Anybody following Paul McKenna - I Can Make You Thin ?

[Kayleigh]

Have just bought the book & CD after two recommendations. Anyone following his rules ? Is it working ?

lillibet that includes the CD

I got it from the library. I can't listen to the CD without getting the giggles. I don't think it's going to work for me - I think I'm resistant to the psycho-babble-semi-hypnosis stuff. The book is basically common sense though - I can see how it would work if you retrained your thinking.

marthamoo, i did find the cd thing odd at first but i never remember anything after doing the counting down thing. It sends me to sleep every time. I was really sceptical at first, but this is day 4 and i am still following the rules without any problems.
Agree that you could follow the rules without CD, but if the Cd works for you it does make it much easier.

my dh did the rolling eyes heavenward when i told him what i'd bought. Can't really blame him as this must be the 123rd diet i've tried. But he is more than happy to eat all the nice meals i am cooking ! We had sausage, mash, peas and onion gravy on monday. It was divine. And i felt not one single guilt pang. I left one sausage and half my mash as I was full. You have no idea how completely alien that is to me.

The other thing i haven't done since saturday is weigh myself. Another completely alien concept to me as I usually weigh at least once a day.
But PM says wait two weeks before weighing, so that's what I'm doing. And strangely I have no compulison to weigh myself in the morning, when normally I would feel awful if i disn't step on the scales before breakfast and it would spoil my whole day if i hadn't weighed myself. And belive me,I do know how sad that sounds !

meant to say to lilibet -I agree, from being on previous dieting threads with you, that we are very similar with our hang ups and eating problems.
This is really helping me to stop obsessing about food 24 hours a day. With any other diet all I was thinking about was what I could eat, when I could eat it, how many points or calories it was, how many points or calories I would have left etc etc etc. With these rules you are released from all of that.

Ignore your dp (shouldn't that be dh now !!) and try it.

Hi all, agree with everyone the book, the cd how i feel about food .
Brought the book in jan and has taken me till this week to start reading it. Told myself I would when the time was right. Also can not remember a thing from listerning to the cd... Do I fall asleep ?
I did wake up just like he said as it finnished.
Watch this space. I lost 6.5kg since jan only .5 since starting pm. I have heaps to lose !
Don't laugh but I'm sure he is looking at me from the cover, I think I may have even spoke to him yesterday

ok, read the reviews on amazon and I am going for this. At worst I will loose a tenner which is only a small fraction of what I have spent over the years!

Keep posting Kayleigh!

can someone please quickly tell me what this book and cd is called and the cheapest place to but it before I get too big for even the clothes i wore while pregnant!!

mckenzie, it's called "I can make you thin" and is priced at £9.99. But you can get it cheaper if you shop around.

Lillibet, hoorah ! This time ....... now where have I heard that before

thanks Kayleigh. Just bought it on Ebay. Let's hope it's money well spent.

I went and got hypnotised by him and it worked for a few days but found myself slippingand not chewing slowly and putting my knife and folk down. I suppose its like anything, you really have to stick to it. The funny thing is its so easy to do, but if you dont do it for like one meal then your out of the habbit! I must read my book and listen to me CD!

Bought it in Asda today for half price.

I've listened to the CD this afternoon; wanted to giggle a bit, like marthamoo said, but got myself under control! He does sound a bit like a 'mysteron', but I got into it and it's quite relaxing.

I keep thinking, 'do I feel any different?' Haven't had a meal yet, so I'll see how I do. I feel a bit self aware about it all atm - need to forget about it other than on a subconcious level, I think. Oh, and I should read the book too - that would help!

Good luck everyone

In the seminar he said if you fall asleep or just feel very relaxed then you have been hypnotised, looks like you have been TinyGang

welcome to the club tinygang
You should defintely read the book. You need to have those 4 rules sorted in your head.

Kayleigh - this time will be the last time that we say "this time"

I'm interested to hear you all because, although I don't need to lose weight, I tried hypnotherapy to improve my confidence in walking again (long history, hip fracture, v. boring)

However, I never seemed to become hypnotised, could remember all the therapist had said to me after both sessions, and he gave me a CD to use at home, and I don't seem top 'drift off' with that either (actually it makes me giggle cos of the way the therapist lowers his voice, I identify with the mysterons comment made below).

