Slimpod handbook 2014 by Chris Roycroft-Davis

Personal handbook Essential Advice and Info For Slimpod Users

INCLUDES

THE 3 GOLDEN RULES

GOAL-SETTING GUIDE

PERSONAL SUCCESS LOG

SLIMMER’S CONTRACT

Welcome to Thinking Slimmer

Must-read quick guide to using a Slimpod * Begin by listening for at least 21 days in a row

Research shows it takes at least 21 days of repetition for the mind to begin retuning itself. This will START the changes you’ll begin to notice in the weeks ahead. Many people listen when they go to bed and fall asleep listening – which is good, as the ears are always awake. However, others are equally successful if they listen to their Slimpod first thing in the morning during snooze time. Everyone’s different and what’s important is what works best for you.

* You don’t have to think about the words you hear

The words you hear are designed to influence your subconscious. You shouldn’t try to concentrate on what is said; just relax and aim to empty your mind of all thoughts. That’s when the Slimpod will work best. Trust it!

* Create your goals and then write them down

There’s something magical about writing down your goals. There is a part of your brain called the Reticular Activating System, a network of nerve cells that act like radar, directing your attention to what’s important for you. When you write down goals and create a goal map it switches on your RAS, which then hones in on anything that will help you achieve those goals. A visual goal map is vital for programming your RAS most successfully.

* Fill in your Success Log every single day

You’ll find a contract with yourself and a 42-day Success Log in your handbook. Filling in the Success Log every day is an essential part of the process because everyone knows that seeing is believing. Completing the log just before you listen to your Slimpod each time is very important because it brings to mind the changes that are happening and prompts your RAS to help you produce more. Put simply, you get more of what

you focus on: So focus on good new habits and you’ll get more good habits.

* You can listen to two Slimpods

If you have a second Slimpod such as the Chocoholic Cure or Beat That Sweet Tooth, you can listen to it as well as a weight loss Slimpod. One after the other works well or you can listen to them at separate times if you prefer. When you’re well on your way to your slimming target, then you can consider changing over to Slimpods such as Keep Weight Loss Going. Don’t be in too much of a hurry to change Slimpods if you feel the first one is working well.

* Join the Facebook Slimpod Club

As your goal is to make significant lifestyle changes that will help achieve the inch-loss you desire, we recommend you join our Slimpod Club community on the Thinking Slimmer Facebook page. You’ll be able to share your progress or ask for support from fellow Slimpodders.

* Keep listening for as often and as long as it takes

Keep listening to your Slimpod daily until you feel confident you’re well on the way to achieving your goals. How long this takes depends on how much weight you want to lose. We recommend you use the Slimpod daily for a minimum of 42 days and then you’ll be able to decide how much longer you need to listen to it. Looser clothes and how you feel are the most reliable guide. Weight takes years to put on so it won’t suddenly disappear overnight!

* If you stop noticing changes...

After a while the changes the Slimpod is making become “normal” behaviour – like your old behavior used to be – so you may stop noticing further differences. You may even start thinking the Slimpod isn’t working. If this happens it’s important to keep listening because the Slimpod is continuing to work in the background, reinforcing and building upon all the changes to make them permanent.

Welcome to Thinking Slimmer

Forget those scales, get a measuring tape! A personal message from

sandra roycroft-davis DipCHyp, HPD, NLP Prac, MNCH

the founder of Thinking Slimmer Thank you for joining the thousands of people who are achieving great success with Thinking Slimmer. I look forward to hearing about your success too over the coming months. I know many people get very excited when they start their Slimpods and can’t wait to jump on the scales and see how they’re doing. Because Thinking Slimmer is an alternative to dieting you’ll find yourself thinking differently about food. You’ll want to eat less, you’ll eat more healthily and you’ll probably find you want to do more exercise. As your body changes it’s important to avoid the scales as a way of measuring your progress because they aren’t an accurate reflection of your success (see my campaign on the website called Scrap The Scales). Slimpods work from the inside out and the first thing you may start noticing is that your clothes feel looser. That’s why we create Slimpods to achieve goals, like dropping dress or jeans sizes, not to achieve specific targets such as “lose a stone.” What are the signs the Slimpod’s starting to work? Well, many people notice their clothes are starting to fit better and their shape is changing. Please be patient: doing this properly takes time. Many people expect to lose lots of weight in a few weeks when they’ve been putting it on for years! That’s probably unrealistic, isn’t it. I want you to promise you’ll keep listening to your Slimpod for as long and as often as it takes until you feel confident you’re well on the way to achieving your goal. How long this takes depends on many things because everyone is different. Remember the best thing you can do is regularly measure your bust, waist, hips, arms and thighs and see how they are gradually shrinking as your body shape changes.

