Third Installment of Paul McKenna
Published by Diet Trials January 24th, 2006 in Paul McKenna SkyOne, Week 3Last night’s show on Sky One was about learning how to control binge eating and to increase your self image and confidence in the way that you look. It is a common misconception that fat people want to be thin as that will make them happy, but who’s to say that they will be happy when they are thin. It is not just the body image that needs to change but it is the way that we think and feel about ourselves, and that comes from within.
Often people who are overweight and not happy about how they look, also have low self esteem. They then help themselves feel better by eating more, therefore suffering from emotional eating. It’s a vicious circle that I want to get out of. I wouldn’t class myself as a particularly big emotional eater but I do suffer from a poor self image. I am certainly not what Paul McKenna classes as a binge eater and I don’t have the midnight feast that some of the people had on the show.
He used a technique that has been proven to be successful in treating fears and phobias, and the same technique can be used to gain control over food. It is to do with the direction that desire travels in your body and then to reverse the cycle. For instance if you see a chocolate cake the desire starts in your stomach and moves up into your mouth. This can be represented as a clockwise circle in red, spinning inside your body. Yeh I know this all sounds a bit wierd. The theory is that this red clockwise circle of desire continues spinning, but taking control you move it out of the body. You have to sort of spin your hand around with the motion of the circle. Then to regain control and to stop the binge eating you change the circle to blue and make it spin in the opposite direction. Therefore taking the desire from your mouth back to your stomach where it all started. By spinning the blue wheel faster and faster this surpresses the desire. This is an alternative technique to the tapping one that Paul McKenna shown everyone last week.
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I watched the first two shows one after the other and I have to say a lot of what he is saying is very good, the one thing I have started to do is eat consciously and for the first time in years I am getting the full flavour of the food that I am eating by cutting it up into smaller pieces and chewing at least 10 - 15 times where as before it was large pieces, chew a couple of times and swallow the food and making sure the plate was clean every time
Now that said a lot is mind over matter like for example I have opened the fridge door or cupboard to see what I could eat late at night and just closed them again without eating anything, this I must add is after watching the program, normally I would of made a sandwich or had a packet of crisps at 11pm and gone to bed feeling bloated or even feeling guilty for eating so late at night so the program has made me be more aware of what I am eating
I can’t bring myself to start tapping over my eye and cheek yet but having the will power to resist food at this moment in time I will save that idea for a time I may need it
I also feel cutting down on the amount of food intake per meal makes me feel better because I am not bloated where as before I would eat as fast as possible due to being busy and about half an hour later get bad heart burn or indigestion, the last few days of watching what I am eating I have not suffered from that.
Hi Denise
It sounds like you are getting to grips with the diet. I haven’t had to do the tapping technique or the spinning technique yet, as I find that I am strong enough to be able to control food. The eating consciously has really helped me. I used to do the same and stuff my food in. Now I put less on my plate and even have to leave some as i feel full. It is making me feel better and alot more motivated to carry on.
Keep us updated how you get in.