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Brisbane Workshop: The Science of Weight Loss
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If you're keen to kick-start your weight-loss success, join Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis at this enlightening workshop and she'll take you on a fantastic voyage of your body.With over 18 years of experience as a weight loss scientist, and having personally lost 28 kilos and kept it off for over a decade, Dr Amanda will show you why you hit those dreaded plateaus as you lose weight, as well as new insights from medical research on how to overcome plateaus most effectively.
Dr Amanda will show you how to fine-tune your body's in-built weight maintenance system (your Fat Brake), so that keeping weight off can become the automatic process it was designed to be.
You'll not only leave this workshop with scientifically backed facts and inspiration, you'll learn two simple strategies for putting your new found knowledge into action in your life so that this time you can lose all the weight you want to lose and keep it off.
Suggested reading
The Don't Go Hungry Diet by Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis. If you'd like to purchase the book, copies will be available at the workshop for $35.00 each (payment by cash, cheque, VISA or Mastercard).
About Dr Amanda
Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis is an acclaimed weight-loss scientist. With a PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, she currently leads a team at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, investigating how the brain controls body weight. Dr Amanda has received numerous awards for her research and has featured in Australian and international TV, radio and print media. Dr Amanda is not only one of the world's leading weight loss scientists, she also struggled with excess weight and binging before using her scientific insights to lose almost 30 kilos and keep it off for over ten years. To contact Dr Amanda, click here.
Workshop logistics
Wednesday 19th November
6.00 pm to 8.30 pm
Queensland University of Technology (Gardens Point Campus)
2 George Street Brisbane 4000
Building B, Room B225 (click here for map)
Easily accessible by public transport; visit www.transinfo.com.au to plan your journey
Parking available under freeway via Gardens Point Road (4-hour limit)
$49.00 per person
To register for this workshop and start the last weight loss plan you'll ever need, click here.
What our readers say...
"Dear Dr Amanda, Thank you for liberating me from the guilt trip I've been on every time I eat and giving me the tools I needed to begin losing weight i.e. your satiety rules combined with knowledge of our body's famine reaction and fat brake. I bought your book earlier this year out of desperation, after seeing an add on facebook. I'm so glad I did, since then my husband has read it and I've bought a copy for a friend (I've never previously recommended any weight loss theory that I've read to anyone! as for yours, I can't stop talking about it to everyone I know). Although I did not begin to use it straight away, it did make me change the way I approach food and think about it. It wasn't until about 5 weeks ago that I put it into action and the weight is still coming off very easily. What I didn't have when I began the book was the right motivation to lose the weight for 'me'. After two years of trying to get pregnant with out second child and weighing in at 130 kilograms I knew after numerous tests came back negative, that my weight was the likely culprit. 5wks later I am 7 kilos lighter, and although this may not seem like much for someone who has more than 50 kilos to lose, for me it is huge. I've never lost so much weight so quickly and easily and all while eating 4 decent meals a day. Now that I've begun to eat mostly 'real' foods and cut most of the crap from my diet, I find that my body does not require such large portions so often (because it is not starving due to malnutrition!). I've gotten to the point where I no longer have to pay such close attention to my levels of hunger or satiety, my body self regulates it and I eat accordingly. I always used to watch 'skinny' people eat and wonder how can you eat so little and be full. I know find that I'm doing the same. I'm not skinny yet but my body has learnt to appreciate 'real' wholesome food. Thank you for opening my eyes. God bless you. "