Paul McKenna Can Make Us Thin! Thread Number 14 ~ A Simple Title, for Simple Weight Loss and All amongst Friends!!

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Welcome to thread 14 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 and body, 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 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 2014 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 the sunny summer time!!!
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 won't 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

Here is a link to Freedom From Emotional Eating which may give some insight into why we do this and help us beat it.

Awwww!!

Loving all the positivity - v inspiring!

Iggi don't beat yourself up, found a quote on Pinterest last night which really resonated with me:

Saying "Oh I've ruined my good eating for the day, I'll just eat crap". Is like saying "Oh I've dropped my phone on the floor, I'll just stamp on it til it smashes".

Pops in

Loving that quote nogood ! I think I feel bad as haven't been getting to the dvd and cd, or finishing the book. Surely at the weekend I will!
But did get a boost from standing on the scales this morning and seeing that I'm definitely moving in a downward direction since January began.

Thinking about the past, although my dm was always dieting and always talks about food being "naught" or "slimming" my dsis is naturally thin and has always been so. Maybe I should blame the extremely early weaning, cow's milk etc!

That's,a possibility Iggi .

Really pleased that the scales moving in the right direction too

Hi all, I feel a bit separated from everything at the minute, is good to read everyone's posts and know that I am not alone in wanting to change my relationship with food without just going on another diet - but the diets are really tempting me at the moment...I have had a total meltdown this week and it has culminated in a mega binge day and I feel at my most bloated, sickly and upset with myself . I am feeling very emotional/sad tonight as we had made the decision a couple of weeks ago to settle in the area we relocated a few years ago (well, move slightly out of where we currently are but same area) and had started looking at houses etc. We had even decided that we might try for a second baby towards the end of this year, and then today we found out that hubby's work could cut his hours to such a low point later on this year that it would be similar to being made redundant. So, the move is now out of the question (although LL of this house wants it back to try and sell in the summer so will still need to move) and we face the possibility of having to relocate AGAIN with me having to find another new job . I just feel so frustrated why this has happened when we had just got used to everything and were starting to try and fit into where we are...now nothing is certain again and our plans for another child will probably have to be put to one side again. Needless to say, because I have nowhere near dealt with my emotional eating I have just totally stuffed myself today.
So hubby is really down about it all and I need to go to bed but I feel overwhelmed with thoughts. Got party to take my DD to tomorrow morning and then might take her to supermarket for some retail therapy!
and I will go up to bed soon, listen to my CD and try and make tomorrow work for me

Sorry yippi will post properly tomorrow. It will get better don't give up. If diets worked you wouldn't be overweight !

Oh yippee I really feel for you. I can understand the lure of diets, especially when your life is in chaos, as it's like having someone tell you what to eat a bit like when you were a child, which can be comforting and familiar when everything around you feels like one big pile of shittiness!! But you know being on a diet will only stress you out further, especially when you inevitably fail. You can't 'fail' at PM you only make bad choices, so don't beat yourself up about the past and think of today as a fresh start.

It's only the beginning of the year and from what you were saying none of this is definite yet and a lot could happen between now and then. So try not to get too stressed about what might happen, plan for it just in case, but don't put your life on hold for it. My dad died when he was quite young and I remember him and my mum having great plans for their retirement which they never got to do. So I'm definitely of the mindset that life's too short and the need to make the most of today, because who knows what tomorrow will bring

Very true NoGood. Lovely post. Thankyou.

Thank you for the kind words blodyn and nogood I know I have to pick myself up and carry on and do feel a bit more focused again today. Been to take dd to a party this morning so that occupied some of the day and wore her out and then we went to asda for lunch and I have a brought a couple of tops hopefully wear one tonight as supposed to be out for a meal with work friends. Don't really feel like it now tho as me and hubby work at same place but in different teams, and I got a job there after him, but our jobs are safe and his isn't which makes it doubly bad. Plus the wind is howling just want to curl up in the warm! But no doubt will go, company is good for me I guess and gives hubby some time on his own which he doesn't get very often. Done well PM wise today, had coffee this morning but wasn't hungry so no breakfast. Then at the party was surrounded by buffet food which I would usually pick out but I realised I still wasn't that hungry and didn't want the food anyway so just had2 grapes, which looked appealing. Then had my lunch in supermarket, so feeling pleasantly full at the moment. Hope all your days have gone well so far!

