Paul McKenna "I Can Make You Thin!"

HH62

Honey39 - the weighing thing will be hard for me too. When I got on the scales this morning, my first thought was 'omg I've got to diet'. But then I got the ICMYT book out and read pages 17-19.

Congrats on keeping the bulimia in check for all of this time - that's a fabulous achievement.
I've sent the PM again, hopefully you'll get it this time

Bitsy_Beans

Not doing very well with this at the moment. My head seems to be all over the place and I am finding it hard not to pick at things as I am home for some reason.
Mind you am stressing about work at the moment - perhaps that is my trigger.

Anyway look forward to catching up with you guys.

HH62

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

Not doing very well with this at the moment. My head seems to be all over the place and I am finding it hard not to pick at things as I am home for some reason.
Mind you am stressing about work at the moment - perhaps that is my trigger.

Anyway look forward to catching up with you guys.

I read yor first two sentences and was going to ask if you're stressed about anything - and then you said work's stressful at the moment.
Are you able to listen to the CD every day, can you find time for it? I think just having that 30 minutes of time relaxing might help you a bit.

Bitsy_Beans

HH62 wrote: »

I read yor first two sentences and was going to ask if you're stressed about anything - and then you said work's stressful at the moment.
Are you able to listen to the CD every day, can you find time for it? I think just having that 30 minutes of time relaxing might help you a bit.

it probably would but I am not going to bed at a reasonable time and spending FAR too much time on here
I think I might have another listen to the CD and get back on track.

HH62

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

it probably would but I am not going to bed at a reasonable time and spending FAR too much time on here
I think I might have another listen to the CD and get back on track.

Bitsy, (I'm going into 'mum' mode !) you know as well as I do that not getting enough sleep and being stressed at work is a bad combination and no wonder you can't stick to it if you're tired and stressed out!
Early night for you tonight young lady!

mintymoneysaver

Hi all,
I'm back after a good few weeks/ months away. I forgot the rules, ate when I wasn't even hungry and I've now put back on the half stone I lost and even more. So at the heaviest I've ever been I'm trying again. I've not gotr time to listen to the CD again at the moment but I have had a quick re read of the book, and have only been eating when I'm hungry since Monday. It won't be quick but I know it's easy, I just have to stick at it!

Bitsy_Beans

HH62 wrote: »

Bitsy, (I'm going into 'mum' mode !) you know as well as I do that not getting enough sleep and being stressed at work is a bad combination and no wonder you can't stick to it if you're tired and stressed out!
Early night for you tonight young lady!

I do this with my mates - they call it my Mother Hen mode

Feeling less stressed this afternoon about work so am hoping things settle down for me now.
Will definately aim for an early night

Edited to add:

Minty - don't make yourself feel bad (I've done that and it's a waste of time - not motivating at all). You can have another crack at this and at the end of the day it's not like you've got to fork out for membership fees or weigh in fees - if you lose the plot it costs you nothing to get stuck in again.

Honey39

Day 38: Well, I dunno. It's been most odd. I've been very very pre-menstrual today, and I arrived home in a foul mood, and I had it in my head that screw this, I was going to order a massive takeaway. But I thought, no, have my tea first, and then if I'm still in the mood later, I'll order one (I know, but I'm being honest).

So I had my tea, and I was being very grumpy and not really wanting to be 'good' and try, but dammit, I couldn't eat all my tea despite wanting to - my stomach has now got very used to knowing when it's full and I feel really uncomfortable if I go beyond that. So even though I didn't want to follow ICMYT, I ended up following it, lol.

In the journal yesterday, it said that I was now a third of the way through, and there was this point called the tipping point, where the habit was easier to do than to not do. And that kind of makes sense. I know it's been the case with smoking (day 100 on Sunday, woo hoo!).

I also like to count the days, which is odd. I've never done that before. But it kind of comforts me when I'm finding it hard to look back at all the days I've already done. So it's day 37 is hard, that's okay, because of days 1 - 36 - it really gives it perspective, for me.

I think as well this week, I've realised that it IS work - it's not just eating what you want and nothing else. It's about eating consciously (I really don't - and I've noticed that when I want to binge, I want to eat really quickly, not tasting the food), eating slowly, stopping when you're starting to get full. Also the exercise and the water! I find the journal really helpful - these last two weeks I've filled it in last thing at night, and read the next day's thoughts/exercise. I find it useful, I must say.

I don't know if I'm losing weight - I've kind of realised that there's no point leaping on the scales every day. What am I going to do either way? Celebrate or commiserate? I am committed to doing this for ninety days, and doing it as well as I can and abiding by the programme, and seeing what the outcome has been.

Anyway, this was a bad day, but despite my intention to gorge myself with a takeaway, the habits and conditioning has somehow kicked in - I am surprised by that, I must say, because I was pretty bloody determined to get that massive chinese takeaway!

luc24

mintymoneysaver wrote: »

Hi all,
I'm back after a good few weeks/ months away. I forgot the rules, ate when I wasn't even hungry and I've now put back on the half stone I lost and even more. So at the heaviest I've ever been I'm trying again. I've not gotr time to listen to the CD again at the moment but I have had a quick re read of the book, and have only been eating when I'm hungry since Monday. It won't be quick but I know it's easy, I just have to stick at it!

hey i really enjoy reading everyone's experiences on here, iv already written a couple of times in last couple of weeks that i was struggling not to just eat for eating's sake, but tonight i listened to the cd for the first time in 3weeks, and i cant believe what a difference it does make. so i just wanted to say Please make time to listen to it, thats going to be my aim for the next week, i realy realy think it can help!iv felt muh more positive since listening to it and realised that i have actually changed alot of my eating habits and not given myself enough credit for that. i have been stopping when im full, which 9 times out of 10 has always resulted in plenty of food being left on my plate, and i have hardly ever eaten when iv not actually been hungry. but without the cd i have focused on the few times that i have eaten when not hungry and let them take over all the positives!
anyway i still need to work on the exercise for defo but other than that im feeling much better and im definitely going to listen to the cd more
i do understand its hard to fit it in sumtimes but even if u just put it on when u go to bed im sure it can have positive effects, thats how much faith i have in it!:j

keep it up everyone, and thanku again for writing about your experiences they really help!!

xx

adouglasmhor

I had the CD on my mp3 player and used to listen to it at lunchtime in work. I think I had to download it as the CD from the book won't convert to MP3 very easily.

edited to add - I think on Paul McKenna's website there is a shorter 10 min version as well which is handy if you are rushed for time.