Paul McKenna "I Can Make You Thin!"

Bitsy_Beans

absolutebounder wrote: »

Probably but try tapping anywhere you like rather than the usual places. we found it quite amusing when playing with clients who thought we were being serious telling them they had to tap their testicles and then their upperv lip but it still had the same effect.
I dont use tapping unless a client requests it these days

I will try somewhere else although the last few weeks I've not had to do it at all. Even after feeling quite low today I didn't get the urge to eat to comfort myself. RESULT

Bitsy_Beans

chezabelle wrote: »

I think listening first thing in the morning (before I get up) actually works pretty well for me because the ending (i.e "wake up with a bright alertness" and all that jazz whisks me out of bed!!;)) Has anyone else noticed the more you listen to it, the more you can pre-empt exactly what PM is going to say in that strange drawl of his?! i.e. "because the huuuuman imagination is aaalways more powerful than the wiiiill". :rotfl:

I only ever listen to the CD when I go to bed so I never remember anything from about 5 mins in to when he's doing the count down to wake up I am rubbish at the counting backwards too
I can't say I notice much improvement from listening to the CD so can only guess the subliminal message isn't getting through as I doze :rotfl:

Still doing OK. See my post above to Bounder I don't feel the urge to stuff my emotions down my neck with food. Felt quite low (had "words" with my mum) and I just went and made a coffee. Bad feeling continued all afternoon and I just didn't want chocolate or anything to make me feel better.
Haven't done any exercise except for my weekly badminton knock around. Am just too tired lately with kids getting me up early.

weight is coming off veeeeeeeery slowly but I am happy with that. I've got despondant in the past when it's not been quick enough. This time round I am OK with it.

Honey39

Day 25: Woo hoo, can't imagine that I've done so well! This is really a revelation for me, I cannot get my head around the fact that I have taken to this like a duck to water. I think it's because nothing is forbidden, and it's helping me enormously to relax my attitude around food.

I haven't binged/purged, I haven't felt deprived, I have lost quite a lot of weight, and I can see myself doing this forever; I NEVER had that sense before on any diet, it was always a question of getting through it and then having 'treats', or coming OFF the diet for holidays and Christmas. This is just a way of life.

I know I sound slightly bonkers in my enthusiasm. But...once you have lashed out for the book, there is absolutely no other outlay. No weekly meetings fees, no special foods, no scales, no shakes, no nothing. Wowser! And the best thing is that, for the first time ever, I feel NORMAL around food. Eating when hungry and eating ANYTHING I fancy has had an enormous effect on me; I feel relaxed and genuinely am liking my food.

Also, after 25 days of sticking to it, I genuinely do feel uncomfortable if I try to push past when I am full and carry on eating. Like within a mouthful or two, it's not a nice sensation. But having the permission to eat again as soon as I'm hungry relaxes me. When I was on weight watchers, I would have had my points for the day and would feel ravenous afterwards, sort of anxious and food focused. Whereas tonight, I have had a lovely tea, left a lot of it which I've casually put back in the fridge. If I fancy it later, I might have some Cherry Garcia frozen yoghurt and cherries, just a scoop, and I'll leave a lot of that, but it depends on how hungry I'm feeling. I'm having a small amount of white white with soda at the moment, and really enjoying this glass.

Anyway, I am optimistic. I have a couple of things that I would like to commit to doing. Firstly, I would like to stop weighing myself so often. Secondly, I would really like to drink more water - I find this impossibly difficult to do, for some reason.

But apart from that, things going well. It's a bit like when I quit smoking earlier this year using the Allen Carr method - it was astonishingly easy, and I didn't get why this method isn't push more by the health services rather than nicotine replacement etc. I think I respond well to positive mental messages, you know; maybe that's why this really seems to be the best and easiest way I have ever lost weight before.

Sorry for the ramble!

Bitsy_Beans

Honey how you feel is how I do. Its so nice knowing there isn't a weekly fee to pay, being bombarded with their own brand products because they are lower in points etc. I made a lovely lime cheesecake (nigellas receipe yum!) and normally I'd have spend most of the time thinking about how soon could I scoff a slice! But now I don't. it will be there when I am ready and not before.

Don't smoke so can't comment on allen Carr's message but I am definately beginning to believe you are what you think (within reason of course )

absolutebounder

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

Don't smoke so can't comment on allen Carr's message but I am definately beginning to believe you are what you think (within reason of course )

You are very near. You become what you unconciously think I think would be a better deffinition.

Honey39

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

Honey how you feel is how I do. Its so nice knowing there isn't a weekly fee to pay, being bombarded with their own brand products because they are lower in points etc. I made a lovely lime cheesecake (nigellas receipe yum!) and normally I'd have spend most of the time thinking about how soon could I scoff a slice! But now I don't. it will be there when I am ready and not before.

Don't smoke so can't comment on allen Carr's message but I am definately beginning to believe you are what you think (within reason of course )

Absolutely - it's fabulous isn't it? I just feel so much more relaxed around food, I am really pleased with this.

