Paul McKenna "I Can Make You Thin!"

boddy

Hi IF. Ok you have just done that. You have not blown anything only had a blip. Stop a minute and change that thought. Instead of thinking I might as well carry on turn it around and think well now I dont need to eat till Im hungry again and start anew. Put it behind you. Hope this helps. We all have blips.

jomo70

A miracle has happened....I left half a sandwich at lunchtime because I was full!!!! I think a childhood of being told I can't leave the table until my plate is clear had an effect on my eating.....NOT ANYMORE!

Honey39

DAY 4
Well, it's been good. After last night's eating out, I stuck to ICMYT like a sticky thing! I ate when I was hungry, ate what I really wanted, ate slowly, stopped when I was full.

I'm kind of realising a couple of things. First of all, if I want to eat something else (eg sweet), then I have to stop eating before I'm approaching full. So in order to have some cherries as pudding, I only had about half of my sandwich. Secondly, it seems to work for me to take in a bag full of food snacks to work - sandwiches, crisps, cherries, grapes, biscuits, nuts. Small amounts, but a lot of variety. I kind of graze through the day, but I'm throwing a lot out. It is cheaper though, because I'm not buying food to over-eat on. Overeating is expensive!

I have ICMYT on the computer, and this morning when I was eating breakfast, I listened to a random 15 minute section; it *really* worked, because I get bored eating and doing nothing else, but listening to a section of the CD seems to reinforce the message hugely.

I'm also discovering - eating incredibly slowly and consciously - how the things I thought I loved aren't what are really tasty. Grapes and cherries are divine when I consciously bite in to them and savour the juicy sweetness. Crisps taste synthetic and nasty when you eat them slowly and consciously.

I have this profound feeling that this is the sanest thing I have ever tried; it reduces the importance of food, and addresses some of my demons - stop when you're full; if you're hungry ten minutes later, no problem: get another portion and eat until you're full. I'm throwing out a LOT of food, which feels odd and wrong - but how on earth is it better for me to be a human dustbin? So I'm enjoying that too.

The other thing that works well for me (I know, I know, I'm only on day 4!) is to visualise the scale from 1 to 10. I make myself try and place myself on it a lot in terms of hunger, and I have realised that, having binged/dieted my adult life, I don't really *know* when I am hungry or not. It's great, so simple but so effective.

I don't think this will suit everyone, but I do know that diets do not work. I don't know anyone who has kept weight loss off successfully for years.

Anyway, as I say, 90 days following this to the letter - already I am feeling this urge to weigh myself to 'see how I'm doing'; I get the feeling this is utterly wrong, because I would either be dismayed or overly confident. It's a long journey, and I want to carry on.

Hope everyone else who is following it is having a great day! x

Bitsy_Beans

Well done Honey - glad it's making sense to you!!

Honey39

Day 5: man, today is tough! Well, it was okay up until now, but at 9.30 in the evening, I have the strongest urge to binge and stuff my face. Emotional eating, I know - and have resisted it so far. I'm not hungry, but I want packets of crisps, pizza, chips. But like I said, good so far - and I thought that writing here would help me to hold off.

I'm in that weird position - it's too soon to see any difference, and it doesn't feel like a diet. So eating diet foods is not the answer; I need to confront the fact that I emotionally eat, and I am blocking things out with food.

Anyway, good day though - it's been very easy to stick to all week, and enjoyable. I am excited by the idea of having access to all food.

Bayblue

Honey39 wrote: »

Anyway, good day though - it's been very easy to stick to all week, and enjoyable. I am excited by the idea of having access to all food.

Hehe I feel like that, so much so that I am sort of overwhelmed with choice sometimes. At least with a 'diet' you know the rules about what you can and can't eat and that makes things easier sometimes. I shouldn't complain really because it's great that I can eat whatever I want, what other plan allow you to do that?! Also it has the advantage that I don't fantasise about certain types of food that I'm missing.

