Gastric banding is usually seen as the extreme end of the different solutions for weight management. Any surgery is invasive and carries with it dangers, so any kind of bariatric surgery, from gastric bands to gastric balloons, is usually only recommended as a last resort for morbidly obese patients. But what if you could have the band put in with no surgery and no danger?
Improbable as it sounds, this is what Marion Corns, 35, has had ‘done’. She visited a hypnotherapist who hypnotised her into believing that she had a gastric band put into place. Her hypnotist put her under and then talked her through every stage of the operation, from the anaesthetic to the feel of the surgeon’s knife on her stomach. She even said she could smell the scents of the operating room.
Ms. Corns paid £780 for a course of 5 treatments with the specialist hypnotherapist, but she says it was money well spent. Since the treatment in a clinic in Marbella, she has dropped about 11st and her dress size has gone from a 22 to a 14. She says that the hypnosis is the only thing that has worked for her, after she tried diet plans like Atkins, Weight Watchers and slimming tablets, and that now she is able to lose three pounds a week and feels full if she eats more than a small food portion. There have been other reports of people finding success in losing weight through hypnotherapy, though usually the focus has been on changing someone’s relationship with food.