‘Gastric band’ hypnosis lost mum four stone

Emma Eveleigh-Anderton, a company director, dropped from size 18 to eight after the amazing therapy.

Believing her stomach has been shrunk to the size of a golf ball under a surgeon’s knife, the 36-year-old is now able to eat only tiny portions of food.
Emma, from Coventry, needed four £245 sessions over a month.

Her weight had soared to 13 stone after the births of her daughters Antonia, seven, and Alice, six. She was desperate for a solution when a friend told her about the “hypnoband”.

Emma said: “The treatment might sound unusual but worked for me. It was a good holistic approach and looked at my relationship with food.

“I was also motivated to get fit. I was brought up in a fit, active family but I just got lazy.

“Having the session was like actually having the operation, except I was in an office rather than in an operating theatre. It has re-educated my mind. I feel fuller quicker and eat much less.

“I don’t make a conscious decision to eat this way, it’s just habit now.

“I also started to enjoy exercise and, although I found it intimidating at first, I managed to run a triathlon just months after my virtual op.

“It gave me a real sense of achievement.”

Her hypnotist Russell Hemmings said: “The change in her life has just been amazing”