2018 JUNE ISSUE SIXTEEN SUCCESS Slender Counterfeit HCG & the health hazards it poses Emotional eating & weight loss The correlation between sleep and weight loss Alice Le Roux-Burger’s Slender Wonder journey Photo : Helga Strydom | The Glamour Experience
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2018JUNEISSUE SIXTEEN
SUCCESSSlender
Counterfeit HCG & the health hazards it poses
Emotional eating & weight loss
The correlation between sleep and weight loss
Alice Le Roux-Burger’s Slender Wonder journey
Photo : Helga Strydom | The Glamour Experience
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Counterfeit HCG& THE HEALTH HAZARDS IT POSES
Human chorionic gonadotropin, also referred to as hCG, is the hormone that plays a pivotal part in the Slender Wonder medical weight loss programme. When
physician and combined with a tailor-made eating plan that supports a healthy and sustainable lifestyle, it has the potential to assist patients in losing weight and improving their quality of life due to its impact on metabolic functioning.
However, when purchased from illegal online sources
doctor, it poses serious health hazards. Here are a few
should be avoided:
The source cannot be traced
The hCG used in our Slender Wonder medical weight loss programme is formulated under sterile conditions
prescription per patient. When you order hCG online
how and where it was formulated.
You can easily be swindled
There are plenty of products, homeopathic and otherwise, that claim to contain hCG, but in fact contain little more than water and colourant. When medication is purchased through these unregulated channels there is no recourse if the product purchased contains none of the active ingredients the manufacturers claimed it did.
It’s illegal
It is 100% illegal to order medication that requires a prescription online from an anonymous source.
to a certain schedule. In South Africa, any medicine
medicine. This includes HCG. To get prescription
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medicine, a prescription from a doctor, dentist or allied health professional is required, which a pharmacy may
medicine, and by law only a 6-month repeat prescription for schedule 3 and schedule 4 medicines is permitted. This regulation is in place to ensure that patients do not harm themselves by administering medication incorrectly. As such, purchasing it without a script is punishable by law.
hCG itself is not a cure-all
While the hormone plays an important part it the weight loss regime, it is by no means a cure-all. There is a very precise protocol that has to be followed in conjunction with the medication to ensure that any resultant weight
loss occurs in a sustainable fashion. There are also certain instances where even prescription HCG may
advize in these instances. Bypassing the medical
These are just a few of the reasons why purchasing counterfeit hCG online can have negative repercussions on your health and wellbeing. For more information on hCG and the role it plays in the Slender Wonder medical weight loss programme, Get in touch with a Slender Wonder consultant today. We are here to answer any questions you may have and to provide professional guidance along your weight loss journey.
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CAN MAKE BIG DIFFERENCES
start seeing the desired results.
Any change is a good change
proclaimed couch-potato to a marathon runner isn’t
the stairs or any other small change that can increase your daily step count.
Don’t eat on the couch
from losing weight. If you sit at a table to eat your meals and don’t watch TV you will eat more slowly, appreciate the food and feel satiated. Plus you will have more conversations with your family, partner or roommate which is a much healthier way to enjoy your mealtimes.
Small Changes
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Choose healthy snacks
This doesn’t mean you should deprive yourself of
eat them. See them as treats and not everyday
decadent things in life and invent interesting alternatives.
Wonder’s Bars. Their high protein content will
Never skip breakfast, Shake it up instead
by Slender Wonder require you to use weight
developed by weight loss specialists to give your
full.
no longer an option.
Simply by adopting small changes, whether they
with our weight loss specialists and peruse our various weight loss products.
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PAGE 12 MEDICAL CREDIT ACCOUNTMediWallet
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My Slender Wonder Journey KAREN VAN ZYL
Catching up with Karen van Zyl
Karen was our cover-girl in the March Slender Wonder
My Journey to the Stage
major life decisions), I was lying in bed scrolling through
Moving on to May 2017, when I started my journey with
Slender Wonder. This time round – for the third time, I made a promise to myself that I will not gain weight
goal weight in December 2017, I was starting to panic
goal for myself. I had saved a photo of my friend in her
came across it again. Being the stubborn person, I am,
training, the diet, and have the discipline needed to get stage ready.
“I made a promise to myself.”
competing with my husband during our holiday and when he gave me his support I raised the possibility with my coach, Annie Wilson from Fitbunz. She was so
preparation started.
