I couldnt find a thread about the program on the site, so I'd thought I'd start one! (if there is one can someone direct me to it?)
Has anyone been watching the "I Can Make You Thin" show on TLC these past few weeks? I've seen all of them, and parts of the plan have been working, other haven't.
For those of you who don't know, the plan has the golden rules of:
- when you're hungry, eat
- only eat what you actually enjoy
- put your fork down between bites
- when you're full, stop eating
The golden rules are great and do work well. But the rest of the program is what I don't find to work - like thinking about repulsive foods (to the point that you're almost gagging) in order to curb cravings. (Does anyone else find this kind of eating disorderish?) And mentally associating exercise with good feelings. Sometimes it's like the program is "Trick your body into being healthy" instead of "learn how to be healthy."
What are your thoughts on the program? I'm curious as to what other people think.
hahaha!!
I was just watching a back to back episode of I can make you thin..
Overall, I think McKenna manages to advocate an easy no non sense approach to weight loss which is excellent. However, in reality, it's much harder to curb your cravings with just the touch of a finger and imagination... I mean, when I want pizza, I know that there are very little things that can stop me from getting it. I will ask to pay american if that's all I have, or I will walk a couple blocks if I can't get it delivered. The concept McKenna teaches is very interesting though, I tried it and did feel repulsed on several occasions. I don't know how it will work when I'm actually sucked into a REAL craving.
I really like his approach with exercise. I'm definitely one of those people who feel like you have to work your butt off and experience pain to feel gain. I do believe that gently incorporating exercise is a great way to go and I really wish I could just do it slowly and be able to ease myself into the habit so that it will be more easily maintained in the long term. I have a goal of fitting into a smaller size prom dress though and I don't know how realistic it would be. Hence I reactivated my membership just today...
His four golden rules: I love them. I really believe that they do work so long as you allow your body to signal what it wants and when it wants. It seems as it his rules are based on the concept of intuitive eating? I know these rules work because I lost 5 pounds just last year when I stopped "dieting" (which meant a vicious cycle of dieting for a day and binging the next). I became caught up with school and other things in life, and just didn't have the time to constantly deal with food and exercise. During the course of about a month, I dropped five pounds effortlessly. I didn't add in exercise or eat any "diet"/healthy foods. I just ate with family.. at home, at restaurants, or by myself. The key was that I let myself eat the things that I liked, and I found that I pretty much never binged because I didn't feel the need to. I was allowing myself to eat whatever the heck I wanted because I didn't have the time to bother with the whole losing weight fiasco.
With the small success in mind, I realize that I can't just jump into this intuitive eating/non dieting approach because when I do, I end up eating too much, too often. I end up taking advantage of the approach and gain weight as a result. What I'm saying here is that you really have to let go of the diet mentality and to keep yourself occupied with other things in order for the 4 golden rules to work, otherwise, you might end up abusing your "privilege" of being able to eat whatever you want when you want.
Beegoss--come on over to our thread! There's a lot of good conversation going on regarding this approach. About the pizza...by all means eat it!! Just remember to tune in to your hunger/satiety signals and stop when you're satisfied. Even with the repulsion/compulsion technique he does say that this doesn't mean you'll never eat your crave food ever again.
