Eric Chowles

Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge #35 Winners – New Year 2023

📢 We are thrilled to release the winners of the New Year 2023 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge!

This was our 35th Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge since 2011 (we do 3 per year).

Once again, each of our challengers worked incredibly hard to achieve impressive results throughout their 8-week challenge period and our judges really had their work cut out for them to come up with our top winners.

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Here are some quick 📊 stats:

We had a total of 419 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 1,879.5kgs.
They lost an average of 4.5kgs or 5% of their body weight per person.
The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 587.4kgs.
The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost an average of 11.8kgs or 13.3% of their body weight per person.

These stats include those who deliberately put on weight/muscle to improve their physique and health.

Great job Sleeks! You guys and girls knocked it out of the park!

All of those who submitted final results are that much closer to their goals – isn’t it time that you gave it a go?

📊 Survey Stats:

We asked our challengers to rate themselves on a scale of 1-10 where:

0 = poor
5 = average
10 = excellent

Here were the results.

How would you rank your current level of health and fitness right now?

BEFORE	AFTER	CHANGE
4.6	6.65	21%⬆️

How would you rate how you feel about your body right now?

BEFORE	AFTER	CHANGE
3.6	6.21	26%⬆️

How would you rate how consistently you eat healthily right now?

BEFORE	AFTER	CHANGE
4.4	6.75	23%⬆️

How would you rate how consistently active you are right now?

BEFORE	AFTER	CHANGE
4.6	6.92	24%⬆️

How would you rate your general energy levels right now?

BEFORE	AFTER	CHANGE
4.7	6.81	21%⬆️

AVERAGE IMPROVEMENT

23%⬆️

😍 Prizes:

A huge round of applause to our top 20 challengers who walk away with awesome prizes (pictured below) as well as bragging rights in our latest challenge!

And, of course, a massive thanks to our awesome prize sponsors!

*New Year 2023 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge Sponsors*.

Sleekgeek gives away over R100,000 worth of prizes each challenge, with the 4 individual category winners winning R10,000 each!

Main Challenge Prizes:

There are 4 categories with 5 winners in each (50 in total):

Female Transformation
Male Transformation
Female % Weight Loss
Male % Weight Loss

*New Year 2023 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge Prizes*.

Thank you to our sponsors adidas, Vitaforce, CSB Body Fusion, FitChef, Kenwood, Food Lover’s Market, Ergonomicsdirect, and Just Protein!

Buddy Challenge, Couple Challenge, and Team Challenge Prizes:

*New Year 2023 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge Team Prizes*.

Thank you to our sponsors: Vitaforce and adidas!

Consistency Challenge:

*New Year 2023 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge Consistency Prize*.

⚖️ Judging process:

A quick reminder that we have 4 categories to ensure fair competition: 1) Men’s transformation, 2) women’s transformation, 3) men’s % weight loss, and 4) women’s % weight loss.

Transformation is judged by our independent panel of judges via an audited voting process. The Transformation category is determined by who the judges believed had to do the most work to get from ‘Before’ to ‘After.’

% Weight loss is judged purely by percentage of weight lost, based on before and after measurements submitted. We publish modest clothed photos, but weight loss is confirmed by our judges using the challenger’s more revealing before and after photos as well as photos of their weight while standing on the scale.

NEW: The Summer 2022 challenge was the first challenge we introduced a new rule of “Top 5 % Weight Loss Winners cannot place as a winner if they have gained back more than 50% of the weight they lost in their most recent challenge unless it’s been more than 12 months. (e.g. if someone loses 20kgs, they can’t place as a winner if they have gained back more than 10kgs subsequently)”. This is to help minimise repeat winners and unhealthy weight re-gain between challenges.

Sleekgeek and its staff are not involved in the final decision-making and we accept the judges’ decisions as final.

