therapist hypnotizes students retaking the college entrance exams, during a meditation session at Deung Yong Moon Boarding School in Kwangju, some 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Seoul October 30, 2012. South Korea's exam hell is an annual event so ful
IN PHOTO: therapist hypnotizes students retaking the college entrance exams, during a meditation session at Deung Yong Moon Boarding School in Kwangju, some 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Seoul October 30, 2012. South Korea's exam hell is an annual event so full of pressure that many students are driven to despair, with some even taking their own lives. Some 140,000 of the test takers signed up for this year's entrance exam on November 8, 21 percent of the total, are high school graduates, according to government data. The really determined, or desperate, may decide to spend nine months at one of 40 private boarding schools like Deung Yong Moon ("Gateway to Success") to dedicate their waking hours for the test. Picture taken October 30, 2012. Reuters/Stringer

Australia's heaviest man, 26-year-old Ulu Tuipulotu, weighs approximately 337 kilograms. Taking into consideration his clinical psychologist, Mark Stephens' suggestion, he has turned his attention towards hypnotherapy for the purpose of losing weight.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Australia's heaviest man, before his diet started, would eat a loaf of bread, a whole chicken and take away for breakfast, lunch and dinner respectively. In between meals, he would even junk on chips, donuts as well as drink lots of soft drinks. To top it all of, he would spend around 12 hours playing video games.

At the age of 13, Tuipulotu started piling on weight and started becoming bigger every year. He tried a lot of diet shakes, in addition to diets and Lite N Easy, a service that delivers healthy meals for the purpose of losing weight, but was unsuccessful. He was told by doctors that he would die if he was not able to lose some weight.

Tuipulotu was unable to stand on the weighing scale as the scales could not bear his weight. This made him feel desperate and so he decided to fight for his life. The 26-year-old said that he had discussed the possibility of a gastric lap band surgery, a surgery that helps in shrinking the stomach, with his doctors but they told him that he was too large for the surgery. They also told him that he had to lose a considerable amount of weight before he could attempt the surgery.

He decided to make a life-changing decision after he saw Stephens on a television programme. He got in touch with his mother and asked her to make contact with the clinical psychologist. For a period of about three weeks, he has been taking sessions of hypnotherapy through which Stephens has told him to start eating small and healthy meals and also to turn his attention on cutting off his addiction to video games.

Tuipuloto was hopeful that he could lose some weight in a span of about two years with help and support from his family. He added that the day he started with Stephens, he updated a status on Facebook stating that this was his start to the journey.

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