I accidentally got slightly drunk and just eat a whole pizza I didn't really want and now have the guilt.

So, despite the fact we have never 'talked' before please feel free to either berate me for my lapse or be nice to me. Either works for me. Plus this is an easy way to mark my place in this thread.

Thank you :)

Hi Fee and Welcome. Don't worry about the pizza . Doesn't matter at all. Just don't eat until your hungry.....could be 2 hours could be 12 could be longer. Just wait till you really need food again, eat following the 4 golden rules and stop as soon as you feel satisfied rather than actually full full.

Hello Fee! No guilt with Paul! Chalk it up to experience and start afresh from now! Tell us more about yourself!

Brilliant news NoGood.

Tin I'm just the same as you if it's any consolation! :)

overuse of ! In first paragraph!!!!!!

Hi Fee, welcome! Totally agree with everything Rules said. I had a binge last Saturday night and then on Sunday didn't eat until 3pm (this is unheard of for me!) I kept 'checking in' using the hunger scale in the book but I wasn't genuinely hungry til then. And this is despite going for an 8 mile run in the morning (I'd just like to stress this wasn't out of guilt for the binge, but because I'm training for the great north run and Sunday's my long run day) so if I hadn't done this I may well have not eaten all day. Just remember Paul said you would mess up but it's ok, all part of learning this new WOE. Good luck!

Morning everyone You're very welcome Fee As you've been reading this thread you'll know we don't do much berating! In fact as Paul Mc says we are into being kind to ourselves and everyone else (Tin let's all be positive about ourselves!!! I'm sure you and the porridge look lovely!!!)

The beauty of P.M. is that if it goes a bit awry on one day or even 2 or more then when you're ready you just resume the waiting till you're hungry and eating slowly and MINDFULLY!! etc. etc.

NoGood You're running in this heat??!! i wish you luck and wear a proper hat and suncream (sorry I sound like my mum but mums DO speak sense don't they? )

Thank you all for that welcome :)
Well I'm 33, have 2 girls aged 7 and 5 called Rosie and Mirrie. I've always struggled with my weight and have a history of disordered eating in my teens and early 20's. I'm finding Mr M very useful because the food is all just food rather than being good or bad and it is lovely to be free of calorie counting and failure. I'm really into mindfulness too and mindful eating has been a big challenge because I'm so used to trying to stifle feelings with food.
So yes anyway, that's me. I'm using the 90 day success journal and give this a really good go.

Nice to meet you and the girls Fee At the start it's helpful to get into the CDs (the hypnosis side is really good esp. if you've got a history of disordered eating).Though IMO in our society there's not really a 'normal' way of eating apart from P.M. of course and some people look at it as weird !!

Morning Fee Morning Ladies,
Fee I too have a disorded relationship with food. Its awful itsnt it. I seem to have spent the best part of my life worrying about food. My mother is a seriel dieter and pretty well starved herself but she did also gorge and then throw up. She brought me up to not eat much food at all to be slim and praised me when I didn't eat and lost weight and told me off and called me names when I gained weight and dared to eat anything other than what she gave me. Very sad really. I still struggle with food but eating mindfully which I ventured into about 15 years ago has helped me to feel so much better about myself and my relationship with food. PM hypnosis tapes are just so relaxing and they really work for me as I find myself standing in the kitchen questioning if im hungry and what am I hungry for etc.

about your mum rules did you ever discuss it with her?