I Can Make You Thin: The Revolutionary System Used by More Than 3 Million People (Book and CD) [Hardcover]

Paul McKenna (Author)

Book Description

Release date: December 30, 2008

AT LAST--A TOTALLY NEW APPROACH TO WEIGHT LOSS. WE'RE SO SURE IT WORKS WE GUARANTEE IT...OR YOUR MONEY BACK!*

Paul McKenna's revolutionary book and CD have helped millions of people lose weight without food restrictions, counting calories, or fighting cravings.

All decisions about food take place in the mind and the human mind is like a computer. Dr. McKenna helps people reprogram their minds using the latest psychological techniques to transform the way they think about food forever. His celebrity clients include rock stars, movie stars, and royalty.

Book and CD show readers how to:
- Feel totally in control around food
- Speed up your metabolism
- Stop self-sabotage
- Instantly stop cravings
- Feel totally confident

*Rules & Regulations:
-Purchase I Can Make You Thin (paperback) from January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012.
-Read and use the book for at least 90 days…If you are not 100% satisfied, contact Sterling Publishing at [e-mail] for instructions on how to return your book to Sterling and obtain your money back. This offer is only valid in the fifty United States, and Canada, and on Books purchased between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012. Only purchases made during this time, as evidenced by original dated receipt, will be eligible for the money back guarantee. Prior purchases are exempt from the offer. Refunds will be made within thirty (30) days of receipt of request for money back, provided all return requirements are met. Note: Only the purchase price of the book paid by customer, as evidenced by customer's receipt, shall be refunded by Sterling.
-Offer not applicable to purchases of DVD products or other affiliated Paul McKenna programs, or any other books written by Paul McKenna and published by Sterling, other than the paperback edition of I Can Make You Thin. No retail or online sites are affiliated with this offer. In order to obtain your refund from Sterling, you must email [e-mail].
- No moneyback guarantee refunds will be made after June 30, 2013.
-Void where prohibited by law.

 

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Paul McKenna, PhD, is described as the "Dr. Phil" of the United Kingdom. He is the UK's best-selling non-fiction author, having sold three million books in the last three years. He has worked with Hollywood movie stars, Olympic gold medalists, rock stars, top business leaders, and royalty. The Times of London recently named McKenna one of the world's most important modern self-help gurus. For years, McKenna has helped millions of people successfully quit smoking, lose weight, overcome insomnia, eliminate stress, and increase self-confidence.

In the spring of 2008, he had a hit TV series on TLC called I Can Make You Thin. This unique interactive program has already been a massive success in the UK and McKenna's system has changed the way millions of people lose weight in Europe. Now he's coming to America! 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Sterling; Book and CD edition (December 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402765711
• ISBN-13: 978-1402765711
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (335 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > Hypnosis for Diets
  • #4 in Books > Self-Help > Hypnosis

More About the Author

Over the past twenty years, Paul McKenna, Ph.D. has helped millions of people successfully lose weight, quit smoking, overcome insomnia, eliminate stress, and increase self-confidence. He is Britain's bestselling non-fiction author, having sold 3 million books in 3 years, and his TV shows and live appearances have been watched and attended by hundreds of millions of people in 42 countries around the world. Paul has famously worked his unique brand of personal transformation with Hollywood movie stars, Olympic gold medallists, rock stars, top business achievers, and royalty. He has consistently astounded his audiences and clients by proving how small changes in people's lives can yield huge results, whether it's curing someone of a lifelong phobia, an addiction or clearing up deep-seated issues in a matter of days... Now, it's your turn!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1,256 of 1,270 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars "I Can Make You Thin" - Review January 10, 2009

By Martin Russell

Format:Hardcover

For almost 3 years now I have been handing this book and 'mind-reprogramming' CD to every patient who comes to me to lose weight, or who is caught up in the mentality of diets, scales, cravings, or overeating.

I am *delighted* that this version of "I Can Make You Thin" is finally available on Amazon.com rather than having to hunt it from the UK site. The long wait is over!

At the risk of making this book seem too simple, here are Paul McKenna's 4 golden rules...
1. When you are hungry, eat.
2. Eat what you want (not what you think you "should".)
3. Eat consciously and enjoy every mouthful.
4. When you are full stop.

I've seen other "I Can Make You Thin" reviews that dismiss the 4 rules as just obvious common sense. I'm not sure what common sense they can really mean since the rules make a mockery of the majority of get thin / lose weight approaches around. Rule 2 in particular certainly disagrees with the 'common sense' that I was taught as a medical doctor.

Even if the rules are common sense, McKenna needs to be given great credit for showing people HOW to live these habits. Hopefully you are buying this for the results, not just to have a fun read and a relaxing, new-wavy listen.

Yes, the coverpages are a bit hypey, but the inside is less so. The book is refreshingly thin :), jargon-free, and entertaining.

McKenna's style also involves techniques such as tapping (TFT/EFT), hypnosis and NLP . Hypnosis is what first made Paul famous, and I've seen NLP Practitioners review this and say they knew all of these tricks before. In NLP terms Paul is saying that the Golden Rules are the "model" for being "naturally thin". Just knowing all the geewiz psych techniques won't help if you have the wrong model as I suspect most NLPers do.

