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

[Solo]

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.

Welcome back BBB and welcome Elbow!

Elbow - I would be utterly devastated if I'd lost 2 stone (aka a whole toddler) and nobody noticed!

BBB - I appreciate you need to use the scales to keep you on track, but as we've seen weightloss produces massively different individual results. Why don't you imagine your ideal dress size and aim for that instead? I have a friend who's only an inch taller than me and weighs 12 stone but wears a size 10, when I was 12 stone I wore a size 16 - bizarre!

BBB how luffly to see you! We have a wedding invite for August. I am currently wearing a size 16 and my aim is to wear a size 12 dress I bought just before I got pregnant. I would think I'll need to lose about 2 stone which I think is achievable.

Welcome to Elbow. 2 stone is fantastic! You're very welcome here, we're a friendly bunch :)

Hello, thank you for your welcomes. Bodies are funny things aren't they? We all sound so different.

Solo, 2lbs sounds very ambitious. That will take real work. I'll give it a go because that would almost get me to target but it seems like an impossible dream at the moment. I need to dare to dream.

Hi, Faith, how's your girl? Not long until her birthday now! Good luck getting into your dress. It is good to have something to focus on to keep on track, isn't it?

Nice loss Blodyn. How's life on the side of the mountain? We are up your way in a couple of weeks. If you could arrange for the rain to go away that would be grand.

I can't imagine what dress size my ideal would be. Even when I had a BMI of 20 and weighed 9.5st (I'm 5ft 7") I couldn't fit into a size 12 in trousers. Too tight on the backside. It was a pain as my waist was a 10 and so was my top half. I don't think I would get into a size 10 top any more either - 2 pregnancies have done things to my norkage. And I won't ever be 9.5st anyway. I looked rough - it was too low for me.

I think actually I would be happy to be a 14 but there is the small matter of about 5 st between me and that dream. Or even just to have a 'normal' BMI - if that means a size 16 the so be it. Dress sizes are a bit arbitrary anyway sometimes. On the whole I think BMI is a crock of shit - as this thread proves we all come in different shapes and sizes - but it would be nice to be normal by a recognised measure of what normal is.

Did anybody see Rosemary Conley's business has gone into administration? It is a shame as she did at least try and combine exercise with eating less in her classes but she reckons it is because of an overloaded health and fitness market. Perhaps people are beginning to realise diets don't work?

Thanks for the welcome :)

Im on day 4 of the havening/trance. Just one more day of that silly havening to do!

Wow....see what you mean BBB cause if I were 9stone 5 I would be a size 10. We are all different shapes.
The weather here has been rain,rain and more rain ever since October really. Sigh.......there is snow on the mountains behind my house though and its very pretty but very cold.
I have a do coming up in June and would like to get rid of 2 stone by June so that would be 7lbs per month. That is doable isn't it?

I lost weight with RC in the 80's and kept it off. Tried it in the norties and it did not touch me.

I think 2lbs a week is doable.
I have been feeling really ill after eating combined with a drink. My friend who had weight loss surgery said that her surgeon said that she mustn't drink half hour before or after food so I'm thinking that my 'surgeon' Paul McKenna has not told me this bit because I have not read the book yet.

Blodyn 7lbs a month is definitely a good aim!

When I was 9st 5lbs, I was an 8/10. I'm currently wearing a large 16, but would be glad to be a small 14.

Oh and BBB I had a size 8 waist, 12 hips and 10 bust. My skirts used to work their way around me! it would have been funny if it wasn't so tragic!

I would think that part of Rosemarys demise would be down to the " low fat" ideology that she has always advocated. People no longer believe in removing fat from their meals.

Solo PM our leader has said somewhere I think that it's best to not drink with eating as it distorts your hunger signals.

Hello again. I keep intending to come back sooner but I never make it. Too much going on. I keep waiting for a lull but don't seem to get one.

Yes, re Rosemary Conley that is probably it. Low fat is passé now. (Oh the keyboard put the little accent over the e!) It's all low sugar now. It has come full circle - it was all about low sugar when my mum was losing weight back in the 70's. Anybody see that Horizon programme about whether low fat or low sugar is the key. Turns out everything in moderation and cut back on the processed food is actually the key. Statement of the obvious really. We need a bit of everything.

I have that problem with skirts even now Solo. It was ever thus. I have a lined skirt I wear to work that has pockets in the front except when I go to put something in my pockets they could be anywhere. I suspect, from what we've said in the past, that we are a similar shape, except I am several stone heavier at the moment.

