Success Stories 2006
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Terri Katz
Englewood,
Colorado
Terri Katz had won
the “battle of the bulge” once before. After struggling with being
overweight for most of her life, Terri lost 70 pounds and maintained that
loss for 18 years. Dedicated to health and fitness, she became a personal
trainer and opened her own business. But then she slowly started gaining
weight again. Also suffering with allergies, asthma, sinus infections,
migraines and a chronic cough, Terri was in desperate need of relief. “I
was looking and feeling worse than I had in years,” she admits.
Noticing a change in
one of her aerobics students, PLC member Julie Mirr, Terri’s curiosity was
piqued. “I watched her body change and she was always full of energy,”
remembers Terri. “This was at 5:30 a.m.!” Terri asked Julie, now a mother
of three young children, what she had been doing, thinking she had some
secret workout program. Julie introduced Terri to the WIN product sampler
and she immediately felt the difference. “For the first time in eight
years I didn’t need my inhalers and decongestants,” Terri says.
When she went for her
physical, her doctor was amazed at the results. “I feel better at 50 years
of age than I did when I was in my 20s!” exclaims Terri.
Impressed with the
products, Terri became a Regent, immediately promoted WIN to her clients
and gradually reduced her training hours. That was in October 1996. Today,
Terri has accomplished her goal of making WIN her full-time business.
If you ask Terri,
she’ll tell you that she still enjoys training a few clients per week,
however, WIN gives her the opportunity to promote health and fitness,
while enjoying a secure future as well. “WIN will be our retirement,”
Terri believes, then adding, “Although I can never imagine retiring from
WIN … it’s too much fun!” |
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Jim
Diamond
Boca
Raton, Florida
From childhood to the
present, athletics have long been a special part of Jim Dimond’s life.
Whether it’s football, wrestling, basketball or his current love of
tennis, Jim has proven to be an all-around sportsman. However, Jim admits
that his stellar athleticism hasn’t always meant perfect
health.
“As a teenager and
young adult, I could get away with the ‘just do it’ and ‘just eat it’
approach, but as I grew older I was getting injured frequently,” Jim
explains. “I was confronted with the obvious choice—either take better
care of my body or do something less stressful.”
Unwilling to quit his
beloved hobbies, Jim instead educated himself about sports injuries, and
created several popular websites that deal with injuries and proper
training, including www.TopCondition.com and www.Fit4Tennis.com. He was
preparing to launch those sites when he was introduced to WIN by PLC
member Dr. Richard Auclair, which turned out to be perfect timing on Dr.
Auclair’s part. Jim was already looking for a nutritional complement to
his total fitness sites, but it was his success with the products that
showed Jim that WIN was exactly what he had been looking for.
From the beginning,
Jim was impressed with the caliber of nutritional supplementation he found
at WIN, especially BioLeanŽ. “I’ve been involved with nutrition and I had
always said that there isn’t a silver bullet. There isn’t anything you can
take that will make you lose weight other than eating sensibly and
exercising. This actually is the silver bullet that I didn’t think
existed,” Jim emphatically states. It’s no wonder he’s a fan. He’s lost 20
pounds since starting on the products and now reports that his endurance
is better during his tennis game.
BioLean also helped
Jim’s wife, Tracie, get back to her pre-pregnancy weight after the birth
of their 10-pound son, Ryan, now 19 months. And that’s just the beginning!
Since beginning both his websites and his distributorship, Jim has helped
countless people live healthier, more active lives, which is exactly what
he has planned for himself, as well.
Looking forward to
another action-filled 55 years, and with WIN behind him, there’s nothing
that can slow down this wellness-minded fitness
enthusiast. |
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Wayne Butz
Belvidere,
Illinois
As the dawn of the
New Year approached, Wayne Butz made a resolution that millions make every
year—to lose weight. But he was serious … and put his money where his
mouth is.
Wayne—who had just
been introduced to BioLeanŽ by his niece, PLC member Dee Hyland—started a
contest with six of his co-workers, where each bet money on the outcome.
They agreed that the person who lost the most weight in three months’ time
would win the prize money. And WIN is exactly what Wayne did!
From January to the
end of March, Wayne lost an astounding 65 pounds … and has since kept the
weight off. “A guy at work recently asked me, ‘Are you still taking those
diet pills?’” Wayne recalls with a grin, after he was seen taking BioLean
during his morning break. “I told him, ‘They’re not diet pills. They’ve
helped me keep it off.” Opting to drive his point home a little further,
Wayne then asked the man—who had himself lost 30 pounds during the
contest—whether he had gained any of his weight back. “Yeah,
plus some,” was the reply.
Needless to say,
Wayne is a faithful proponent of the WIN products. BioLean, BioLean FreeŽ,
and Lipo-TrimŽ rank among his personal favorites, and he also uses
Sleep-Tite™ on occasion for a good night’s sleep.
But that’s not all!
Before the contest,
Wayne had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in his left knee and
suffered from chronic foot pain. “I was on my feet for eight hours a day …
and not just standing. It’s walking fast, bending, lifting and building
displays,” he explains. “I thought I was going to have to sell my
two-story home because I couldn’t keep up the house and the yard.”
However, since that
time, a fitter and trimmer Wayne has cut down on his arthritis medication,
his blood pressure is normal, and his cholesterol is lower than before.
“It just feels like I have my life back!” he exclaims. “I have no aches or
pains, and now I run up and down the stairs!”
You could say that
life is just beginning for this energetic 53-year-old … and it’s beginning
with WIN. |
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A Sense of
Belonging
Blaise Koolhaas Revers
Each
quarter, the Success Stories section is filled with the testimonies of
people who have had amazing results from our top-of-the-line products. And
while we wish that the health issues that Blaise Koolhaas Revers struggles
with could be solved with a few good vitamins, his story is an excellent
example of how a support system of friends can provide the kind of healing
power you just can’t find in a pill.
At the
tender age of 17, Blaise is a master at strength in the face of adversity.
He overcame blood cancer at the age of 8, and was recently diagnosed with
a brain tumor. While he struggles daily to maintain his health and
optimism, he and his mother, WIN Regent Ina, are delighted with the
tremendous support they’re getting from other WIN distributors in Holland.
When
Blaise first began attending opportunity meetings with Ina, he was
intrigued with the WIN concept and was very impressed with PLC member Paul
Gebbink, in particular. So it was especially touching for the Revers’ when
Paul went straight to the hospital when he found out about Blaise’s most
recent setback. But Paul’s visit was just the beginning.
During his
battle with the tumor, Blaise received postcards filled with best wishes
and sympathies from their extensive “family” at WIN Holland. And when he
attended the first meeting after his hospitalization, his Wellness friends
presented him with an Ajax—a popular Holland soccer team—t-shirt with all
of the Ajax team members’ signatures on it.
Blaise and
Ina would like to send an enormous thank you to the WIN family in Holland
for their every gesture of kindness and respect, and their extreme
compassion. But what has been especially important for Blaise is the sense
of belonging that he has felt during this difficult time.
This young
man’s story is proof positive that a successful business isn’t the only
thing that makes a person a WINner. |
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