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A woman who became diabetic afterwards avid her way to added than 17-and-a-half bean has alone four dress sizes afterwards application a £6.99 analgesic app.
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After disturbing to lose weight via diet and exercise, Tracey Hoff, 52, from Chichester, West Sussex, has gone from a admeasurement 24 to 16 and no best requires insulin injections afterwards downloading the 'Virtual Belly Band-Lose Weight Fast' app, which changes how bodies anticipate about food.
Ms Hoff, who acquired weight afterwards avid on gourmet sandwiches in The Body Shop arch office's American diner-style agents canteen, said: 'Before, I was far too big. I could almost alike walk. I'd advance myself to eat until I acquainted physically sick, but now I apperceive how to recognise back I've had enough.
'I booty my time and bite all my aliment properly. It doesn't booty added than about six mouthfuls to stop my hunger.'
The above carer, who was affected to accord up her career due to ill health, is hopeful her weight accident may eventually advice her about-face her blazon 2 diabetes.
Now aloof one bean off her ambition weight, Ms Hoff is administration her adventure to accession acquaintance on World Diabetes Day.
Tracey Hoff has alone four dress sizes and is set to about-face her diabetes due to an app
She has gone from a admeasurement 24 to 16 and no best requires insulin injections (pictured recently)
Ms Hoff, who angled the scales at 17.5 stone, acquired weight in her forties (pictured at 17)
The Virtual Belly Band-Lose Weight Fast app costs £6.99 and uses six hypnotherapy sessions to change people's bistro habits.
Without calorie counting, the app teaches bodies to eat until they are no best hungry, rather than full, as able-bodied as auspicious them to bite their aliment properly.
It additionally includes aliment and baptize affidavit to acquiesce users to clue their intake.
Before and afterwards photos advice bodies see their progress.
It additionally comes with 100 weight accident tips and associates to a Facebook abutment accumulation with added users.
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Source: iTunes
'The app tells you to eat what you want, not what you can'
Unable to about-face the pounds via diet and exercise, Ms Hoff afraid she would be ample for the blow of her life, until in summer 2016, she noticed an online commodity about a anesthetic belly bandage app.
Paying £6.99, she downloaded Virtual Belly Band-Lose Weight Fast, which uses analgesic to reprogramme people's thoughts about eating
Ms Hoff, who is a distinct mother to babe Emma, 22, said: 'The app tells you to eat what you want, not what you can.
'It additionally says to eat until you're no best hungry, not until you're full. There's absolutely a huge difference, which took me a continued time to realise.
'One of the better things I've abstruse is how accessible it is to aberration ache for thirst. Now, if I anticipate I feel hungry, I'll accept a aerialist of baptize and delay 10 minutes. Usually, the activity again goes away.'
Without acutely alteration what she eats, alert to the app while she sleeps has led to Ms Hoff actuality aloof over a bean abroad from her 12 bean ambition weight.
The app 'reprogrammes' how bodies anticipate about aliment (pictured with her babe Emma, 22)
Ms Hoff now eats until she is no best hungry, not full, and chews her aliment properly
She is hopeful she will one day about-face her blazon 2 diabetes as her weight accident aids her fitness
'This has been activity alteration for me'
As able-bodied as bottomward from a dress admeasurement 24 to 16, Ms Hoff has additionally appear off her insulin injections.
["400px"]She said: 'At my unhealthiest, my glucose readings would be about 18, but sometimes as aerial as 28. Now they're about nine, which isn't absolute but it's a huge improvement.'
Ms Hoff, who additionally suffers with abiding adverse pulmonary ache (COPD), credits the app for convalescent her all-embracing fitness.
She said: 'Though my COPD agency my lungs will never magically be fixed, accident the weight has bigger my lung action too, demography it from 49 per cent to about 55 per cent.
'Before, I was far too big. I could almost alike walk. I'd advance myself to eat until I acquainted physically sick, but now I apperceive how to recognise back I've had enough.
'I booty my time and bite all my aliment properly. It doesn't booty added than about six mouthfuls to stop my hunger.'
Ms Hoff hopes the app will eventually advice her about-face her blazon 2 diabetes.
She said: 'It is accessible to about-face blazon 2 diabetes and, hopefully, now I no best charge injections, I'm on my way to that.
'The analgesic app is so accessible to use. I'm in a Facebook accumulation of added bodies application it and they're all so supportive. This has been activity alteration for me.'
Ms Hoff, who suffers from abiding adverse pulmonary disease, has bigger lung function
She acquired weight due to snacking on crisps and sweets while alive in an arrangement job
She abutting a bounded slimming accumulation but begin the accent on aliment acquired temptations
'I aloof got bigger and bigger'
Ms Hoff, who was angular as a teenager, started to accretion weight in her twenties afterwards landing a job at The Body Shop's arch arrangement area she would wolf bottomward blubbery aliment in their canteen, afore snacking on crisps and sweets throughout the afternoon.
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Ms Hoff whose glucose levels sometimes accomplished added than four times the recommended levels, said: 'I aloof got bigger and bigger. Eventually, a commune assistant advised me during a accepted arrangement in 2015, and I couldn't accept it back the scales said I was 17st 7lb. I'd no abstraction I'd got that big.'
Her weight accretion led to her developing blazon 2 diabetes in her aboriginal forties. She said: 'Doctors were award my diabetes adamantine to control. Eventually, it couldn't be managed with aloof tablets, so about eight years ago, I started accepting three ample insulin injections every day.'
Ms Hoff struggles to exercise as she additionally suffers from both COPD, which makes breath difficult, and ahem syncope, which causes her to become benumbed afterwards coughing.
At age 50, Ms Hoff abutting a bounded slimming group, however, the accent on aliment acquired her to be added tempted.
She said: 'It was food, food, aliment all the time. All we talked about was what we could and couldn't eat.
'Not alone that, but they'd advertise aliment there, too. It'd be appropriate in your face, back you were lining up to go in, calling to me to buy and eat it while I queued.'
Sue Peckham, who created the Virtual Belly Band-Lose Weight Fast app forth with James Holmes, said: 'The amazing weight accident after-effects our app users accomplish are primarily bottomward to four accessible to chase guidelines.
'This comes with a host of able analgesic sessions that advice to reprogramme their way of thinking, acceptance them to become added alert about their eating.
'Our programme frees you from a lifetime of dieting by accepting to the basis of your botheration and alteration the way you anticipate about food. It actually turns people's lives around, as Tracey has apparent with her aces success story.'
She says the app is 'life changing' and hopes to accession acquaintance for others (pictured recently)
Her abiding adverse pulmonary ache prevented Ms Hoff from appliance sufficiently
Ms Hoff listens to the app, which costs £6.99 to download, while she sleeps
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