Instant Confidence (Book and CD) - Paul McKenna

Advantages: Absolutely magnificent!
Disadvantages: You have to keep it in mind

...I have tried every kind of diet that I have come across - I gave everything a chance... Slim Fast Cabbage Soup Diet Banana Diet Kellog's Diet Rosemary Conley's Diet The Atkin's Diet Yeast-free Diet Fat-Burning Foods Diet "Starving-myself-thin-Diet" "Becoming-bulimic-diet" The Instant Abs Eating Plan (Diet!) You name it! By the time the GI Diet came I already gave up, in fact, designed my own diet, based on my own perceptions about food. I also had...may I add, once had, a very addictive way of living around chocolate. Chocolate was like, Paul McKenna says on his show to another chocoholic woman "your crack cocane" to me too. It all started when I was watching SkyOne and noticed his advertisment for his upcoming show which came on in January 2006. I was intrigued and I wondered how on earth it is possible... Read review

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Advantages: Potential Weight Loss without "Dieting", horrah! Feeling Happier in yourself
Disadvantages: Investing time in reading/listening to the CD, finding a quiet place to do this

...explains at the beginning it is "like a daydream" I think that is a pretty fair comparison, you can hear things going on around you, like the in-between stage when you are just arising from a deep sleep. ~~~A brief bit of background to the author~~~ Paul McKenna is probably most famous for his Television Shows, where he hypnotises members of the audience and gets them - via hypnosis to do wild and crazy things on national TV. He also performs this on tour via a live show. Just recently he has started writing books to helps support life change such as: "Change your life in 7 days" "Instant Confidence" "How to mend your broken heart" and of course "I can make you thin" ~~Further details about the book and system~~~ "I can made you thin" is currently number 3 (5th September 2005) in the Sunday Times Bestsellers. You can view... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to read and understand
Disadvantages: None

...myself starting to over eat I just read the book again to remind myself of the ideas in it. There is also a handy list in the book, it is a hunger scale. 1. Physically faint 2. Ravenous 3.Fairly hungry 4. Slightly hungry 5.Neutral 6. Pleasantly satisfied 7. Full 8.Stuffed 9.Bloated 10.Nauseus He says that before you eat anything, ask yourself to rate how hungry you feel, and you should only eat when you are at number 3 or 4. Sounds simple doesnt it, but it worked for me. It probably wont work for everyone, my husband thinks that hypnotism is a load of rubbish, he tried to give up smoking and saw various hypnotists and they didnt work because he didnt want to believe in it. Paul McKenna also says that when eating you should really eat slowly, think about how the food tastes, enjoy every mouthful, again this makes sense... Read review

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