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Wife loses four stone after therapist convinces her she’s got a gastric band

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.