Need help to download your new Slimpod?

Need advice on syncing to an iPhone or iPad?

For a detailed help guide, go to www.ThinkingSlimmer.com/how-to-download-slimpod

Welcome to Thinking Slimmer

Enjoy slimming and get used to smiling A personal message from

Trevor Silvester the Voice of the Slimpods

The Thinking Slimmer experience is totally different from any other weight loss method because there’s no diet to follow, no willpower required, no calorie counting. It’s simple and it’s easy. As you listen to my voice every day your Slimpod or Fitpod will gently retune your mind and adjust the way you see food and exercise. So you’ll be able to get on with enjoying your life while your mind gets on with losing the weight. Everyone wants to lose weight quickly but it’s not a race. What we want you to achieve is permanent weight loss. Some of our slimmers start to lose weight almost immediately, while others take several weeks to start the process. Everyone’s different. Our experience is that some people do lose a few pounds in the early days but it is after four to five weeks that the real weight loss starts for most. What you lose or don’t lose isn’t important; what’s important is that your body’s changing. What you probably WILL notice early on is a series of surprising differences in how much less you want to eat and how much more you want to do. One of the key things to recognise in the Thinking Slimmer approach is that you becoming slimmer is inevitable. It is going to happen, so it doesn’t have to be a pressurised race to get to your target. Every day, doing more that takes you towards your target than takes you away from it is victory. Some days you’ll be pretty close to perfect, and other days you won’t, but as long as each day you do something more than nothing then you’re still moving forward. I’m thrilled that Thinking Slimmer has so far been able to help thousands of people like you to make a real difference to their lives and boost their confidence and self-esteem.

Welcome to Thinking Slimmer

Three Golden Rules of Slimpod success USING your Slimpod couldn’t be easier or more effective providing you follow our Three Golden Rules of Success. Because Thinking Slimmer is like no other weight loss method, it’s important to realise the importance of these three rules. Listen to your Slimpod!

Do your daily success log!

Sounds daft, doesn’t it, but

It’s vital that you write down

must keep listening because the

notice in your behaviour and

some people stop listening. You constant repetition of the special language we use is what causes

the changes to take place in your brain.

This will take time, of course, because your

brain has been conditioned by years of unhelpful thinking about food which has created the bad eating habits you now want to break.

When we tell you to start by listening to your

Slimpod for 21 days in a row this is the minimum time to enable the changes to BEGIN to take effect.

To help these vital changes to become permanent will obviously take longer. The more familiar you

become with what your Slimpod says to you, the more powerful and lasting its effect will be.

Everyone is different and many people say they notice changes in their eating habits in the first

each day the differences you the way you feel. This is for two reasons: Firstly, some of the

changes can happen without you even knowing

it and it’s only by making yourself think and write things down that some differences will occur to

you. Note down even the smallest changes you have noticed in your attitude to food, exercise

and your lifestyle. It may be something small such as “left a potato on my plate” or “walked to the

shops instead of driving” but all these little positive differences add up to bigger ones.

Secondly, by writing the changes down each day you bring them to the attention of your

subconcious and you’re constantly reminding it

that it is taking the right steps to help you achieve your goals. Your Slimpod is slowly helping you to

create a positive view of the world (we call it your positive reality tunnel) and every time you write

down the good things that are happening to you, your brain is creating positive expectancy.

three weeks with weight loss gradually following

What’s that? Well, to put it simply: What you think

Just relax and let the Slimpod do its work for you.

we pay most attention to. So if you pay attention

in the weeks after that. Be patient. It’s not a race.

about is what you get in life. We tend to be what

Welcome to Thinking Slimmer

Three Golden Rules of Slimpod success to the positive things that are happening to you you’ll get more of them. If you focus on what

stays the same, you’ll stay the same. Whether you’re experiencing small changes or big

changes doesn’t matter. What matters is that changes are happening. Writing them in your success log primes your brain for what you want it to achieve the next day.

partnership. It may help if you imagine your brain to be like a ship.

Set your goals properly! Our brains need targets. This

responsibility for setting the direction and giving

mind, which is enormously

that carries out the captain’s commands.

guided missile system and is

The main way your captain communicates with

is because your subconscious powerful, is designed like a

aim at and hit.

Your conscious mind is the captain and has

constantly seeking targets to

Your subconscious works non-stop, 24 hours a

the orders. Your unconscious mind is the crew

his crew is through your thoughts. Every thought is a goal or command for your subconscious to

obey. The goals you repeat most often, and those

connected to the strongest emotions, become the

day, whether you’re awake or asleep. Its main

priority commands that your subconscious obeys.

serve your every need.

You will find valuable advice on goal-setting on the

Together your conscious thinking mind and

setting by Sandra and Trevor on our website in the

functions are to keep you well and healthy and to

your unconscious autopilot mind form a unique

following pages, and important articles on goalEXPERT ADVICE section.

