when you get slim, How you going to stay there?? (food mentioned)

[linnyloo]

Has anyone listened to the Paul Mckenna CD's?

I plan to live in they way he preaches when I come off CD. In essence, nothing is forbidden but the second you start to feel full STOP and way away from the food!!!!
Mind you my whole relationship with food is changing rapidly. I'm on ss but still cooking for the family and I find that alot of what they are eating ( pretty healthy food, mostly cooked from "scratch") smells really revolting to me ( esp meat!!!)

I'm hoping that the gift i will take away from my time on CD is SELF CONTROL LOL hears hoping!!!!

 

[Thelma]

Like a few people have mentioned, the hardest part I think will be maintaining goal weight. I have a while to go before I get there, but I'm already thinking about it.

The first (and only) time I seriously lost weight I went from the 17s to the 12s and although it took between 5-8 years, I gradually crept back up to the 17s and beyond. I really dont want to to that again.

So as part of my overall plan for tackling this, CD is the physical part but I've started to tackle the psychological part too. I want to find out what the 'blockage' is that I have about not maintaining/making wrong choices/eating too much of the right choice and generally looking at why self-sabotage seems to be my middle name! I'm exploring this with a counsellor in the hope that if I get to the root of the issue, I won't repeat old patterns. Like lots of people, I know exactly what to do so that I don't put on weight but haven't seemed to be able to do it. Well, not for much longer! (That's the plan, anyway! lol)

 

[Soel]

I've also been thinking alot about this.

I'm nearly at target, and I'm going up the steps very slowly to give my metabolism a chance to get back up. I've upped my excercise (not hard given I didn't do any before!), brisk 30 min walk 5 times a week, and made exercise part of family time - rollerskating on Saturday, swimming on Sunday. I realise I may have to increase this, especially since reading the post about previously obsese people who have lost weight do not use as many calories excersing as a person who has never been obsese. (In fact the postman has just delivered a book I've ordered call Running Made Easy - it needs to be made easy if I am going to try!!)

I'm learning about portion control, and I've learnt that being hungry while dinner is cooking won't kill me, and I now wait until it's ready rather than eat anything I can grab and dinner. I'll knock late night snacks on the head and I plan to make healthier food choices eg low GI rather than high GI processed foods.

Also once I know how many calories it takes to sustain my weight, once at goal, initally I will plan my meals on a fortnightly cycle. I know this would not appeal to everyone, but the annally retentive part of me feels that I will need the structure for a couple of months.

Thanks for this post, it's helped me to firm up my plans.

Good luck to everyone - we'll do it!!!

 

[diva76]

Good post, Tilly! This has been in my mind and most of my family's mind ever since I started CD. As I have quite a bit of weight to lose, the method I will be using is to eat a balanced meal, whenever I can and when I do out to socialise, I am hoping my exercise will keep in check and also if need be, have low calorie meals for the next 3 days following the "bad" day for example.

This way I believe I will not be dieting forever and maintaining my weight at the same time.

I like the ideas from everybody else too - all I know is after I have reached my target, everytime I try and over-indulge myself, I will definitely be thinking of these months and the sacrifice I had put in to get into those slim jeans!!!

 

[fatgirlslims]

KD - how do you maintain your weight?

 

[AugustBride]

Linneyloo, I totally agree with you ref Paul McKenna. Before I did CD I spent a month doing Paul and found it brilliant! The whole focus was off food for the first time in my whole life. It was just such a relief. I lost about a pound a week which in itself is great, but with my wedding coming up I needed a quicker way to lose the weight, but I think his principles are absolutly brilliant and a way of giving you back control of your life.

 

[Memphis]

Has anyone listened to the Paul Mckenna CD's?

I was just going to say this. I am going to eat more slowly, stopping when I feel full. And when I'm slim I won't have the terrible hangups and embarrassment I currently feel about going to the gym.

If anything CD has been teaching me to respect food more and savour every mouthful, not just fling it all in!

 

[LizzMB]

i think i will be working to a 80/20 rule. 80% good, 20% bad....but thats not per meal...if i have chips with something, that will form part of my 20%....this should stop me from binging at weekends and slipping into old habits!
xxx

 

[curlywurly1234]

Hi
I went to Paul McKennas seminar, it was really good and I followed it for a while lost a stone and managed to put it back as had noone to go back to if that makes sense.. I then went to a recording he did at studios in london for a dvd he was making that was good too everything he says makes sense its just doing it....... x

 

[fatgirlslims]

I've been reading a book called Only Fat People Skip Breakfast. I like a lot of what she's saying, it's quite a lot of common sense. I don't agree with everything (e.g. she's anti-swimming, which seems weird, and she advocates no carbs except breakfast and last thing at night (!)), but the bits I like are:

- Eat every 3 hours (e.g. breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, poss post-dinner snack if needed)
- Cut out sugar and refined carbs on most days (totally agree with this, should be saved for special occasions, sugar is evil!)
- Eat protein with every meal
- No counting / weighing etc.
- Exercise at least every other day for min 30 mins.

That, along with the Food Doctor principles (eat good fat, protein at every meal, need less carbs towards the eve, palm sized portions, drink water etc.), I hope will fit nicely into my life.

I think it's quite important to consider the things I'm not prepared to give up:
- Regular snacking (happy for it to be healthy though!) - I've never been able to go from lunch to dinner without one!
- Flexibility (e.g. the opportunity to eat tea with my girls (aged 3 & 4) at 5pm, and have a snack later, or have a snack with my girls and eat later)
- Coffee! Again, happy to compromise and have it black, or with soya milk and treat it as a snack rather than a drink.
Sure I'll think of more...

Sorry for long post!

 

[Caz]

Hmm how am I going to stay there? Well I guess I'm going to start exercising more. But doing the exercise that I really want to do but am too self conscious to do now. Like swimming, I love it, but I don't love looking like a beached whale! And I want to go to a yoga or pilates class. And take up a sport, maybe, possibly.

Also I've noticed how this diet is changing the way I think about food. I'm at the point where I'm starting to want to eat the healthier options. I had started being a lot more aware of this in the month or so before I started on CD. Looking not at just the calories in something, but the amount of fat or sugar. I'm not going to cut out everything naughty, but I'm learning in moderation. There's nothing wrong with crisps or chocolate but in smaller amounts and not too often.

Also, the biggest thing is I'm starting to realise that I'm full before I'm so full I feel bloated!