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!!! :)

Hi Milly :) welcome mrsmiles and Sin

Mrsmiles I can only point you to the first post and my long post of Aug 1st for tips. It's a very simple and easy to follow weight loss system where you don't need to feel deprived in any way and where you can shrug off any 'falling off the wagon' with starting again straight away. It does work, but I agree about the menopause making it harder to lose weight, but it's not impossible and we are very supportive on here.

Milly still not well, but trying hard to get on with it :)

Anyway, get stuck in and post as often as you can as it can make a huge difference in the way you continue.

mrsmiles have you bought the book, with the journal and CD?

This is all you need to be honest, although you can buy more cds if you want, I find just playing this one every single day is very helpful.

I also work in education - in an FE college - and I know it is hard to find time to eat when you are hungry but starting in the summer holidays will give you such a great head start.

From what you have said, it sounds like you are an emotional over eater, and I reckon this plan will be perfect for you. As you can see from upthread, I have eaten all kinds of goodies, but other days I don't eat much at all. I am only eating when I am truly hungry, not when I am "feeding my emotions."

I know I sound like I am being paid but I really am not. This plan has been a revelation in terms of how ridiculously easy I have found it and how different my attitude to food is now.

The one thing that I think has helped me most has been not drinking alcohol, although you can if you want. I used to have just a glass or two of every night to unwind, and I think it was increasing my appetite as well as adding unnecessary calories of course.

I am off out to lunch with friends three days this week, and normally I would be really worried about what I would eat, but I now know I can eat whatever I like, because I won't overeat like I used to.

Give it a go and stick with us

Thank you for the welcome

This morning I've had boiled eggs and soldiers with dd, realised upon eating slower that I probably don't like toast as much as I'd thought! Felt full up before the end which pleased the dog

I think my main problem is there seems to be a bit of my brain which overrides my sane thinking and tells me to "overeat anyway", I need to find a way of listening to my full signals and silencing the self sabotage.

I'm going to have a proper read through the whole thread later and make a list of tips, including the rules. I have the original book and cd and have also ordered the emotional eating book from amazon which has good reviews.

I don't have the journal but I think I'm going to start my own.

Morning Ladies
Solo sorry your not 100 percent. When is your big event coming up?
mrsmiles I have been eating this way for 10 years and it is definitely life changing. Diets cause you to have a disordered relationship with food. They tell you what and how to eat which takes away your own power to listen to what your body actually requires. I have been an emotional eater all my life and have had a very disordered relationship for most of that.
I first read a book called "Overcoming Overeating" by Jane Hirschman in the nineties which changed everything for me. I also enabled me to bring up my children in an environment where food was just food. I bought all types of food and had a chocolate/goodie drawer (something I had always wanted as a child). My kids were able to eat when they were truly hungry and for what they were truly hungry for . That may be fruit, cake, sandwich,biscuit, salad...whatever. The choice was theirs to make. I didn't want them to grow up like I did being made to feel that food was evil and that if I ate anything other than what my mother gave me that I was bad and would be fat.
It seemed to work. Both my adult children now have a good relationship with food and see it as just that....food. Not a comforter, not a friend, not something to beat loneliness or give them love (that's how food was for me) but just food. They are both slim and eat what they want.

For me it has been an ongoing journey to never diet again. Paul McKenna CDs have helped enormously as have his books. At first when you free up your emotions from the diet mentality it can be overwhelming. You buy all the food you have ever wanted and keep it in your kitchen. Once your mind realises that it can truly have whatever it wants then food slowly releases its hold on you. You find a couple of bites of a choc bar or cake is enough to satisfy you because its there is you want it again later.
Listen to the little voice in your head that tells you that "you are done" and it will get stronger the more you listen and react by stopping eating and pushing the plate away.

The EE book arrived today and I've read the first chapter and listened to the cd, not the DVD yet though.

Might be too soon to say but I think in beginning to recognise the full feeling. I've eaten noticeably less than normal, but all nice things!

Sitting here having a lemonade and schnapps but feel no desire to gobble biscuits and junk like I normally would.

Tried out a nice new recipe today too, chicken and tomato pasta bake with mozzarella and Parmesan. Was very yummy but couldn't finish the portion I dished up.

I've also set myself a target of walking the dog every morning and every evening too and I do feel more energised, I guess because I'm not being slowed down by an over full stomach.

Dh is borrowing a sports car at the weekend and dd is staying at grandmas so I'm thinking about a nice country pub for lunch.

Hope everyone else is having a good week, having read lots more of the thread it seems lots of you have lost weight doing this. Has anyone lost a significant amount and kept it off?

Mrsmiles did you see my post to you? It was a long one Im afraid.
I have lost weight but more importantly kept it off for many years (see above post). That is the true test of any diet or way of eating. If you can maintain it. pp lost a lot and has also kept if off. TooBig has too I believe.