Share your goals in our Facebook Slimpod Club and something magical will happen! We recommend you join our free Slimpod Club on the Thinking Slimmer Facebook page and share your goals, regularly report your progress and seek advice and support from fellow Slimpodders. It’s great fun!

The three secrets of effective goalsetting GOALS work. So here’s what we suggest. Below we’re going to ask you to set three realistic goals. Make at least one a goal that has you doing something that becoming slimmer will help you to enjoy more - learning something new, setting yourself a challenge (especially a physical one) or revisiting

something you used to love that you’ve stopped doing. Something that you do, rather than something that you can own.

Break your goals down. Have a large one – ‘I want to lose three inches off my waist in 12 weeks’. Note how we’ve been specific, both about quantity and timescale. That works better than just saying ‘I want

to lose some weight this year’. Make it achievable and realistic – “I want to lose four inches this week” isn’t either of those.

Then work stepping stone goals backwards towards now. “By eight weeks I will have lost two inches”, “By four weeks I will have lost one inch” etc. Work these all the way back to “What am I going to do today to be on course for my end of week target?”

Our brains tend to like things ahead of us to aim at, and the closer the better. It’s why often the goal of

a cream cake in the next 30 seconds seems more desirable than fitting into your jeans in three months’ time. So it’s important, if the jeans are your goal, to make sure you have plenty of smaller steps along

the way – and you’re making the rules, so if you want a goal that gets you from breakfast to lunch, then that’s perfectly ok.

A goal of having a small piece of chocolate at lunch may stop you wolfing a whole bar at elevenses, because if the brain knows the treat is out there in the foreseeable future it stops craving for it. My three realistic goals are:

There are THREE SECRETS which can double your chances of reaching the goals you set. They’re

very simple and yet are proven to make a huge difference. One is to write them down. You’ve already done that so you’re halfway there. The second is to make them public.

You can do this in lots of ways - a plane flying over your neighbourhood trailing them behind you, an

ad in your local paper, the town crier outside Asda - but the easiest way is to post the contract on the next page on your fridge or your office wall. Cut it out. Fill it in. Sign It. Post it up. Finally tell fellow

Slimpodders about your goals on our Facebook Slimpod Club page. You’ve just got yourself halfway slim - and the rest of the way is just as easy.

Cut it out. Fill it in. Sign It. Post it up.

My contract with myself I will achieve my goals of 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and I will achieve them by this date: ....................................................... I agree to follow all the rules of the Thinking Slimmer method so that it’s truly successful. I will listen to my Slimpod for 21 days in a row for the changes to begin and then continue for as long as it takes. Signed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slimpod® & Thinking Slimmer Loving Life® are registered trademarks of ThinkingSlimmer Ltd. All original material is Copyright © ThinkingSlimmer Ltd 2014. All rights reserved.

THINKING SLIMMER LOVING LIFE

Route to success is creating a goal map Personal guidance from

brian mayne

UK’s leading goal-setting expert YEARS of experience in helping people to achieve the best from their lives have taught me how crucial it is to set the right goals at the very start. And it’s vital to set them in a way which will harness the full power of both sides of your brain. Let me explain what I mean: Scientists discovered long ago that the left side of the brain is about logic and words, and the right side is about feelings and pictures. So by using the special Goal Mapping system I have created for Thinking Slimmer, you will be helping to make sure that both sides of your brain will be locked on to the right targets. My system will open up for you a whole new way of thinking, a whole new world of goals and a whole new means of achieving them. The easy-to-follow instructions will take you through the simple process step by step and at the end you’ll have created an amazing Goal Map like the one shown above. Every branch of your own tree of life will contain a special visual guide to enable your unconscious mind to achieve your goals. You’ll be able to download it and print it out as a picture map or even as a word map. Seeing the pictures every day alongside the Slimmer’s Contract you’ll be filling in will concentrate your mind in a way you’ve never experienced before. I’m sure Sandra won’t mind me letting you in on a little secret: She met me at a seminar in 2006 and was inspired to create her own Goal Map using my system. Already she has achieved over two-thirds of the goals she set - and her mind is determined to achieve the remaining ones. Goal Maps are amazing. They can literally transform lives. The secret of success can be yours if you visit ThinkingSlimmer.com and pull down the Expert Advice menu in the navigation bar and click on Goal-mapping. That will lead you to my special Thinking Slimmer online Goal Mapping system. Good luck with your goals - not that you’ll need luck! Brian Mayne is an author, speaker and founder of Lift International

What people like you tell us about the positives they’re noticing

For the first time in my life I now leave food on my plate and don’t clear it

I am not thinking about food all the time or searching in my bag for snacks

I think less about food, and only look to eat once I am hungry and not by the clock

