The Moiderer

Thinking Slimmer. Nearly 2 years

At the end of May 2011 I came across this thing called Thinking Slimmer.

Lots of people on Twitter were talking about it and getting good results. When I read their blogs it was just a download that you listened to. It made you feel great about yourself and lose weight. No willpower needed.

Scam. Obviously. Like those ads you see on Facebook.

And yet these people were friends on Twitter. People I trusted and knew.

So I figured for £29.99 it was worth the risk. I bought the “Drop 2 Dress Sizes” CD so I had the chance to put it on any device (it doesn’t say anything about dresses by the way!)

I started listening every day like it say.

I didn’t read anything that came with it. Because I had the CD something messed up and I didn’t get any of the daily emails. I didn’t log the positives. I didn’t set goals.

I figured it would never work for me and said as much on Twitter.

I was caught by surprise when Sandra, the head honcho at Thinking Slimmer read my tweet and offered to talk to me to see why it wouldn’t work. I don’t really do talking but it was such a bold move I agreed.

A short conversation with Sandra and she had sussed me out. A childhood filled with abuse meant that I had many issues. And yet she still believed the slimpods would work for me. So I persevered and also arranged to go and see a Cognitive Hypnotherapist. My life was transformed by Trevor Silvester who it turns out is the voice and the genius behind the way the slimpods work. Anyway that’s a different story.

Even before I went to see Trevor things were working. Weight was going. Habits were changing.

It took time.

Snacking started to reduce first.

It was a long time before my portion sizes changed at meal times.

It was even longer before the choices I made around food changed.

But the weight still came off.

By the time I ran the London Marathon in April 2012 (something I would never have done before Thinking Slimmer) I had taken 6 large black bin bags of clothes to the charity shop and was wearing size 14 jeans. I kept the size 24 pair of trousers (that were a bit tight!) so I could see how far I had come.

In April 2012 I attended a black tie event in the dress you see me in at the middle of the picture above.

And then I reached a plateau. I eventually stopped listening to the slimpod because all the behaviours around food had changed. I didn’t need it any more. I haven’t listened for at least 6 months.

But my body stubbornly stuck at a size 14. Despite being very happy in myself. Despite making healthy choices around food and eating little. Despite running every day.

After a while of wallowing (poor me, I’m stuck here) I decided I need to do something different to jump start my system back into weight loss.

I came across the 5:2 fasting approach . This is a lifestyle approach that takes us back to caveman days. The idea is that you fast for 2 days and eat normally for 5. Thanks to the Slimpods, my ‘normal’ days are very regulated so I just needed to do the 2 fasting days. On these you eat less than 500 calories across 2 meals. This keeps your body working but doesn’t give you enough for energy so your body burns your fat.

I am now 8 weeks in and the difference is very tangible. I am losing weight and size again. The picture of me in the dress on the right was taken yesterday. The left was this time last year. I have been a size 14 ever since that picture was taken last year.

Things are changing again.

But what shouldn’t be lost here is that thanks to the slimpods I have gone from a size 24 to a 14 and kept the weight off with no issues. It has been easy and it has been permanent.

My goal is a size 10/12 and I am getting there again.

6 Weeks of 5:2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is even more interesting is this picture where the photo on the left is a week earlier than the photo on the right

I have now been on the Fast Diet for 6 weeks. Last week I kind of had a week off because I was off work and there was no particular routine to my days.

I tried a couple of Fast days but by the time I got to late afternoon I had to stop. I just didn’t have the willpower. But I did miss it and the best thing about being back at work today has been getting back on a fast day.

I also was quite poor at sticking to my Mutu exercises so rather than progressing to the last phase last Friday I am going to stick with Phase 3 this week.

The hubby tells me that I have quite obviously lost weight on the top half and on my legs. This is leaving me with a significant issue around my middle. Everything else shrinking out of the way is leaving me with an even more pronounced spare tyre of fat round my middle.

I am really hoping the Mutu will sort that. If not I am going to have to find a more dramatic way of working on this middle section.

Yesterday I chucked a pair of jeans away. Even with a belt on they are now too big. It’s a shame because I liked them.

The combats I am wearing in the picture on the left are also in danger of going the same way.

A belt that wouldn’t fasten 6 weeks ago now fastens 2 notches in.

A bra that has always been tight is now fastening on the tightest hooks.

So in my Beat the Body campaign, the Fast Diet is helping me get there. But I have a lot more to do if I am going to sort out this middle section and get to my target size 10/12 jeans.

