Laura-Beth Ives had been a yo-yo dieter (Image: Slimpod)
Yo-yo dieter Laura-Beth Ives dropped five stone in just six months – and it required just nine minutes of effort daily.
Nurse Laura-Beth from Tameside, Greater Manchester, gained weight while on maternity leave following the birth of her son five years ago.
She had tried various diets to shed the pounds and maintain the loss but consistently found herself back where she started.
However, she has now succeeded in losing an incredible five stone in just six months thanks to a groundbreaking weight loss programme being tested at the hospital where she’s employed.
Laura-Beth experimented with the Slimpod app, which utilises neuroscience techniques for just nine minutes daily to transform how people think and feel about food.
Laura-Beth Ives dropped five stone (Image: Slimpod)
It’s claimed to help them naturally make healthier decisions and increase activity, which consequently encourages greater willpower and then weight loss.
Mum-of-one Laura-Beth was astonished by its effect.
She has now gone from a size 18 to a 10, dropping from 15 and a half stone to just 10 and a half stone.
Laura-Beth said: “Several times I’ve lost weight but put it all back on, and more.
“I managed to get to a size 12 a few years ago but was such an emotional eater that the weight just went back on – I could easily eat a full big bar of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and would snack on sweet stuff non-stop at work to keep me going.
Laura-Beth says she knows she will keep the weight off (Image: Slimpod)
“Since I started the Slimpod programme it’s all changed – it was like a switch flicking in my head.
“I no longer reach for sugary food for comfort, my shopping basket is full of healthy food and I take healthy food into work too.”
Laura-Beth appears on How to Lose Weight Well on Channel 4 tonight where Dr Xand Van Tulleken examines whether unconscious persuasion could represent the future of dieting.
Slimpod founder Sandra Roycroft-Davis has been employing the technique on hundreds of NHS workers throughout the country.
The programme incorporates video coaching and a distinctive voice recording that you listen to for just nine minutes daily.
It gently retrains the brain to alter the way you think and feel about food and yourself.
Sandra Roycroft-Davis, a Harley Street weight loss specialist, explains: “Where you used to get pleasure from unhealthy food and sugary snacks, your brain starts learning how to feel good when you eat healthy food and take exercise instead.
“Slimpod helps you lose weight without depriving yourself and does what diets can’t.
“The focus is on changing your behaviour towards food and importantly, taking the emotion out of eating.
“By empowering you to control what you eat and motivating you to be more active, you lose weight without even having to think about it.”
Laura-Beth Ives with her old uniform (Image: Slimpod)
Laura-Beth said: “I’m feeling great – far more positive, confident and healthier. I don’t get out of breath any more and don’t worry about not fitting in my uniform.
“I also exercise three times a week and love it – I’d prefer to be exercising than eating now!
“I know the weight will stay off, because my new eating and exercise habits are here to stay – they’ve become automatic.”
The initiative Laura-Beth participated in involved 100 hospital staff from Tameside Hospital engaging in a 12-week challenge, with the objective being to assist them in losing weight.
In addition to following the Slimpod programme, staff had access to healthy menu options in the hospital restaurant.
The programme was a resounding success.
87% of participants shed weight whilst listening to the Slimpod over the three-month project and 90% reported behavioural change and stated that they had reduced snacking, with the majority having completely lost interest in sugar.
Before using Slimpod this is what Laura-Beth used to eat on a typical day:
- Breakfast – cereal or toast with jam
- Lunch – would be starving and just grab a sandwich or some bread
- Dinner – usually pizza or spaghetti bolognaise
- Sugar consumption – a big chocolate bar every day and hidden sugars in the food. Chocolate was a huge problem.
This is what Laura-Beth eats on a typical day now:
- Breakfast – scambled egg/banana and fruit
- Lunch – tuna, chicken, salon or cottage cheese salad.
- Dinner – homemade pizza but made from a wrap. Puts loads of veg and tuna etc on it
This story originally appeared on Express.co.uk
