Discover your pause button

GMB is a weight loss therapy using techniques such as self-hypnosis and cognitive behaviour therapy.

CRAVINGS, force of habit and emotional eating come into play when trying to lose weight. Gastric Mind Band is a therapy which aims to help people re-establish normal eating patterns, through techniques including self-hypnosis and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT).

Devised by husband-and-wife hypnotherapist team Martin and Marion Shirran, who’ve also written Gastric Mind Band (Hay House), it eschews calorie-counting and food deprivation in favour of tactics such as a mental ‘pause button’, self-hypnosis and visualisation, and recognising the difference between hunger, craving and desire to change eating habits for life.