Heidi Schneigansz (@snowgooseSA) – My story

Name: Heidi Schneigansz, Business Director at Quirk,  Johanesburg

2nd Place: Sleekgeek 6-week Beach Body Challenge (25 October – 5 December 2011)

As you well know, I’ve struggled with my weight all my life, and this year has been particularly trying.

I have been on a dietician’s diet and gyming twice a week all year… and have just been putting on weight. That was, until I found my trigger: my competitive streak.

7 weeks ago, I was close to giving up and resigning myself to being a fatty forever, then my awesome friend, Elan Lohmann started the Sleek Geek 6 Week Beach Body Challenge, a 6 week challenge where 13 geeks put R500 each in a pot, and the one that made the most dramatic body transformation, won the pot.

Let me put you out of your misery: I didn’t win. I came second though, and I made a great start on sloughing off my Pillsbury Dough Boy exterior and got just that much closer to my ink reward (I’ve promised myself this tattoo when I get to my goal weight of 75kg). The most astonishing thing about this challenge is, although I only lost 5kg, I lost 37.5cm, and 3% body fat! Goes to show that KGs aren’t everything, huh?

So without further ado:

My tips for weight loss:

• Tricks, short cuts and diet books DON’T WORK
• Get a personal trainer, you never gym as hard when you’re on your own, it’s worth every cent
• You dont have to eat tuna and salad leaves and nothing else, just eat a balanced diet with small portions and avoid refined foods
• You can actually get away with drinking a glass of wine or 2 (or 3, or 4) every couple of nights
• When gymming, do weights. Ladies, you won’t bulk up, I promise… you don’t have enough testosterone to bulk up
• If you’re competitive, enter a competition, nothing spurs you on like knowing you’re ‘racing’ someone

I, for one, can’t wait for the next one. This time, I won’t accept second place.

Heidi.

• Heidi originally published this at https://snowgoose.co.za/sleekgeekchallenge/