See my previous posts on this:

5:2 and me

Fast diet part 2

Fasting and fat

5:2, slimpods and mutu

Fasting and Fat

Well I’ve done the Fast Diet and the Mutu system for 3 weeks now.

I have done the Mutu every day without fail – I even did it in the carriage of my sleeper train. I am now half way through phase 2.

This week I tried fasting for 3 days because I’m finding it so easy. I love the freedom of food not needing to be a part of my day.

With hindsight 3 days in a row may not have been the best choice – although I do dinnertime through to dinnertime so it’s not that big a deal.

The reason I said 3 days in a row might not have been a good choice is based on the fact that I got home late last night and was feeling very shaky, weak and light headed. I’ve not had that before so it may have been that I pushed it too far.

Today I am on a non-fast day but am still finding I have no appetite for crap food. I got loads of fruit, salad and vegetables from Costco last night so am happily eating my way through them! I normally buy cakes and, since Thinking Slimmer only eat half of one cake, but I couldn’t face even buying them this time.

It remains a challenge to me to drink enough. I am more thirsty since starting on the Fast Diet and struggling to quench my thirst. It’s something I need to continue to pay attention to.

So how is this all contributing to my “Beat the Body” campaign?

Well I suppose I should have measured. The scales continue to be unreliable. You could say I have lost 4lbs and about 2.5% of body fat because those are the best numbers I’ve seen. But I could easily stand on the scales and those numbers would be back at the start so they are pretty meaningless.

I feel like I’ve lost some size particularly around my middle. Clothes are a little bit more comfortable and I feel my tops are hanging a bit better (I never wear clingy anyway)

When I look in the mirror I still see a beached whale. I see the rolls of fat hanging over the edge of my jeans. I see a person that is a million miles away from the size 10/12 jeans that I so want to get to. It’s frustrating. The body is still the one in charge round here and that really has to change.

The Mutu system programme that I bought is an 8 week programme. It is my plan to work with the fasting for those 8 weeks at least. I will probably do it longer term even if it’s one day a week for the health benefits. I think for the remaining 5 weeks I will probably do Monday, Wednesday and Friday as fast days. It’s very easy for me to do and I genuinely enjoy it and feel good. I know it is good for my body too so that helps.

5:2 Fast diet part 2

I have now done fast days 4 times. I know I hated it the first time but since then it’s been brilliant.

I choose to do my Fast day from dinnertime until dinnertime (from about 8pm – 8pm the next day). This is good for the sort of lifestyle I lead because I can still have dinner with the hubby or go out and have dinner with friends if I’m travelling.

I don’t worry too much about eating 500 calories – I know the principle is that you need your body to go into the mode where it is working on your fatty reserves instead of storing fat. So I generally have a banana or something worth about 150 calories for breakfast and salad for lunch. I absolutely don’t snack in between. I give my body the chance to do its thing. If I can’t find anything I will have nuts or something up to the value of a couple of hundred calories but I am not obsessing over what I’m eating on those fast days – I am generally coming in below 500 calories.

On the non-fast days I am constantly thinking about when my next fast day will be.

There are a few things I have learnt

• I love the feeling of being hungry and choosing not to eat. It feels like on my fast day food has no power over me. I am totally in control. This is a great feeling for me and a surprise because I was actually expecting the opposite. Instead of obsessing over food I am free to do whatever I want because I am not limited by eating.
• I don’t enjoy the other 5 days because there are no restrictions on them. I don’t enjoy eating any more
• When I have dinner I expected to go overboard but actually I eat less at dinnertime on the fast days than I do on the other days. I just don’t want food. In fact my portion sizes have reduced again after already being smaller thanks to Thinking Slimmer.
• My tolerance for crap food has reduced as has my ability to eat in quantity. I am really struggling to find things to eat on the non-fast days. If I eat anything fatty or sweet I feel sick. Clearly my body is cleansing itself and the tolerances built up over time are changing quickly. It is encouraging me more towards clean eating which is definitely a good thing
• Fasting makes me thirsty and I am drinking a lot more. This is also a good thing because I have always had a problem with not drinking enough.

In parallel, as part of my “Beat the body” approach I am also doing the Mutu system. These exercises are really simple and I have found that despite back to back nights on a sleeper train last week I was still able to do my exercise – there was enough room in the cabin. On Friday I will have been doing it for 2 weeks and so will go into Phase 2 of the exercises. I haven’t looked at them yet so it will be interesting to see what that involves.

