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.

Yippeee, today I wrote a list of foods that I really found enjoyable so I can stock up stuff I really like, because like you I sometimes struggle to think of what I want. Would this maybe work for you? I was so surprised my list had things like oatcakes & cheese,corn on the cobs, nut & seed bars , carrots & hummous and not choc/crisps like I expected it to be :)

Deafworm, were you at the PM thing at the Apollo a couple of years ago? I have tried ICMYT, the gastric band and FFEE and I find FFEE the best for me, it tackles everything.

Hello.

Can I tentatively join this thread? I need help.

I've been in all these weight loss threads it seems. I'm 41, size 16 and desperately unhappy. So far in my life I've tried

Weightwatchers
Slimming world
Rosemary Connelly
Low carb
5:2
Not dieting at all.

While they all work for a while, I can't stick at them. SW was longest at a year and 1.5 stones ;which soon went back on). I feel like my head is in a spin and I don't know where to turn. My willpower is shot. My brain is firing off all over the place. Only this week I looked at Juicing diets and then googled a real life gastric band.

Now, I have read the PK Gastric Band book and have listened to the dc once. Naturally, just once didn't sink in at all. However, I think I'm scared that this won't work.

Sorry pressed a bit too abruptly there.

I will try again. I desperately don't want my life to be thinking and worrying about food constantly. It's literally all I think about, and it's all negative.

I almost can't believe it can work - but reading thus thread it obviously does. I'll read with interest.

Harry this is not dieting and it definitely works but it takes awhile to fully let go and embrace.

yes Elbow I was I have got ffee and gb coming as this is it now, i went from a 26 to a 18/20 2 1/2 year ago and ive had a baby since then, stayed the same weightwise throughout, obviously gained a bit in pregnancy but got back to where id been very quickly just never got motivated to lose the rest. I want to be a size 10 and comfortable in a bikini!

Harry go with it and you will be surprised im sure, i know i was

Harry search no more! You have found the solution! You don't need willpower to do Pauling. Just listen to the CD...the imagination is more powerful than the will or something. You imagine yourself thinner and it happens! You have nothing to lose but weight.

I think I'm doing ok. Not weighed myself in ages (DH has been taking the scales to work to do weekly weigh ins so they're rarely in the house to tempt me). I am focusing on eating food I enjoy. Bought some more of this amazing GF granola (Nature's path). I haven't eaten much on my night shifts either (used to snack my way through the night!) but drink loads and eat on my break. I am much more conscious of when I get into mindless eating. Having made the effort to eat away from the tv I fell down on that the last couple of nights but at least I know my weak spot.

I've been discharged from counselling because my anxiety levels are much lower, I feel a lot better in general. Waiting til I feel settled at work then will look to stop the meds :)

Popping in, have just started reading FFEE after competing my 21 days on the app. It's good!

Deafworm!!! congrats and welcome back!! and welcome harry too.

Thanks for the welcome everyone.

Can I ask what FFEE is?

Freedom from emotional eating, his newest book/system. I bought it exactly a week ago today and I am 5lbs down :)

Congrats on the baby Deafworm :) I was at the seminar too, I thought I recognised your name. I cant remember what name I was using back then!

Hi deafworm and harry!
Harry the FFEE is Freedom from Emotional Eating which is PM's latest book and cd/dvd. I have it and have read a fair bit of it and also tried some of the different techniques and I think it is really good stuff if you suffer from emotional eating - I just need to spend a bit more focussed time on it! This is the way to go but as someone already said it takes a while to let go of all the old associations with dieting, and I also find that people's perceptions of what you are eating make it difficult too - if you're having bread or anything fatty people at my work look at you and are quite smug about you being big - there are a number of people at work doing the 5:2 diet and basically live off black coffee and raw veg
So good luck I find this thread keeps me going mentally when I feel like giving up completely. I have listened to the ICMYT cd last night and this morning, and went for my first couch to 5k run in ages (back to week 1!) but I really enjoyed it and it reminded me that I much prefer that to the gym so I am cancelling my gym membership today because I never go and don't like the place much really, and running is more for me - once I get fitter I may rejoin a different gym or get back into swimming (another thing I enjoy). Feel better for making the decision to cancel and not have it hanging over my head feeling like I should go even though I don't want to. Feeling hungry now (a bit too hungry really should have ate a little sooner) so going to have something now.

