Paul McKenna's 'I Can Make You Thin' Thread #15...The New Beginning!

[Solo]

Welcome to thread #15 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

HELPFUL TIPS!
Lots of chewing; at least 20 chews per mouthful.

Ask yourself "am I really hungry?" Listen for your 'full signal' and leave at least a mouthful on your plate at every meal. Eat your favourite thing from your plate first so that if you get to the full signal, but have your favourite food still sitting there, you aren't going to 'make room' for it because you love it, it will have already gone.

Admire something about yourself every day in the mirror.
Try to move more; dance around the living room or walk to school...use the stairs...small things, but good things!

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 From Emotional Eating which may give some insight into why we do this and help us beat it.

Ps. Could we all try to sign in at least every few days so that someone is there? We have established that it's no fun talking to ourselves and also that if there is a new joiner, it's good to say 'hello and welcome' to them too.

Ok! Let's Focus and See Ourselves wearing that body we desire! learning to love ourselves is an important daily step, so let's become LOSERS in order to be WINNERS!!! :)

May I join you?

I am on day 7 of ICMYT and am finding it good so far. I won't weigh myself until day 15 but am listening to the cd every day. It's weird, every time I play it I find a bit I haven't actually heard before.

I am definitely eating smaller portions and thinking about food less. I absolutely cannot do the mirror thing though.

It has helped me a lot not to drink alcohol I think

I struggle to eat slowly and often eat at my desk as I genuinely don't have time to do otherwise. I will be off for 3 weeks soon though so that might help.

Welcome hampton come on in! well done for starting off. Do try to do the mirror exercise. I was like you, but once I got into it so to speak, it got easier, I saw myself in a different and better way and the weight started to drop off.

I've found my personal cd player, batteries are dead, but will hopefully be reinstalling the band today.

How are the rest of the gang doing?

Thanks solo
I ate lunch at my desk again toady and got embroiled in conversation with a colleague and ended up clearing my bowl of pasta salad - Grrrr!!

Oh well at least it wasn't chocolate cheesecake

Not to worry. The following minute was a new start at this way of eating :) so keep at it!

Where is everyone?!

Well today I was nearly in a punch up with another woman. She had already shouted at and was rude to a man outside the supermarket lifts and I assumed he was with her, but not. She got into my lift and got out on my floor; Dd ran ahead of me and the woman (she was with a chap on crutches) but Dd knows to stop before the road bit of the car park, but unfortunately stopped in front of the woman. Woman said something to Dd and put her hands up in a half shruggy motion, Dd looked embarrassed, I said "there's no need to be rude" which there wasn't and at that point, I could have been talking to Dd or woman. Anyway, woman gets right in my face, pointing her plastic car park card a few inches away from my face giving me a mouthful! Apparently I should keep my kids under control (Dd is mostly a gentle child and totally the opposite to out of control) and I'm a fat bitch (as she walked away). Never been called that before.
You know when adrenalin flies around and you can't actually remember what you said? that's me right now! I know I wasn't rude. I know I was worried because I actually thought she was going to punch me in the face and I was just thinking of my teeth and braces because I'd probably lose my teeth. And I know that I would've defended myself because actually, these days I take less crap from people than ever before. But fat bitch?
Must lose weight.

Oh Solo that is rough. She sound extremely unpleasant and her behaviour is nothing to do with you or DD, try to think of yourselves as bystanders to her ongoing issues.

I am doing OK. I think I just ate a little bit too much dinner though. I knew I was full but I pushed myself cos it was so yummy and I wanted more

Listening to CD every day and will try and do the mirror exercise tomorrow when DC are with their Dad.

I am sure you are not a fat bitch and you cannot let this random episode put you off track.

No, I know hampton it was just a not very nice thing to happen or have shouted at me. We are 'nice people' ~ certainly not the types to get involved with nasty street brawling types! and you know how all these smart arsed retorts come to you after the event...'yes, but I can go on a diet, you'd need extensive cosmetic surgery to sort out your wrinkles...' and the like! and the thing is, until a very short time ago, I was serving Queen and country in the Prison Service and I know how to handle people like that; I just don't want to have to.

You are doing ok, you just have to remember that you can go back to it later if you wish. The mirror exercise is important :)

Keep up the great work! :)

Thanks for the kind words.

What a horrid thing to happen to you, Solo!

We've been away on holiday and just got back this morning. Will catch up with the thread over the next couple of days.

solo that's a horrible thing to happen to you. Unfortunately, after many years working with the public, I can tell you a lot of them just aren't very nice. Hope you're feeling better now.

Well since last week I haven't lost anything. Too many temptations and not enough mindful eating. I feel ok though as I know that I haven't fully returned to my old habits and I will eat mindfully from tonight.

