Paul McKenna "I Can Make You Thin!"

Honey39

Day 32: This was a great day, and actually fairly easy on the ICMYT programme - which was good, because I struggled yesterday. It's good to remember that, that some days are tough, but others are just fabulous.

The journal today was all about motivation:

Why don't you want to be fat (make a list)

• I don't want to be self-conscious about my size
• I want to wear fabulous clothes
• I want to not worry about my size and 'fitting'
• I want to feel less trapped
• I want to have energy to do things
• I want to be noticed because I'm beautiful, not because I'm fat

Why do you want to be thin and healthy?

• I want to look and feel gorgeous
• I want to feel I am healthy and fit
• I want to live a full, rich and fabulous life
• I don't want to be fat any more
• I am tired of being bulimic

List all the diets you've tried, for how long and the end results

• By self - took a year - lost a lot of weight, put it all back on
• Slimming World - two months? - lost 2 stones, put it back on
• Weight watchers - six months? - lost 5 stones, put it back on
• Weight watchers: intermittently for a couple of weeks here and there over the last seven years - am heavier now than ever before

List all the great things you've learned so far on this diet.

• Food isn't scary
• Nothing is forbidden or encouraged - no diet foods
• I feel happy about food
• I don't think about food much
• I am dealing with my emotions
• I feel positive and encouraged - I feel that I could do this for the rest of my life
• I am loving the fact that I have stuck with this for 32 days
• There is no financial outlay - I am better off than before!
• I've lost weight and feel good
• I am drinking my water - next up is to up the exercise!!

Ho hum. Hope that other people are enjoying doing this as well!:T

HH62

Hello everyone. I've decided to join you, if that's ok. I am starting tomorrow. I was going to start today but I overindulged on the wine last night. That always leads me to being at the trough constantly the next day. It must affect my blood sugar or something and I just cant stop eating. So today I wouldn't be able to do the rules..except eat what you want :eek:
So I'll be starting tomorrow. I've got the 90 day journal - I'm committing to trying this for 90 days. I've dabbled with it before but never really given it a fair trial.

Asianchick

Hello,

I would like to join this as well. I don't have the journal. Is that okay?

I have read the book though. I have also read "beyond chocolate" which is essentially the same without the tapping.

Honey39

Ooh, new people - hello!! Nice to meet you, hope that this is a fabulous journey for you both!

Day 34: Comme ci comme ca - an okay day. I have a tremendous urge to binge, and I've been very consciously and deliberately ignoring it (mostly) by drinking stacks of water - had my two litres by now, so am peeing for Britain!

In the journal, it said to imagine ways of celebrating doing this programme. Letting off balloons, all that jazz. I've actually come up with my own reward system - when I have faithfully and tenaciously followed it for the first ninety days, I am going to order a Sony MP3 player for myself to celebrate. Neat, huh?

I did the same with smoking - I promised myself that when I had gone hundred days cigarette free, I could buy any perfume I liked; well, it's Day 92 today, and so next Sunday, I buy the perfume. I know it sounds silly, but it actually made me feel quite proud of myself and determined to keep going.

It's the same with this, I think. I've committed to doing this for ninety days, and will see where I am then. If nothing else, it has stabilised my attitude towards food, and sometimes I feel like crying with happiness over that. I feel so normal, lol. I've lost about a stone, and I think if I am at the end of ninety days and I have lost about 30 pounds, that will just be amazing. Having a present at the end of it is even better!

I think I'm going to carry on indefinitely doing this, using a journal, because I have a lot of weight to lose. I've had a terrible year in many ways, and yet I am making really positive changes to my life - I do feel proud of that, and one way is to actually consciously check that you are doing these changes. This week, I have been drinking loads of water, for instance, and I really have managed to do it every day. I'm trying to introduce lots of small changes on a weekly basis.

So far I've:
Saved a lot of money
Become cigarette free
Am on my way to becoming thin!
Am drinking more water
Have got over my accident

Hope you're having a fab weekend - I really would like to hear how everyone is doing!

luc24

that is such an inspiring post honey!!thanku v much
x

luc24

i wrote on here about a week ago about how i was havin trouble followin paul mckennas system after the first 2weeks,but i think iv actually realised one big reason why,it may sound silly but...
At the end of the second week i bought beyond chocolate and read about half,and i av to admit i realy didnt like how they sed things like 'we arent goin to reprogram yr mind' or get u to listen to hypnotism and i actualy believ mckenna wen he says it is about reprogramin the mind cus i think it is all about retraining how u think about food,so wen i read that i felt a little bit like theyd slagged off sum of his ideas and then changed them slightly and reproduced them as ther own. anyway the thing is i became so confused that i lost faith in both systems,i no they are very similiar but iv thought about it alot today,and i was lovin paul mckennas system,everythin about it until i read people who questioned his methods!it sounds ridiculous but i think im gona throw out beyond choc for a while and get bk to stickin with mckenna on its own!il c wot happens!x

HH62

Hi honey, thanks for the welcome! I sent you a PM btw.


Right, well I had a terrible day yesterday with a hangover that lasted all day.
I am not one of those people who can't face food when they've got a hangover, no, I have to eat everything in sight all day long. So I feel really stuffed and bloated today.

So here I am, Day 1. I just got weighed so I know my starting point. And I'm the heaviest I've ever been No more scales for the next two weeks though.

