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The Healthy
Slimmers Fellowship Support Group is a non-profit organisation, which is run
by voluntary people who are willing to work and promote a healthy lifestyle
for men, women and young people. We have both day and evening clubs, which
offer friendship, support, camaraderie and encouragement to members to
obtain their personal goals. We have fourteen clubs in and around the
Brisbane area.
The Healthy
Slimmers Fellowship Support Group
clubs encourage
weight loss, by promotion of a sensible eating regime combined with
lifestyle behavioural changes, at weekly meetings that include weigh-in and
group therapy. Our key words are Lifestyle, Moderation, Relaxation
and Exercise. The Healthy Slimmers Fellowship Support Group
strongly discourage the use of non-prescribed medication and crash dieting.
The Healthy
Slimmers Fellowship Support Group
was formed in
Brisbane in 1981. We have honorary consultants in the form of Dietitians,
Counsellors, Endocrinologists and Psychiatrists.
The Healthy
Slimmers Fellowship Support Group
has fourteen
clubs in the Brisbane area. We have no affiliation fees and each club runs
autonomously. In March we celebrate our “Slimmer of the Year”
competition. Each club is asked to nominate their top three slimmers for
the year. You must lose a minimum of 6.3 kg to be eligible for nomination.
Each club also nominates their top post graduate for the year. In September
we celebrate our weekend convention with a fancy dress theme.
To join the
Healthy Slimmers Fellowship Support Group you do not have to be a
certain amount overweight. Our aim is to offer nutritional information as
well as to encourage weight loss. We also understand battles people face
with losing weight. It is just as hard to lose 2.0 kg for some as it is to
lose 30.0 kg for others. A Doctor’s certificate must be submitted stating
desired goal weight within two weeks of joining. We encourage members to
attend and stay for all meetings and to attend all Fellowship functions. We
strongly urge members, who have attained their healthy weight range, to stay
with their club.
The Healthy
Slimmers Fellowship Support Group
is a registered
member of the Queensland Government supported 10,000 Steps Program. For more
information, go to
www.10000steps.org.au
Each club has
weekly awards as well as monthly awards, where members are acknowledged and
rewarded for their weight loss. We encourage everyone to keep on trying and
never, ever give up. Winners are not the first across the line. Winners
are the ones who hang in there and never quit.
The cost to
join differs with individual clubs. It would cost between $5.00 and $15.00
to join with the weekly fee varying from $1.00 to $4.00.
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