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 ate a whole box of chocolates this week. It was 350g of Belgian chocolates!
After eating all of them, I realised that I hadn't really enjoyed them.
I'm debating doing one of the methods of removing cravings - the permanent one.
Chocolate doesn't do me any good and it has been a cause of much of my weight gain.
PMcK says to be sure that you want a permanent fix before you do it, so will think about it...

Did weigh myself today and have lost another couple of pounds so must be doing something right.

I'm posting in the hope of making me make tomorrow a different day. I've given up for weeks now, don't know why when I feel so much better when I'm following the programme.
Wish I could work out a way to get the Havening onto iTunes, I find it really hard to get any peace near the DVD player/laptop as someone always on it. Just generally don't get any peace to listen to the trances either. My home seems to be like Grand Central Station, and everywhere I go the dcs follow me.

Faith I'm glad you saw sense! :) I'm also quite sure you will look fab on June 1st.

Bindi yes, it does taste disgusting when you keep on chewing and turning it over in your mouth because it is all gloopy and sickly. I too love chocolate, but eating it this way has a yuk effect on me.

MLB I know just what you mean re teenagers. My Ds is 15 and in the middle of his GCSE's. He's a monster at the best of times.

TooBig What are you talking about re permanent craving removal? have I missed something?

Igggi can you get a a portable disc player. That's what I use.
Just start again tomorrow. This is not a diet so see it as a learning curve. Some days are good and some bad but instead of letting a couple of bad episodes turn into weeks, just let it go and start again.

Well we shall agree to differ then Solo. Chocolate never tastes disgusting to me. It just melts on my tongue and im in heaven. ha ha.

solo isn't that from ICMYT where you imagine the food covered in something that grosses you out until you can't eat it any more?

I am very disappointed, Tesco near me built a new store and has a new GF selection so I picked up some cereal. It's akin to eating cardboard :( have binned the bowl of cereal in favour of toast!

Iggi I'm thinking of videoing the havening with my phone so it's in my videos. Quality won't be great but I think that's the only way!

I'm here. Feeling a little bit fragile, but I'm here. Today is another day. I've bought lovely food for tonight in the 'eat what you want' mentality.

I'm just so worn down. I just sit here and before I know where I am I've eaten something I didn't even want. I just want someone to lift everything off my shoulders for a bit. This week I think I have put back everything I lost last week. I haven't weighed but my jeans feel as tight as ever.

Solo, it's in the back of the ICMYT 90 Day Success Journal.
It does sound like the one Faith mentions.
Do you want me to type it in here?

Sticking to the only eating things I love, I made some delicious bread this week.
Waitrose have introduced a new range of bread flour, so I bought a couple of them.
So far have baked the Love life seeded wholemeal bread flour and it is fabulous.

I tried out one of the PMcK apps and got very annoyed with it. Was listening to the night time track on my iPad. Opened the cover of the iPad and it immediately said well done for listening to it...when it was only half way through!!! It doesn't give you the opportunity to replay it again. Would rather have the CD track on my iPad via iTunes from the book. Removing the app now.

Thanks Bindi and Alittlefaith - good ideas! I could transfer it to my son's innotab, though I don't fancy having a toddler accidentally watching it!
I'm not going through a great time at the moment and I'm feeling I should "be kind" to myself by allowing over-eating. But that's actually unkind, isn't it.

Will get there :)
I remember the aversion thing btw, he did it on his original TV show too. Thinking awful thoughts (I'd go for maggots) on the food you like. I really liked the one of thinking positive thoughts while squeezing your fingers together then you can recapture the feeling - I did that years ago and it still works now, I feel it every time.

Igggi I too used the squeezing fingers method but I used it in childbirth. My hypnotherapist gave it to me.

Oh that one!! I know about that, but it isn't permanent! ask my waistline!! .
I went to the seminar a few years ago and PMK did it for (to?) us there. It did work for a long time, but I truly need to redo everything!!

MLB I'm sorry things aren't feeling great right now. Talk if you want to; here or PM if it might help.

Hope you are all ok.

I got a text from the GP surgery today asking me to collect a repeat blood test form. This will be the 4th lot in as many weeks. Not feeling well either, but I do think that losing weight can't be anything except good for my liver troubles.