Thank you milly, it was just under my nose!

It's good to hear about your children, part of my reason for doing this is my dd who is nearly 9. I see so many girls with food and busy issues

That was my main reason too. I didn't want my children, especially my lovely daughter growing up with food issues from me. I had enough of that and it has caused me heartbreaking angst over the years. I don't think I have ever accepted myself as I am, even when I was thin. Shame really.

Just lurking, don't mind me. Listened to the cd last night for the first time, I really need to lose the extra bit of me that's getting in my way.

How did it go MrsMinton?

It was very relaxing MillyDots thank you. Today I did stop when I felt full. I have two little boys and this was a big birthday year and I have had enough of feeling like this.

Well done MrsMerton...you can do it

haha!...sorry Minton

Not had a great day. Had the munchies . In fact, I could happily go and eat something now!!

Solo, your posts in this thread have really inspired me to give this a proper go.

Hope today was a better day.

That is excellent news mrsmiles :) excellent! You can do this, 1lb at a time!

Well I've done the app for seven days and it has made a difference. However, do I need to keep listening to the hypnotic trance every night?

The more you listen to it the better it works. Most of us have found that when we stop listening to our CDs that we can lose altitude with it. If I listen everyday I feel so much more in control but I guess in reality I listen about once a week. Does that help

I listen to the CD every day and I look forward to it. Sometimes I try t listen to every word ( although I am sure I miss some) and sometimes I deliberately let myself drift off and sleep through most of it.

I luffs it!!

This afternoon was hard! I just really wanted to eat, to the point that I was convinced I was trying to feel hungry lol.

Had a hot chocolate about 4pm which satisfied the craving and do actually feel hungry now so will cook tea when I get home from swimming lessons.

I have so far read the book up to the point where it says to listen to the cd and am half way through the chapter on not feeling bad. I've been listening to the cd each night and notice that it's very similar to the ICMYT one at the beginning but I always drop off so maybe some is different later on.

Not sure why but I've done this before and not found it so easy, always given up after a day of so of being "good". Day 4 now and still feeling positive, I'm stopping myself stepping on the scales as I'm scared they will make me feel negative, so hopefully I can keep off them for 2 weeks and actually see a result.

Something I wanted opinions of is drink choice. I've been drinking diet drinks for so long now but today really fancied a real lemonade at the park. I only managed about half of it though. Also the hot chocolate had milk in it earlier. What does decrying else drink? Do you apply the same rules as good and have what you actually want or is everyone still on diet choices? I mainly drink water in the day but sometimes fancy something different.

I had a rather unfortunate habit so I have been drinking diet ginger beer in the evenings. To be honest I have drunk diet sodas rather than "full sugar" since I was a teen and I can't actually tell the difference, so it holds no attraction to me.

I would never crave a "proper" coke so I am not depriving myself at all by having diet coke IYSWIM?

I drink a lot of tea - with sweeteners.

Mrs you sound soooo positive!! I can see from your posts that you are going to do well on here!

If you are doing the HGB, I would say try not to drink fizzy drinks at all as the band restricts the space and fizzy is something that will do you no favours as it will make you feel 'full' but not satisfied and that could make the difference between binging (self sabo) and not.

I have a friend who underwent 'real' surgery and prior to it, she only ever drank Pepsi and lemonade. She cannot drink it now at all as it makes her feel ill and bloated. She drinks Robinsons type cordials and water.

I drink tea myself; it's my drink (I'm a little teapot! high fives hampton.) I sometimes have a Galaxy hot chocolate as it takes away the 'pretend hunger' or craving from me and is sweet enough to satisfy any craving I have, but I buy the instant add water one and I drink water too.

Ladies, do you have a garment that you can't wear (you know, those jeans that you just can't get over your backside, or you can't do up or you can't sit down in)? try giving those a try on instead of stepping onto the scales to gauge how you are doing without feeling utterly disappointed at those numbers...do try to resist the urge to step on the scales all the time. I do this and it can feel devastating, whereas being able to zip up a dress I couldn't or wear my bra's without causing injury says so much more :)

Hampton have you stopped drinking alcohol altogether or just capped it a bit? no reason really, just curious. I rarely drink alcohol though occasionally, I do fancy an ale or a glass of vino.

Thanks ladies, I'm reading the emotional eating book rather than the gastric band one. This is because my best friend has an actual one and the pain and suffering she has endured have put me right off even having a virtual one!

I have stopped drinking alone at home and am drinking far less when I go out too. In the past three weeks I have drunk twice, both times at birthday dinners out. On each occasion I have had no more than three drinks.

It hasn't been hard stopping which was a bit of a relief and I am sure it is doing me a world of good. I just see it as part of the overall picture of me being healthier and not needing food or drink to fill my emotional needs.