Hypnotherapy cures food phobic who only ate potatoes for 40 years

A mom who could only eat potatoes, chips and mash for 40 years has been cured thanks to hypnosis.Rachel Hall, 42, could not stand eating fruit or vegetables and would physically gag if she put them near her mouth.The only foods she could stomach were jacket potatoes, mash and chips with the occasional chicken breast.The mom-of-two would go through sacks of potatoes every month and even ate a plate of mash for Christmas dinner and birthday meals.She said, “People can’t believe it when I tell them the only thing I ate were potatoes until I was 42.“It wasn’t so much that I loved potatoes or was hooked on them, in fact I found them quite dull.“It was more that I had a phobia about almost every other type of food and had a high gag reflex which made it almost impossible to swallow new foods.“I had a real phobia of choking and if I put anything, like fruit or vegetables, near my mouth I’d start gagging.“My parents told me I was a fussy eater and I’d grow out of it but I never did.“I’d eat potatoes in any form so I’d eat chips, jacket potatoes, roasties and piles of mash heaped onto my plate day after day.“I liked potatoes because they are safe.They are boring and bland – the idea of flavor or spice really scared me.”The teaching assistant, who also runs her own cleaning company, first developed her food phobias when she was weaned on solids as a toddler.

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She said, “It started when I was a really small child.“Apparently I would spit out baby food from a jar and just close my mouth and shake my head.“Every birthday I’d ask my mom for a birthday cake but I never ate a single bite.“I liked looking at it but the idea of eating cake made me feel sick.“I’d just stick to my safe foods which were main...