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Whether you looking tothe putmotto drapes in your bedroom, living, dining orof family And that's exactly what former CFL player and current YOLO Canada Chief Operating room or any other room with a window, the Drape Lady is your one-stop resource Officer Chris Bleue thought before he drapery experienced the power oflinings lipo-laser for window treatments, drapes, blinds, hardware, curtain and technoldrapery ogy. fabric. specializing in residential homes in Oakville, mississauga and burlington areas, "My personal background from the readers traditional weight loss and weight and managethe Drape Lady, who has wonis numerous choice awards for design ment side," Bleue says, "where you get the gym, grind it and out and earn every little service, provides designs that reflect her in client's personality lifestyle. reduction. I completely believed that." But a few years ago when he was taking a "it didn't take me long to fall in love with the whole process of creating the trip to Cozumel, he realized he didn't relish the thought of spending a few days `Perfect magic' for my client's windows and their living space," Drape Lady without his shirt on. "I got turned on to this technology and I had an `ah ha' elisabeth Wimmer explains. moment," he admits, experiencing for himself that the technology produced incredbefore becoming Drape Lady, elisabeth owned three bed and bath boutiques ible results almost the instantaneously. in toronto, mississauga and Oakville and it was there that she had firstin and most YOLO's Oakville location is the first of a series of clinics toher open Canada humbling window treatment experience. "my customers kept asking me all the time explains Chief Marketing Officer, Gerald Wartak. "We've seen a variety of segmentif i could make a simple bedroom drape out of two king size sheets for them. i do ed weight loss opportunities," he says, including nutrition and fitness, but "YOLO is like challenges and so i stepped to the plate and learned how to measure, what unique because it brings all of up those segments together, working in synergy with hardware to use, what lining to use and how to figure things out," new and innovative technologies, providing a comprehensive solution for ultimate, after aongoing while elisabeth really began to enjoy working with windows and real and success." thought to herself, "if we can make drapes from can state, also make Treatment at YOLO includes a bio-analysis of bed your sheets, body's we current before them from fabrics." soonCurve after it became, which "if we Wartak can make drapes for bedrooms heading onto the YOLO Lipolaser, says provides immediate we can also make forright living, dining, family rooms, etc..." From there you'll results. "You'll losethem inches away," providing real motivation. move on to sold the her YOLO Vibe whole body vibration device, which supports the lymelisabeth last store in 1990 and became the Drape Lady literally phatic system's drainage of the recently released fat within theto body. overnight. "i began working from my residence, which proved have been one Finally, you will spend some time inshe YOLO's "infrared sauna to give a final bonus of my best business decisions ever," explains. "i didn't really need a store Support R E S U LT S Immediate Commitment Motivation Dedication of maximum results and fat-loss." any longer as i was with my clients all day anyway." Wartak says that treatments are accompanied by meetings with a YOLO Program together with her clients, she develops the perfect style of window covering, Specialist who will help with nutrition and support physical fitness. be it formal, traditional, updated traditional, casually elegant or country. "i love "It's been pretty fun here in our first couple of weeks seeing people's responsthe challenge of dressing architectural windows, and i also carry an endless es," Bleue explains. "Technology has taken giant leaps forward and science is variety of different high-quality fabrics, textures and blinds that create a doing some amazing things," he says, adding that one client saw an almost fourconversation piece right in your home." inch reduction of her torso in her first 40 minute treatment. years of professional retail and entrepreneurial have kept the The lipo-laser works by opening the pores in the experience fat cells, causing the fat content Drape Lady a local treasure for more than 20 years. "between myself and inside to be released. "The pore stays open for 48 hours," Bleue explains. So my seamstresses, we have over 70the years of combined which we though the treatment accelerates body's ability toexperience, release stored fat, YOLO constantly share and draw from. i also work closely together with my installer works with each of its clients to ensure they follow a reasonable nutrition plan to who is invaluable to my work. We have been working together for many years maintain their reduction. and we both enjoy the process plans of thevary installation and the final touches. i am Treatment and maintenance from person-to-person and are customvery fortunate to be working with such a great team that supports each otherperized after an initial consultation that focuses on understanding each client's through everyfiguring stage of the creation." sonal history, out why they've had trouble in the past and then building the at the Drape Lady, elisabeth along with their her team oftoday. seamstresses make sure that perfect YOLO treatment plan to achieve goals the job is completed from beginning to end and allthe clients are 100 per cent YOLO's membership program, which kicks inthat after initial treatment series is happy with the quality andmaintain craftsmanship throughout. "Our goal is toafind a practical completed, helps clients the reduction. 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