I discover ..

Last week I accidentally came across the "I can make you thin" CDs by Paul McKenna. I listened to one of them and was sold. This is something that I can do. It helps that the second track is more of a hypnotic type track and reinforces what you have just learned in the first track.

I listened to the second CD but I am not sure I am listening to them in order. The principles to this system are:

1. Eat when you are hungry
2. Eat what you want
3. Eat consciously
   
4. When you think you are full, stop

Holy cow .. thats it?? I can totally do that!!

Oh wait.. eat when you are hungry.. well thats all the time!
Eat what I want.. hell yea .. cookies .. ice cream .. cake .. bread .. butter .. yummy!!
Eat consciously??? what the hell is that??
Stop when I'm full.. well I'm not full yet .. I don't feel like puking.

So I listen to some more of the CD and I download his TV show he did in the UK .. four episodes of I Can Make You Thin.

Oh I see, I think to myself. Eat when you are actually physically hungry. When you have that grumbling sounds in your tummy. What a novel idea. I eat when I am bored, when someone asks me to, when there is something yummy in the fridge, when I am expected to, when I think its the right time to be hungry, or for any other reason

And apparently there is the other sensation that you are suppose to have that says you are full and its NOT when the plate is empty and you feel like puking your guts because you ate WAY WAY too much.

Now I see .. eat consciously .. don't do anything else while you are eating. wow.. now that is a hard one. I typically eat while I am reading my book or watching something .. the only other way I eat is if I am with someone else eating and talking to them. So now I am suppose to take a bite and put down my utensils and chew my food. Actually this part isn't too hard for me as I tend to eat slow anyways. The challenging part of this will definitely be not doing anything else while I am eating.

Now the only one I won't have to adjust to is the "eat anything I want". He even goes so far as to suggest we throw out anything that we have that we bought because "it is suppose to be good for us but we dont really like it" food.

In the show I think it was episode 2 of 4, he taught how to do a tapping method to get rid of cravings of things we do not want to eat but have cravings for. For me that would be Coke. Holy cow do I love to drink Coke. I know that Coke is not good for me as the carbonation makes me dehydrated and the sugar is bad for my system. The other item was craving sweets when I am not hungry.

Now I will admit that I attended a hypnosis seminar about 14 years ago for weight loss. I was a total disbeliever. Amazingly it made a huge difference for me and I can say that I eat slow today because of what I learned through that seminar. Unfortunately I did not buy the cassette that reaffirmed the principles so I gradually went back to old habits.

With that knowledge, I am going to listen to the CDs at least track 2 of the CDs that will help me reprogram my thinking so that I think like a thin person.

I do have a hefty goal. I want to lose a lot of weight. Before when I spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars if not thousands on diets and fat doctors, my goals were always well if I just get down to below a certain amount I will be satisfied.. even with my loftiest goals I never thought about getting below 150 lbs. When I lose that hefty amount I will be at a perfect weight. Good Luck Me!!