“How would you like to eat whatever you want whenever you want and lose weight?”
Well, fool, what person wouldn’t say, “Hells yes! I want to eat all that I want when I want. And, I want to lose weight doing it!”
This is how I became a day counting, clock watching fanatic of TLC on Sunday nights. Waiting for the fat guru to tell me how to drop pounds while eating country fried steak, peanut butter fudge, and my beloved cake-of-any-kind.
Well, Paul, this is the third week. And, dammit, I followed your golden rules and I still can’t button my jeans (with 6% Spandex for that added “give”). 
I’ve followed your 4 golden rules:
Rule 1
Eat When You’re Hungry….did this one. No problem. I ate everytime that I felt hungry. This was going to be a breeze!
Rule 2
Eat what you want, not what you think your should have….Oh, man, this is getting better all the time. Paul advised me to throw away everything in my refrigerator that I ate because I thought I needed to it for my health. Goodbye plain yogurt. Bye bye carrots, raw broccoli, and pomegrante juice. Paul told me to stock my cupboards with the 4 foods that I love the most. So, I bought $212 of Little Debbie cakes, Hostess cakes, grocery deli cakes, and Peppridge farm frozen cakes.
Rule 3
Eat Consciously – Enjoy Each Mouthful….It got a little tricky here. Paul insisted that I take a bite, chew deliberately, and lay my fork down between bites. Well, I did chew deliberately. I did lay my fork down between bites.
However, I’m a stickler for detail and Paul said nothing about just picking up the cake with my fingers and shoving it in my pie-hole (actually cake-hole). He only talked about the fork. So, it’s his fault that I ended up face first in a delicious Peppridge Farm’s frozen coconut cake. However, I did enjoy each mouthful. 
Rule 4
Stop When You Think You’re Full….I had a rather difficult time with this one. Ya see, I’m ADD. It doesn’t take a lot to distract me. I’d follow Rule 4 but, dammit, everytime my brain would start to think I was full……oh, look…a chicken!
That’s how it was. My mind would wander off of the “being full” thought and I’d forget to think I was full.
So, after watching tonight’s episode, I’m going to give it one more shot. Paul told me tonight that every time I am craving something ,such as fudge, to imagine something disgusting with it. Like fudge and cockroaches. 
I’m just hoping that I don’t develop a taste for fudge-covered cockroaches.
Filed under: My Life....as I See It, People That Make Me Laugh, Personal, Television | Tagged: ADD, conscious eating, eating habits, I Can Make You Thin, losing weight, Paul McKenna, weight loss
I am not even sure how I got here. I think it had to do with Maxine. I just lost almost 70 pounds at weight watchers in the past year. So I finally admitted I am a food addict. This post made me laugh hysterically. Probably way too much hysterically. I am still a food addict and probably always will be. I taped two of those shows tonight but now I am afraid to watch them. I really think I could eat chocolate covered cocks I mean cockroaches.
I will be back.
I just saw Moonbeam on your blogroll. She is one of my favorite people.
joan….stay away from Maxine. She’s T-R-O-U-B-L-E. She’ll be trying to baptize you into her church. Which would be OK but then she’ll want you to tithe…..a lot.
Congrats on your weight loss. That’s an astounding amount! Be sure and send your old clothes to Max. She’s gonna need them for Sunday sermons.
mmmmmm. Chocolate covered cocks.
What? Oh, no roaches, thank you very much.
I’ll be sending you your tithing envelopes next week.
Will you except food stamps or clothing vouchers?
How ’bout manufacturer’s coupons?
That is very important section. Thanks.