Paul McKenna "I Can Make You Thin!"

reb

absolutebounder wrote: »

You dont seem to have got the message do you? if you obsess about you weight you will fail because where attention goes energy flows. So if all you think about is weight your unconcious mind will help you out in keeping the weight there. The unconcious does not do negative well so tghe more you think I cant eat that the more the unconcious thinks about it until you give in.

I just started looking at this thread. I too watched the programs last week and am giving it a go. I agree with what you say. When I have been to WW and SW I have been obsessive about food and eventually put all plus some back on. I have to give this a go to change my relationship with food. It's going okay so far, but I am not weighing myself for 3 weeks. :j

I wish you all luck and concious eating!

reb

becca2008 wrote: »

i think i've got the message perfectly clear. i also don't think that weighing myself weekly will have any bearing on my success at all.

i'm not obsessing about what i eat, and i'm not obsessing about my weight either. i'm learning to accept myself as i am and i'm feeling much more positive about my body. however, i know from experience that when i accept myself as i am and don't keep an eye on my weight regularly, i slip into bad habits and gain weight. especially since this is the first "diet" i've tried where i *haven't* cut anything out of my diet and *haven't* spent all of my time worrying about what i shouldn't be eating.

when i'm healthy, my appetite knows no end - i've spent at least the last 10 or 15 years eating and eating and not even considering whether i'm hungry or not, so until i'm confident that i'm capable of listening to my body telling me that it's full, i will continue to weigh myself weekly.

considering the fact that there are people who weigh themselves daily (or even more often!) when they're dieting, i don't think that weighing once a week is a big deal.

We each choose for ourself how often to weigh. Me I have picked 3 weekly. Why? I HAVE NO IDEA! Maybe it is just cos that is what I want to do. Good luck to you. I hope you are doing well with this eating plan. :A Please stay in touch. Would be good to have support. Thanx :T

becca2008

hi reb, i'm doing quite well, thank you. I went out for dinner tonight (it's the anniversary of my nan's death and wanted to do something other than sobbing into my pillow to mark the occasion) and probably ate more than i should have done. but, in constrast to previous meals out, i paid attention to what i was eating and was aware that i was overindulging a bit. so it's a step in the right direction!! i'll get back on track properly tomorrow... and maybe it's time to listen to the "emotional eating" cd, as feeling sad was why i overate tonight!!

i agree that it's important to choose for yourself how to handle the whole weighing-in part of a diet. i know that if i forced myself to not weigh myself for two weeks or three weeks or whatever, i would spend the whole time thinking about the scales and worrying that i wasn't losing weight and wanting to jump on the scales. as it is, i weigh myself once a week and don't really think about it until i get back on the scales the following week

i was far more obsessed with the scales when i was doing ww (which i've done on and off for almost 6 years) - i was more obsessed with food and my weight in general when i was doing ww because i constantly had to think about points, which reminded me i was on a diet, which reminded me i was trying to lose weight, etc... i'm feeling mych more in control and much happier on this plan

reb

becca2008 wrote: »

hi reb, i'm doing quite well, thank you. I went out for dinner tonight (it's the anniversary of my nan's death and wanted to do something other than sobbing into my pillow to mark the occasion) and probably ate more than i should have done. but, in constrast to previous meals out, i paid attention to what i was eating and was aware that i was overindulging a bit. so it's a step in the right direction!! i'll get back on track properly tomorrow... and maybe it's time to listen to the "emotional eating" cd, as feeling sad was why i overate tonight!!

i agree that it's important to choose for yourself how to handle the whole weighing-in part of a diet. i know that if i forced myself to not weigh myself for two weeks or three weeks or whatever, i would spend the whole time thinking about the scales and worrying that i wasn't losing weight and wanting to jump on the scales. as it is, i weigh myself once a week and don't really think about it until i get back on the scales the following week

i was far more obsessed with the scales when i was doing ww (which i've done on and off for almost 6 years) - i was more obsessed with food and my weight in general when i was doing ww because i constantly had to think about points, which reminded me i was on a diet, which reminded me i was trying to lose weight, etc... i'm feeling mych more in control and much happier on this plan

Good for you ! You ate less than you would have done. Brill!

I too have done WW and SW and to be honest paying the money did nothing but make me fanatical about food. I didn't think much of the people who ran them. It was all..... not a good place to be for me. So find I have eaten less in the last 2 weeks trying this than I have for a very long time. And now I am starting to understand that I do emotional eating.

I too have my bad days when people have passed on, and I totally agree it was probably a good idea to try to do something different. Okay so it is over now and you ate more than you would have liked. Move on.... I hope you have a lovely day tomorrow. :j Nice to 'meet' you.

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HH62

Just wondering how you're all getting on?

Parsley_2

Well after losing 4lbs I've put back on 1lb but I've been ill with the flu and not doing much apart from eating (a lot less than I used to when ill so step in the right direction). I am finding that now that there are no forbidden foods I have stopped craving them all the time and a packet of biscuits lasts a week as I don't have to hide eating them and eat them all at once so my husband doesn't see me. Silly I know but that's where the emotional eating comes in.

I think I'm still on track and expecting to lose next week. Three people have asked me this week if I'm losing weight so I must be doing something right. Wish my clothes were getting looser as that's the real way to tell.

Anyway is anyone else still out there trying?

How are you getting on?

reb

HH62 wrote: »

Just wondering how you're all getting on?

Hi, My first 3 weeks I lost 6lb which I really was pleased with. I was focussed and didn't feel hungry at all.
However I have had a couple of emotionally charged weeks and am not doing so well. I am going to listen to a disk tonight and try to focus more. There really is no doubt that we all emotionally eat, it's just getting our mouths to realise that before it opens and swallows! LOL!

Hope you other guys are doing good?

reb

Parsley wrote: »

. I am finding that now that there are no forbidden foods I have stopped craving them all the time and a packet of biscuits lasts a week as I don't have to hide eating them and eat them all at once so my husband doesn't see me. Silly I know but that's where the emotional eating comes in.


Anyway is anyone else still out there trying?

How are you getting on?

I totally agree re not needing to hide food. Yes I am still trying and....as I said in the previous post not as well but still determined to keep going.

RosWright

It looks like Living2 is showing the episodes back to back on sunday 15th from 3pm

prowla

I'm waiting for him to do "I can stop you going bald".