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I just weighed myself for the first time in 10 mths & I've LOST THREE STONE!!!!!

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theamazingshrinkingmummy · 03/09/2007 21:21

No my scales aren't buggered, I just haven't weighed myself since just after I had DD. I thought I was pretty lardy and bloated then but my clothes have all but fallen off me in the last month and so I thought I'd find out what I'd lost and THREE STONE!!!!

...and I'm still breastfeeding!!!!

I'm under eleven stone for the first time in two years having bloated horribly during fertility treatment, then ate crap throughout my pregnancy.

But it's gone! Now I want to lose another stone so I can get back into my leather jeans.

BTW if anyone is interested, Paul Mckenna, every night, 24 minutes, hypnotherapy.

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ELF1981 · 03/09/2007 21:22

OMG, Congratulations!!!!

Seriously - Paul McKenna?!

mckenzie · 03/09/2007 21:23

very well done you! many congratulations.

MaureenMLove · 03/09/2007 21:24

Wow! Thats amazing! Bet you feel fantastic & what a boost to spur you on for that last stone! My friend has just bought the Paul Mckenna cd and I can now give her the good news that it works! Congratulations!

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theamazingshrinkingmummy · 03/09/2007 21:24

Yes seriously Elf and I have to say I have never managed to stay awake for all of it! I always drop off but it's working.

I look at chocolate and think 'nah, not my thing' now - which is very irksome and weird but gives me a strange sense of pride.

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gothicmama · 03/09/2007 21:25

congratulations

ELF1981 · 03/09/2007 21:27

right then... off to ebay to see if any skinny mammas want to sell me their Paul McKenna!

frazzledbutcalm · 03/09/2007 21:27

I'd love not to want chocolate but part of me likes the fact that i like it! Make sense??

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theamazingshrinkingmummy · 03/09/2007 21:30

Maureen - honestly nothing has ever worked for me - I got bored with counting at Weightwatchers, snorted with laughter at slimming world and just generally either starved myself or gorged myself. For the first time ever I feel like I've got a healthy relationship with food. It's fuel and I enjoy it but I enjoy it because it's controlled.

Also that CD does give you a lot more confidence generally, I reverse parked today for the first time ever in DHs monster car and I was so proud of myself I took a photo of my parking on his phone to show him when I got home.

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theamazingshrinkingmummy · 03/09/2007 21:32

Frazzled - well there is nothing to stop you having it if you like it - I still have full fat milk on my bran flakes, but I eat less of both and eat them slowly so I realise I'm eating and really enjoy them IYSWIM.

I think the problem with some foods is that you get to feel you shouldn't really be eating them, so you scarf them so they are gone away, so you don't have to think about it, and within a minute and without you being aware, you've eaten the whole thing.

Or I used to think 'well if I just finish off the biscuits/cake/chocolate, then they won't be there to tempt me tomorrow' Which of course is twisted logic because it means I was fatter the next day and more fed up and more likely to go buy more crap!

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pippo · 03/09/2007 21:34

well done you!!!

frazzledbutcalm · 03/09/2007 21:36

Im lucky i can eat what i want and stay slim. im only 8 stone. BUT i feel i just eat too much crap! I dont have the will power to cut stuff out. I think you're great for losing weight and reverse parking your car!! . i have to reverse park mine as its a people carrier, i think i'll get stuck otherwise!

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theamazingshrinkingmummy · 03/09/2007 21:37

Frazzled - you do realise you've just alienated half of mumsnet don't you?

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frazzledbutcalm · 03/09/2007 21:39

I knew as soon as i posted! im sorry

kitsandbits · 03/09/2007 21:40

WOW!

Well done!

EscapeFrom · 03/09/2007 21:44

Woooop woooop!

well done!

gothicmama · 03/09/2007 21:47

amazing which cd did you use

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theamazingshrinkingmummy · 03/09/2007 21:48

The one from the 'I can make you thin' book (which I said in the bookshop 'bet you blardy can't' in front of loads of people.

I was wrong though!

