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!!! :)

Bloody hell. Clearly I know this already but that must've been some overeating I was doing. As I've said before I am very visually motivated. I keep a very close eye on my weight and do measurements frequently because I find every tiny loss has a huge impact on my motivation.

Well blow me if I didn't just get on the scales and discover I've lost three pounds on two days! I'm but also and .

Ah well. It's certainly giving me the incentive to stick at it.

Are you completely off the AD now Faith. Do you use the CBT still?
It must be difficult coming off them and adjusting.

MrsLundy when you eat this way completely it does work. Well done. I know that when I maintain and stop losing that I am getting a bit complacent and not following the rules completely. So then I go back to the CDs. Sometimes life just gets in the way of listening and re reading the books.

Hello ladies.

I'm JDD. I'm 32 and have a toddler and two step children. I've been married 4 years.

My FFEE book etc came yesterday and I'm finding the book really interesting. I think it's going to take a while to clearly identify the causes of my emotional eating and self sabotage but its definitely eye opening. It all applies to me. I know I'm someone who copes well with whatever comes my way by ignoring my feelings and binging on chocolate. There's a lot to think about from the book.

I listened to the trance in bed last night. I tried the havening but I find it hard to isolate and focus on the negative emotions when I'm not feeling them so it might be best to try it when I next feel the urge to binge.

Anyway, I've eaten slowly and consciously today and asked myself if I'm genuinely hungry before eating. So far so good.

MrsLundy 3 pounds already is really encouraging. Well done!

MrsLundy that's a great start! I'd advise not weighing yourself too often. Paul says once a fortnight. I find weighing myself less as I get more into Pauling and am happier for it. Weighing myself seems linked into dieting and taking control of my weight loss which isn't healthy.

Bindi I've been off the meds completely for a week now. I feel ok. I've decided to actively change jobs and I feel happier since making that decision. I've had a really productive day tidying the house so I feel positive! I've eaten well too. I'll add a photo of my yummy lunch :)

Smoked salmon on bread with cream cheese, black pepper, cucumber and a squeeze of lemon.

JDD I don't feel that I deserve the well done as it's been no effort at all

Ok, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Mrs, 35 and have four dcs from 16 to 2.10. I'm single following a spectacularly awful 16y marriage. I've been overweight all my adult life although when I started this at 15st 12.4lbs I was the heaviest I've ever been. I am determined to lose weight for good this time but not by going on a diet. By doing the elusive thing that all diets promise (yet fail) to do - change my eating habits for good.

I knew someone would say that to me Faith

I've always found the scales shifting to be a huge incentive for me but I'm hoping that will diminish in time as you're right, it is linked to dieting.

Just started it again, first trance for me tonight!

Great stuff doc, back on it!

Harry....TooBig.....how are you doing?

TooBig Guy?

Arrg...phone.....meant to say how's it going Harry, TooBig, and Guy?........

I'm here ladies. I am not well and I can't find my personal cd player so I'm sorry, but I haven't listened to the disc yet. I am being really good though with my eating. I even refused pastries yesterday!
Welcome to all the newbies and anyone who has returned. Have had a very quick skim and everyone seems very positive, so well done all and thank you all for keeping up with the thread.

Not sure what I can do about listening to the voice...the player must be here somewhere . My laptop player thing doesn't work properly, so I can even listen on that.

Hi Solo how you feeling? Don't worry about the cd just keep doing the rules. I didn't mean to be pushy, just trying to keep us motivated as you me and BBB seemed desperate. Not to worry, we will get there wont we x

Gastric band book/CD arriving for me today - I really need to get my eating/weight under control, and the only things which have worked so far have been Atkins and VLCDs, neither of which help in the long run .

So I'm off diets, and looking to eat when I'm actually hungry and stop when I'm full. Quite excited really

Welcome Leaping . There are a few newbies starting at the same time so you are in very good company.
Ive done VLCD in the past to the point of fainting but of course I thought that was a good thing as I was not eating.

For me the minute I even think about dieting it can bring on a binge.

I actually really liked the VLCD as it totally removed food ( and issues around food) from my control. Sadly at the time I was about to start reintroducing food, we had a stupid load of personal stuff going on, and I couldn't devote time to dealing with it.

Bindi I feel very unwell. I should get further blood results on Friday.

My affirmation these days is I will never diet again :) I have no need to diet/starve myself/deprive myself of rich or sweet foods. I just have to be sensible about food and I can do that. I have lost a few lbs. I am at 14.5 and it's a start. I am taking my GCSE stressed son out for lunch in a bit.

So sorry your unwell Solo. What is it you are feeling if I might ask?

No I couldn't do a diet again. Food is delicious and comforting and nutritious and yummy and sometimes junky but I love it. Diets just give you disordered views on eating and food.

solo is there any way you could rip the cd to your laptop and then copy it to your phone? That's what I did and it works really well for me

Still feeling really positive. I'm so optimistic that this might be it. This might be the time I finally conquer all of my issues with food and control. And best of all I'm doing it without even knowing and without any effort apart from being mindful.

I honestly wish I'd tried this years ago.

Mrs Its good your so optimistic.

I had my first urge to eat loads of chocolate since starting today but I thought 'am I really hungry or am I trying to feed an emotion' and I listened to the craving buster on my app and the urge went away.

I've analysed the trigger and it was because after eating my lunch I ate some dried fruit and nuts when I wasn't still hungry and I felt disappointed in myself and like I had failed so that little devil on my shoulder said 'you may as well eat some chocolate now to make yourself feel better'. I know it's irrational but a sense of failure makes me want to comfort/distract/sooth myself by shoving in chocolate.

I'm also a bit stressed because I've got a job interview on Monday and that makes me want to eat chocolate but I'm still sticking to the rules so far.

JDD did you try the havening exercise when you had the craving...apparently it takes a little getting used to but then whenever you get cravings, you just do it and it goes away, unless its genuine hunger which doesn't go away, just gets louder.

Job interviews are nerve racking aren't they. What are you interviewing for?

Its not irrational, its that old diet mentality of do or die I think. Its the "O I have blown it so may as well fill my boots." Even if you did have the chocolate its best to slow down your eating of it, savour and taste it and really enjoy it. That way the binge is unlikely to take hold whereas if you bolted it down in true binge fashion, you would not register what you have eaten until it was done and you felt sick. Then put it behind you and move on and start again straight away - don't make a day of it with the "Ill start tomorrow mentality."

How weird, I've just listened to the insertion track, and I've got heartburn as I can feel/taste dinner at the top of my stomach! Took three attempts to get a clear 30 minutes without someone wanting something, but it was fascinating listening to the techniques he uses.

Will let you know tomorrow how my appetite is . I am unbelievably tired though, just as he told me I would be