BUT could it really work?

I have always lost weight. However as soon as I start eating 'normally' again the weight piled on and more.
Paul says congratulations on your weight loss using a diet. Come back in 6 months and tell me about your diet then.
Back in January it suddenly hit me like a boulder running down the hill that on Wednesday 23rd of February it was my eldest's daughters 14th birthday. I weighed more then than I did full term with her. Something had to be done. The last diet I had been on was Atkins and I was successful in losing nearly 3 stone, however having the builders in whilst extending my kitchen meant getting out of the routine of preparing Atkins food I came off the diet. It wasn't a conscious decision to come off Atkins, more a 'It's too late to make dinner now lets have a take-away meal'. So 6 month later I weighed more than before I started Atkins.
Hands up all you dieters that have done that.
So I set about preparing myself (last night pizza and loads of booze booked) to restart Atkins.

That night I encountered my first battle. Where in this house of music could I find a CD player that I could use without any distractions from the kids or my husband. (we have a CD player in every room apart from my own bedroom!).
So I chucked my eldest out of her room and settled back to listen to the CD.

That night I read the book. He explains that diets are bad. How many diet books do you have that all start with the words 'This is not a diet?' Yet they then restrict what you can eat?
So what is different from his book if his book isn't a diet?

This book does not do any of the above. Paul teaches you to listen to your body.

The book is spaced with testimonials from people who have attendee his weight loss seminars or done the book and CD.

The above may look and sound stupid.
Who eats when they aren't hungry-I do when I am bored.
Who eats what they think they should eat not what they want to eat? Well I did every time I was on a diet (got to eat loads of veg; can't have pizza!).
Who doesn't eat consciously? I did, I would have a full plate then it would be gone. I didn't remember every mouthful and I hadn't savoured every bite.
Who eats when they are full? How many times have you cleaned your plate totally just because it would be a waste to leave the food and then ended up having to open the buttons on your jeans?

I have also stopped forcing my kids to clean their plates. As Paul said, the argument that some starving child in Africa would be grateful for that food doesn't mean I or my kids have to eat that food. Me cleaning my plate won't make that kid think-wow they ate that food just for me.

Since I started with this book and CD quite a few work colleagues have also bought it. They are all removing weight. And we have all resigned from the clean plate club and the food police. If one of us is eating a packet of crisps, we no longer give each other questionable looks of "I thought you were on a diet".

The truth is that if I could really find the time to listen to this CD every day (rather than for a few weeks) it probably would work. But as usual with all 'diet/non diet/weight removing products" I have bought before I got lazy and stopped using it.
I have now decided the only way for me to remove weight is to join a slimming club (I have been at WW since January and succesfully removed over 2 stone-its not the weight removal that is to be congratulated here more the length of time I have stuck with it)