Day 26: Friday, and another great day food-wise. I'm learning a lot about myself doing this, and it's kind of making me realise that it's not about all or nothing. This doesn't engage my perfectionism (which is awful, because when I mess up a diet, normally I 'start again' on Monday). I eat when i'm hungry and eat what I want. So simple and for me, so revolutionary.

I managed to not weigh myself today (well done me!), and drank a wee bit more water as well. I'm having a nice tea tonight, and looking forward to it a lot. I've noticed that meal times have become hugely enjoyable; I make quite a bit of fuss now - I light a candle, I use a napkin, I have wine (mixed with a LOT of soda!); I take loads of time to eat my dinner, and it's about the meal rather than stuffing my face. I don't watch TV or read a book when I eat, I focus on eating. I listen to the CD as I eat, and it really helps. I also take loads and loads of time to eat. I find that makes a big difference, because I do enjoy my food hugely, but am not bothered about leaving a lot.

Anyway, it's been a good day. I'm a bit worried about the weekend, because as I've written many times, Sundays are my tough tough time. This will be the fourth one, and I shall see how things go. I suppose I've broken a lot of habits (although am very aware how easy it would be for me to slide into my old ways if I got complacent). But...yeah, I've really found that this has been a life-saver for me. I can't believe I've done almost a third of the journal; I committed to doing at least ninety days, and then reviewing where I was weight-wise and food-wise. That's why I'm writing by the day so much, because I want to be able to see if I'm right and this is the long-term plan for me. I *think* it is. I honestly can't see me wanting to go back to weight watchers or slimming world now. AND - it's really really cheap, even though I am throwing out a lot of food, it's because I'm eating less, not because of waste.

Anyway, just a quick update about my Friday - how's everyone else's?

Bitsy_Beans

absolutebounder wrote: »

You are very near. You become what you unconciously think I think would be a better deffinition.

Yeah I think I'd agree with that.

SilverSapphire

Well thought I would pop in again with my two pennorth. Had a lovely holiday in the UK with usual British weather! I did try and keep with the system. We ate our main meal lunch time (ish) and then had a salad in the evening. I thought it would be healthier for the digestion but also worked out really well because of course we were out and about so all our main meals were eaten out! Great - no cooking for me.
I actually took a pedometer with me and tried to do plenty of walking as well.

Thought I had done pretty well but was aware in the last few days that I was slipping a bit, eating stodgy food and feeling bloated. Sure enough when I weighed myself last weekend I had put on 1½ pounds which I was disappointed with as I had hoped to at least stay the same weight.
Never mind, compared to last year's holiday that is an improvement as I put on 3lb last year.

Anyway feel I have got back on track this week, weighed myself this morning and was really pleased to find I had lost 3lb so that has really made me happy. I am feeling less bloated and more energetic too so it is all good. I know I am jumping on those scales too often but I needed a boost: you know when the old doubts start creeping in and I was thinking is this actually working or not? Even though I feel healthier I wasn't sure if the weight was shifting.

I have been wearing my pedometer every day and trying to get more walking in and OH loaded the CD on an MP3 player for me too. I intended to listen to it on the train but I struggled to hear it over the noise of the train and I didn't want to put the volume up too much and have the whole carriage going under the PMK spell! I have listened to it a couple of times this week though, once as I did things around the house and another night when I couldn't sleep so it is handy.

Anyway all the best to you all. It is encouraging reading the posts.

Honey39

Day 27: It's been a good day; I cannot believe that I've been doing this for almost FOUR weeks! When I was with weight-watchers, I would generally last about two, and it would be agony. Then I would miss a week because I'd cheated and eaten too much, then another, then stop going. It was all about the weigh-in and the chat, that we should eat x because that would really fill us up, eat frozen grapes when watching tv etc. They never said - 'woah, you're eating too much. what's going on there?'

I know, it's about me not any system; I just feel so good about finding something that eases off tension rather than cranks it up. I am kind of curious about what would happen now if I tried to binge-eat. Because honestly, if I push past when I'm feeling full, I get really uncomfortable within a bite or two. I don't think I could eat vast quantities of food with ease.

Anyway, today has been good. Had nice meals, went to the cinema and was content with not having peanut m&ms - didn't really think about food actually. Had a latte at costa coffee (full fat milk and all!), and just had a nice tea - chicken in roast tomato sauce, rocket, olives, aubergines, wild rice, celery salad. Left about a third of it, which is now in the fridge (I usually do that and throw the rest out tomorrow - it's my 'just in case' meal!). I might have some pudidng a little later on, but to be absolutely honest I'm not that hungry. Am having a nice glass of wine now.

Woo hoo!

Dreaded Sunday coming up tomorrow - will see how I manage on the fourth one.

luc24

well i wish i cud say i have been doing well but i havent at all, the relaxed freedom i felt around food lasted aroud 2 weeks and then turned into relaxed il eat what i want whenever, so not good. i have treated it too much like a diet and now i just cant seem to do it at all, im eating wen im bored and av nothing to do and its the pitts

the only thing i seem to still be doing is stopping when im full which is a start i suppose but im still getting these 'failure' feelings...