Things I already know can be my problem areas :

1) Alcohol. If I drink too much, I really overeat. So I need to keep the alcohol within sensible amounts.
2) Knowing when I'm hungry, especially in the mornings. This has been a big problem for me in the past with this system. Some mornings I don't feel hungry, then I wait too long to eat, then I overeat because I was actually starving.

I'm looking forward to doing this, and properly this time. So here goes. Committed to this for the next 90 days, which takes us to 7th November.

Bitsy_Beans

Welcome HH62 & Asianchick :j
Luc24 - don't feel too downhearted. I liked Beyond Chocolate for the emotional aspect. Sure they claim to not to do the same things as PMK (although some of it is) but I liked the message that even though they knew they were having bad relationship moments they acknowledged them and realised that it wouldn't be like this forever. PMK deliberately made his book really short which is all well and good but I've enjoyed reading the personal stories and anecdotes in BC too. I take what I need from both books rather than trying to do one or the other. At the end of the day they essentially have the same message and I use them to support myself the best way I can.

Having said all that last couple of days I've not really been eating as consciously as I should and as for drinking more water.........:o
BUT I accept that I am not going to change in a month or even in two. making new habits will take time and I've made myself feel bad for not sticking to things in the past. Its demoralising and if I am ever going to change the results I have to change the way I do things.

HH62

Hi BitsyBeans thanks for the welcome!

I've got BC too. I did their e-course a couple of years ago but somehow it wasn't enough for me. I love the book, and their way of making you feel positive, but it didn't quite click with me. I'm a member of the BC forum too and a lot of the ladies on there have gained weight with BC. They talk about it not being about losing weight. I can understand that for someone who isn't very overweight but struggles with feeling guilty about food and so on. But for someone like me who does need to lose a fair amount of weight, it doesn't work for me to hear someone say I have to forget about losing weight.
So, one of my favourite themes in BC is 'Be Your Own Guru'. I'm being my own guru and realised I need the hypnotherapy part. That's why ICMYT will really help me. I'm a great believer in hypnotherapy - it removed my fear of flying 20 years ago and I used it to stop smoking.
I've never really given ICMYT a real try. I've dabbled with it now and again but this time, like I said, I'm going to do this for 90 days. Then I can review my progress. I have nothing to lose by doing it. And right now I really can't stand the thought of WW or SW and counting points/syns and so on.

Honey39

HH62 wrote: »

Hi BitsyBeans thanks for the welcome!

I've got BC too. I did their e-course a couple of years ago but somehow it wasn't enough for me. I love the book, and their way of making you feel positive, but it didn't quite click with me. I'm a member of the BC forum too and a lot of the ladies on there have gained weight with BC. They talk about it not being about losing weight. I can understand that for someone who isn't very overweight but struggles with feeling guilty about food and so on. But for someone like me who does need to lose a fair amount of weight, it doesn't work for me to hear someone say I have to forget about losing weight.
So, one of my favourite themes in BC is 'Be Your Own Guru'. I'm being my own guru and realised I need the hypnotherapy part. That's why ICMYT will really help me. I'm a great believer in hypnotherapy - it removed my fear of flying 20 years ago and I used it to stop smoking.
I've never really given ICMYT a real try. I've dabbled with it now and again but this time, like I said, I'm going to do this for 90 days. Then I can review my progress. I have nothing to lose by doing it. And right now I really can't stand the thought of WW or SW and counting points/syns and so on.

HH62, I think the thing that drew me to Paul McKenna was also that people have lost *A LOT* of weight doing it.

I have a lot of issues around food; I am very overweight and I am bulimic (although not for the last five weeks!). I use(d) food as comfort and a way of entertaining myself in the evenings and at weekends. With ICMYT, I have found that this time around, listening to the CD on a daily basis has made a really big difference. I listen to it *as* I'm eating, at least once a day, and I've learned to slow right down, and to really focus on what I'm eating. I think it's helping me a lot, but I don't lie down and listen to it, I just listen as I eat, and try to think and focus through it. I feel sure it's underpinning what I do.

I also did the aversion exercise to crisps - which were my big big trigger food. It was a bit drastic, but I haven't had once since, and to be honest, the thought of them makes me feel sick now. I guess I could overcome that if I really tried, but each time I think of them, I use my disgusting trigger food (cat food, lol!) to trigger the revulsion towards them. I try to reinforce that every time I smell someone eating crisps. Now, I am aware that sounds insane, but for me, I could eat bags and bags of crisps easily. For me, creating a profound aversion has been significant, because nothing else triggers an urge to massively binge in the same way.

I'm only on my fifth week, but the other thing I've done is to NOT try to do everything at once. I only started drinking water a lot last week, and I haven't really increased my exercise yet. I'm learning there is time to do all this, and I want this to be for life.

I particularly relish not counting food or calories or points. I actually find it easier NOT to make a note of what I'm eating each day, and then being good/bad. It works better for me to just keep going and fill in the journal, but not the food. I am like you, normally I would WAIT to start this, but now I've realised that I'm doing it for ninety days, and if I get it right more days than not, that's fantabulous.

The best thing about it is - if you're hungry, EAT. So don't fear hungry days, you can eat so long as you're hungry. The frustrating this is to realise how it often isn't hunger - it's boredom or frustration orloneliness or whatever. But it's not genuine hunger. I don't quite know what to do with those feelings then, I must say.

I did find that I have this terrible temptation to weigh myself all the flaming time! I am going to try hard to resist that, because it doesn't mean anything, not really.

Good luck!

PS don't think I received a PM from you???