Karen lost
7 months
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all the weight. We stepped up our game from January
training plan.
in my body. My competition preparation lasted 17
whites and asparagus, and didn’t have a single cheat
“I absolutely love my workouts”
I became a machine. All that mattered to me was my
before. I had my eye on the prize (not literally – my only
bad way on stage) and nothing could stop me.
there wasn’t anything else I could do at that point. I
away.
“I was blown away.”
on stage – I loved it, don’t get me wrong, but the road to get there wasn’t an easy one. It was physically and
deal of personal growth also happened, unintentionally.
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cult thing I have ever done.
myself as a person:
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seriously do anything. If I can never miss a cardio
during both – I can do anything.•
• whole eggs added into your diet to show that your mentality can change if you want it to. I never in a
• This is a lifestyle, but not a life. This has two parts. Don’t decide to compete on a whim. It is very, very
hard, and a great deal of money. Don’t do it to inspire yourself to lose weight. And don’t forget to accept yourself no matter what – ripped on stage
the fun part of life. I struggle with this part every day,
the same way.
“You cannot out-exercise a bad diet”
Now, almost one month post show, it’s all a mental game. I did reverse dieting to slowly increase caloric
happy with my current form and I will be stepping on stage on 25 August 2018 for the IFBB Provincial Show.
We are proud of Karen for achieving her goal, well done
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& WEIGHT LOSS
Research estimates that 75% of overeating is caused by emotions. Emotional eating is the consumption of
food in response to feelings. Food does bring comfort, at least in the short-term, therefore, people often turn to food to deal with emotional problems, such as:
Replacement Behavior:
the equation by identifying what trigger emotional eating and substitute it with more appropriate techniques to manage emotional problems.
How to Identify Eating Triggers
Situations and emotions that trigger us to eat fall into four main categories.
• Physiological. Eating in response to physical hunger
• at a restaurant, seeing an advertisement for a
may also be associated with certain activities such as watching TV, going to the movies or a sporting event.
• Social. Eating when around other people. For
• Emotional. Eating in response to boredom, stress,
• Keeping a food diary that will help to identify triggers.
Breaking the habit
Usually, by the time emotional eating triggers were
activities instead.
Emotional eating
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• Write a letter or email.• • • Play cards or a board game.• • • • Play with the dog.• • Wash the car.• Or do any other pleasurable or necessary activity
until the urge to eat passes.
Getting others involved in changing behaviours
eat.
or group counseling.These techniques address the underlying emotional problems and teach a person to
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My Slender Wonder Journey CHANÉ JANSEN
YEAR-END FUNCTION TURNING POINT TO LOSE WEIGHT FOR 22-YEAR OLD
When Chané Jansen (22) from Montana, Pretoria, saw pictures of herself with her boyfriend during his year-end
urgently needed to lose weight.
Chané realised she was not leading a healthy lifestyle,
than once a day.
supposed to suppress your hunger, but she realised
needed by only using those products.
Then Chané learned about Slender Wonder and decided to give it a try. She started with the weight loss
She could not be happier.
She says the best thing about Slender Wonder is that it
weight so easy and the results were very fast. That was
Slender Wonder also helped Chané to change the way
sometimes I actually forget to eat. I also discovered that being overweight and having a problem with food is all
Chané
to date
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control of yourself, become the best you can be, and do
For Chané the biggest challenge was not to cheat.
craving something that I was not supposed to eat, I would smell it. People said I made it worse for myself,
programme and she will now continue with the diet until she reaches her goal weight.
Chané recommends Slender Wonder to anyone that is ready for a change.
healthy lifestyle.
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DOCTORS & ASSISTANTS
JUNE
Dr H Pienaar 6 June Dr M Hutton 6 June Dr SM Phiri 6 June Dr Mari Govender (Moorton - Chatsworth) 6 June Dr STC Thobejane (Ongwediva) 9 June Dr Kim Nolan (Alberton) 9 June
Dr Sadya Docrat (Jeppestown) 18 June
Mrs Rachel Schlotfeldt 24 June
JULY
Miss Patricia Jacobs ( Witrivier) 2 July Dr. A Marais (Doornpoort) 2 July
Dr B van Zyl (Springs) 7 July
Dr T Ndlovu (Estcourt KZN) 14 July Mrs Marietjie Kritzinger (Ellisras) 17 July Dr N Buthelezi 19 JulyMe Gerda Pretorius 17 July Dr E Herselman 18 July Dr Jan Fourie (Dundee) 20 July Dr Ingrid Human (Kimberley) 28 July Mr Jaco Fourie (Kathu) 30 July
Dr M Punungwe (Zimbabwe) 30 July Dr M I Peer 13 July
AUGUST
Dr S Fourie (Kameelfontein) 5 August Dr. van der Westhuizen (Montana) 12 August
Dr Zaheda Bhabha (Bedfordview) 15 August Dr JJ Stanton (Riveria) 17 August
Mrs Hester Gouws (Sasolburg) 28 August Dr HS Johnson (Bryanston) 29 August Dr Natalie Cordeiro (Dainfern) 30 August Dr M Edwards 31 August
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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN
There is an undeniable connection between getting enough sleep and losing weight. Sleep is necessary for the body to function at its best, so it is only logical
weight, if at all.
