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

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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 :)

...people will always go less than that. I overhead a conversation at my local health centre where one Mum said to another Oh she was having green poos and seemed really unhappy....maybe I should stop giving her yogurts....baby was less than 4mo!

Faithlet was 5 1/2 months but when a baby keep grabbing food within reach, stuffing it in their mouth and chomping on it they're ready for BLW! She has been ok on milk - combined feeding, mostly breast and two formula bottles a day. She slept sooo much better last night. Only woke at 10pm and 2am to feed having gone down at 7! :)

"current WHO guidelines" Mean you have to be feeding your baby milk (and to make enough bm you have to have your baby feeding endlessly!!!) till 6 months IMHO a load of bollox (but don't tell all the earnest MNers)!!! Rules !! (whispers I did the same as you!! )

I understand the BLW in a way; but how do suggest to a 6 month old that's trying to gum a carrot from your plate that it's not such a good idea!!

Yeah I'm a bit PFB about this. WHO guidelines recommend exclusive BF til 6 months and ideally for a year. Apparently most women in Britain don't manage that. I'm quite proud to still be BF at 6 months! The only thing I have been militant on is not introducing wheat til 6 months because of my intolerance.

HadA Yes you should be proud of that it's sad that most women can't manage it when it's soo much cheaper and no bother!!

I bf my Ds until he was 18 months and Dd until she was 58 months! (4yrs 10mos). Funny thing is that at 6yrs, she doesn't remember bfing at all.

Definitely pp HadA should feel very proud. As you know I breastfed both mine for a looong time and am very proud of it too. Im proud because its not easy. However I do understand that its not for everyone and that's fine cause you have to do whats right for you.

We had such a rocky start, at day 4 she wasn't latching properly and was on formula top ups and I really didn't think it was going to happen. That's why I'm so pleased! I think we'll be cutting out the BF by 8 months :( I'm back to work at 8 1/2 on long shifts. I know the law says I'm entitled to somewhere to express but realistically it's not going to happen. She's a monkey with EBM too. Great start for her though :)

I would love a cuppa right now but there's a little person snoozing on my chest and I daren't disturb her!

Morning
Awww I remember those early days Hada. It does go by very quickly too. One of my babies is up and getting ready for Uni. It's only half an hour away so she Fri

drives each day.

Morning All,
Hope your all doing ok, but where are you ??

Hello. I'm around. However last night we were on the paeds ward after Faithlet vomited blood . She's fine and it seems to have been a one-off but obviously had to get it checked out. Quiet day today!

Ooo that's not a nice experience Hada. Did they say why she vomited blood? If she has a cough and has been coughing hard then this can cause it as can cracked nipples.

Yeah they think it was probably from coughing. My nipples are fine. She's got a mild cough having had a cold. She seems fine now, eating her dolly on the living room floor!

O then that's probably what it was. My son and husband get it too when they have had chesty coughs. Don't worry. Not nice to have to take her to hospital though is it. They are such a worry, even when they are grown ups! How are you feeling in yourself at the moment? Still a bit low?

Sleepy baby tonight, bless her!

I'm still up and down Rules although ironically during the time of real concern with her health I was strangely calm! I am working on not speaking negatively over myself, breaking that habit. I don't think it'll be a quick fix but I feel like I'm taking control :)

Good Hada glad you feel that your on a better path. What books have you read that you find helpful?

Only really Paul's I can make you happy! I dip into parenting books as well to feel more confident in my approach to looking after Abigail but some can make me feel worse rather than better Baby whisperer!

Anything or anyone that makes you feel worse you should just ignore. People are not necessarily correct with their advice so feel free to take what works for you and ignore the rest. I did. You know your baby and you will know whats right and wrong for her and for yourself as well. Something I think you get better and better at doing as you get older. Like pp, I never believe so called medical expertise. Its all just opinions at the end of the day.

Glad little one is OK HALF :)

She slept 7.20-5 last night - woo! Currently asleep next to me on the bed (brought her through at 6.30). I'm having one of those Isn't my baby just gorgeous? moments. :)

awwwwww!!

faith what is it about baby whisperer type books that makes you feel bad? just finding it hard to understand when you have problems with her sleeping & a solution is provided, how it ends up you feeling crap rather than "thank goodness i can fix this"?

Hi very hows the PM going?

thanks for askin rules PMing going well i've definitely been truly hungry when i've eaten, & have found my new busy schedule is lending itself to grazing which suits me well. on a tuesday i'm out 8.30am til 9.30pm & counted 6 mini meals!! i noticed changes because i've been cycling to get around to further parts of town (& opted for the cycle path because though longer i can go faster & not have to dodge buses!) & even though i'm only cycling 1 or 2 days a week, i've been sooo much more hungry & in particular craving meat (the old O-type carnivore within ) which i've eaten, along with delicious GF lemon cheesecake i found lured me into a café (had to pop in, obviously, to get a heat for my friend's baby's bottle!) & chocolate (mmm lindor mmm) i lost 2lbs that week! so i figure i'm building muscle which in turn i hope helps me burn more fat. i think there's some value in changing the type of exercise because your body gets used to what you do. but what a bummer because i like a routine! anyhoo, i don't know how long before my body adapts to cycling but i'm hopeful of losing a bit more.

still hate leaving food on my plate though, can't do it unless i've really over-served myself (but i never feel really overfull, just comfortably so & i never get reflux like i used to before). i just hate waste. i'm the same with odds & ends too, my cupboards are full of stuff i may find a use for or make into something! i learned from my mum who was a war-baby & has a real mend&make-do / waste-not-want-not attitude. i was glad to hear you sounding happier with walking/weights results. how's that still going?

how's the house-fixing no-working-mentals going solo? BTW cheers the newly washed bra no longer rubs!!

pp i thought i'd try the olive oil & turmeric because a) i love cheese & wine & they both give me extra mucus, i'm thinking that could be classed as an allergicy-type reaction? b) i've been getting more dry-feeling skin & despite mackerel, salmon etc i feel the need to lubricate from the inside, & c) i wouldny mind shittin masel thin LOL but OMG it's pretty gag-worthy XD glad it's only a small amount! would it work with Udo's oil instead of olive oil? i like that better.

WRT being thin/slim, seeing as i'm nowhere near either i'm not being terribly precise about my language. i thought it more positive than "no being a fat bloater"! all i want is to have thighs that don't rub together & not have an underbelly fat-fold when i sit down !! different people have different definitions of exactly what thin/ too thin/ slim etc are: i just want to be a healthy weight for my very small frame, at the lower end of the spectrum because that's how i'm comfortable & how my body is designed to be. all the women in my family are about 5' tall, size 6-8; i'd like to be 8-10 because i'm more muscular than them.

sorry, long post. cany help myself hope everyone's well!

Hello thread. Good to read your success stories. I could do with a boost and some support in getting back on with Paul.