Reply to: Has anyone tried the Paul McKenna diet thing?

[BrilloPad]

The Mrs is doing this diet and therefore I'm eating most of it too. It's not really like a diet, massive portions of veg, loads of nice recipes and appears to work.

It certainly works for me. The very best of luck to the Mrs. I hope you are something empathy by joining in Just dont mention the several mars bars you have when she is not looking!

[BrilloPad]

Yeah not doubting it works, I just hate pseudo science that covers up the real reason why something is working.

too f**king right!

[Shimano105]

This is the same kind of thing:

http://www.nosdiet.com/

[d000hg]

This is what I like about the Paul McKenna plan. You don't obsess about anything because you're still allowed it. You just have to eat it slowly and stop once you're full

Even beer?

[DiscoStu]

as long as the food is ok then a diet isn't too bad.

most of myfriends who have done ww and all that, have ended up bingeing as all they did all day was obsess about food, because that was what the diet focussed on mostly.

This is what I like about the Paul McKenna plan. You don't obsess about anything because you're still allowed it. You just have to eat it slowly and stop once you're full

[norrahe]

as long as the food is ok then a diet isn't too bad.

most of myfriends who have done ww and all that, have ended up bingeing as all they did all day was obsess about food, because that was what the diet focussed on mostly.

[Bagpuss]

Its sticking with it which is the difficult part! Which is why I like the slimming world diet (you can each as much as you like of certain foods : done eat meat and carbs on same day).

The Mrs is doing this diet and therefore I'm eating most of it too. It's not really like a diet, massive portions of veg, loads of nice recipes and appears to work.

[ratewhore]

I agree that diets are not long term options. I'll also repeat what I said the other day in SallyAnne's diet thread:

It's not that hard Sal once you know what you shovel in your gob.

Go here and create an account.

Go here and work out your daily calorific requirement.

To lose weight, make sure you are taking in about 90% of your daily calorific needs, with a 20-40-40 split between fat, carbs and protein. Make sure you understand the difference between good fats and bad fats.

Take regular exercise.

Enjoy...

[pmeswani]

My new years resolution was to drop 2 stone, and I've been doing the Paul McKenna thing - eat only when you're hungry, eat what you like, eat very slowly, stop eating when you think you're full.

4 days in I'm amazed at how little I'm eating. Today I ate about half my lunch and realised I was full. All I need now is to stick with it....

Yep it works. I lost about 5 or 6 kg's with that show. Unfortunately I never kept it up. I'm on the chinese herbals which seems to be working well for me.

[Ravello]

Any diet really is just about restricting what you're eating. Whether that be through volume or certain food types. Interestingly, Men's Fitness magazine trialled a diet which didn't allow you to eat food stuffs beginning with M or F, the guy doing that diet lost as much weight as some of the other guys doing more recognisable diets (such as Slim Fast etc.)

Ultimately with diets, the more you restrict yourself the quicker you are likely to lose weight, however, the harder it is to subsequently stick to that regime, and in some cases (particularly calorie controlled diets) the quicker you are likely to regain that weight when you stop.

As such, and as others have stated, eating sensibly and exercising is the best solution as this tends to be a lifestyle change, which, psychologically is less likely to be seen by yourself as a restriction and therefore more likely to work over the longer term. "Cheat Days" in modern diets work on a similar theory.

[FSM with Cheddar]

"I agree with most things your say" : why thank you kind Sir.

The only reason I mention the diet is that it works very well for me.

Yeah not doubting it works, I just hate pseudo science that covers up the real reason why something is working.

[d000hg]

Brillo, I agree with most things your say, but not eating carbs and meat on the same day is utter tulip. There is absolutely no reason not to combine food groups and it is almost impossible to do anyway i.e. Meat contains protein and a small amount of carbs etc.

You can't beat sensible portions of healthy food, along with exercise. All these celebrity diets do is build pseudo science on top of a calorie restricted diet to make it sound fashionable.

I see no reason why some seemingly odd diets can't work, scientifically. That's not to say most aren't a lot of tripe, but applying medical science to dieting I'd expect to see some counterintuitive results.

So Paul McKenna is doing a TV show and that's all you do - can't be a long program. Doesn't he hypnotise anyone into anexoria or something fun?

[BrilloPad]

Brillo, I agree with most things your say, but not eating carbs and meat on the same day is utter tulip. There is absolutely no reason not to combine food groups and it is almost impossible to do anyway i.e. Meat contains protein and a small amount of carbs etc.

You can't beat sensible portions of healthy food, along with exercise. All these celebrity diets do is build pseudo science on top of a calorie restricted diet to make it sound fashionable.

"I agree with most things your say" : why thank you kind Sir.

The only reason I mention the diet is that it works very well for me. I agree with the exercise bit but I have a bad back and struggle to find the time.

Slimming world is not calorie restricted : you can eat as much as you want of certain foods (but as you say not protein/carbs on same day). You also get some milk/bread and some "syns". The syns work out to about a mars bar a day.

The reason I like it is that I have a big appetite. I eat loads of calories.

I appreciate it might not work for everyone.

[norrahe]

Exercise and healthy sensible eating is the way to go. I don't believe in diets.

If you go on a fad diet, you'll lose your target weight and then start eating normally again, thereby putting all that weight you lost back on again.

Though chewing your food slowly is a recognised fact that you will eat less, it stimulates the saliva glands and digestion.

[TCL]

I tried it back in the springtime of last year - i bought the book and listened to the CD a few times. It worked for a while, I was off chocolate and crisps without much conscious effort, I just didn't want to eat them any more. Didn't get on so well with the leaving stuff on your plate part, I always seemed to end up eating the whole meal

In the end it kind of faded away, probably due to my lack of ability to stick with anything very long (ideal contractor!) rather than anything wrong with the approach itself. Having said that, I did stumble upon his show on Sky the other day and kind of got back into the way of thinking pretty easily, I'm sort of giving it another try.