Paul McKenna "I Can Make You Thin!"

msflowerfairy

Thanks,

Well a very funny thing happened last night, i had a takeaway, and could only eat a quater of the plate beofore i was full, and stopped eating, and threw it in the bin!
I haven't listened to the CD yet LOL!:rotfl::T:rotfl:

Perhaps past sessions had actually remained in my subconcious, and as soon as i made the decision to re-start the Paul McKenna vibes kicked in...who knows??

SilverSapphire

jungliemac wrote: »

Well good morning everyone. I bought the book last week and listened to it last night in bed on my Ipod. Was a bit freaked out by the voices saying different things in each ear but might get used to it.

I meant to say last week Jungliemac that I was glad you mentioned this. I find the different voices in left and right ear really wierd but didn't like to say about it in case no-one else was hearing it! So glad it is not just me. Do you try to listen to one side and then find yourself tuning into the other side against your will?

Hope all is going well for you and everyone else.

I am not feeling so smug this week because I put on 1½ lbs but I am not surprised as I have been eating cakes all week. Been plied with cake by well meaning family and friends and then found some cake in cupboard that was just on the use-by date. That is my excuse, poor as it is. Still all gone now. So hopefully back on the wagon...

larmy16

Hello everybody!

I purchased this book and cd some time ago but have never really given it a chance.

I lost around ten pounds with slimming world about a year ago, but lost the plot when I decided to quit smoking and have regained that amount of weight.

I don't want to diet as such as it has never worked for me ever and I have yo-yoed my entire life and usually gaining a bit more each time.

So it's time for a new strategy. I really look forward to reading through the thread and seeing how you are all getting on with this. I do plan to follow the fresh food side of slimming world but with P. McKennas emphasis on stopping eating when full message registers.

Wish me luck y'all.

mintymoneysaver

Have not had the perfect PMK day today,breakfast and lunch were okay but then took daughter and friend to Chill Factor e and just had to have an ice cream ( well there were 54 flavours to choose from!) I really wasn't hungry but there you go, so by the time tea time came around I wasn't really hungry for the pizza we had either! I didn't eat all of it, but I still wasn't really hungry when I ate the chocolate cake that other daughter brought home for me from her boyfriend's sister's 21st! Still tomorrow is another day......

Snow_White_5

Hey everyone,

Good to see people following the book and CD - well done :j. I'm on about day 10 of the journal and have lost a little bit of weight. I also have more energy and am drinking almost 2 litres of water a day (I used to survive on just 1 coffee and 2 teas a day!). I'm finding it really hard to stop eating when I think I might be full though. I read the book and listen to the CD every night and just can't seem to do it at the moment.

Sometimes I find the plan a bit too impratical for a busy life. I mean, I can't eat whenever I'm hungry, as sometimes I'm in the middle of a meeting or activity or something else where I can't just stop and walk out and start eating. And I can't always eat whatever I want as sometimes I don't have what I fancy in the house or the canteen only has a certain kind of food so I'm stuck with that. Even eating slowly is difficult if you only have a short break at work.

Does anyone else feel like this sometimes?

Oh well, moan over! I will carry on regardless.

By the way, do you think that PMK's photo in the journal (the grinning one repeated on every page) looks like Jeff from Peep Show?!

chezabelle_2

Hi All,

Haven't posted for a while, but have been keeping up to date with everyone else's! :rolleyes:

I'm afraid to say I'm almost at the point of giving up with Paul McKenna... I am feeling very low at the moment, and despite giving it my best shot and employing all of his tricks and tips, I am 2 months in and haven't lost a lb in weight. I am hovering around the same weight; some fortnights I'm up a couple of lbs, and some I'm down a couple... but honestly, it's not producing the results I'd hoped for.

I lost 10lbs doing Rosemary Conley earlier this year, and have managed to keep it off, but since I've started using PMK instead of RC, I haven't made any more progress. I guess I'm coming to the conclusion now that perhaps PMK is a good way of stabilising weight and preventing me from putting losses back on again - but when it comes to substantial loss, calorie restriction/exercise/low-fat food is the only way that works.

I really, really really didn't want to write or think that... but at the moment, I just feel like it's the only way. :mad:

I've seen other positive benefits from the programme, like a less self-critical attitude and I get pleasure from relaxing with the CD and doing a daily journal, but as for the most important part, nothing seems to be happening. I feel 'stuck'.