That's fab yippee buffets are my biggest downfall! Enjoy tonight, you deserve the break.

Yippie you did really well today. Im one of those who goes long period without eating naturally. I tend to wake up and have a cup of tea and then probably wont be hungry enough to eat until later. Like today I didn't eat anything all day until 4.00 when I had a bacon sandwich. It was the best bacon sandwich ever but that was because I was truly hungry. Just had 8 squares of Cadbury fruit and nut chocolate with cup of tea now.

Keep your chin up Yippee everything will be ok and PM will work for you and all of us! :) just keep posting and keep on with the cd's and listening to your body and enjoying each mouthful with at least 20 chews and admire yourself in the mirror each day. You will get there; you will definitely get there.

Well I was all set to tackle FFEE again and beat emotional eating once and for all and I can't find the DVD anywhere. Given that I'm the only one who's ever watched it and no one else has touched it, I can only assume my self-sabotage has reached a whole new level! Can't do it without the havening section either, bugger!

It'll be there somewhere NoGood :)

My Mum told me today that she's 'lost another stone' I asked her where?! I said, 'so you've gone down 2 dress sizes then?' she said 'no! you don't always lose dress sizes when you lose weight!'

She has not lost 2st 7lbs! no way. She is a size 22.

When I lost 2st, everyone noticed it, because I lost body fat and therefore dress sizes!

Hmmmm, not sure who your mum is trying to convince there solo 2 stone is a lot and definitely noticeable even on someone your mum's size. This is why I don't trust scales!

Sorry to butt in, just read FFEE and hoping to join you guys :) There's a lot to take in with this new book I am on day 3 of havening/trance. Seeing a small difference, not as profound as when I tried ICMYT though.

Solo, I have lost 2 stone in the last year, I have not dropped a size or has anyone noticed :( I have gone from a tight size 24 to a loose 24, but 22 still too tight.

Hello Ladies.

Thought I would pop back and say hi. January is over - hoo-bloody-ray. It is the worst month of the year for several reasons but it is done and dusted and we can get back to normal, whatever that is.

Anyway, got a 'keep the date free' card from my cousin who is getting married in September in some very nice place in London, on the Mall don't you know - not Buck House sadly but it looks lovely. Anyway, I am using that a wake-up/incentive to really get on with losing some weight. How much do you reckon I can lose then ladies? Set me a target!

Just to say since I last posted we have a dog and all the dog walking has lost me half a stone roughly even taking into account all the Christmas excesses. Exercise really does help! Who knew!

Half a stone in 3 months is not really enough to make any visible progress though so I am back to this.

Just as an aside, as a size 20 I lost 2 stone and 2 people noticed. I barely noticed myself unless I really studied my profile, it wasn't obvious and I didn't drop a whole dress size, just fitted into a few more of my size 18's. When I have lost all the weight I need to (about 5 stone to get to a healthy BMI) I doubt I will have lost more than 2 dress sizes. It's a bugger but I reckon it is because it is spread all over my body and I don't just carry it round my middle for example so it takes barely any inches off to lose even a large amount of weight - it is a bit like peeling a potato rather than chopping a bit off one side. On the plus side when I was slimmer but getting heavier, people didn't believe I weighed as much as I did because my body sort of just absorbed the fat and spread it about all over the place. (I sound like a babe I know )

As I said ages ago and probably too often, if I don't weigh myself I don't see any progress and it makes it very easy to give up because it looks like nothing is happening when it is.

Oh God I have written an essay. Sorry!

HiBBB....welcome back.Lovely to see you so to speak. It's me...Rules

With regards to wedding invite, I have lost half a stone since January and holding .

I have lost half a stone since Christmas and holding so I would like to aim for four pounds a month but 8 would be better. Could you do that?

See, I don't get that at all! 35lbs loss should show considerably! when I lost 28lbs, I went from an 18 to a 14. Mums coat buttons are still straining :(

BBB :) I reckon I will aim for 2lbs a week too if you fancy that? I am 50 in March, may have a wedding in May and will, no doubt be having many parties to attend this year. I also intend to throw a party for my birthday but not until later in the year when hopefully, my braces will be gone!

...and welcome back!

and hello Elbow welcome and well done on your 2st loss.