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gothicmama · 03/09/2007 21:52

thanks

HorseyWoman · 04/09/2007 00:46

Wow, well done. I recently had hypnotherapy, well am still having it, and it's working for me, though I have significantly more than you to lose after being ill, not pregnant. I can walk into shops now and not be bothered if I only get the paper I went in for and no chocs. Food lasts longer and treats aren't all eaten at once. Before we'd go shopping and I'd gobble most treats in one night, maybe 2 at a push. I stop when I am full and have a new positive attitude to eating and exercise. I came home from Gran Canaria (a week's holiday) half a stone lighter, a week ago, and have stuck for now as not been able to do as much activity with the studying, but it's going the right way, thanks to the HT.

WELL DONE YOU AND WELL DONE HYPNOTHERAPY!!!

MrsMarvel · 04/09/2007 00:47

I'm gonna get that book out again...

HorseyWoman · 04/09/2007 00:49

And to those who think HT helps you to follow a specific diet (I was doing RC), it probably would but it isn't recommended, as HT works on attitude to your body and mind as well as your attitude to food. Since diet clubs invariably teach us to hate being fat and to hate failure, they aren't compatible with the restructuring HT attempts to make. I left RC and am still having HT, and also have the PMK books/CDs, but I do, by choice, try to stick to low fat options where possible, and my choices are now naturally more healthy because I value my body more and see food as fuel.

HorseyWoman · 04/09/2007 00:51

You should MM.

I thought I was maybe experiencing placebo and had posted about it on another couple of threads on here, but seeing another poster successful makes me really see it's for real and I can do it. I've even started doing more household stuff that I just didn't do when I was ill and so got out of the habit of. I am just so much more positive. But you really do have to believe in it for it to work, otherwise there's a barrier there.

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theamazingshrinkingmummy · 04/09/2007 06:46

HW - I tend to think actually that because you are feeling more confident that you can achieve weight loss, you start feeling you can achieve more generally. I am always surprised when people scoff at these things having never actually properly tried them.

Strangely, in person hypnotherapy doesn't do it for me, but the CDs do, perhaps Paul McKenna is better than the therapist I tried though ?

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Fimbles5 · 04/09/2007 07:49

Amazingshrinkingmummy - please help me with this. Listened to Mckenna CD last night for first time (I am one of those people who finds it really hard to relax - but did my best) - Anyway, do you no longer eat three meals a day? Am I right in saying that you now eat as and when you are hungry (how does this work in with family?). Also, how do you know portion sizes , ie do you serve a standard portion but then judge yourself when you are full? I have had this CD for ages, and have been considering hypnotherapy for some time, but haven't gone ahead due to cost. I desperately need help with my eating habits and would like to give this a chance. I would really appreciate it if you could advise me. Then just maybe I can be an amazing shrinking Mummy too.

HorseyWoman · 04/09/2007 10:24

Not every hypnotherapist suits every person, and it is also easier to relax at home to the CD, but I have found my therapist to be wonderous and she has given me the tast of self-hypnosis, but I also use the PMK books and CDs as I did before I met her.

The confidence is key I think, and it is something my therapist has worked on - building and restructuring my barriers and things. But for me, it's also been the freedom from dieting and the lack of need to actually think about food anymore. It's like my self-conscious has given me permission to think of food as fuel rather than relying on it to satisfy every emotional need. I started this at the end of July with the therapist, and have had 3 sessions, with one more on 17th Sept, plus the ones I do myself, and as I said, have lost half a stone on holiday and a bit more besides.

But the main change for me has been in attitude, and as you said, confidence.

I have found some of the people who know about my HT don't understand it enough, think of it as a whim/fad/hippy thing, and think it won't work for anyone. But like you say, until you have tried it, you can't knock it. But you do actually have to partly believe in it before you have it. HT doesn't work for a percentage of people, and I believe it's a) believing it can work and b) finding the right therapist (which you have).

I, oddly, couldn't do the PMK CDs before I started seeing a therapist in person. I find it easier to do the CDs now as I know how to get into the mindset. I will say that the HT I have had in person is different to that on PMK though.