Anyhoo . No use just talking about losing weight. I reckon 7lbs a month has a nice ring to it. Slightly less than 2lb a weeks but sufficient to be 3.5 st by September which will do me nicely. I just found out there will be a reunion BBQ in July for old university friends, possibly including an ex. I really don't want to be quite so porky by then. I need to focus!!!

Good BBB.. so we are all on the same page.

We are! and that's a great page to be and to start! good luck ladies!

I saw that program BBB. Excellent conclusion. Everything in moderation. That's what we aim to do with this woe. We eat whatever we want by learning self moderation

I always found RC a bit scary, not sure why...

I love the fact you've all got tangible goals, I've got 2 christenings in May and would love to be a size 10-12 by then, think that would mean around 1.5 stone loss so that should be doable. Sort of written this week off, semi-Pauling but not 100%, currently undertaking the mammoth journey from the north east to South Devon for my lovely grandma's funeral accompanied by DH and DC (4 and nearly 2). Don't think we could have had a worse week weather wise, took us 5 hours just to get to mum's (west mids) yesterday. Not looking forward to the next leg through the flood battered south west at all. God bless who ever invented portable DVD players for stopping the kids going nuts! Plan originally was for me to come alone and leave DH at home with DC but glad I've got someone to share the driving with, driving in the rain totally stresses me out.

So anyway back to PM, I've found the havening DVD - hurrah! So re-booting on Monday and determined to complete FFEE. Also signed up for Great North Run, so training also starts with a vengeance on Monday, main motivation being not to look an idiot on national tv!

Have completed the 5 days havening, will just do it now when I feel I need to. I have definitely seen some big changes! Ate loads less yesterday, than I usually do.

NoGood I'm sorry about your Grandma :(. Please do take care, the weather is just dreadful.

Funny thing! yesterday, I found my havening DVD too!

That's great news EP, you're sounding really positive!!

Sorry about your Grandma, NoGood.

Normally I would be very jealous of anybody making a trip to the West Country but given the reason you are going and the horrendous weather they are having it sounds like something to be endured rather than enjoyed. I hope you get there and back safely and the funeral goes smoothly.

HI all, nice to read everyone's threads sounding positive :) I on the other hand have had a terrible week PM wise - binging daily and just eating to try and put off thinking about possible job loss, relocating etc. I even know I am doing it but it's like a compulsion (addiction?) that I need to break.
So I am turning over the new leaf tomorrow - just before the weekend where I can hopefully have some control over my times for eating and get myself in the right frame of mind. I am about to go to bed, and I will make a certified effort to 'find' 20 minutes tomorrow for havening, and try and focus more on self sabotage as well. Part of the problem I have is I genuinely don't know what I want to eat a lot of the time - think I have dulled my food senses from binging and dieting and need to try and take a step back. Need to get reading again as well, after a good nights sleep of course!

Nogood sorry to read about your Grandma :(
Elbow That's good to hear the havening DVD is making a difference to you - I am planninig on getting to grips with it over the weekend!

yippi are you listening to PMICMYT? The hypnosis tape is good and you need to listen to it every night for the first two weeks. Plus read the book.

can I slink back in and hang around for the long haul please? I have been doing a really poor pretence of PM recently and actually regained some of the weight ive kept off through a pregnancy and a couple of years after my last go.

I got about halfway through my aimed loss a couple of years ago and now its time to lose the rest! has anyone tried the gastric band one and found it good? Im tempted as im heading towards the end of breastfeeding my last child but im not sure its for me, though im tempted to buy it for the havening after doing that at his seminar a couple of years ago.

Blodyn I have the ICMYT and listen try to listen to the CD but have been finding it hard to relax recently - managed to listen to it properly last night and found I have been a bit more focused today so I must get to grips with the book again as well! I am planning on this weekend/tonight starting to get organised again (of course I planned this the other weekend!)

Since starting FFEE last Saturday, I have seen a huge difference! I have done the 5 days recommended havening, im on day 6 of the trance and I sometimes use the eating track as well. Well, yesterday things seemed to really shift and I ate about a quarter of what I usually do and the same has happened again today. Today Ive eaten half a BLT sandwich, then was full. Lunch was a salad, but I had to leave half and then ate the other half a couple of hours later. Ate half a bag of crisps and am now too full for dinner. Eeeek.