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Shape up withPower PlateStudies show that regularPower Plate training combinedwith diet helped participants toachieve a sustained long-termweight loss of up to 10%, as wella the reduction of visceral fat.Recent research presented at the 17thEuropean Congress on Obesity (ECO)suggests that exercise done on PowerPlate ® vibration plate exercise machinesin conjunction with a healthy dietmay help people lose weight and trimharmful belly fat.The study found that overweight orobese people who regularly undertookPower Plate® exercise were moresuccessful at long-term weight loss andshedding visceral or belly fat (which isassociated with a higher susceptibilityto conditions such as heart disease,diabetes and strokes) than thosewho combined dieting with a moreconventional fitness routine and thosewho simply dieted.The study was conducted over a sixmonthperiod, after which subjectsreturned to their daily lives and reportedback for retesting at 12 months. In termsof weight loss:• The “Power Plate®” group lost 11 percentof their body weight and maintained a 10.5percent loss• The diet and conventional fitness group lost 7percent and maintained a 6.9 percent loss• The diet only group lost 6 percent, andmaintained less than 5 percent loss• Even more promising was the reduction ofvisceral fat:• The “Power Plate®” group lost 47.8 sq. cm.(18.8 in.), and maintained a loss of 47.7 sq.cm (18.7 in.)• The diet and conventional fitness group lostonly 17.6 sq. cm. (6.93 in.), and maintainedonly a 1.6 sq. cm (.63 in) loss• The diet only group lost 24.3 sq. cm. (9.57 in.)and maintained only 7.5 sq. cm. (2.95 in.) lossLocal woman, Sue, can attest to thebenefits of Power Plate. She’s been goingfor not quite three months and thoughher tummy has always been relativelyflat, now it is hard and taut, she says. Infact her whole body feels more toned.“I think the Power Plate has made aphenomenal difference, and others cansee it too. My arms have tightened andmy boobs have picked up somewhat.Emotionally I feel very positive, becauseyou really feel like you are making adifference. Mind you, like anything, youget out of it what you put in.”Bernadette Wallis, of Boutique BodyStudio in New Plymouth has seen plentyof success stories with the Power Plate.“I also have a variety of EatingProgrammes proved worldwide to besuccessful in overall weight loss, healthand increasing the metabolism.”Back in July, Bernadette started a groupof people on a 20 day programme thateliminates the healthy foods from yourdiet that make people fat. She calls it…THE ANTI-DIETEliminate the “healthy” foods that aremaking you fat – and lose weight fast!For people who eat healthy food, yetstruggle to lose weight, you may bestartled to discover that some of thosehealthy foods you are eating, are toblame for your weight-loss woes.“It’s about chemistry, not calories,”says Bernadette. “You may have trieddiet after diet, you’ve eaten well, youexercise, yet you’re still gaining weight,maybe a little or maybe a lot. Youmay experience hormonal disorders,migraines, depression, skin conditions,joint pain, IBS, Crohns or other digestiveailments. But in twenty days, we canhelp you discover the foods that causeinflammation in your system.“Every person’s chemistry is unique.We systematically test foods to learnhow your body reacts so you can makeinformed choices.”In what Bernadette dubs “a controlledexperiment” participants get theirthyroid tested, undergo a three daycleanse of their liver, and then graduallyadd foods back into the diet over a 17 dayperiod, monitoring the body’s reaction asyou do so.Bernadette took her initial groupthrough the course in August.Catherine (48) was one of the firstpeople to do it.“I had real trouble losingweight,” she says.“The first three days,when you do a cleanse of your system,was really, really hard,” Catherineconfesses. “I felt really unwell withheadaches and foggy thinking. You eatthings like flax granola, lots of saladsand soups.”But she lost 3 kilos in those first fewdays, so that encouraged her to stickwith it.“Then you add things back into yourdiet and if you react to it, you know it’ssomething you should steer clear of.”Catherine’s trigger foods turned outto be potato, bread and cow’s cheese.Happily, chocolate proved to be fine!“I lost five kilos in the first week andfor the next few weeks was on and offthe programme losing another 1 ½ kilos.I decided then to try and reset my bodyand restarted the 3 day cleanse and lostanother 2 kilos in the 3 days, but it wasa lot easier this time because I didn’texperience the bad symptoms I had lasttime. I’d already got rid of a lot of thefoods that were making my body react.”In addition to losing 11 kilos in justsix weeks, Catherine says she has moreenergy, and thinks more clearly. “I havemore control over my life.”Linda (42), was interested in the wholeconcept of choosing foods that wouldn’tmake your body react.“It didn’t seem like a diet but more likedoing the right thing for your body. It wasgood to discover which foods were goodfor me and it’s given me a lot of healthyfood choices.”Though weight loss wasn’t Linda’sfocus, she did shed eight kilos over sevenweeks.Her trigger foods included milk, whichwould make her feel bloated pretty muchright after having some. “Too much saltwould make my eyes puffy the next day,”she says, while eggs also made her feelbloated.“It doesn’t mean I can’t ever havethose foods, but I know now what I’m infor if I do, so I have them a lot less.”“The average weight loss on thisprogramme is 8% over the twenty days,”says Bernadette, “though as peoplecontinue with their new informed way ofeating, they often continue to lose evenmore weight. It actually works brilliantlywith the Power Plate, which improvesyour metabolism and helps tone yourbody as you lose weight.”AUTHORISEDTRAINING CENTREOFFERMention this article in LIVE magazine and when you sign up for 3months Power Plate or longer - receive FREE weight loss coaching.46 Dawson Street, New Plymouth P. 758 1767 Email: bernadette.wallis@clear.net.nztheboutiqueBODYstudio