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Alice Pinion

WE live in a day and age where the media continually stress how important it is to be “model-like” and our figures should be akin to a Hollywood star or a catwalk queen.

It is a dangerous and unsafe belief to think you can suddenly look like Kate Moss or Angelina Jolie if you work hard in the gym, watch what you eat – or decide on drastic weight-reducing surgery. Claudia Aderotimi believed that and tragically died trying to have bottom-reducing surgery in America. She believed what the newspapers told her – that she could be famous if she had the right figure.

The reality is that we can’t all be the same shape or size. We can’t all lose weight to be like Kate Moss or Angelina Jolie. We can’t all pump weights at the local gymnasium because our lifestyle doesn’t allow us. But we live in an age where more and more people are becoming obese due to bad habits. That doesn’t mean people should consider going under the surgeon’s knife for tummy tuck’s or having a gastric band fitted.

Now there is a revolutionary technique known as the hypno-band system and it could be life-changing for many people in Essex. Alice Pinion, experienced hypnotherapist and owner of the Maldon Hypnotherapy clinic, now offers a safe, successful non-surgical option for obese individuals considering the drastic step of undergoing gastric band surgery to lose weight.

She specialises in weight loss therapy and was shocked by how many clinically obese people are now considering the drastic, invasive and risky option of undergoing surgery to combat their weight issues. Alice says: “Until recently it was hard to treat clinically or morbidly obese patients but the Hypno-band weight loss system psychologically fits the band in exactly the same way as if actually having the operation and works wonders with, so far, up to 7 stones lost in one lady and still going!”

The results are amazing. Each suitable patient goes through the entire process “as a function of their psyche”, where hypnosis, suggestion and the ideomotor effect (idea becomes action) mean the client acts and reacts just as if their stomach were the golf ball sized pouch that surgery leaves them with.

Post-op diet advice and cognitive behavioural therapy support the necessary lifestyle changes as your otherwise rugby ball sized stomach shrinks as small as a golf ball! Having offered successful weight loss hypnotherapy to those with emotional eating problems and those looking to just lose a few pounds for years, Alice is delighted at the success of this third option for extreme weight loss.

As a certified Hypno-band practitioner she has been successfully treating clinically obese patients from all over East Anglia and the south east and in fact as far as a visiting Australian.

Alice screens every potential patient during a free initial consultation to see if they are suitable for the Hypno-band weight loss system or other therapy. Clinics are held at the Maldon Hypnotherapy Clinic, 65b High Street Maldon, CM9 5EP and are by appointment only. Contact Alice on 07906 59022 or by sending her an email to alice@alicepinion.com. More information can be found at www.alicepinion.com and www.hypnoband.com