Weight Loss
Published by Diet Trials February 1st, 2006 in Losing weight, Paul McKenna SkyOne, Week 4The last Paul McKenna show was mainly to do with increasing exercise but also to do with some more visualisation exercises to help you keep motivated and to continue with this life change. I was more interested when I was watching it, to find out how much weight people had lost in the studio audience. When the series started, all of the audience were weighed….there were maybe 200/300 people there. Each week the same crowd came back to share their experiences of the diet so that we can follow them through the weeks. The audience were all weighed again to see if the weight loss experiment worked, and in total the audience had lost 80 stone. This made me feel very positive as I haven’t weighed myself for a while, but I also don’t want to get dissappointed when I do get on the scales again.
The average weight loss should be about 2 pounds a week, but people lose weight at different speeds. Some will drop a lot of weight and then level off for a bit and then lose some more. I think the hardest thing is to not compare your own weight loss to someone elses. For instance in the audience there was one woman, who I must say was huge. She had lost the most weight over the 3/4 weeks of the show, at a staggering 27 pounds. Others had lost about 7 pounds, others around a stone…so it really does vary.
One valuable piece of advise that Paul McKenna gave was that we have to remember that it is not important where we stand but the direction that we are moving in. So as long as you are losing weight steadily, and making the changes to the way we view food then we will get there in the end. I do not expect to be down to my ideal weight instantly… but I hope that by the summer I will be nearly there.
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Surely losing 27 pounds in a few weeks is really dangerous. I understand that people lose weight at different rates but that is crazy. I can’t see that rate of loss carrying on. I bet she was really pleased though…unless she initially got weighed with bricks in her boots!
ha ha very funny gary but joking aside i got wieghed this morning and i have lost exactly 1 stone i am really pleased as ive struggled with my weieght for years and now finding it so easy
Well done Jen, that’s really good. Are you finding that you have lots more energy as well and feeling better about yourself now that you have control over food again.
Congratulations to all those people who have lost weight no matter how large or small the amounts. Just the right time of year too,ready for the new ’summer look’ Big weigh tomorrow—have you planned the when and where??
Are you going to carry on with this correspondence now the ’show’ has ended? I must’ve been on a different planet, but I only got to hear about this last week so started late. Am now on Day 8. Am really keen to keep in touch with anyone else who is taking this seriously. It’s not going all that well for me this week and i need to keep the motivation up. Tried all the others -Atkins got me down to 10st but have put back 3and a half since in 4 years. I want to be free of yo-yo’s!!
Hi Helen
Thanks for coming to Diet Trials. I will be continuing to blog about the Paul McKenna diet even though the show has finished. Are you working from the book or have you got recordings of the show? If you need the book, then you can get the Paul McKenna book here.
Like you I have tried all of the others…even the one where you live basically off a thin cabbagey soup which was grim. The trick to the diet I think is to be able to focus on gaining control back over food, and following the Golden Rules that are the most important part.
Good luck with the diet and keep in touch.
hi helen dont give up yet the first week is the hardest ,i also did not see the show but have followed off here . and now it is all coming so natrually ,cant wait until summer this year i havnt worn shorts for years
Thanx for that - s’nice to know i am not alone! Got motivated to exercise today. My son got me a pedometer, and we went for a two hour hike (yes, I mean it) up Caen Hill Locks. I’m exhausted but I really feel good. I WILL do this.
It’s just all about getting the motivation to do exercise isn’t it. Once you have done something physical you do feel like you have more energy don’t you. So, Helen, how many steps did your pedometer say you had done after your hike?
Pedometer said a whopping 8500!! Still a long way to go to get 10,000 a day but i’ll keep going.
Weekend seemed easier for me - it’s when i’m back at work the problem starts.
As a teacher I get to eat at break times and that’s all. I know Paul says (in his book) to FIND time to eat when you are hungry and not at meal times but that is what i’m finding so hard. Quite a lot of it is habit, i know, but i really am struggling with that.
Still, half term starts on Friday and then i’ll have no excuses! Isn’t it hard to stop with this ‘dieting’ mentality?
Helen, you’ve hit the nail on the head with that last remark…getting out of the dieting mentality. This is the most difficult bit. I agree that Paul says that you can eat anything that you like, but the guilt that flashes through your head when you decide to eat a chocolate or a cake.
As for meal times…. and eating when you are hungry has not been too bad for me. In the early stages it was hard to know when I was hungry or just wanted to eat something. I now find that I am hungry pretty much at normal meal times… breakfast, lunch and dinner.