I'm on the hypno-diet: Wife loses four stone after therapist convinces her she's got a gastric band
By Eleanor Glover and Luke Salkeld (Daily Mail 21st May 2009)
Dieting can often depend on an element of mind over matter. For Marion Corns, it involved nothing else.
The mother of three has lost four stone after allowing herself to be hypnotised - and told she had been fitted with a gastric band. Believing her stomach has shrunk to the size of a golf ball under a surgeon's knife, the 35-year-old is now able to eat only tiny portions of food.
Mind over matter: Marion Corns weighed 15st 6lbs (left) before she had Gastric Mind Band hypnotherapy which made her think her stomach was the size of a golf ball and now weighs 11st 7lbs (right)
And in the four months following the treatment, her weight has dropped to just over 11st 7lb, while her dress size has gone down from 22 to a 14.
Over five sessions of hypnotherapy, says Mrs Corns, her therapist talked her through every detailed step of the medical procedure as if she were actually inside an operating theatre. Specialist equipment then filled the hypnotist's room with aromas designed to smell like a hospital, until eventually Mrs Corns began to feel a tightening sensation in her stomach. Delighted Marion said: 'I have tried every other diet and exercise plan the world has to offer. 'I've tried tablets, WeightWatchers, Atkins, Slimfast, milkshakes and even a personal trainer, but none of them helped me.