I am weighing myself randomly and trying to look more at the change in body fat than the pounds I’ve lost. So far, I think, in 2 weeks I have lost over 1% of my body fat which is good. I think I am toning up but I’ve not been in a position to do any clothes size tests due to a mental travel schedule. I am planning another fast day tomorrow so will take some measures after that again.

I will keep you posted on other differences I notice over time. I would definitely recommend the Fast Diet but only if you read the book. Don’t do what I did and do it off the back of other people’s opinions. I think it’s important to understand what you are trying to achieve so that you can make the most of those fast days.

5:2 and me

As you may know I’ve been doing Thinking Slimmer for coming up to 2 years now. My behaviour around food has changed massively. I now make the right choices around food (it must be at least 6 months since I’ve had lunch or dinner from McDonalds because I just can’t face it)

I eat smaller portions. If I need to snack I snack on fruit more often than not. If I do eat crappy food I eat very little of it.

I run most mornings.

Because of my Nike Fuelband I know I am active enough in the day. The minimum for a day with no exercise is 2000 fuelpoints. Most days I make it to 3000 points +

And yet…

…I haven’t changed size in well over a year.

It just doesn’t make sense.

And I am in a great place in my head so I thought it would all change.

But it seems that for some reason I am keeping the weight on – probably with some misguided belief around protection as a result of the events of my childhood. I feel very disconnected from my body.

It’s been really frustrating me because everything else is great but I guess at the end of the day feeling disconnected from your body is not great for weight loss.

It seems that no matter how hard I try to work my way through the mental side of this with all the new skills I have, I’m getting nowhere.

So it’s time for a different approach.

It’s time for me to beat my body.

The first thing I am doing is the Mutu system – an exercise system designed especially for mothers to help tone up that middle area. This will be added to daily runs and a few exercises with club bells.

Next thing I am doing is the very badly named “Fast Diet”

I say it’s badly named because it’s not a diet. It’s a lifestyle choice.

The principle is that out of every 7 days in a week you fast for 2. Fasting, according to this book, is to eat less than 600 calories if you are a man and 500 if you are a woman. For the other 5 days you eat normally.

This is generally split between breakfast and dinner – it’s not a snacking through the day thing.

The Fast Diet has amazing health benefits, and a side effect of helping you lose weight. The principles, as I understand them, take us back to the cave man days where we were solely focussed on survival. We would have days where we gorged on a beastie we’d caught and days of fasting while we were hunting. Our bodies are geared up to swap between eating and not eating on a relatively frequent basis.

When we are eating our body takes the nutrients it needs but is mainly focussed on storing the fat and stuff. So by eating all day we are storing all day. When we stop eating our body not only starts working through those stored reserves but also goes into repair mode. The theory is that while we are in a period of ‘famine’ then our body needs to be as strong as it can be to survive so energy is focussed on repair.

The other interesting thing is around insulin and blood sugar. Apparently our bodies are not geared for the high sugar diet we have and the cells get saturated with insulin and develop a lower tolerance, limiting the effectiveness of processing sweet foods and leaving more sugar in our blood. This can lead to diabetes and heart disease.

By fasting we de-saturate those cells so the insulin is as effective as it can be.

They have also found links to improvements in cognitive functions – although they need more research on this to fully validate it.

So as I read all about it, it seemed like a no brainer.

I have heard many great weight loss stories around the 5:2 approach so as part of my “Beat the body” campaign I decided to try this.

On Sunday I had my first fast day (before I read the book!)

Now I was half starved as a child so depriving myself of food feels like a punishment to me and I was very aware of this going into it. I was ready to abort if I genuinely felt it was triggering me in the wrong way.

I found Sunday really hard. I normally don’t eat much on a Sunday but I do usually have a small amount of porridge for breakfast. Because I hadn’t read the book I was going with the 500 calories through the day approach and thought I would stick to liquids (latte’s etc) for my 500 cals. This was a mistake

Mid morning I was corrected by a friend on Twitter and I had a banana. All I could do all day was obsess over food. My stomach rumbled and I felt shaky.

I didn’t think this approach was for me. I decided I would do it as a dinner to dinner thing. So eat nothing after dinner at around 8pm until the next day’s dinner time at 8pm.

I was glad when I got to the end of the day and had completed it, but resolved that it wasn’t for me

The day after I felt better in myself.

So whilst I initially thought it wasn’t for me I figured I’d give it another try. I knew I was in a meeting all day in London on Wednesday so I would be busy enough to be distracted. I also bought the book.