Sleep Has More Control Than You May Realise
of sleep per night. That’s quite a lot when you consider how few people actually get these hours in every night. So it is no coincidence that many people struggle with both their weight and getting enough sleep, because there is a correlation between the two.
Any medical weight loss doctor will tell you that the sooner you get more sleep, the better. This is due to the fact that it can put some of your weight loss challenges aside and even improve sleep disorders you may have,
weight and losing weight can in turn help you sleep better.Sleep, Calorie Burn and Fat CellsSleeping burns between 50 and 100 calories every hour. Even one night of sleep of only 4 hours is enough to
the chances of weight gain and diabetes. Fat cells carry this grogginess with them in the event that you do not
When you are sleep deprived your body’s ability to use insulin properly diminishes. This insulin resistance causes fats to circulate in your blood instead and pump
around the liver which can cause (a dangerous) Fatty
time again is that despite intervention from weight loss
due to the fact that your cravings will increase due to your insulin processes being interrupted and you will
for a pizza in front of the TV instead.
This is not to say that getting a full night’s sleep will magically turn you into a supermodel, but there are undeniable correlations between sleep and weight loss you should be aware of. For your overall health and
area to start your weight loss journey today.
Sleep and Weight Loss
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My Slender Wonder Journey COVER STORYALICE LE ROUX-BURGER
Burger, 44-year old, happily married, mother of two from Oudtshoorn.
She doesn’t really know what caused her weight gain.
‘letting go’ over a long period of time. I didn’t binge eat or
For her there were many factors leading up to the turning point where she realised she needed to do something about her weight.
“…but I think it was just “letting’ go”
Another incident leading up to her decision was the fact
And when she phoned a friend to complain, the friend’s
Alice lost
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en we were on a shoestring budget holiday in Madagascar and the last evening we were having dinner at the communal dinner table.
beach, my husband said: ‘Alice, you were so funny
the beautiful, slim woman who sat across from me at the table. It was then that I realised how much I was missing
consumed me so much that I could not enjoy myself
That was when Alice realised that her weight was a common thread of unhappiness in her life, which she often projected towards herself and towards her family. It was time for a serious change.
Over the years, Alice tried almost every diet or diet
process.
She learned about Slender Wonder from her best friend, Dr. Barlodien Kotzé of Sculptique in Wynberg, who has often mentioned the programme to her and the success her patients had. In fact, Alice tried it a few years earlier with another doctor and had great short-term success,
again.
But this time she was determined.
main sentra.
She believed that the doctor’s role was merely to evaluate her as a patient and to approve the subscription to the programme. The will and motivation had to be her own.
Alice’s philosophy was to treat food as medicine.
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diet programme to become thin and healthy. I did not
all my meals well in advance, and mostly ate the same
“…the most challenging aspect of the diet was weekends…”
For Alice the most challenging aspect of the diet was
in the evenings. She compared being on the Slender
during dinner and you are not eating enough’ or ‘Are you
The best thing about the Slender Wonder diet is that is
believe that I have totally reset my metabolism, which
the programme, but losing all the weight made such
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A wonderful moment for her was when she tried on a number 10 coat at Woolworths and it was too big.
Today Alice is still following the eating plan, but without the supplements and injections.
She recommends Slender Wonder to anybody who is
Alice hopes her testimony and story inspires others who are struggling with the same challenges.
yourself and to realise that being overweight has an
Her advice to anybody wanting to go on the Slender Wonder journey is: • • Give away any food that might tempt you
immediately.• Don’t start the diet until you are mentally ready and
never start on a Monday.• Plan ahead for business trips and functions. Any
challenge or event that might disrupt your diet must be managed in advance.
• Tell all your family and friends that you are going on
• I reached a plato or even gained weight, but I just
weight and I could not be frustrated by a few days of not losing.