Hellloooo! How is everyone this fine bank holiday? I'm on nights didn't think that shift pattern through, did I?! I'm finding the FFEE ideal for my break on nights though. I have some food then listen to it and properly relax.

Hello Faith :) and everyone. Hope your BH Monday has been dry!! it's tipped it down over here!!!

We had a couple of showers but I was asleep so it didn't affect me! :)

"I'm just so worn down. I just sit here and before I know where I am I've eaten something I didn't even want. I just want someone to lift everything off my shoulders for a bit. "

I know how you feel

Bugger! Im on my phone and a call interrupted a post I was in the middle of and it has gone! That call came during me clearing up a broken plant pot! Just about sums up how I feel today...
Im sitting for a friends Dcs and my Dd is playing with them...all fine, but im feeling so unwell, I would just like to go to sleep. I could cry.
I am using some of the time here to read a PMK book. Change your life in 7 days. Hope it works for me; it certainly makes sense, but it also lets me realise that im really, really a crap parent. Feeling very sorry for myself!

An upside to being at someone elses house is that I can't eat to comfort...will I make up for that when I get home I wonder.

Hello everyone,

I'm wondering if I should buy the emotional eating book? I have the ICMYT book and know when I'm not hungry but....I crave sweet things. Hungry or not. Food is on my mind almost all the time when I'm at home. My ICMYT book is old and doesn't have the craving buster section either which is a bummer.

I bought the Emotional Eating book without ever reading/having any of his other books. My cravings have gone away using the CD and DVD included with the book. I started early in April and have lost 17 lb so far (plus 2 stones I had lost in the previous 12 months) with PMcK Emotional Eating.

I have bought the earlier book now, and have started to read it. Mostly out of interest in his other books.
The CD track is similar to one of the Emotional Eating ones.
On EE there are four tracks, plus a video on the DVD.

Others on this thread should be able to tell you if there is much you would miss if you didn't read the earlier one. As far as I'm aware, you can just use the new one.

I haven't read any of the weight loss books! my concentration levels are crap. I haven't read any further in the 7 day change one :(

Hi everyone ,

I'm here and still trying. I've had a tough couple of weeks but now things have calmed down so I'm really going to concentrate on eating slowly etc.

I have been doing circuit training for two months in an attempt to reduce my body fat percentage. I had my measurements done last night and I have lost 4% body fat which I'm pleased with. The trainer had a bit of a go at me though as I said my diet hasn't been great. She said I'm wasting her time and disrespecting her if she trains me and I don't eat right. I was a bit upset and humiliated as she said it in front of the whole class. She's emailed me today telling me to cut out grains, dairy, sugar, caffeine, wine etc. she's an amazing trainer and gets good results so I want to keep going but she doesn't understand about emotional eating. I don't want to cut out food groups. I want to change my relationship with good. Ill have to take her nutritional advice with a pinch of salt.

*food

Wow JD, I wouldn't be going back to any classes she runs! That sounds horrible, you poor thing.

Bloody well done on losing 4% body fat! That's really good going!

JD...cut that Trainer. Seriously. How dare she, in this day and age, humiliate you. That is the very opposite of someone who has been trained properly in all areas of weight loss, body image and eating. I am so angry for you. You are not disrespecting her by learning about your own disordered eating patters and learning how to work with your own body. She will send you back to square one. As for telling you to cut out certain foods...crap. Has she sat down with you and asked you about your eating history, how your body reacts with different food types, if you binge and what foods you prefer? She is not an amazing trainer, you are the one who has done the hard work by exercising. She just wants to look good by having people get the results she wants. Maybe her own performance is judged on her results.
You don't need her to exercise. If you have no pelvic floor issues or other issues then just get a good pair of trainers and power walk and eventually maybe run and do weights.

Grrrrrrr!!!

I know what you mean and I completely agree and will ignore her dietary advice because she knows nothing about me or my food issues. However, I really love the workouts and I'm building muscle and getting more toned. I go with some friends, its reasonably priced and a convenient time and location so they are the reasons I go. I'll just have to ignore her about food and carry on doing what I'm doing.

xx

You could tell her if she mentions your diet again that you have food and body issues and your therapist is helping you deal with it. That should shut her up. (PM is your therapist