Expatriate SA Magazine Issue 8

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eet Clara Masinde; a woman who has embraced a revolutionary lifestyle and literally ran with it. Clara had been overweight since turning 13 and struggled with her weight through her teenage years and beyond. She had attempted numerous fad diets - fruit only, protein only, juice diets, replacement meals, diet pills, you name it! All with very short lived results and yoyo weight gain that left her quite certain she would never shake the fat monkey off her back. Resigned to the fate of being the ‘big girl’, she was a plus-sized clothing guru and cleverly accessorized to shift focus off her weight. This in time became the famous pink elephant (with bright gold speckles) in the room that was neither discussed nor dealt with.

begun a search for an eating regimen that would help her achieve her ambitious goal. The search ended when she encountered and signed up for the Fat Loss Laboratory program. In just two months she had lost 17kilos and went on to attain her “35 by 35” in just under six months.

After a lot of introspection during the months leading up to her 34th birthday, she set some powerful personal goals for her future. One of these was dubbed “35 by 35” in other words to lose 35 kilograms by her 35th birthday. With her mind in the right place, she joined a gym after a fifteen year hiatus and cautiously

In a nutshell, Fat Loss Lab requires a set of blood tests which are read together with your medical history to determine an eating programme specifically for you and your blood diagnostics. This is in order to trigger a chemical reaction in your body that results in fat loss. Once the desired goal weight is achieved, the

“What attracted me to Fat Loss Lab was their approach,” she explains. “For the first time ever, I heard it acknowledged that the overweight and obese have metabolisms that don’t behave the same as thin people. Fat Loss Lab is based on the proven premise that hormonal imbalance results in weight gain. In people with weight problems, certain hormones that regulate metabolism are out of balance and sufferers constantly crave food and gain weight whether they eat a little or a lot. I had finally found an explanation for my frustration with food. Gone was the ‘Eat less and exercise more!’ adage underlying all the diets I had tried. Instead, here was a programme that dealt with me as an individual, a sheer hormonal masterpiece of creation.”


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