I read the book and was totally convinced this was the right thing to do. Meanwhile I heard from loads of people who were doing it very successfully and had lost loads of weight.

So yesterday I did it again. It was easier. The book says the first couple of days you do it are the hardest.

This morning I got on the scales out of curiosity. I have lost somewhere between 4-5lbs in the last week (I don’t really do scales!) I also am watching my body fat% because I expect that to change too.

The great thing about doing this with Thinking Slimmer is that you don’t go wild on the 5 non-fast days (although I don’t think it would matter if you did!) I eat normally and healthily for 5 days and fast for 2.

So here are my tips for the diet

1. Read the book. It won’t take long and it helps to understand what you’re trying to achieve
2. Accept that the first 2 days are the hardest. If you can get through them then the rest will be relatively easy
3. It is not 500 calories of snacking – it is breakfast and dinner. So plan breakfast and make sure you have a couple of hundred calories (couple of boiled eggs are good). Nuts are good too because they are filling. Fish and as much salad as you can manage are good for dinner. This is not about starving – it’s about fasting
4. I find dinner to dinner works well for me and doesn’t disrupt any social activity I have planned. It’s still 24 hours so you are giving your body a chance to do its thing.
5. Do it on a day where you are busy. Don’t take the quietest days of the week. You don’t want to be like I was on Sunday and obsessing over food all day
6. Chill on the other 5 days and if you are worried about it try something like Thinking Slimmer.

That’s it really. I will continue to keep you posted on my progress.

Why I love running

Yep, that is the right title for this blog post.

You see I realised something this morning as I jogged along the path near my house.

It was a beautiful morning. Totally still with blue skies. As the sun rose there was a haze of pink on the horizon that revealed as I ran further down the path into a blazing sunrise.

I kept going for longer than planned because I couldn’t face turning away from something so beautiful.

I jog rather than run. I keep a pace that stops me getting out of breath because I know that being breathless is something I hate. I hate my mouth being covered and my air to be restricted (I should probably see someone about that!)

I enjoyed the run even though my toes were freezing cold because I run in Vibrams and the ground was icy.

I enjoyed the space and freedom of jogging along.

This morning I thought about my friends who ran the Brighton half marathon on Sunday and how well they had done. I thought about how good they looked on their weight loss journey.

I felt disconnected and out of sorts. I felt like I was failing somehow.

When I saw the photos I felt jealous and smiled to myself that I was jealous of people running a half marathon.

I felt jealous of how good they look because I recognise that I still have something to unlock to continue on my own journey and I saw photos of people I know who are well on their way.

As they have prepared and as we get closer to April I have been thinking a lot about my London Marathon run last year.

I hated it.

I really should have loved it. What an opportunity and experience.

It wasn’t the running I hated (although that did kind of get in the way!)

As I ran this morning, and thought of the photos of my friends I realised why I hated it.

I love the countryside.

The reason I enjoy my runs is because I love what I see – the nature all around me -  and how free I feel. The thoughts in my head float around and form coherent patterns that are constrained when I’m within four walls. Constrained by crowds of people.

The reason I hated the London Marathon was because it was in London. Surrounded by people and buildings. Closed in. The opposite of what I get from my morning run.

I don’t like London – I never have.

Given the choice of anywhere to go I would choose to go to a rocky, wild beach and sit on a rock. I would want it to be windy and a bit grey. I would sit on the rock with the wind blowing the spray in my direction and feel the freedom of nothing around me to constrain me. I would enjoy the freedom to think and to be whoever I wanted to be.

That’s what I get from my running.

That’s what I didn’t get from the London Marathon.

And that’s why I should not choose to do any sort of public run again.

I don’t run to test myself. I don’t run to keep fit (although that is a bonus)

I run to be free. To get endorphins. To think.

This is why I love running.

The Fat Suit

I have watched on with amusement over the Xmas period as people talked about over indulging. And in almost the same breath you hear about diet and fitness starting in the new year.

I didn’t over indulge this year. I tried. But I just don’t want to any more. Thanks to my slimpod I eat small portions for my meals and often don’t finish what’s on my plate. I feel full very quickly.

Thanks to some of the other work I’ve done over the last few months I make healthier choices on food now. I haven’t had a McDonalds for over 2 months and that’s despite taking the little one there occasionally. If I go and fetch one I make myself something for lunch when I get home. If we sit in I just have a coffee.

I have also cut down on my snacks between meals massively and have eaten more fruit than I have in my whole life I think! When I want a snack I choose fruit. That’s what I want.