Some past winners:

*A few of our past Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge winners.*

🏆 WOMEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS

Kirstie Atkins, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Transformation:

Casandra Viljoen, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Transformation:

Desiree Lourens, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Transformation:

Erlin Stephen, 4th Place Women’s Transformation:

Samantha Chamberlain, 5th Place Women’s Transformation:

Honourable Mentions:

👏 Joanita Haskins (6th)
👏 Euline Mason / 👏 Linda Pieters (tied for 7th)
👏 Michelle Pascucci (8th)

🏆 MEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS

Neil Van Tonder, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Transformation:

Jurie Badenhorst, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Transformation:

Marius Nel, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Transformation:

Stuart Myers, 4th Place Men’s Transformation:

Johan Visser, 5th Place Men’s Transformation:

Honourable Mentions:

👏 Theo Louw (6th)
👏 Connie Swanepoel /👏 Lucas van der Heever (tied for 7th)

🏆 WOMEN’S % WEIGHT LOSS WINNERS

Weight loss is judged purely by percentage of body weight lost, based on before and after measurements submitted and confirmed by before and after photos both fully and minimally clothed (which include a photo of their measurement on the scale).

NEW: The Summer 2022 challenge was the first challenge we introduced a new rule of “Top 5 % Weight Loss Winners cannot place as a winner if they have gained back more than 50% of the weight they lost in their most recent challenge unless it’s been more than 12 months. (e.g. if someone loses 20kgs, they can’t place as a winner if they have gained back more than 10kgs subsequently)”. This is to help minimise repeat winners and unhealthy weight re-gain between challenges.

Sheree Schaal, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 24.85%):

Charity Links 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 24.30%):

Delleena Iiyambo, 3rd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 23.65%):

Anthea Opperman, 4th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 19.01%):

Werone Maritz, 5th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 16.95%):

Honourable Mentions:
👏 Casandra Viljoen (placed in Transformation Category instead)
👏 Annerine Nel (6th)
👏 Wouna du Plessis (7th)
👏 Fiona Worwood (8th)
👏Nicoleen Thompson (9th)
👏 Eleanor Smit (10th)

🏆 MEN’S % WEIGHT LOSS WINNERS

NEW: The Summer 2022 challenge was the first challenge we introduced a new rule of “Top 5 % Weight Loss Winners cannot place as a winner if they have gained back more than 50% of the weight they lost in their most recent challenge unless it’s been more than 12 months. (e.g. if someone loses 20kgs, they can’t place as a winner if they have gained back more than 10kgs subsequently)”. This is to help minimise repeat winners and unhealthy weight re-gain between challenges.

Leon Hough, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 17.34%):

Martin Ferreira 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 16.97%):

Charl Smit, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 16.04%):

Francois Hugo, 4th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 13.31%):

Enslin Opperman, 5th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 13.01%):

Honourable Mentions:

👏 Jurie Badenhorst (placed in Transformation Category instead)
👏 Justin Paoliello (6th)
👏 Gert Stone (7th)
👏 Riaan Prinsloo (8th)
👏 Julian Fernandez (9th)
👏 Johan Visser (placed in Transformation Category instead)
👏 Rohan Nienaber (10th)

[BONUS] BUDDY CHALLENGE WINNERS

Delleena Liyambo and Linda Pieters win our Buddy Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 3rd in Women’s % Weight Loss and 7th in Women’s Transformation respectively.

They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!

Honourable Mentions:

👏 No other runners-up within the top 10.

[BONUS] COUPLE CHALLENGE WINNERS

We have a TIE for the Couple Challenge Winners!

Anthea Opperman + Enslin Opperman and Marius Nel + Annerine Nel win our Couple Challenge for both achieving the highest combined rankings.

Anthea and Enslin came 4th in Women’s % Weight Loss and 5th in Men’s Weight Loss respectively giving them a combined score of 9.
Marius and Annerine came 3rd in Men’s Transformation and 6th in Women’s % Weight Loss respectively, giving them a combined score of 9.

They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!

Honourable Mentions:

No runners up.

📊 TOP 50 PERCENTAGE OF WEIGHT LOSS

Well done to our top 50 people in the percentage of body weight lost category!