I tried to do the mirror thing again today but I just cannot bear to stare at my own face in the mirror. I am not that ugly, honest, it just makes me too uncomfortable.

I think it has to do with childhood low self esteem issues which I thought I had put behind me - big sigh.

Anyway, I think I am doing OK without the mirror. I really look forward to listening to the cd every day. I am so desparate to weigh myself but I have convinced myself that none of it will work if I don't do exactly what Paul says - 15 day weigh in is Weds 30th so I will be dreadfully upset if I haven't lost at least 2 or 3 pounds.

That's awful solo, some people are just repulsive humans. Take no notice of her.
Eating all went to hell this week, had a crazy week at work. There should be 6 of us altogether that do our work. This week a combination of holidays, sickness and training meant it was just me by myself!! I had to work through all my lunches which was no good obviously.
If it's just the standard daily stuff it would have been bad enough but I kept getting ad hoc stuff chucked my way too. Argh.

Need to listen to the cd again.

Oh no Guns! Thought I was having a bad time- due to illness and holiday I am on my own instead of a team of 3 of us. Also lots of problems to sort out. A week and a day, then one colleague should be back, another day, then I'm meant to be on holiday!

Yup, wasn't great fun! My mum tells me there's only so much you can do so don't get stressed. However a lot of it is time critical, I work in fraud strategy and business intelligence for a bank and as we get emerging fraud it's my job to put strategies in place to combat them. Can't really say I'll do it sometime next week when everyone's back!

Im doing this so would love to join the thread

Aw! thanks everyone :) I'm Ok, was upset by it all, but I'm Ok.

Hampton I know exactly what you mean about being uncomfortable with a mirror, but I don't look at my face really, more my body. I try to look at my curves and boobs and just think about the womanly curves I have and how nice they are which sounds absurd seeing as I'm trying to trim the down, but I honestly started to lose weight last time I did it and it does get easier the more you do it. I suppose Paul's idea behind it is that if we can't love ourselves or even look at ourselves, how will we be able to improve ourselves iyswim?

Sorry about everyones stresses at work :(

Tilly please do join us :) and welcome!

Thanks Solo

I'm 8lbs down.
I listened to the HGB cd this morning, but fell asleep! had smaller bowl of hot oats and felt full. Had 3 digestives with Philadelphia on for lunch and right now, I'm really hungry!

Great loss solo!! Well done x

Well you know what to do solo-EAT! Fantastic weight loss, well done.

Thank you :) must continue!! I have some 'events' coming up and would like to be a lot slimmer! I'm now a stone lighter than at my heaviest, but I'm still a stone up from what I lost in total iyswim. I want to be 28lbs less than I am now. I think I can be happy with that. I would then be about 12st 4lbs. I'm going to do it 1lb at a time!

WOW! 8lbs - is that in 2 weeks? That is fantastic well done. I am due to weigh myself tomorrow morning and cannot wait. I know I am slimmer as this morning I put on some jeans that were a bit too tight - just uncomfortable - before I started ICMYT and they were fine today. I will be happy with 4lbs loss.

Fingers crossed!!

I will try to do the mirror thing and just look at my body then - I thought I had to stare deep into my eyes for a few minutes and I just cannot. I probably need to read the book again and sort out what I am supposed to do.

Do you know hampton I have no idea! I lost 5lbs a while back and it was on and off again a few times and then it stayed off plus 3 more this week. I really couldn't say how long, but I'm pleased as it's a great boost.

Sounds like you are doing very well too :) do tell us of your loss, but if you haven't lost lbs, don't be disheartened, just go by your clothes as they are a great indicator. I find as I age, my shape changes and that's often just as 'successful' as lbs dropping off. Good luck though! it's very encouraging to see the scales going down :)

I have lost 5lbs

As I am going through the menopause I find my shape is really changing. I have skinny legs so I look like barrel really. What I really hate is that my "upper tummy", the bit between my belly button and boobs, now sticks out further than my "lower tummy"

I am happy with 5lbs and will keep on with the programme. I weighed 11 stone 4 and now weigh 10 stone 13 and we all know how good it feels to be a lower stone, even if it is by one little pound!!!

How is everyone else doing?

Hi Hampton.Congrats on your 5lb weight loss. I shall weigh myself next week as Im just getting going.
I am going through/gone through the menopause too but my shape hasn't changed but I have gained 5lbs.

Yay! Well done you!!!
I too am going through the menopause and I know exactly what you mean about that below bra bulge! it's horrible!

I can feel my weight loss as my bra is more comfortable (where the below bra bulge is) and that makes so much difference!!

Tilly you are very fortunate and I am :) How are you doing so far do you think?