So this Xmas day was a bit pathetic really.

Breakfast : 2 small pieces of granary bread with grilled bacon

Mid-morning: 1 mince pie

Lunch: 1 small piece of turkey, a handful of sprouts, a couple of small pieces of roast potato

Mid-afternoon: half a small individual xmas pudding with a small amount of custard

Dinner: 4 crackers and a small piece of brie

After: 3 chocolates from a box of chocolates (it took me 3 weeks to eat the whole box and that was with the hubby and the little one helping!)

So not really over indulgence is it?

This is not un-typical of a day for me now. The only addition to my normal day is the mid-afternoon pudding and the chocolates. I almost never eat anything after I’ve had dinner in the evenings.

I haven’t been running much in December but I am keeping active and will keep that up.

So why am I not losing size?

For all the changes I haven’t seen any clothes feeling looser.

Technically that can’t be possible so there is something else keeping the weight on.

And I was asked “Why do you want to be a size 10/12”

It’s a good question.

Why am I not happy as I am?

For me size 10/12 represents the person I was when I went to University. Although I wasn’t happy in myself until this year, my university years were the happiest of my life (I met my hubby there amongst other things!)

When I went to university I realised I could leave my past behind and choose who I wanted to be. I was reborn. All the years following that time were based on the person I chose to be – realising that people only saw what I chose to show them.

I used this for the years after. I lived my life as an actress – presenting a facade of what I needed to be. My weight was part of that. A fat suit that hid me inside and protected me.

In 2012 I stopped being an actress. For the first time I have been me and been happy. Everything has changed inside of me.

So it was only reasonable for me to expect the outside to change too.

But it hasn’t.

There is something in my subconscious still trying to protect me. Something inside of me is keeping my fat suit in place

Because with the level of eating I do and the level of exercise I do I should be at my target size by now.

Now I know I can do a blitz of exercise etc probably to get to where I want to be. But the thing I love so much about the slimpod is that it is a permanent change in your thinking. So each thing that changes becomes the new you – not a temporary activity to reach a particular goal.

Whatever I do to get to my target size will be something I can do every day for the rest of my life without effort. It will be the new me.

So I’m a little frustrated right now. It’s something I will work on. One day something will change and I will continue to progress to the size I want to be.

Power and choice

Things have been changing.

The outer layers have been removed until I have at last reached the centre.

And in the centre is power. A power I didn’t know I had. A power that I’ve discovered was there all along but I didn’t know how to get to it.

Because of all the outer layers I had built up over the years.

Each step in this journey I’ve discovered a new inner layer  - but was never sure if I’d made it to the middle.

But at the same time as a transformational journey on a personal level I’ve been on a weight loss journey. And this journey hasn’t made quite the same progress as the other one.

After I ran the marathon I plateaued. Whilst I was consuming less food than before I started listening to the Thinking Slimmer slimpod, I was still scoffing all day. I put back on a couple of stone in muscle but my size remained the same.

For 6 months my size has remained the same.

I knew there was something holding me back because although my behaviours were far from ideal, I run every week day and I eat small meals and after learning EFT and applying it to myself, I also make better food choices these days.

I really should be my target size of between 10/12 by now. I’m not. I am a size 14. That hasn’t changed in 6 months.

Each time I had a session with Trevor I thought “this will be the one that makes a difference to my weight”

But it didn’t.

And then after our last session something so fundamental changed that I knew it would have an impact. I could feel that I didn’t need my weight as protection any more. I could feel I was in control. I had the power. I was getting close to my centre.

And because of this I could see very clearly where I still wasn’t making the right choices. I could see that in situations where I had the chance to choose not to eat something – I always chose to eat instead.

So I asked a friend and fellow Cognitive Hypnotherapist to help me. This was possible now the little black box was gone. I can now look on my past without the darkness and evil shadows.

There is this thing we can do called a timeline. We talk to the subconscious and ask it to find the event/memory that it is using to drive a particular behaviour. Once there, we use our adult, conscious thought, to help the younger version of us look on that moment in a different way. To reframe it.

Most of us have Significant Emotional Events that are slightly out of our awareness but close enough to drive behaviour. I knew I had something there I just wasn’t sure what.

I knew that one of the types of abuse I experienced as a child was neglect. A factor of this was that we weren’t given enough food. There was a time in my early years where I was almost skeletal.

So I was curious what  my subconscious was using.

When we asked it to find an event related to the fact that I saw depriving myself of food as a punishment, it took me to 2 but one was more significant.

