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!!! :)

I know that feeling Snatch. It is what I am constantly battling with too.

If only every weekend were like last weekend I might actually have some head space to think about this stuff. Fell asleep reading the EE book last night.

And did you listen to the CD like we all planned BBB.

To be honest it doesn't take too much to think before you eat if you are hungry. This will never work if you don't actually do it. Sorry but it won't. Finding 22 mins to listen to a CD is not much time at all.

We set a day for listening to the cd and rebooting. Tue or Wed at Solos suggestion. I have stuck to the new beginning. BBB and Solo, have you? That your avoiding my question makes me think you havnt. We all have busy lives but this is about us getting better, slimmer and healthier.

Am drinking a bottle of water just now to give me something to do with my hands
I had roughly the same thing for lunch today and yesterday, but yesterday I listened to the "listen while you eat" cd during it and today I was mumsnetting and it was noticeable how much more I ate today.
It's not hard for me to find 20 odd minutes to listen to the cd, it's very hard for me to find 20 minutes com

Oops pressed send to soon, also forgot name change so will revert back shortly! It's hard for me to get time in a room alone and without interruptions, even half an hour. If anyone comes near me at all it breaks the trance. Small dcs who follow me to the bathroom and a flat where every room seems to be a through route to somewhere else, doesn't help!

Hello all. Welcome to newbies. I can't stay, but will attempt to read through and post properly over the weekend.

Been back to docs today, more blood tests today. Liver enzymes are up again ~ even further than before...I rarely, rarely touch alcohol either.
Back asap!

Well I've just had my dinner and have over-eaten. The thing is, I knew I was over eating whilst I was doing it. Now I feel awful

I still going through FFEE book and I haven't got to the self sabotage bit yet in the CD either. I only hope it helps when I do.

Hiya! I'm home! And through the wonder of internet shopping my FFEE was here when we arrived. I'll have a look at it later.

We had a pub lunch and I chose jacket with tuna. I ate it properly....it was so disappointing! Really bland, chain pub food. Won't be going back there.

O poor you Solo. More waiting to see what's up. Not nice. Hope it gets sorted.

Good morning everyone. Forgot to weigh myself yesterday which is my normal day, so did it this morning. Lost 1 lb, which makes a total of one stone since I started PMcK Emotional Eating.

Harry at least you are now feeling the difference as it happens. Soon you will be able to stop as soon as you recognise it happening. Then you will serve yourself less knowing that you will reach your sated point more accurately.

Hiya! Well done toobig, a whole stone! You must be chuffed.

Harry I agree, recognising you're overeating is a great start.

I weighed myself at my sister's house this morning. Not great (13st 10lb) but I've been heavier! We are going to work together to lose some weight, setting goals for exercise.

Please can I join? I've only just started reading about this but I need to find a way to reeducate myself. I have always been able to successfully lose weight through obsessing and calorie counting and fasting and over exercising... all sorts. Always obsessively, ashtrays with guilt and misery. I have also easily gained weight through binging. Last year I lost two stone and somehow have managed to maintain since then. I want to lose another stone but I don't want to obsess. Is that possible? This is a disordered way of life for me. An addiction. I'm wondering if there is a way to break it and not be totally dominated by it.
I shall have a read back of your threads and find out more. Hope you don't mind.

Ooh and if anyone can point me in the direction of a good starting point, I would be most grateful I've just bought the book from Amazon. A good start but I have a job and a toddler and struggle to find time to read! I'm 5ft4 and 10st7.

Morning all Just been pointed over here by bindi

I had my gastric band fitted last night so I'm raring to go. I was very sceptical this morning as I was interrupted by ds1 coming downstairs to my room as he had earache and I was fully expecting nothing to happen. However I ate my breakfast this morning and left nearly 2/3 in the bowl. I was looking out for a physical sign I was full which never came but I just suddenly lost interest in it. So I stopped eating. And the world is still turning - even though my dish wasn't empty

So, I weigh 15st 12.4lbs. For my height the max I should weigh is 11st 2lbs so I'm working on a target of 5st. I know that the hypnosis will keep me going until my body is happy with its own weight so my target is a little bit immaterial but it helps me to visualise everything.

Get used to me wittering.... I need lots of support!

The other thing I meant to say bindi is that after your comment about making time etc I twigged that I didn't have to listen to the tracks on my laptop and then stop after and put it away etc. So I ripped it to my phone which means I can be much more comfortable and chilled whilst listening. Brains of Britain I ain't...

