A slimming group leader from Nenagh who helps 135 people in the Nenagh group to slim down each week has reached the finals of a competition for her own inspiring weight loss success.
Like all Slimming World Consultants Dawn, who runs a Slimming World group in Abbey Court, has lost weight herself with the club and that transformation won her a place in the finals of the Consultant Slimmer of the Year 2013 competition. She was one of just 48 Consultants from all across the UK and Ireland to bag a place in the finals.
Dawn, joined her local Slimming World group in January 2012 after struggling with her weight for most of her life, after her marriage broke up in 2000 she began to comfort eat and the pounds began to pile on. At her heaviest she weighed 14 st 7 lb and found that when she was asked to be a bridesmaid for her manager she knew she had to make a change because there would be no escaping the photographs.
So she went along to her local Slimming World group and hasn’t looked back since. She started following Slimming World’s Food Optimising healthy eating plan: “It’s nothing like diets I’ve tried before, it’s so generous. I immediately loved the flexibility of being able to choose from hundreds of healthy foods that I could eat without having to weigh or measure my portions and I’ve never felt hungry. All my family enjoy the same meals – they barely even notice they’re eating healthily – and even when we eat out there’s always something I can have and stay on track because Slimming World has helped me to learn how to make the healthiest choices.”
After losing 3st 7 lb and reaching her target weight of 11 stone in only 28 weeks, Dawn decided to train to become a Slimming World Consultant herself because she wanted to help other people in the community to change their lives in the same way that she had. Now she supports 135 slimmers at her group in the Abbey Court Hotel, Nenagh, which is held every Thursday at 5.30pm and 7.30pm in the chapter suite of the Abbey Court Hotel.
She says: “Slimming World only recruits people who have lost weight with the club themselves to become Consultants because it’s so important that we have empathy and a real understanding of how it feels to be overweight and to lose weight. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous when I went to the group that first time, but I soon realised that we were all there for the same reason – because we were unhappy with our weight and wanted to do something about it. Everyone was so friendly; I was welcomed in and was treated with such understanding and the utmost respect. I always remember how kind everyone was to me on that first night and every week of my journey, and I make sure I show that same care and respect to all of my members.
“The training I received and still receive from Slimming World in both nutrition and the psychology of slimming is absolutely second to none and there are great rewards for building a successful group and helping lots of members, but nothing beats the satisfaction I get from helping people to lose weight and change their lives. I truly believe I have the best job in the world.”
Dawn’s weight loss put her in the running for Slimming World’s Consultant Slimmer of the Year 2013 competition, which was open to all of the club’s 3,500 Consultants who have lost weight in the last 12 months. She attended the finals at the club’s head office in Derbyshire on Sunday, June 2nd and was presented with a certificate and gift by Slimming World’s Managing Director Caryl Richards. Unfortunately she wasn’t the overall winner of the competition.
The Nenagh Slimming World group is held every Thursday at 5.30pm and 7.30pm at The Abbey Court Hotel, Dublin Road, Nenagh. Everyone’s welcome and anyone who’d like to find out more can visit www.slimmingworld.com or call Dawn on 0871932204
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