I’m on the hypno-diet
From The Daily Mail
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.
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.
‘Now I am able to shed up to three pounds a week because I believe I have had a band fitted into my stomach.
‘Bizarrely, I can remember every part of the ‘procedure’ – including being wheeled into theatre, the clink of the surgeon’s knife and even the smell of the anaesthetic.’
A real gastric band operation usually costs £7,000 and has the same level of risk related to any major operation including infection and DVT.
Married housewife Marion heard about the Elite Clinic in Marbella, Spain in August last year when a friend used it to give up smoking.
Marion, who lived in the country at the time, discovered the clinic also carried out a revolutionary ‘gastric mind band’ therapy.
A week later she went back for a consultation session with therapist Marion Shirran, who runs the clinic with her husband Martin.
After revealing how the birth of her three children left her with no time to exercise and admitting gorging on mid-morning bacon sandwiches, big lunches and giant-sized dinner portions, she booked herself in for five sessions with Marion.
By Eleanor Glover and Luke Salkeld
Last updated at 10:41 AM on 21st May 2009
