Barbara Leader
Changing the way YOU look at food !!!
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Having spent ten glorious years living in the warm embrace of Australia, Barbara Leader was faced with having to acclimatise herself once again to life on the West Coast in Victoria BC.
Over the years she experienced health problems and stated emphatically, “By the time I returned to Victoria I was in rough shape having put on weight and experiencing a lot of pain from the fibromyalgia I had been diagnosed with ten years earlier.
I had never had a weight issue so dieting was a foreign concept to me. I was looking for some alternatives that would help me to find what was creating the imbalance in my system and also get my weight under control.”
At the time, Barbara’s doctors were saying it was probably part and parcel of a woman’s aging process, but not one to idly sit back she decided to look into it.
Coincidentally, she read about a SureSlim Wellness Clinic information session being held in town. Recognizing the name from her time in Australia, but not being familiar with the company, Barbara did some investigating and attended.
Barbara explained, “I had studied alternative therapies in Australia so I was pretty cognisant of what I was looking for and the SureSlim program offered a healthy, well balanced approach with science to back it up. It is not a quick fix or magic bullet and there was no guess work involved.”
Barbara was so impressed with the research behind the program and the common sense approach to getting healthy and losing weight she enrolled in the program and within eight weeks was at her normal weight and feeling healthy again. Barbara was offered a job as a consultant at the SureSlim clinic and the rest, as they say, is history.
The passion in her voice resonates as she explains how the system works. “It is life changing when you understand what you’re doing, the way you look at food and the values of the food you’re eating. I did the program; I did the training and started working in the clinic eventually taking over management and all the corporate training across Canada.”
In May of last year Barbara was ready to take over the franchise. “It’s a lifestyle change; you need to readjust your thinking about how your body works and the fuel you put into it. We don’t count calories we look at sugar levels and our own blueprint or propensity for the assimilation of the sugar. The overall health of our clients is what is important; we don’t want everyone leaving the clinic looking the same! This is not a one size fits all! To start, we give our clients a requisition to a local MDS/Life Lab to have complete blood work and analysis done. From that, we are able to develop a program that is best for the client according to any health challenges, medications or allergies they might have.
We produce a selections list of all the foods that would be appropriate and a menu planner that breaks down the food categories into grams so the client knows how much to eat. Following this low glycaemic prescription is what balances the hormones responsible for controlling the weight. Weight loss is then healthy, dramatic and lasting when the principles are followed.”
Today Barbara is happy and healthy juggling a successful business with spending time with her growing family (three grand children). She is looking forward to splitting her time between the sun and surf in Australia and Victoria where she will be able to continue to grow her SureSlim business. She is truly a woman roaring to be heard!
Written by: Carmen Borthwick
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