Has anyone else felt like this and been out the other side, and continued with some significant weight-loss? I want to lose another 2 stone...

Thanks all, hope you're all having a bit more of a positive Tuesday...

larmy16

Hi

I started to feel like that when I did Slimming World - I just got stuck and felt like such a failure as it was 2 lbs on - 2 lbs off ad nauseum. I could not face going anymore.

You know since the battery ran out on my bathroom scales so they no longer work, it feels like I have released one burden and that is my day would go according to what they scales said. I don't think I will bother replacing the battery now.

It can be so depressing this weight thing and accepting yourself "as you are" is probably the most difficult thing you can ever do!!

Good luck though.

Snow_White_5

Hi chezabelle,

I can't offer much advice I'm afraid, as I've only been doing the programme for a few weeks. I haven't lost much weight yet but I have noticed other benefits like you said, and my OH has remarked that I seem happier.

Do you think you can carry on with PMK a bit longer and see what happens? Could you maybe up your exercise? That's definitely not forbidden on his programme.

Re. Rosemary Connely/ Slimming World - I think PMK is right when he says diets don't work. They do in the short-term of course, but they're not sustainable as a way of life, whereas the PMK plan is. I'm saying this as someone who has been a Slimming World slimmer of the week many a time, as well as a very fussy vegetarian, a vegan, non-dairy, gluten-free, I even devised my own 'rice diet' once. They all worked but I couldn't keep them up forever.

Anyway, chin up and good luck!

SW xxx

chezabelle_2

Hi all,

Thanks for your kind words larmy and Snow White... you are of course, right, and I know deep down that diets don't work in the long run - otherwise, why would the industry be worth several billion pounds a year?!

However, at the moment, it seems to make sense to me to use the dieting/calorie restriction etc to lose the weight I want to, and then use PMK to keep it off for life... I have no idea if that would actually work, but it seems kinda sensical to me now. That is of course just based on my personal experience of successful and not so successful weight loss efforts...

I suppose in a way, if it's taken several years to put the weight on, then it's going to take longer than a few months to lose it (safely). It's just quite disheartening when you're trying hard to see no improvement.


Incidentally, has anyone ever had any significant weight loss/gain from using different types of contraceptive / hormonal drugs? I was thinking yesterday that since I was at my slimmest a few years ago, I have been on numerous pills and potions that do seem to screw around with your hormones a bit, and perhaps my weight gain could be partially attributed to that... just wondering if anyone else has found the same?

Anyway... plodding on... *sigh* sometimes you just think what am I doing all this for?!:o

Bitsy_Beans

chezabelle wrote: »

Hi all,

Thanks for your kind words larmy and Snow White... you are of course, right, and I know deep down that diets don't work in the long run - otherwise, why would the industry be worth several billion pounds a year?!

However, at the moment, it seems to make sense to me to use the dieting/calorie restriction etc to lose the weight I want to, and then use PMK to keep it off for life... I have no idea if that would actually work, but it seems kinda sensical to me now. That is of course just based on my personal experience of successful and not so successful weight loss efforts...

I suppose in a way, if it's taken several years to put the weight on, then it's going to take longer than a few months to lose it (safely). It's just quite disheartening when you're trying hard to see no improvement.


Incidentally, has anyone ever had any significant weight loss/gain from using different types of contraceptive / hormonal drugs? I was thinking yesterday that since I was at my slimmest a few years ago, I have been on numerous pills and potions that do seem to screw around with your hormones a bit, and perhaps my weight gain could be partially attributed to that... just wondering if anyone else has found the same?

Anyway... plodding on... *sigh* sometimes you just think what am I doing all this for?!:o

I know exactly how you feel but I am truthful it's because I've stopped following it It hasn't become intuitive, it's a chore to restrain myself and I keep focusing on the you can have what you want part without looking at the hunger aspect :rotfl:
But deep down I am not happy (just clearly not unhappy enough to make significant changes). I am so programmed to expect quick results and then feel lost if I don't see or feel an immediate improvment.
Like you am going to plod on and just try and take each day as it comes and be kind to myself. There is no way on earth I could go back to counting calories so I'll either find a way to make it work or I'll stay as I am :rolleyes:
Chin up chicken - a diet isn't the way longterm........