A colleague has lost about 1 1/2 stone on weight watchers, she looks great but she's got to that stage where she's almost where she wants to be but not quite and that's the dangerous stage for diets IMO. She says that she's 'having a break' from the plan and (god I do feel mean gossiping about her but hey she'll never read this ) I've noticed that she's going a bit overboard on the crisps and chocolates. Hopefully I won't ever have that problem because if I really want something I can have it.

My exercise (well, walking) programme is going well. Today I walked to work from the park and ride, it was a bit of a trek, about 2 miles there and 2 back. I won't lie, it was tough but I did it and I am quite proud of myself, I tell you I'm becoming a martyr to that pedometer. Walking to/from work is better in terms of fitting in with my life as well because it is sometimes difficult to fit all the walks in in the evenings. I rewarded myself with a fairly expensive but wonderful lamb chop, which I had with chips, and the funny thing is after that and a mousse, I was still hungry, so I had a biscuit.

I have no idea what I currently weigh, but I feel a bit slimmer so I imagine that it's all going in the right direction. I think that this is going to take me some time.

Oh well, am cream cracker-ed tonight so I'm off to fill in my journal then to bed. Another day of missing listening to the CD , but I figure that so long as I listen at least every other day I should be OK.

Keep up the good work girls :beer:(and any guys out there!)

Shiny.Side.Up

Very demotivated with this recently... Is my second week adfter majorly falling off the bandwagon last week and putting on 2lbs... THis week was VERY good, tried VERY hard, was shocked by how little I actually need to eat to be comfortable compared with how much I was eating.. walked LOADS with my new job (leaflet dropping.. I must have walked about 12 miles in total this week!) and....

....

... I PUT ON another 3lbs.

Not a happy bunny and feel very much like kicking it in. Nearly gave up and comforted myself with a binge tonight but have resisted.

SilverSapphire

Hi All,

Anyone with Sky might be interested to know that on Sky Real Lives on Thursday night 9pm they had Paul McKenna I Can Make You Thin - with British studio audience. They said it was half way through series and I could only watch 10 mins because I was supposed to be doing something, but the bit I saw was good. Audience were saying things they had noticed: feeling more energetic, more mentally alert, clothes looser etc.

Didn't lose any weight this week but didn't put any on either so that is something good. Off on my hols now and hoping to try and keep going with this.

Good luck everyone.

PS. Don't forget you can get the book & CD from your local library for no charge to try. Also I got paperback book & CD at Asda for £3.86 within the last few weeks. Others have mentioned getting it cheap at Tesco or on Amazon. Hope that helps some who are thinking of trying this out.

Honey39

Shiny.Side.Up wrote: »

Very demotivated with this recently... Is my second week adfter majorly falling off the bandwagon last week and putting on 2lbs... THis week was VERY good, tried VERY hard, was shocked by how little I actually need to eat to be comfortable compared with how much I was eating.. walked LOADS with my new job (leaflet dropping.. I must have walked about 12 miles in total this week!) and....

....

... I PUT ON another 3lbs.

Not a happy bunny and feel very much like kicking it in. Nearly gave up and comforted myself with a binge tonight but have resisted.

That's a shame - but should you be weighing yourself every week? That's one of his big no/nos, because exactly what happens that you're describing, you get demotivated and impatient. If yo u've been walking so much and eating only to feel full, it will show up for sure - maybe in a week or so?

Stick at it! It must feel good to not be bingeing, surely? And cheaper ! :T

Shiny.Side.Up

Honey39 wrote: »

That's a shame - but should you be weighing yourself every week? That's one of his big no/nos, because exactly what happens that you're describing, you get demotivated and impatient. If yo u've been walking so much and eating only to feel full, it will show up for sure - maybe in a week or so?

Stick at it! It must feel good to not be bingeing, surely? And cheaper ! :T

This is true, but also dieting with my mum and a friend who are both on WW diets, so they weigh themselves weekly and bully me into it. :P