I Can Make You Thin, USA Book Launch
February 2, 2009 by Healthy Shana
I Can Make You Thin premiered on TLC back in March 2008 and the premise of the show is that weight loss guru Paul McKenna could and would use his anti-diet approaches to help individuals lose weight. The series used Paul’s “4 Golden Rules ” which are just simple techniques that viewers can use to control the relationship that their mind has with food.
The various episodes of the series premiered on a daily basis on TLC. Some of the episodes focused on:
1. The Secrets of Naturally Thin People
2. Overcoming Emotional Eating
3. Busting Your Cravings
4. Supercharge Your Metabolism
5. Your Perfect Body
Well …read more
Casting Call: Fit to Live
July 16, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Those of you who were big fans of TLC’s I Can Make You Thin, with Paul McKenna might be interested to know that Discovery Health is hosting a casting for its show, Fit to Live.
Discovery Health is now casting people of all sizes, who need to get back in shape, for an intense four-week training program, “Fit to Live,” that will be documented on camera.
You must be 18 or older to participate in this Casting Call. By clicking on the link, you are verifying that you are at least 18 years old.
Your Perfect Body
April 28, 2008 by Healthy Shana
I Can Make You Thin’s, Paul McKennahas made a life and career out of changing people’s lives. He has been recognized as one of the world’s premier self-help gurus. In the, Your Prefect Body episode, which had gotten made fun of by Best Week Ever, Paul teaches guests two techniques that helps people to improve their self esteem.
The first thing that Paul has guests do is image themselves in someone else’s body and looking at themselves through that person’s eyes and how much admiration and respect that the person has for you. He also has guests think about a time …read more
Paul McKenna on Ellen
April 20, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Paul McKenna from TLC’s self-help and weight loss series, I Can Make You Thin was on The Ellen DeGenres show about a month back and he spoke about the show and what he hoped to accomplish. Check out these two videos as well as Ellen commenting on how he helped her to quit smoking.
His technique is so good and its really basic psychology and behavioral change techniques.
I Can Make You Thin – Dissed By Best Week Ever
April 19, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Paul McKenna’s self-help show on TLC, I Can Make You Thin was dissed by Best Week Ever in last nights episode. They poked fun of the finale episode called Your Perfect Body where Paul teaches guests how to become more comfortable with their bodies. His “negative talk” technique is one where he tells guests to use the negative things that they think and say to themselves as motivation. This is a proven science, but of course of the guys over at Best Week Ever didn’t get the concept. Oh well…maybe they can use Paul’s tips to get some self-esteem.
Never Ending Soup Bowl
April 17, 2008 by Healthy Shana
The soup bowl experiment from TLC’s I Can Make You Thin is a very interesting one. The premise is that if your bowl doesn’t appear to get empty then you’ll keep eating. If you see food in front of you then you’ll keep eating it.
The producers of the show invite two women to test to see if the never ending soup bowl premise does actually work. They have one women eating from the “normal” soup bowl, which once it starts getting empty she stops eating. The other women with the never ending bowl continues to eating until she has had …read more
Overcoming Emotional Eating
April 12, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Paul McKenna teaches guests and viewers how to switch off cravings and essentially lose weight forever and feel better about themselves. In the previous episode, Secrets of Naturally Thin People, Paul gave us his four golden rules. According to Paul, his unique system will help you change the way that you eat forever.
Paul McKenna’s Golden Rules
1. When You Are Hungy -Eat
2. Eat What You Want – Not What You Think You Should
3. Eat Consciously
4. When You Think You’re Full – Stop Eating
In the second episode, Paul talks to us about Overcoming Emotional Eating. Its amazing to hear how …read more
Learn How You Can: “Overcome Emotional Eating”
April 8, 2008 by Healthy Shana
In episode 2 of the TLC series, I can make you thin, Paul McKenna tackles one of the biggest issues for people struggling to control their weight, over eating and emotional eating.
In this episode, Paul teaches the studio audience as well as the viewing audience his “tapping” technique. This technique which has been used in other “disorders” helps the individual to overcome emotional stresses.
Stayed tuned for this episode where you will learn about Paul’s tapping technique on Sunday, April 13th at 9PM.
Secrets of Naturally Thin People
March 27, 2008 by Healthy Shana
OK, so apparently, Paul McKenna is more of a genius than I ever expected him to be. I’ve been doing some research on his books as well as his theories and he seems to have some what of a cult following out there. There a hundreds of blogswith people who are currently reading his book and going through his weight loss regimen.
The first episode of I Can Make You Thin is called Secrets of Naturally Thin People. I really don’t think that this is anything new, as there have been other docs out their with their own secrets of thin …read more
I Can Make You Thin – TLC
March 21, 2008 by Healthy Shana
I Can Make You Thin premiered on TLCon March 16th. The premise of the show is that weight loss guru Paul McKenna can and will use his anti-diet approaches to help individuals lose weight. The series uses Paul’s “4 Golden Rules ” which are just simple techniques that viewers can use to control the relationship that their mind has with food.
It seems to be a very unique series and I will definitely be watching to see how normal everyday people will use his tips to lose weight. I am a little skeptical though. When I watched the premier episode it …read more


