The Paul McKenna Thread Number 13 ~ the Good Luck Number! A Simple Title, for Simple Weight Loss and All amongst Friends!!

[Solo]

Welcome to thread 13 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 friendly 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 into 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 Christmas outfits!!

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 and that is a great way to feel when you are dropping dress sizes at the same time!!! 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 those lbs off a few at a time, just think how we could look and feel for Christmas and The New Year!!!
Some of our thread members are also doing PMK's Virtual Gastric Band and although this thread is not about this avenue, we will still be supportive of our friends partaking of this, so don't think we wont be there for you. I'm pretty sure that the Golden Rules will be just as helpful in this process as the I Can Make You Thin process :) so get stuck in :)

me yesterday...

one chocolate tree decoration
half a big cookie

one slice toast with grated cheese, caramelised onion chutney and leaves

home made chicken curry and two poppadoms.

Only ate half the curry...small portion .

Jingle another thing....PM is nothing more than relearning to eat normally.....that's what we are trying to do. If you go on another diet and lose the weight yet again, what makes you think going by your past experiences that you will keep it off? You will just screw up your mind and be back to square one. Solo is so strong in her determination that she will never diet again and she has inspired me to do the same.

Today
tablespoon of scrambled egg in welsh salty butter, Tom's and mushrooms and tablespoon of beans.
one slice toast with salty butter
one choc tree decoration.

dinner will probably be half a pitta with chilli chicken, grated welsh vintage cheddar and mixed leaves with a dollop of sour cream

Today:

Half plate nursery buffet
Small packet milk buttons
2 small packets Parma violets
Banana
2 toast and marmalade
Caffe latte
Toasted egg sandwich
5 crackers and dairy lea

Jelly today looks like lots of snacky stuff but no protein or veg or fruit. Is this how you normally eat out of interest.??
Also what do you eat on a normal day because if you only ate that amount of food you would be losing weight not gaining.

I normally have a meal in the evening, but did'nt fancy one tonight.

Yesterday was macaroni cheese and veg. The snacky stuff comes in between, and throughout the day, and is normal for me, ever since I let choc and sweets back into my life with PM'ing.

But that's ok Jingle as long as they don't take away your appetite. If I snack then I am not truly hungry for a meal at all. I find if I have snacks then I never feel my true hunger.
Have you decided what your going to do? Are you going back to "dieting".

I am going to fast everyday until lunchtime - 16hr fast, unless I feel hungry of course. Still going to learn to go by my body signals.

It's now 0915, and I don't feel hungry. Last ate at 8 PM last night. Just having a coffee now.

Think this will bring me back in learning my body's signals, and if I am truly hungry.

Regarding the snacking, yes I can see now why I don't ever truly feel hungry, as the snacks are not helping. I need to cut these out, and have to use my tapping here.

I'm going to plan my meals. As you pointed out yesterday, I did'nt eat a meal. That's also due to the snacks and grazing, and not having planned out what to eat for the day.

So macaroni cheese for lunch as dd wants this! her favourite! with veg! and shepherds pie this evening.

Fruit or whatever we fancy of rafters. That's my plan for today. Let's see how it goes.

Must admit I feel better for not eating breakfast so early.

For afters, not of rafters. This predictive text! :)

jingle you sound more positive today. I think 16:8 is definitely better than 5:2 . 14:10 is the best one recommended for women though as its better for hormonal balance and migraine control. It's on Marks Daily Apple. I suffer from terrible migraines if I go without food for too long so if 16 gets unbearable you have the option of 14. Anyway let me know how you do

Interestingly I naturally go for about 14 hours between dinner and breakfast normally. I rarely eat till 12 o'clock each day.

Yay Jingle sounds like you're getting back on track. I think its useful to go without food so you can re-tune into your body's signals, I often mistake thirst for hunger and find even when my stomach's rumbling it's actually water I want not food. So far today I've had 3 oat cakes with pate and chutney and a mince pie (wasn't hungry for the mince pie but gave blood earlier so it was medicinal )

Milly well done on figuring out why your weight was maintaining sounds like we're all in the zone at the mo.

PS nice tits Solo heeheehee!

Jingle how did today pan out then?

me today:

1 Marks and Spencer Yum Yum

1 slice of brown bread with salted butter and a sliced banana

homemade chicken curry, 2 popadoms (small portion)

one Marks and Spencer Mince Pie (Marks stuff is amazing this year
have tried Morrisons mince pies, Tesco but prefer Marks. )

Cups of tea

Jingle I had breakfast (my Yum Yum) at 12.30 as its what I fancied. Had dinner at 8.00. Because of what your doing im seeing when I next eat as it probably wont be till tomorrow at lunch time. I didn't realise it was fasting until you mentioned it and I looked into it. Im not consciously trying to fast but maybe it explains why I don't gain weight even though I havnt been losing it for a while.

It all sounds good for everyone at the mo, and thanks to the great support on here from you all, I am getting over the last 3 days. And it all stemmed from an innocent remark said about me putting on weight.

However, it's also made me realise that I haven't been following the 4 rules properly, I need to only eat when hungry, and in order to achieve and recognise my body's signals re hunger, that I need to stop the snacking and grazing.

I need to use my tapping to help me prevent snacking. Also by me eating late or midday, this will help me to re tune my body's hunger signals.

I also need to plan my meals. This will also help me stop snacking, and also eat more nutritious balanced meals.

Today I had:

2 toast and marmalade at 11 ish as felt hungry then. Was starting to get light headed.

Side plate of Macaroni cheese and veg, plus half a custard pot.

