Paul McKenna "I Can Make You Thin!"

ema_o

Hi all, I've not been following this at all since Christmas, I really need to get my head back into the right place for it! Will re read the book this evening and see if I still have some of PMK saved from the sky 1 series!
Goldengirl, it sounds like you are doing really well with the programme . I know it is easy to say but try not to worry about the scales. I go to the gym and have my bodyfat and weight measured fairly frequently and while my bodyfat goes up and down my weight doesn't change as much. Hopefully you are losing fat but not muscle.
Other suggestion is are you drinking enough water? My trainer reckons this makes a huge difference (and I did see the difference once I started it).
Whatever you do don't give up now. I bet you are slimmer if you check how your clothes fit, or did you take a pic when you started that you can compare with. If you have got to the stage where you are following the rules stick with it and it will work (that is where I need to get back to)
Feel a bit silly giving advice as I'm not currently getting on well with PMK, but hopefully it is OK as is from my gym experience not my PMK one!

goldengirl39

Thanks for the encouragement ema_o. I am drinking about 1 1/2 litres of water a day not including the water I use for my herbal tea.

I have a picture taken in the summer which I am using as my before picture because it is so gross and I will take my measurements too. I haven't really noticed my clothes getting any looser yet but fingers crossed that will happen soon!

I see on this forum that a lot of people fill out a journal or diary. Do you think that might help too?

I am determined not to give up like I have done in the past on other diets. I have a busy social life and this way of eating fits in with my current lifestyle.

Good luck with your restart on the PMK programme.

Thanks

ema_o

I will keep my fingers crossed too!
I do think keeping a diary helps too, I have one that I write in every now and again but I feel doing this does me some good anyway. That is something I am determined to restart as well.

I think a lot of people have the Paul McKenna 90 day journal, I have it, but prefer to use a notepad as I had far more to write. What is helpful is a checklist of what you have done that day - from memory all of the 4 rules, exercise, drink water, listen to CD etc, so you tick what you did that day, plus a section to write something good that happened today and something you are looking forwards to tomorrow.

Snow_White_5

Hi goldengirl,

Yep, a few of us are using the 90-day journal as ema_o said. I find it really useful to keep on track, otherwise the days just whizz by and I find myself slipping slowly off the wagon.

Try not to worry too much about the lack of weight loss. Your metabolsim is still resetting itself at the beginning, apparently. Do you feel any better in yourself, at least?

ETA: went to the gym again! Feeling really motivated :j

Maisie_M

Hi all

found it difficult to get back into the zone this month with PMK. just couldn't get my head into it or get moticvated to do the CD's however have given myself a good tallking to and will do the following over the next few days to prepare myself for February.

- watch the dvd again
- listen to my cd's every night
- read the book again
- restart the journal.

My mum has given me and my sister in law an incentive as she has said that she is going to run a competition between my sister in law, me and her and whoever looses the most each month she will give a tenner to!!! OMG that is so going to motivate me . So really need to get into the programme properly now.

Hope to hear how you are all getting on soon.

rosie383

As a good money saver, I bought the book from a car boot sale for pennies, but it no longer had its CD. BTW the lady i bought it from looked great!!!
So, my question is..... is the CD worth having? Should I try to get it? I have watched the series and read the book, so what am I missing?
And what is the whole journal thing about?

gingernutbizkit

Just got back from the PMK weight loss seminar in Brum and feeling VERY inspired

Day one tomorrow and looking forward to it.
Ging x

boddy

I need to start again properly. I did well before xmas when I did my sponsored slim. I think its a combination of xmas and the winter and cold weather thats knocked me off track.

gingernutbizkit. Id like to hear a bit more about the seminar and have you any tips for the rest of us.

gingernutbizkit

boddy wrote: »

gingernutbizkit. Id like to hear a bit more about the seminar and have you any tips for the rest of us.

Hi,

The seminar was really inspiring... although there was no new information (I've read the book and seen the american tv programme). It was good to go through the techniques but I think I will need do some further rehearsal!! There were quite a few sucess stories in the audience (2st 10lb since Nov!) and claire who lost 8 stone was there too and had kept it off for 6 years . This was great for me as I have about 8 stone to lose too .

Did answer a few of my questions as well. For instance I had wondered about talking over dinner which apparently is absolutely fine so long as you can still focus on the food. He gave over half an hour of the show to the UK leading expert on tapping and this was REALLY interesting as he did some trauma and pain work on members of the audience. He also talked about following the plan as a mother. Suggested making a game out of eating slowly which I introduced to the kids today and it went well.... we all left food on the plate!

We also got the 5 set of CD's, success journal and a months membership to the online club so that shouldhelp get me started.

What did make me laugh though was lunchtime. We had 1 1/2 hrs and so Mrs Ging and I went over to the Handmade Burger Co and put our new skills to practice. We were SURROUNDED by women also at the seminar and I swear we were the only ones eating slowly, putting cutlery down, focusing and stopping when we're full. The others were two busy drinking wine and talking about how it was never going to work :rotfl:.

DAY ONE
Feeling a bit under the weather this morning so didn't really feel like eating much. At about 11.30am was feeling more hungry so had a hm cookie. Late lunch of scrambled egg and two slices toast - left some egg and a whole slice of toast. Apple at 4.30pm and not sure yet what to have for tea or when I will need it.

Strangely haven'treallyfelt that hungry today... could be because I'm not feeling well though.

Ging x

boddy

Thanks for that.

Ive done EFT (tapping) training myself in the past and it was amazing what we worked on from light hearted stuff to some pretty heavy things. I find that I have to remember to use it. Chocolate being my thing. I would like to stop eating it altogether. Today I used the craving buster two. For some reason I always want chocolate after my Sunday lunch. It worked well and I will do more on that. Ive got the new book with the journal in it so I really should make use of it.

That made me laugh how you and Mrs Ging were putting it into practice and everyone else wasnt. Anyway Good luck to you and Mrs Ging. Hope you are feeling better.