A woman has revealed how she dropped five dress sizes in less than a year – by thinking herself thin.
Heather Jones, 38, insists she used mind power alone to shrink from a size 18 to a slinky size eight.
The former jewellery photographer, from Prestatyn, north Wales, describes her nine month quest to slim as "effortless ".
Some cynics may be sceptical, but I really did this all with the power of my mind," she said.
"I literally thought myself thin. Our thoughts are so powerful and I feel so amazing now."
Heather started gaining weight seven years ago, after comfort eating, following the tragic loss of her ex-partner Kriston Docker.
The pair had split up some time before he died, but remained close.
When he died, aged 32, from cystic fibrosis in 2009, she fell into a deep depression.
"I'd moved from London to be with him in Wales and we had a wonderful life here," she said.
"For so long I never thought cystic fibrosis was going to kill him, but it did, and for about a year I was very depressed.
"I didn't get out of bed for about 12 months. Kriston was such an amazing, positive force in my life that I didn't know how to go on."
At one point, Heather even contemplated ending it all, but this rock bottom became her turning point.
Realising something had to change, she said: "I didn't want that to be my story, so I tried to think differently about my grief."
That's when Heather discovered the Emotional Freedom Technique . They use ideas employed by alternative medicine, to make people think differently.
It works by releasing 'blockages' within the energy system which are the source of emotional intensity and discomfort.
It is similar to acupuncture, based on the same energy points used to treat physical and emotional ailments.
But instead of using needles, tapping with the fingertips is used to release energy build-up to re-wire the brain.
Experts have called on the NHS to start using the self-help technique.
Feeling rejuvenated, in Spring 2015, 5ft 7ins Heather – then wearing size 18 clothes - decided she really needed to do something about her size.
"I'd been stuffing my face for years. I looked rough and knew I needed to sort out my sugar addiction," she explained.
"I didn't want to deprive myself, but I knew I had to stop eating chocolates, biscuits and all the other junk I was gorging on - it was disgusting. I was 37, but I was eating like a student."
Feeling that sugar was controlling her life, Heather started using the Emotional Freedom Technique again.
"I wanted to try a brain training technique to lose weight and feel better about myself," she said.
"I started working with my subconscious and telling myself to care for my body."
When Heather craved sugar, she would tap certain points on her face and chest, whilst thinking positively.
"I'd think, 'even though I want this drink or this chocolate biscuit, I do also love myself,' and then tap certain areas of my body to calm my brain.
Heather Jones at her biggest in 2009
After a few minutes of doing this, I no longer had the cravings."
Within a few months, Heather was already a few dress sizes smaller.
"It was effortless and I felt so powerful. My thoughts, habits and behaviour were completely changed," she explained.
"Before I would be thinking, 'I'm so overweight, I hate how I look', but that changed completely.
"I felt happy with the way I was and I changed my relationship with food. Now I eat, drink and think differently and because my thoughts have changed, I am motivated to exercise so much more too."
The transformation had such a huge impact on Heather's life that she quit her job as a photographer and started her own business, The Brain Trainer , to help others to think themselves thin.
"Before I would look in the mirror and think 'you look rough' but now I look and like what I see," she said.
Now a size eight – but unsure of her weight because she has never weighed herself –Heather is still single but she often receives admiring comments.
"People say, 'Heather you're glowing, you look amazing,'" she said.
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