We had a total of 419 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 1,879.5kgs with an average of 4.5kgs or 5% of their body weight lost per person!

Our men lost an average of 5.6% of their body weight per person.
Our women lost an average of 4.9% of their body weight per person.

Our top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 587.4kgs with an average of 11.8kgs or 13.3% of their body weight lost per person!

Our top 50 men lost an average of 6.8% of their body weight per person.
Our top 50 women lost an average of 12.44% of their body weight per person.

[BONUS] CONSISTENCY AWARD WINNER

For each Challenge we have a group of challengers who impress us with their consistency over the 8 weeks meeting all the requirements.

When we have more than one candidate meeting the prescribed requirements it comes down to a random draw.

The Consistency Winner is… Monica Theron!

They win a R2,000 cash prize!

Honourable mentions (A-Z) to: Belinda Chaplin, Christelle Bond, Cornelia Fechter, Dave Rademan, Debbie Godfrey, Jenni Murray, Jennifer Dufourq, Kat Darvall, Kirstie Atkins, Kolette Scholtz, Maxie Brits, Michael Mitchell, Michelle Diamond, Michelle Nieuwoudt, Michelle Pascucci, Tracy Grant, Ugashni Ayres.

[BONUS] TEAM CHALLENGE WINNER

As a fun extra, we encourage challengers to form teams with friends, family, and even other Sleekgeeks who they have never met before. Teams range from a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 20 members.

How is the winning team judged?

We use a formula that takes into account the following:

Average weight loss of team members.
Percentage of team members who finish the challenge
Bonus points for team members who make it into the “top 10” of the Transformation category.

We had 31 teams submit their final results to be considered.

CONGRATULATIONS to the winning team, DreamTeam Unstoppable lead by Irene du Preez!

Irene wins R3,000 for leading her team to victory and each team member gets a R500 Sleekgeek Online Store voucher.

👏 Overall Team Placings

DreamTeam Unstoppable – Irene du Preez wins R3,000 for leading her team to victory and each team member gets a R500 Sleekgeek Online Store voucher.
Thinit to Winit Shakers – Veronica van den Heever wins R2,000 cash for the 2nd place finish and each team member gets a R200 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
DreamTeam Dynamite – Mandisa Sidwaba wins R1,000 cash for the 3rd place finish and each team member gets a R150 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
FBI – Laura Sayce
Mountain Movers 4 – Dave Rademan
WaistAway 6 – Debbie Delport
Metamorphosis – Cornelia Fechter
Capital Squad – Jenni Murray-Williams
DreamTeam Achievers – Dee Coetzee
Zero Limits Revolution – Debbie Godfrey
WaistAway 1 – Kat Darvall
DT Tough Love Crew – Yuveshen Subramoney
DreamTeam Smash It – Helen Douwrie-Smit
WaistAway 3 – Diane van Aswegen
Thinit to Winit Movers – Sonika Coetzee
Team Wildfire – Rene Adams
Lean Queens – Zayaan Fortune
WaistAway 5 – Edward Darvall
House of Athena – Lauren Mathieson
DreamTeam Sassy – Anthea Combrinck
WaistAway Warriors – Gerrit Stockenstrom
Goal Diggers – Michael Mitchell
Zero Limits 1 – Cecilia Marais
Mountain Movers 2 – Brendon Main
DreamTeam Dominators – Lisa Kate Launspach
The Assasins – Taryn Engelbrecht
Mountain Movers 3 – Janine Marks
Goal Getters NY 2023 – Heidi Hudson-Bennet
WaistAway 2 – Tracie Green
Belly Bailouts – Nicole Harvett
The Heavyweights – Retha De La Porte

Want to be next?

Entries for the Winter 2023 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge are now open until the 27th of June 2023! DISCOUNT: Enter before 01 June 2023 for a 33% discount

Eric Chowles

Eric is the co-founder of Sleekgeek, a certified Precision Nutrition Coach, and the head coach in Sleekgeek's Coaching Program.

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