Kayleigh - all you have said rings bells with me. I am so sick of obsessing about food and counting bldy points (and weighing myself every morning and feeling fed up if I've gone up). I'm not even overweight - I've put back on some of the 3 stone I lost but am still well within my BMI. I am just so sick of thinking about it. I'll see how you go on and maybe try again with the CD (I listened to the countdown and just kept getting the giggles - definitely didn't get anywhere near a trance-like state)

got it

woo hoo

have you listened yet lilibet ???

Yes and I'm confused!

So if I only eat when I'm hungry, what happens if I'm not hungry at family mealtimes? It's breakfast time and I'm not hungry cos I never am when I wake up, but at the moment have been forcing a bowl of cereal down. I know that when I am sat at my desk in a couple of hours I will be ready for food but can't easily eat anythign at my desk other than a banana.

Do you really eat exectly what you wnat?

and how good are you at this imagining thing?

and have you done the tapping? after you have tapped your forehead ten times do you tap the rest ten times or just the once?

hmmm - will see how it goes!!

sorry this is going to be a long one, bear with me

ok, i think that like with all diets or eating plans you have to work with this so it suits you. I also can't be totally selfish and only eat when i am hungry as (especially at weekends) we eat as a family at mealtimes. so what i have been doing is just eating enough to ensure i will be hungry at around the mealtime. otherwise i am going to end up eating at totally different times to everyone else which is really impractical.
Dh and i always eat together around 8 in evenings during week, so am trying to make sure that if i have lunch late i don't eat too much so i will be hungry for my supper. Does that make sense ?

Today I have a mumsnetter city meet-up at 12:30 so I will be eating lunch areound 12:45. I haven't had breakfast yet, but am starting to feel peckish so I'll make sure I eat something shortly. Am in the office so it will either be an apple and bannana or a crumpet that I bought in from home. That way I should be hungry again by lunchtime.
Yesterday I was working from home so could suit myself. I had a croissant and jam at 11:30. A jacket pot with grated cheese and salad with proper dressing at 3:00. I was then hungry again by 8:00 to eat with dh.

"Do I eat exactly what I want ?" Well I haven't been eating chocolate sundaes at every meal if that's what you mean !!! But I have been eating what I fancy, and strangley those choices have been resonably healthy. I went out to eat Tues night and had a bit of garlic bread, a main course, and half a pudding. But I really didn't have a problem leaving the pudding as I was full.

"how good are you at this imagining thing" - i have a picture of me in my head wearing an outfit that i would wear if i was slim. That's my image and I find it quite easily to visualise myself in it doing all the stuff i do.

And no I haven't done the tapping yet. I need to re-read the exercises as apart from the imagining thing I haven't done them. But then again I haven't eaten any chocolate since I started this, and I honestly haven't felt like I needed or wnated any. And chocolate is SUCH a big thing for me.

Another thing I have noticed is that the food i am eating tastes so lovely. Probably cos i am aware of what i am eating instead of just stuffing it in.

I also seem to have changed my attitude to the kids. My ds1 had a croissant for breakfast this morning, he then asked for a second one. He ate half the second one and then said "I don't want anymore, I'm full". I used to mumble about wasting food etc etc. This morning I just said "Well if you're full that's fine" and chucked it in the bin. I so don't want my kids to grow up with my food obsessions.

Hope at least some of this makes sense.

ok was sat here all morning waiting to be hungry and never was - which I think is a bit strange!

Just made lunch - jacket pototo with butter (only cos the cottage cheese was off!) and salad and it looked that good I decided that I couldn't possibly leave any so I did what he recommends and chopped a bit off first and threw it away.

The woman at the side of me in the office kitchen looked like she couldn't belive her eyes!

I'm struggling with the eating slowly thing - it's unknown to me not getting the next mouthful ready all the time

I too get a fit of giggles listening to the CD.,and when he asks you to picture a 'slimmer you' I have real trouble and get really distracted. Does anyone else feel the same or am I just a weirdo?

I fell asleep - but dh said he struggled on to laugh - but he's s cynic!

I bought this when about 9 mths pregnant and thougth it made a lot of sense. Big problem now is that I have a 10 week old who is constantly Breast feeding. I have to wolf down food in record time as she is pretty much always looking for boob. I am also always hungry and have sweet cravings you wouldn't believe. I hope to try it again when bf has settled down. Sometimes eating on the run is inevitable and makes his rules very hard to follow. Anyone else found this?