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Dieting is hard. It's why the idea of a weekly weight-loss injection that does all the work for you, like Ozempic, is so tempting — especially when you see the remarkable transformations of celebrities who admit using it, such as Sharon Osbourne and Oprah Winfrey.

The way these jabs work is fascinating. The drug itself is called semaglutide (branded as Ozempic or Wegovy), and one way it works is by mimicking a hormone the body produces naturally when full, called GLP-1. By feeding back the message to the brain that our appetite is sated, it dials down feelings of hunger, and even interest in food, which leads to weight loss.

But there are drawbacks, not least the cost — to source Ozempic for the purpose of shedding weight, rather than the diabetes it's licensed for on the NHS, you have to pay up to £285 a month for the highest dose. And it stops working when you stop taking it, so that's up to £3,420 a year to stay slim. 

There are side-effects too. Many users report nausea and vomiting (Boris Johnson says this is what ended his Ozempic journey), and few escape without what is euphemistically called 'digestive disturbances'.

But what if there were a way to replicate its benefits with none of those hideous effects, and for free? What if — instead of injecting yourself with a chemical serum — you could use the hidden power of your own mind to do it?

To download the 'hypno-jab' click here 

I'm perfectly serious. I've been using my qualification in applied psychology and postgraduate training at the London College of Clinical Hypnotherapy to help women lose weight for the past 14 years. On average, at the retreats I run in Dorset, participants lose eight pounds in a single week.

Now I've fine-tuned all my experience and knowledge to create a powerfully effective 'hypno-jab' in the form of a 30-minute audio download, which is available here to readers of the print edition of the Daily Mail and online to Mail+ subscribers.

For the truth is, by 'implanting' the suggestion that the satiety signals in your brain fire up every time you eat, clinical hypnosis can suppress your appetite just as GLP-1 — or Ozempic — does. It can forge a stronger connection between your brain and that natural feeling of satisfaction and fullness, meaning you won't want to pile your plate as high as you used to.

This isn't the same as classic hypnotherapy for weight loss, which is usually tailored to a particular issue, such as binge eating or craving a specific food, and encompasses a wide range of techniques. It's no good hypnotising someone to stop eating chocolate if they're only going to switch their indulgence to Doritos.

My 'hypno-jab' is different

Remember the 'virtual gastric band'? Practitioners used this form of hypnotherapy, introduced 15 years ago, to suggest at a subconscious level that someone had undergone bariatric surgery and was therefore able to eat much less than usual.

Its popularity and success showed that being taken, under hypnosis, into a clinical environment and being guided through a surgical procedure entirely of your imagination, really can change the way the cells fire together in the brain.

My hypno-jab takes this one step further, changing the way you think about food and instilling healthy long-term eating habits en route.

Just listening to this audio every day for seven days, then two or three times a week for the next two weeks, can be enough to change your perception of appetite and hunger so you really do start to feel satisfied after eating smaller portions. Just as you might if you've been having the jab.

But the hypnosis also cleverly addresses the disordered eating patterns that very likely caused you to become overweight in the first place.

This is something Ozempic cannot do. The jabs are just a sticking plaster — once ripped off, the old eating problems remain. In fact, studies show most people regain at least two-thirds of the weight they've lost in the year after stopping the injections.

I'm convinced my hypno-jab is strong enough to match the power of Ozempic and change the way you feel about food for good. It dulls the appetite and gets to the root cause of why we eat more than we should.

I know — from thousands of clients and also from my own personal experience — that many of our unhelpful eating behaviours are firmly embedded in our psyche. I was overweight as a child and at my heaviest I weighed 17 st (I'm 5ft 7in tall). I used to hold my size-20 jackets in place with safety pins.

Naturally I tried lots of different diets, but it was only when I was able to apply my knowledge of hypnosis, psychology and a process called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) — a way of analysing and changing our thinking patterns — that I was able fully to understand and address the underlying factors that influenced my eating habits.

Unprocessed grief led me to self-soothe with sugar, for example. I still felt the shame and stigma associated with being 'the fat girl' at school and not being asked to dance at the disco. Knowing what lay behind my poor eating habits helped hugely with self-image and motivation, and helped me shed my excess weight for good.

I've been a comfortable 11 stone (wearing 12-14 size clothes) for the past 15 years, and it is the lessons I've learned and the expertise I now have that I incorporate into my one-on-one weight loss consultancy, and into my retreats. They also form the bedrock of my 'hypno-jab' programme.

So how does it work?

The first step is to dispel any thoughts of stage hypnosis, where watching a swinging pocket watch might leave you clucking like a chicken.

Clinical hypnosis works in a much gentler way by first taking you into a state of deep relaxation, which quietens the critical, conscious part of your mind — the logical, rational part of your brain which might be saying 'this will never work' and 'it's not for me' and which can keep you stuck in a negative energy spiral of despair and doubt. The aim is to find the lovely state between being awake and asleep when your brain is more open to suggestion and change.

Why not try it now? Sit or lie somewhere comfortable and take three long, slow, deep breaths, allowing yourself to soften and relax. Now look at the box below for a taster of what you'll hear when you listen to my needle-free weight-loss hypnosis.

Just reading through this preview can be enough to start to effect change, but I urge you to listen to my voice leading the full hypnosis and to follow the programme I recommend.

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