Let me tell you this: Your summer body starts now.

You cannot leave your bikini-body dreams until September and spend winter eating stews and roast potatoes and deliciously sweet malva puddings in front of the fireplace in your pyjamas. Sadly, life doesn’t work like that. OK, sure, there are a few of you who are metabolically gifted, but for the rest of us who find comfort in food (I, for example, ate a slab of chocolate this morning before 09h30) need to keep on our toes.

We’re told often in life that it is alright to ask for help, and I think this is the perfect situation to ask for it. So I suggest you go to a Skin, Body & Health Renewal Clinic and chat to them. See, they have this amazing thing called Slender Wonder.

It is a Medical Weight Loss programme, where individuals are assisted in reaching their goal weight in a fast, safe and effective way. By losing this unwanted and unhealthy weight you benefit from not only the weight loss, but improved energy levels, improved mood, confidence and overall wellness.

Through various Health Renewal tests, the doctors can also determine if there are underlying causes for your weight gain such as thyroid issues, or polysistic ovaries.

The Slender Wonder programme is carefully monitored by the medical staff at Health Renewal and continued support is given to all patients to ensure you reach your goals and get the maximum benefits from the process. It is especially effective for patients that have to quickly lose weight for health reasons (for example, looming operations, or heart and artery health, etc.).

Once your goal weight is reached, it is vital that you follow the stabilisation and maintenance part to assist your body in adjusting – you do not want to bounce back and pick up all the lost weight again.

Through perseverance, the weight will go off and stay off. Look, everything in life takes a bit of work. But it’s completely worth it – depending on each patient’s individual factors, anything between 8-15kgs’s can be lost in a six week cycle.

Sure, you can still try out all the different diets out there – between Atkins, Banting, juicing and the rest of them, you will find one that suits you best. Banting, for example, is huge in South Africa at the moment, and even more so in Cape Town, driven by Prof Tim Noakes.

The thing with diets, though, is it is vital to ensure that your body responds well to your choice diet and it is never a good idea to fully jump into any eating programme without the help and guidance of a health care practitioner. Some people will do great on a Banting diet (my mother swears by it), where others (I will literally kill people for a slice of toast after day three) can develop ailments and negative body adjustments.

For fast and proven results you can choose Slender Wonder as it is results driven, whilst your diet can be seen as a lifestyle choice.

This does not mean you can go and eat that slab of chocolate tomorrow morning… 

Have a listen to the latest Skin, Body & Health Renewal Clinic podcast with Abstract Aimee HERE