Nice to see sooo many new names on the thread.
Jelly where are youuuuu AMD how you doing ?

Such a welcoming thread, so thanks again.

Also thanks for explaining FFEE. I've only just read the Gastric Band book (and listened to my cd's) so I may leave it a week or two to read that - or do people find much more effective?

Yippee - I'm starting C25k (again) next week. The storms and weather down this end if the country have been so horrendous I've chickened out of running for ages. Last time I didn't stick at it long enough to see a real difference in weight loss - only 4 weeks - but I really noticed a difference in toning and cms.

I just had a breakfast of toast with peanut butter, my absolute favorite. It's very very hard to allow myself to eat this. However, I was hungry and I forced my myself to leave some on my plate.

It's going to be tough to loose the diet mind set.

Everyone I know is doing SW or 5:2. I found with SW I felt so over fed and bloated, and with 5:2 I was soooo hungry I was bad tempered and snappy. It's just not right for me.

Fingers crossed.

Toast with peanut butter sounds like a great breakfast!

Toast with peanut butter sounds like a great breakfast!

harry I LOVE peanut butter on toast! Ironically I used to eat it a fair bit on WW as the reduced fat pb wasn't too high in points and was quite satisfying but I think I got a bit sick of eating it all the time so I haven't had it for a while!
With the C25K I had actually done it and could run for at least 20 mins in one go and I was running 3/4 times a week, really enjoying it, then after going on holiday last summer my dd got chicken pox and was housebound for nearly 2 weeks, so in the end I hadn't run for about a month and I just got out of the habit...so got to make it a habit again. I find it definitely helped with clothes fitting better and I had so much more energy and a better level of fitness so I really want to get back into it properly. I just had my dinner - scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and 2 slices of a small tiger loaf - left all the crusts (too crunchy for me!) and ate about half the eggs and salmon, and feel even too full, like I should have stopped a bit sooner - but not done too bad for me.

Well, making things difficult for myself (mentally!) we've just been out to Wagamamma for tea.

I had my favorite but only managed half. About 30 mins after I still felt quite full so I reckon I should have stopped a bit sooner. All a learning curve though! Also, I normally have the white chocolate cheesecake for after and I sat and watched DH have one in front of me. I was so conflicted as I really wanted one, but kept telling myself that I wasn't hungry.

That's a small victory for me. Blimey, it's hard telling myself I can have things I want though. The guilt from the ghosts of diets past is immense

We'll done!

Sounding good people!

Jelly is OK, just busy with personal stuff ATM. I am in contact with her by text now and then and she was about to reboot a few days ago. I'll tell her you are asking after her :)

I need to reboot too. I wish I could exercise/run again. I used to love running, but my health won't allow sadly.

Solo what's up? What' do you feel is causing you to be off and on.

Having lost over half stone last month I'm now learning how to maintain it through mindful eating. This is important as I don't want to ever go back to losing and gaining. I have somewhere got the determination that overeating when I am not genuinly definitely hungry is self sabotage and even after only half a stone I can move better and hot flushes have disappeared.

Hi Solo good to see you again!

Thanks ElbowPrincess hes a strapping 17 month old now, still feeds once or twice a day but its getting less so im not too concerned that the gastric band book may affect it. but its definitely time to get the rest of this weight off now, Im starting volunteering in a school after half term, I went looking for something smartish to wear (as im kind of hoping they will take me on as a trainee teacher in a couple of years so want to make the right impression from the off) but just couldnt find anything i liked so im sulking a bit but taking it as a real kick up the bum, back to 30 day shred too after af dissapears!

HarryHausen thats a great start well done you, I always struggle to leave things in restaurants as ive paid sooooo much for it it feels wrong!

for those doing c25k have you seen zombies run? its a c25k app with a storyline, i really enjoyed it when i tried it

Can you do more walking Solo