Gateshead woman sheds 4 stone by hypnosis

Mar 13 2011 Sunday Sun

DEDICATED dieter Fay Laidler came up with a novel way to fight the flab ... she hypnotised herself into losing weight.

The 44-year-old came up with the bizarre idea after becoming sick of fad diets and gruelling exercise regimes.

Fay, from Gateshead, made up her own mesmerising scripts and then recorded them on to CDs.

It was her long-suffering husband Graham’s job to hit the play button and send his wife under her own hypnotic spell.

And her quirky self-treatment certainly seems to have worked - for in the last 18 months alone, Fay has lost a whopping four stone, and the weight is still falling off.

She has so far hypnotised her way from 17 stone to 13 stone, which is the top end of the average weight for a six-foot tall woman.

She said: “I’ve tried so many diets and I can always lose the weight but I can never keep it off.

“These scripts are all about changing your lifestyle, not about crash diets so that when you go into a supermarket, your mind will know to head for the fruit aisle, not the crisps and chocolate.”

She explained: !You have to imagine yourself in a happy place, on holiday or by the sea.

“Then you have to see yourself as you want to look in that place, not how you look now.”

Fay, of Woodgreen, Bill Quay, is completely self-taught with no formal training in hypnotherapy.

She said: “I enrolled on a training course in Leeds but I didn't finish it.”

And she revealed it isn’t the first time her amateur hypnosis skills have done the trick.

Through experimenting on her family, she managed to make her husband, a computer science student, give up chocolate.