More importantly, you don't need any of these techniques to apply the 4 golden rules and lose weight.

Most people can go the book & CD, discover the Aha moments, and get started on transforming their relationship with food and their weight straight away.

There might be a group of people that could eat according to the 4 rules and not be thin, but I agree with what Paul says. For myself, I'm yet to meet such a person.

I have counseled people who thought it didn't work for them, but it turned out they hadn't gotten the rules into their behavior, so here are some extra pointers...

- Just listening to the CD over and over doesn't seem to be enough. The book plays a big part too. Expect to re-read the book at least once. You can succeed without the CD, so if it doesn't suit you, no sweat.

- Don't add more rules. Extra rules almost always conflict with the four golden rules. Must eat breakfast? No. Just eat when you are hungry. Have to eat only fresh food? Check you really want to eat it, and whether you might want to eat anything else a bit more. Etc, etc.

- Having trouble visualizing? Just act 'as if' you are visualizing, or on the CD just leave it to Paul.

- Don't make exercise the focus. Improved fitness will improve your chances of living longer, but unfortunately the best research evidence is that exercise doesn't help much in losing weight. Keep to the four rules, which are all about food and getting back in control.

- If you have a question or a difficulty, the answer is somewhere in the book. The book alone truly is comprehensive (unlike watching YouTube videos or reading this review.) Indeed the updates have covered the two or three remaining gaps I had found before, including the extra information for self-sabotage issues.

In summary, McKenna is not the only person to propose this way of eating, but his is the most accessible version I know about. His is also the most likely to reach out from the page and permanently change your thinking and your behavior, and thereby your weight.

You can buy his measly book just to prove Paul wrong :)

Oh and then come back here and add your own review. Let people know what your results have been, whatever they are. No one book/CD can fit everyone but "I Can Make You Thin" deserves way more reviews here on Amazon from people just like you who have been wondering if this might just be what you need.

If this review helps, please click "YES" below.

259 of 262 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Do yourself a favor January 20, 2009

By Tonibets

Format:Hardcover

If you're reading these reviews, what you really want to know is: does it work? YES!!!! Buy it, read it, do it. Listen to the CD religiously. Watch the pounds melt away and enjoy the change in your life. You've been looking and waiting for a magic pill, well the magic is here, just not in the form of a pill.
I'm a 60 year old mex-am. raised on the border on a high fat diet, yet I was thin (5.0 ft. & 98 lbs) until I hit 40. A traumatic experience threw me into a depression and I steadily gained (and lost and gained through diets) weight until I hit a high of 144. Last year at this time I had managed to start the year at 134. The weight gain made me even more depressed and I was in a vicious cycle. Then around this time last year I heard a commercial announcing McKenna's upcoming T.V. show. I was desperate for change and thought it sounded too good to be true, so I googled McKenna and wound up on the Amazon site in the U.K. and read a ton of reviews just like this one. Sounded good. Then I saw the T.V. show. It made sense. But what really struck me were the PEOPLE doing the testimonials. Not all had reached their goal weight yet, and yet there was a radiance that they all exuded that made me jealous. These were no teary eyed testimonials as I'm used to seeing with say Richard Simmons or any of the other lose weight infomercials. These were happy people, not hyper, not hysterical, just calm, happy in their skin, with an "all's right in the world" attitude. There was no dichotomy of the fat me and the thin me, or the old me and the new me. It was just that's where I started, here's where I am. For me this has been the real gold in Paul's system and losing weight is just the cherry on the cake. He enables you to love yourself once more, right now, right where you are, not tomorrow when you "lose the weight" as a type of self reward.
So I spent about 60 dollars to get the book w/CD from the U.K. the last day of March of last year (2008). It's the best thing I've ever done for myself. It was money well spent. I'm now at 120 lbs, that's 14 lbs lighter than last year at this time, but I no longer obsess about the weight. I know I'm losing and it's on auto pilot now. I can lose faster if I follow rule #1 more religiously, that's the hard one for me. You see, rule #1 says: Eat when you're hungry. But that's not permission, it's a command. In other words, don't let yourself get ravenous, because then you lose all control. After decades of skipping meals and starving myself, it's hard to make that a priority. But when I do, I lose faster. I might as well tell you that rule #3 is also hard. It says: when you eat, do nothing else but eat. I'm used to eating at the computer, in front of the t.v. and while I'm on the phone. BUT if YOU follow his rules to the letter, YOU WILL LOSE THE WEIGHT. And the best part for me, is that I've made peace with me. I can love myself again just as I am, right here, right now. And that attracts positive people like flies to honey. You can pick me out in a crowd, because I'm the one that radiates joy and confidence. Isn't that worth 15 bucks? (for me, it was worth the 60)
P.S. re: the one star rating on this book. If you read the review, you'll see that the person never even tried Paul's method. Yep, if you don't try it, it's absolutely not going to work for you.

365 of 373 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars It's working for me! January 10, 2009

By ptamom

Format:Hardcover

I have lost 60 pounds since mid-July using this system. I can't say it's always been easy; changing habits of a lifetime never is. I CAN say I've never felt deprived, starved or desperate like I have on diets. I'm a "real" mom who doesn't have anything to gain or lose by recommending this product. It works.