Dinner was cheeseburger happy meal, as we were both out and felt hungry.

This evening 3 small packets Parma violets, 1 gummy chew, 1 small choc biscuit ( I love my sweets, although my poor tooth does'nt).

Ps. I haven't succumbed to weighing myself through all this. Why would I want to make myself feel bad twice over.

Solo- going to look in the mirror tomorrow, and try and find something I like about my body. Won't be the boobs though, as they have travelled south since the birth of my DD. Will check my toes out:)

Just had a blazing row with hubby over his snoring. He went to his works do tonight, and was home quite early. Went to bed at 11.30, as has to be up in 5 hrs for work. Before he went to sleep I asked him to wear an anti snoring ring, that I'd bought today. It's been in the papers this week, and has had good reviews. Although he was in bed, and only half asleep he declined to wear it.

As I thought ( especially with a couple of drinks in him), he duly started snoring again. I again started to leave the room, but told him that I thought he was selfish. He started shouting at me, so I have come downstairs, and am again having to sleep in the spare room.

I am so annoyed with him, and think that he is so selfish.

Sorry for my rant, but his snoring, and refusing to do anything about it, has really upset me.

Made a coffee, and thought of having some biscuits, but stopped myself :(

Hi Jingle . Poor you. Why does he refuse to do something about it.? And then to shout at you too. . Are you happy together otherwise

Well I just got a very apologetic phone call from him at his work. I refused to talk to him this morning as I was so angry about it.

He does'nt remember the ring. He was probably half asleep. He has promised to wear this ring, be nice to me, and also buy me some lovely expensive chocolates - Leonardo's.

He also needs to lose some weight, which is why he has a snoring problem.

Well haven't eaten yet. Just having a coffee. Plan to go on until 12 unless I feel a real need for food.

I'm pleased I decided to do this 12- 8 eating, as I find it fits in easily with what I do. I read up on the 16:8, and 14:10 Millie.

I don't like to refer to them as dieting, as it's fasting. But as we know it goes against the PM way of eating, as their are rules. And PM is no rules. However are'nt the 4 golden rules, just that, rules?

I feel good today, felt what I thought was hunger during the night, however I waited it out, and it disappeared. Normally I'm asleep then anyway, but last night was different because of hubby's snoring.

This morning again, a slight feeling of hunger, but that soon disappeared too.

I feel thinner, and looked myself over in the mirror. I have decided that I like everything apart from my overhanging stomach, result of caesarean.

I am going to try not to let remarks get to me regarding my weight.

I remember my first ever starvation and consequent binging when I was 21. My boss remarked that I had huge calf muscles. Well, that remark resulted in me starving myself, till you could see my collarbones sticking out. I lost weight by starvation, but very nearly had an eating disorder. I was close to becoming anorexic.

So when I think of that occasion, I can remember the absolute ravenous hunger that I felt. I can remember picking up a strangers discarded crisps to eat at one point, and buying a battenburg cake and demolishing it in one sitting.

I know not to get to that stage of hunger whilst fasting. This fast is really an overnight fast anyway, which we do naturally.

Anyway I've rambled on a bit, but wanted to share my thoughts with you.

I am back in the zone, and feeling happy. Will follow the 4 rules in my eating window, and reboot with CD tonight. :)

Again it's been all about me, me, me. How is everyone else doing. Are we all in the festive spirit yet. What about you? solo. Did you put a tree up? :)

Jelly :) you will get there by the sounds of it. Glad your Dh apologised. I know people to have divorced because of snoring and sleeping apart because of it.

No, no tree. Well that's not true! I bought a miniature real tree from Tesco for £3. It has glitter on it. It will have to do.

The 'rules' associated with PMK are just natural things we should do anyway, so although we call the rules they really aren't.

Something else I found to have helped me was to drink a glass of water before bed. In fact drinking more water is very helpful all round!

Hi Solo awwwww...you bought a little tree......yay!!! lol.
Jingle Solo is right. PMS rules are not true rules they are just to help you see how naturally thin people think about food. They don't tend to eat until they really feel hunger and they stop as soon as they feel satisfied, not full. I'm glad that you feel positive about the fast diet but it may trigger migraines and it can be a major trigger for bingeing. As I mentioned before I tend to go without breakfast naturally so end up not eating till lunchtime but that's cause I'm not hungry. I would definately eat if I was hungry though otherwise I would be starving.

Jingle hope the fasting works out, just remember if you feel genuine hunger before to eat something otherwise you'll go into crazy starvation/binging mode. I find I'm generally hungry every 3 hours, so 9am, 12pm etc but some days I can go til about 10/11 before hunger kicks in. I find it's generally thirst for me in the mornings, I can easily drink 1.5 litres in the morning, then as the day goes on its food not drink that my body wants, so I'll have a tiny breakfast, small lunch and average sized tea, with a snack in between around 3. I've managed to resist weighing myself although I definitely feel slimmer, trying to keep weightloss out of it to avoid self sabotage.

Great Solo you got a tree, even a miniature one counts.

Well I started feeling hungry at 11am, so had a few nut and mixed fruit to tide me over until lunch. Then had a small bowl of spaghetti bolog at lunch.

Dinner at 5pm was a chicken roast with new pots, parsnips and veg. Finished off with a caffe latte, and 4 leonida chocs.

Has anyone ever tasted them? They are gorgeous Belgian 100% cocoa chocs. They are so rich that only a couple are needed to satisfy the palate.

Yum yum, had lovely food today, and no snacks in between, only coffees and water.

Ps. Had a compliment today, that my skin is looking good :)