Caretaking round the clock!

(12/02/06)

Lucky winners: Tjerdina Beets – Dijkmeijer and Gerda Schoenmaker report on their therapeutic fasting stay at Buchinger

Fasting together once. This is what mutual friends Tjerdina Beets-Dijkmeijer (46) and Gerda Schoenmaker (51) both from the outskirts of Amsterdam had decided to accomplish long ago. The prize winning competition of the women’s magazine “Magriet” now made the realization of their dream possible.

 

Tjerdina Beets Dijkmeijer, the lucky winner, spent fourteen unforgettable days at Buchinger Lake Constance. “It is simply divine here”. The 46 – year old is enraptured when she starts listing the many activities she had participated in and which are currently on offer at the clinic. In the mornings she regularly spends an hour on the running belt with a view on Lake Constance. In the afternoons, she uses the opportunity of experiencing the fascinations of Überlingen and its surroundings, accompanied by her friend Gerda. Evenings she enjoys spending in a fully relaxed manner in the heated outdoor pool.

 

“I feel so much lighter and full of energy”, says Tjerdina Beets – Dijkmeijer about her fasting experience, which she, as did Gerda Schoenmaker, underwent for the first time. After only eleven days she had already lost 9.6kg. Gerda Schoenmaker’s scale showed a decrease of 7kg in weight. “ I was hoping for a reduction of three kilograms and now this success”, comments Gerda Schoenmaker enthusiastically. “I almost regret soon having to eat something again”. In addition to the massages, the autogenous training and other therapy offers, she intensively utilized the individually designed the Buchinger sport programme. “ I learned a lot about the different possibilities of preparing vegetable dishes. Especially on how to create tasty dishes with herbs.”

 

The two ladies penned down their experiences and memories in a diary. Even the unusual, but most pleasant service of receiving a warm water bottle put on one’s feet, as Gerda Schoenmaker comments with a quirky smile. To be taken care of in such an allround fashion, to once be able to throw off physical and emotional burdens. Tjerdina Beets – Dijkmeijer and Gerda Schoenmaker are convinced: This was not the last time!”.

 

 

Gerda Schoenmaker and Tjerdina Beets-Dijkmeijer