What they say ...

I had battled with yo-yo dieting and bulimia for 15 years when I finally -at 15.5 stone -decided I needed some kind of outside help. I had got down to 9.5 stone four years previously and just put it all on again -seemingly unable to diet anymore. I got married and put on even more. I needed a miracle!!

I searched the internet and was inspired when I read Tim's website as he had lost a lot of weight himself, so I gave him a call.

After setting up our first session I was apprehensive, as I didn't know what to expect -I had been hypnotised once before and it hadn't had much effect so I really didn't know what was going to happen -but I was in the realm of 'desperate times need desperate measures'.

I remember feeling fantastic after the first session -there was no trance, no TV Hypnotist stuff, just really deep relaxation and a lot of inner soul searching and affirmations. For the first time I was feeling I was worth something and definitely owed it to myself to lose weight and be the best I could be.

Tim's advice was to leave it a month to weigh myself, which, to a seasoned and constant dieter, felt completely impossible! But what a clincher! I steadily lost half a stone a month. What was different from all the other times I have dieted, was that I did it gradually -a concept I wouldn't have ever thought I could sustain if it wasn't for the encouragement I received from Tim.

I would get texts or calls from Tim with words of encouragement and I had a lump in my throat when I thought of what I was managing to finally achieve. I have felt on a constant high for over a year!

After a summer where I broke my foot, and could do no exercise, I was able to retain control over my eating and didn't gain any weight -for me this was a first and a wonderful feeling.

For anyone who has been a yo-yo dieter or has had an eating problem, you will know exactly what I mean.

Throughout the year a huge factor for me was that I felt fantastic and worthy -even though, in the early months I was still large and lardy, I felt like a supermodel inside just from the sheer pride in what I was doing. Self control is the best drug in the world!

A year and a month on, and I have lost over four stone and am a regular at my gym, where I am going for 'Member of the month'.

Seeing Tim has not only helped me to shift a lot of the weight I needed to lose, but made me feel human again. I had lost so much of my personality and self-esteem, that to get it all back is really liberating. It has made me address many of the other factors in my life that were less than perfect -job, money, home life.

It has changed my life getting hypnotherapy from Tim -not to sound melodramatic, but he has given me my life back