I’m aware of what I’m eating and without realising it I’m making much healthier choices now

I used to be a human dustbin but now I’m eating sensibly. I’ve done the unthinkable and joined a gym

I’m leaving food on my plate for the first time - and I’m not being stressed or worried about it

I’m pleasantly surprised that I can say ‘no thank you’ when someone offers me sweet things

The food I am eating tastes good - I eat slowly enough that I actually taste it for the first time

When I get on the scales I know I will have lost weight, it’s only how much that surprises me

What they tell us about their slimmer’s contracts I put it at the side of my bed - it was the first thing I saw in the morning and the last thing I saw at night. I’m glad I didn’t put it on the fridge, because I’ve not been going to the fridge very often over the last few weeks :-)

I put mine on the kitchen cupboard - the one with my son’s snack things in and I also face it when I am preparing any food. The goal of getting in those jeans is very useful!!

Personal success log Reading through and completing your success log each day just before you listen to your Slimpod will accelerate weight loss by bringing to the attention of your unconscious mind the positive differences it is already making. Sometimes the changes might be huge, sometimes they might seem small, or even trivial. It doesn’t matter – what matters is that changes are happening. Writing them down has a magical effect. So does sharing them in the Slimpod Club. Here’s what a typical day’s log might look like.

Day 6

Noticed I didn’t want a snack before lunch! 1................................................................................................................... Fancied walking to the shops instead of taking the car 2................................................................................................................... Only one glass of wine with dinner, drank lots of water 3...................................................................................................................

Your success log will help you see the remarkable transformation that’s gradually taking place inside you and will make losing weight and changing shape a fun experience. Don’t get hung up on seeing what the scales say. What’s more important is how you feel about yourself and how much looser your clothes are starting to feel.

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WEIGHT LOSS TIP: Apart from your weigh-ins on Day 1 and towards the end of the programme we advise you to stay off the scales. Losing inches is a better gauge of how you’re doing that how much you weigh.

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IMPORTANT STUFF: Get used to smiling, because you’re going to be doing a lot of it from now on - Trevor Silvester

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TELL A FRIEND Today, you may find it useful to go the Slimpod Club on the Thinking Slimmer Facebook page to share your goals and have a chat with other Slimpodders

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SLIMPOD CLUB Today you might like to use the great free resource of the Slimpod Club on our Facebook page and share your first week’s progress

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SLIMPOD CLUB It can help cement your progress by going back to the Slimpod Club on our Facebook page and sharing your second week’s news

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SLIMPOD CLUB We suggest you go the Slimpod Club on our Facebook page and report on your third week

The three best positives I’ve noticed in the past 21 days are: 1................................................................................................................... 2................................................................................................................... 3................................................................................................................... Copyright © 2014 ThinkingSlimmer Ltd. All rights reserved

Now keep your success log going from Day 22 to Day 42 The three goals I’m looking forward to reaching in the next 21 days are: 1................................................................................................................... 2................................................................................................................... 3................................................................................................................... My Day 28 size check Neck

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Make sure you tell your friends in the Slimpod Club what you’ve achieved!

The three best changes I’ve noticed in the past seven days are: 1................................................................................................................... 2................................................................................................................... 3................................................................................................................... My Day 35 size check Neck

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Remember to tell your friends in the Slimpod Club what you’ve achieved!

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Weight Now compare your body measurements on Day One with your measurements today. Add up your body’s total inch loss then enter the figure in the box on the next page. You may be surprised at the answer!

My total inch loss in the past 42 days is...

Now tell your friends in the Slimpod Club what you’ve achieved!

The best three things that have happened in the past 42 days are: 1................................................................................................................... 2................................................................................................................... 3...................................................................................................................

I’m going to control the way I feel for ever from now on by... 1................................................................................................................... 2................................................................................................................... 3...................................................................................................................

We have used all reasonable care and skill in producing your Slimpod or Fitpod. Any decision you make about your lifestyle having used a Slimpod or Fitpod is your own and you remain wholly responsible for any decisions and actions you take. Warning: The voice recordings should not be listened to while driving or operating machinery. If you suffer from epilepsy, clinical depression or any other nervous or psychiatric condition talk to your doctor first. The information provided in our handbook or on our website is not a substitute for medical advice. If in any doubt, please always consult your doctor. Slimpod® Fitpod® Chillpod® &Thinking Slimmer Loving Life® are registered trademarks of ThinkingSlimmer Ltd. All original material is Copyright © ThinkingSlimmer Ltd 2010-2014. Reproduction in part or in whole strictly forbidden without written permission. All rights reserved. WordWeaving® is a registered trademark of the Quest Institute.

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