It was a rare day out with my parents. We were parked up by a castle overlooking the water. My brother and I were cramped in the back of a small sports car. My parents were eating fish and chips. They weren’t giving us any. And I remember how excited I had felt when they stopped to pick them up and how unbelievable it was to me to find myself sat there in that car, hungry and not getting a thing while they ate.

It was pretty high up in the “it’s not fair” scale.

So the trick with these timeline things is to find the learning that makes sense to the child – in this case me at around 6 – and then using your adult experience pass that learning down to the child in a way they can understand. This will be very unique to you.

I explained to her that it wasn’t a punishment – it was just crap parents. That it wasn’t about her. That she would always have enough food and in later life she’d have plenty. She struggled to get it. It was all she had known. In the end I gave her a chip! And I felt something change.

We completed the timeline process. It was upsetting but also a big release. Part of it is to look at yourself in the future seeing the person you would be now that event is no longer driving you. I saw myself up on stage giving TED style talks about my transformation. I was the size I want to be – 10/12

Since then I’ve been noticing the behaviour change and it comes back to a feeling of power.

I can now make a choice not to eat something because it has no consequence. I know food will always be there so I can choose not to eat something now. I can choose to eat what and when I want – I don’t have a need to eat.

This morning I waited until my stomach rumbled and had a piece of bread and butter for breakfast. I went to the cinema with the little one and bought my usual medium bag of sweet popcorn. I didn’t even eat a quarter before I had enough and put it to one side.

I cooked some chicken for lunch and wondered why I felt so hungry as I started eating it. It was 3pm. I chose to have a banana after a couple of pieces of chicken. In the past I would eat a banana because I thought it might be something nice to satisfy my appetite, not because I wanted one (if that makes sense!)

It will be interesting to see what the next few weeks bring. When you do one of these timeline things it can be really hard to know the scale of changes you might see.

Thinking Slimmer–becoming slimmer

4 years ago I looked like this when I was pregnant with the little one

A year ago I looked like this after an 8 mile run in the pouring rain as I tried to prove I could run 10 miles at the same time as Darin and Becca did the Great South Run

A few months ago I looked like this

I have some way to go but I’m getting there.

Exercise and Slimpods

You listen to this guy talk to you for 10 minutes a day and you find yourself losing weight.

It’s that easy.

How do you lose weight?

Well you find that you are not thinking about food as much as you used to. So you stop snacking as often because you have other more important things to think about.

You go to McDonalds for your usual burger and find you can’t face it and order a salad instead.

You order a cake when you go to Starbucks and 2 mouthfuls in you realise you don’t want any more and leave it.

Then one day you sit down to your normal spread of chinese takeaway. You used to practically lick the plate clean but now you can only manage a soup and not even half the chow mein you love so much. Eventually you stop ordering the chow mein because the soup is enough on its own.

Inevitably you start losing weight. It would be impossible not to.

But there are other effects.

You find yourself choosing to walk, run or exercise where you didn’t want to before. Sometimes you find a ‘need’ to move and be active.

And then you start enjoying that, enjoying getting out for a run every day.

You lose track of the journey you have been on – how listening to this little track every day started you on this journey.

You get injured or ill and you can’t exercise in the way you have been and because you’ve forgotten how you started, you start to panic. You think that not exercising will mean that you gain all that weight again.

But it wasn’t the exercise that led to the weight loss. It was the Slimpod.

The Slimpod helps you lose weight. The exercise gets you fit, helps you tone, helps you make better choices. But the Slimpod tunes your mind to help you lose weight and to keep you on track.

So whatever life is doing around you and to you – just keep listening. 10 minutes every day is all it takes.

I didn’t wear my size 12 skinny jeans on my birthday – but I could have if I wanted to. Because they did fit.

Are you just about to start using Thinking Slimmer and feel you need a bit more support through those early stages?

This week Thinking Slimmer are starting a  Slimpod study which will help them gather a large amount of evidence to present to a University which is helping them with a Clinical Trial.  They will also be presenting to officials in Government in the Spring.

They are looking for people who want to lose weight and will commit to working with them and their study.

This is an exert from their site

Our studies are 'win win'. You win because you'll be receiving a Slimpod which will help you lose weight easily and effectively and we win because we'll be able to demonstrate how effective our system is! All YOU have to do is commit to losing weight and reporting the results for 12 weeks. So if you have 2 or more stone to lose, read on and get in touch below.

Sounds like an offer that’s too good to miss eh? Follow this link to sign up.

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