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| Author: Paul Mckenna
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  250 reviews
Sales Rank: 976
Media: Paperback
Pages: 176
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 059306092X
EAN: 9780593060926
ASIN: 059306092X
Publication Date: December 17, 2007
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 He made me thin and happier! September 8, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book has been life changing for me! I have been a seriel dieter and binge eater for as long as i can remember.I used to think "If i stick to this diet and lose weight i will be happy".Then when i fell of the wagon (always!) i would feel like a failure and my self esteem would go even lower.You know the drill.Last year i decided to try something different so i picked up this book.I read it in a couple of hours and what an eye opener those few hours were! I could see how diets were just making my problem worse.Making me more fat and more miserable.So i decided to stop dieting (and save money) and dedicate myself to the system.Today i am 2 stone lighter and easily maintain a size 8 figure.Of course i am ecstatic about this fact but i am even more excited about the changes in my eating patterns.No longer do i fear cheesecake.No longer do i dread going out to eat and feeling left out while everyone tucks into delicious food while i have lettuce.If i want something,ANYTHING then i will have it! I still eat fish and chips,chocolate,ice cream etc.Only i will now wait until i am truly hungry,eat consciously and stop when im full.So simple but so effective! I must say that it does take abit of effort to get used to the rules at first.For e.g i found it hard to work out whether i was hungry physically or emotionally.Give it a few weeks and the system will soon be engraved into your conscious.
The biggest achievement i have got out of this system is that i havent binged once since i got it.I am SO much happier and my self esteem has improved so much! If you have had enough of diets failing you then please give this book a go.It may not work for you but if it does then it will be worth its weight in gold.
 Only you can make yourself thin September 7, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
This was quite a good book but it was all about positive thinking rather than hypnotherapy and you can do that without a book, just adapat a "mantra" of positive thinking and away you go. Not my favourite slimming book
It does really work! August 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book after I read all the really positive remarks by the other reviewers. If it had such a high star rating after so many reviews there must be something good about it. I had about 2.5 stone of post baby weight to lose which I haven't been able to shift since I had my little girl nearly 3 years ago. I was also eating due to being at home full time and being tired/bored. It seemed a catch 22 - I had resigned myself to being a fat frumpy mum which then led me to comfort eating.
However after reading Paul McKenna's book (which I did straight through in 2 hours) I knew I had found something that would help. Although common sense he puts it all in such a positive and supportive way it gives you the willpower to do it. I don't know how the CD works but it does. I listen to it fairly reguarly and find it very relaxing anyway, but my cravings for food and eating when I'm not hungry have totally vanished. I only want to eat when I feel hungry and I can feel when I am full now and stop. I seem to be eating half of what I use to but do not feel hungry or deny myself anything I want. In three weeks I have lost a stone and apart from the weight lose I feel so much more positive about my self image and feel more confident. After trying other diets which were a prison sentence this is fab. It completely changes your eating habits so that you can continue to eat sensibly and happily forever.
Thank you Paul Mckenna for making losing weight easy and enjoyable. Its made me much happier!!
Second time round for me August 19, 2008
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this book a couple of months ago and was really excited by it. However, it didn't work. Looking back, I think that was due to the following:
1) I'm not exactly a heffer, and I wasn't sure it would work for someone who many people describe as thin already, (but I knew I was carrying an extra 6 - 9 pounds and still had trouble finding clothes that felt and looked good)
2) I read the book when I was away with my hubby for the weekend, and we got drunk a lot and ate out a lot, and frankly, it's hard to figure out whether you're hungry or not when you're got a hang-over
3) I was training for a triathlon, and I think I kept thinking that a few days of hard training and being careful with my food would sort it all out anyway, so I kind of wasn't committed
4) When the book spoke about emotional eating, and problems with lack of will-power, I just did not associate that with myself. I mean, I can make myself do a triathlon for goodness sake - I've got will-power. And I'm really happy, so why would I be doing emotional eating?
What finally did it for me was completing the triathlon and realizing that I was still half a stone heavier than I should be, but more importantly, just feeling miserably enslaved to food and exercise and finally realizing that the problem was partly down to me treating food like a reward. I had this massive reward thing going on. If I cycled hard for 2 hours, then I could have a bar of chocolate. Except I'd always go too far and just eat and eat and eat after a big workout, and in reality, I was getting heavier (even though a lot of the weight was muscle)
I was really unhappy about it - I felt like I was going to be trapped and feeling out of control about food for the rest of my life. I'm one of those people who would say "But I'm never full!", and I never felt like I was full. I would occasionally feel like I couldn't eat any more, but I still didn't have any real understanding of what it feels like to be full.
So anyway, after the triathlon, I kind of had this realization moment that actually, the problem must be in my head. I eat healthily, I'm really fit, I do loads of exercise, I've got loads of will power. I thought I'd give the book another go, because frankly, I quite literally couldn't think of anything else to try.
And do you know what? It has blinking well worked, and I have never felt happier about food in my whole life (well since I was about 17 and started worrying about my weight!) I've been doing it for 3-4 weeks now, and after 3 weeks I weighed myself, and yes, I've finally started to shift those last pounds (but I knew that anyway, because I could see my body shape changing). The feeling of control is just so amazing. I still can't accept after years and years of deprivation and struggle that I might actually get to be one of those women that I used to look at enviously in the street - the ones who can wear the clothes that are in fashion because they don't have to worry about their thunder thighs. But I'm not counting the days - I'm not waiting for it to be over. I want to carry on eating like this. It's easy. It's fun. It's liberating. It's just so great to cook what I want, and eat what I want, and not to be feeling jealous and inadequate.
But you know - the water thing is a very big point. I have realized that I must always have been massively dehydrated and mistaking thirst for hunger, because I am drinking constantly now. But instead of it being a chore like it used to be - I mean, how unappetizing is a glass of water when you think you're hungry? - now I look forward to it, because I know it will make me feel better. I think the secret is not to get too thirsty, because if you do, it becomes very hard to work out whether you're hungry or not, but if you keep yourself really hydrated, not only does it make you feel healthier, it's really easy not to eat until you're properly hungry.
It feels like my little powerful secret that I'm carrying around with me - the secret of all those "lucky" thin people. I look at some lovely treat and think - I'll eat you when I'm hungry. And when I am, I do. Happy Days. I'll report back in a month or so.
I can make you thin Paul McKenna August 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book I have been using this for over 2 months now and have lost over one and half stone. You can eat what you want and still lose weight as long as you are hungry. It just seem to click with me and it has changed my eating pattern for good.
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