Hi Mrs. Yes that is exactly what happens to me with the Gastric Band cd. I stop when I am satisfied. My body just stops wanting to eat. Something within me says "stop". I could carry on and be full but I know that it isn't necessary. Being full is not what you want though , its being satisfied knowing that your body has had enough.
Have you read any of the books Mrs? They really help to understand about eating mindfully rather than dieting.

Hi Guy...I always find that if I even think about dieting that it can result in me bingeing. Well done on the weight loss though. I started years ago with mindful eating using OverComing Overeating by Susie Orbach. It showed me how to eat like a person with no disordered eating (as my eating had been totally disordered all my life). I bought all the foods I love and began. I now have any food I want but only eat it when im hungry. Eventually this way of eating eliminates bingeing in my opinion but only if you totally let go of the dieting self loathing attitude. I now do the Gastric Band cd and the Emotional Eating CD too.

Its not always plain sailing as diets seem to be where are head goes to when we "feel" fat and worthless. We tend to think that the next diet will be the one that makes us look good and feel good but at some point the bingeing kicks in for most of us.

How did you lose your weight by the way. You have done well....2 stone!

Hello.

Can I join and introduce myself?

I've been an emotional eater since I was a child and I'm just so sick of trying different diets and ending up feeling like a failure. I'm not actually overweight according to my BMI but I have a small frame and my body fat percentage is in the obese range so I'm doing circuit training and trying to lose fat. The problem is that I try to stick to a healthy diet but I always end up over eating and undoing my hard work. I know that I use food to soothe, comfort and distract myself when I'm lonely, bored or stressed and as soon as I've eaten something 'naughty' I feel guilty and want more to try to make myself feel better. Lately I have tried Slimming World, low carbing and the 5:2 diet and it's the same every time. Dieting makes me binge. I'm so sick of this cycle and I just want to eat normal food and not have to live on a stupid diet. I just want to eat like a thin person i.e. only when I'm hungry and only until I'm full.

I tried the original I Can Make You Thin book and CD years ago and it made such sense to me. I have a sister who is a naturally thin person. She doesn't have any food issues. She just eats when she's hungry, eats slowly and gets bored of her food before she's finished it. I want to be like that but I have emotional eating issues to overcome. I've just ordered the 'Freedom from Emotional Eating' book and CD so I'm going to give that a go.

Anyway, that's me.

bindi I've read both the emotional eating and the band book - I kinda meant satisfied rather than full. I guess it'll take a while to get used to the new terminology too!

Still not hungry. And to be fair, that normally doesn't stop me anyway. I will happily stand in front of the biscuit/snack cupboard and scoff 10-12 biscuits without being hungry. Or even tasting them. But I'm just not interested at all. I know they're there but I'm not even remotely interested in having any of them. I do feel like I will be ready for lunch though... I can feel my stomach beginning to feel a bit empty. I actually enjoy that feeling because it heightens the anticipation of the meal. I just don't get it very often

Hello JDD I'm new here too

Hello MrsLundy.

I used to have the Paul M ICMYT app which I paid for but I've just realised its not on my phone anymore and I can't find it on the App Store. Is it no longer available does anyone know?

I've just found out that he has replaced it with a different app where the first day is free and you pay for the full app. Has anyone tried it?

Weirdness... I just ate lunch mindfully and again left a good portion of it. I was using up the leftovers from dinner yesterday so made a fajita. After a couple of bites I realised that I wouldn't be able to eat it all so just ate the filling and left the wrap. I am now satisfied and I'm about to change my sheets - unheard of after eating because it would mean instant death from acid heartburn

Even more shameful is that I ate two yesterday for dinner. Wrap and all. And was contemplating a third but didn't want to look greedy in front of dd1's new bf

Hi JDD Welcome

Your sister is exactly the person im striving to become too. I have to work hard to make sure I think before I eat and whilst eating but its important to me to take time out for myself to make sure I do that otherwise I could quite possibly overeat all the time. I used to when I would go from one diet to another.

Not sure about the apps...I know some of the other ladies on here have them so hopefully they will be able to help you soon

Mrsthat's how it is for me too. I really hope you can find time to listen to it every day ( or night before you go to bed) to allow it to permeate your subconscious. Paul recommends this. He also does recommend that you always follow the 4 golden rules with all his cds too.