1. When you are hungry – EAT. (Instead of starving all day and then gorging at night or skipping meals to conserve calories. I don’t do this anymore, but did for about 10 years, not to lose weight as much as save money.)
2. Eat foods you LIKE. (Naturally thin people eat hamburgers, chips and chocolate they just don’t binge on it. This includes cutting out low-fat sour cream and salad dressing.) 
3. Eat Consciously. (No watching television, surfing the net or reading. You have to focus on your food. You have to eat slowly and with intention. Chewing instead of scarfing. Breathing. Swallowing. Put your fork down or your sandwich on the plate between bites. Make eating your food a meditation.) 
4. When you think you might be full – STOP eating. (If you are scarfing your food down like it’s the end of a famine while watching television sitting at your computer you probably got full 10 minutes ago and were too busy to notice. If you slow down and focus on tasting and enjoying your food you’ll be able to hear your stomach say, “I’m full.” You should stop eating when you hear that. You’ll get to eat again – 3 times a day, at least. It’s not as though this is your last chance.)

I’ve plateaued on the weight loss and would like to lose about 20 more pounds. I DO NOT WANT TO DIET!!! Recently, I’ve been making bargains with my body, “If I can still snack you can stay this size and I’ll keep exercising to prevent getting bigger. Deal?”I’m going to try Paul McKenna’s Golden Rules, because I do scarf food while watching TV. I have a strange sense of deprivation and lack about food. I have been feeling this compulsion to snack that is so severe that I recently told a friend I would give up meals if it meant I could eat snacks all day long.  For two days or so I’ve been trying to consciously eat and I’ve not finished my plate. I even went to dinner at my grandma’s and didn’t stuff myself to illness. All of my fat cousins made fun of me for giving up our time-honored family tradition, but once they see how thin Paul McKenna makes me, they might put their forks down and think about their food while chewing too. No. Calories Needed says he’ll be trying it too. Another blogger who is losing weight is Jenn from Less is More To Love. It’s worth trying. Wanna come?

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Paul McKenna Can Make Me Thin?

I I saw this woman who had sextuplets on Oprah last week. When they told her she was pregnant with an entire litter of babies she had the only rational and sane response I’ve ever heard of – she had a mini-nervous breakdown and had to be immediately hospitalized for shock. I imagine I might have the same response. I think having one baby at a time is a lot of stress and always prayed I would not have twins to double my stress. But, sextuplets. . . reminds me of that old ‘80s song by, who?, maybe REM, I think that God’s got a sick sense of humor and when I die, I expect to find him laughing.

May I recommend a new show on the Discovery Health Channel, Jon and Kate plus 8. This seemingly normal couple got married and seemed destined for an average life, then they had twins. Okay, still pretty normal existence now that the twins are weaned and out of diapers. Then Kate, and Jon will never let her forget it, wants one more baby – a sibling for their twin girls. Jon thinks, hey two is plenty, let’s just go about our normal life. Kate insists on one more. I bought one and got five free, she says on the show.

I love this type of television because it makes me feel so abundantly blessed to not be quite so abundantly blessed.

I mean, thank you God for not blessing me with twins and sextuplets!

If any family deserves their own television show it has to be this one. They have a dry sense of humor and really, that might be the only way they will survive. It’s a really good show about their day to day existence which is now anything but ordinary. Their grocery bill at Sams was over $1,000. Think about paying that bill next time your checking out. Could you even cover that and your mortgage?

It’s great family television to watch with your kids. I seriously giggle in sympathy every time I see this family. Then I quickly want to throw salt over my shoulder and knock on some wood to somehow prevent anything similar from happening to me.

God bless Jon and Kate Gosselin.

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Jon and Kate plus 8