Welcome to thread 12 of the Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Thin weight loss system.
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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!
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This is the tapping technique EXPLAINED - this can be useful to combat cravings.
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The Paul McKenna Thread Number 12. A Simple Title, for Simple Weight Loss and All amongst Friends!!
Solo · 19/05/2013 11:04
rules for a while i did callanetics (very enjoyable, doesny look like you're doing much but boy do you feel the burn! having done weight training too i like something which really works, thought you may too being a weights girl) when i went to the class there were often some age 50+ regulars (many comments about hot flushes etc) & i noticed none of them had bingo wings. the exercise is good & after a while you can do it with a wee weight in each hand. as follows:
- stand straight, get your pelvis neutral, lift your pelvic floor muscles.
- hold your arms out to the side at shoulder height (make a big "T") rotate your thumbs UNDER & to the back. lift your arms out behind you, as high & close together as you can, palms up. relax the shoulders.
- do teeny tiny pulses ~1/2 inch bringing hands closer together, up & down for the 2nd set, teeny circles for the 3rd set. change to palms out (thumbs up) sometimes.
- do ~100 pulses per set (~1min) & build up.
- are your arms dropping? keep them lifted! is your pelvic floor still engaged? shoulders still down?
there's videos on youtube aplenty.
i know i can't speak from personal experience as not in the age range (yet) but the other ladies' arms were lovely! & i could certainly feel it working. HTH.
Those exes. look interesting very but I don't do 'burn' Paul Mckenna says " No pain No pain" 
i refuse to hurt myself deliberately I will try them though just more gently!
blimey solo hats off to you that must be difficult, & quite frankly the idea of it scares the bejabers out of me. between the nature of it & the shift lengths, you're doing well to pop on here at all, let alone set us up a shiny new thread - cheers! 
pp yes it's always best to tweak stuff to suit yourself, which you evidently know well! when i say "burn" though, just to clarify, i definitely don't mean GO! GO! GO! until you throw up boot camp style (eeuch couldny think of anything worse!) but rather that i like exercise where i can feel the muscle being worked getting tired, you know like when you climb a hill & feel your calves singing? i think it's lactic acid. anyhoo, not harsh & horrible! i tend to think that if we just do what we're capable of (with little effort) our bodies will stay the same as they're capable of that already, but if we push it a little beyond that, then our bodies will be stimulated to change/grow muscle in order to be able to cope with that next time.
did you say you were a type A? i've been reading the book:very interesting. going to give it a try, got some gluten-free bits in & no bacon! noted another avoid for three types was wholewheat bread - recommended as being more healthy by many!
queen sorry you're feeling like shit 
hope you managed to get that list down before you conked. might be worth looking over again in the morning in case you remember something else. good luck with hospital appt, don't be fobbed off by any wafty consultant types, i hope you get a good 'un
Morning veryberry I've got the Blood Type encyclopedia and it talks about different types doing differently with the SORT of exercises they do best with. E.G. I hate running or jogging but as you know I prefer stretches, dancing etc. whereas O types NEED running and weights etc. to feel good. It's fascinating.
Morning all !! yes threedaughters There is a lovely one that along with helping the thyroid also does wonders for double chins!!
- You gently (very gently to start with!!) hold for 10 counts either side of your adam's apple with your thumb and forefinger. Then massage (again very gently to start) for 5 counts.
- Repeat under your chin and then at the base of your neck. That's it; it's amazing because if you get those tickly coughs it also helps control them.
I know how annoying it is to type a good message and then they go offline before you can post it HadA
I bought another dress
for DD's wedding yesterday its lovely (from a depot vente the french version of 2nd dress agencies). It's designer full length with a linen underdress and lace overdress strappy!With a full length sleeveless coat made from the same lace! It's a rough type of lace in a cream\beige colour difficult to describe and sorry I can't link!I love those places 'cos complete with shoes and a necklace it was under 150 euros!!!
pp ooh dress sounds gorgeous. you could always use the linen underdress to wipe your tears of joy if you find yourself caught short bubbling without a hanky!
in the blood type book i've got there's a section at the end of each type's chapter on exercise, yes very interesting. read one & thought "sounds just like my mum" i'll need to check!
hada aarrgh! snap! i just had the same losing a post frustration when ipad ran out of charge . don't worry about folk thinking faithlet's just newborn, my DD2 was like fairy gossamer (6lbs at birth & always petite, bottom of the centile etc) & she's always thrived, as i'm sure faithlet will. just different build to the wee bruisers!
queen urg your consultant sounds shit! clearly bedside manner isn't in the finals. hope you get somewhere soon. my sis is having lots of yucky random symptoms, off on the sick from work, & finding that NHS just want to give her pills which don't solve anything & have crap side effects, so she's increasingly going down the complementary therapies route. appreciate your 
three sorry you're having stress too.
i've had a week of thinking i was doing away quite nicely & then keep getting caught out having totally & utterly forgotten something really important, it comes to light in front of folk & i've felt like such an idiot 
but glad to say i managed to stop myself reaching for the cake while i was kicking myself & did the havening tapping thing.yey!
i've been GF for a couple of days now & no really noticed any difference, then ate something with gluten flour this afternoon & within half an hour my stomach ballooned - honestly like someone took a bicycle pump to me - & i've had terrible wind ever since! (sorry if TMI!) but it never happenned before when i ate the same thing 4 days ago? any ideas? 
ThreeDaughters I haven't had 'normal' wheat bread or pasta for ages You can get rye bread and ryvitas etc. in Sainsbos also there is nice rice pasta lots of types of wheat free stuff in HFShops. I also make my own bread which is cheaper of course I use spelt and Kamut which are low gluten ancient wheats; DH is alright with them but he becomes an exhausted bad tempered old bugxxx when he eats wheat
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three i'm a total bread & pasta girl too, but as pp said they got luvly muffins/rolls in sainsbrys... after that blourp yesterday i've been totally GF & feel so bright today, honestly i've no had energy like this in ages. i kept thinking "i'm only 37, no fit for the knacker's yard yet, surely?" but today actually felt like doing stuff no just flopping about doing bare minimum no feeling rested after a seat. hurrah
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