What an achievement!

Over the last couple of days we have been celebrating the achievements of some wonderful folk who have lost massive amounts of weight to be crowned Slimmers of the Year. For the first time we are giving awards to slimmers in different categories because it is impossible to place all great achievers on a level playing field. So in January we will be announcing our Yummy Mummy Slimmer of the Year,

Convention Celebrations

Last Friday was the day of our Annual Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Clubs Franchisee Convention and what a fantastic day it turned out to be! Tears and laughter, inspiration by the bucketful and lots and lots to look forward to in the new year. Everyone was buzzing!As well as sharing the new diet plan, which is based on my book due for publication in January, and lots of exciting products due

Exciting times

Every year we hold our Annual Convention when all of our franchisees from across the United Kingdom come together to hear of the plans for the next twelve months. This year is going to be particularly exciting as my brand new diet book will form the basis of the diet plan offered to members of Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Clubs in 2010. It is a fantastic diet that is massively effective so

Watch those portion sizes!

We live in a super-sized society when everything to do with food seems to be getting bigger! Cereal bowls, soup bowls, plates, wine glasses, dessert dishes – they’re all much larger than they used to be and it isn’t good for us.I am sure that those fabulous and enormous platters that your haute cuisine is served upon in a stylish restaurant were not designed to be full! So when we see them in

Amazing weight losses - amazing people!

Last Thursday we had a very exciting day at Quorn House. Fifteen delightful folk descended on our offices for the judging day of our Slimmer of the Year competition. We had invited three men and twelve women to come and meet me together with my Magazine Editor and Art Director. The place was buzzing in anticipation and excitement.After a welcome cup of coffee I took them on a tour of the house,

When change can be fun!

For the last 24 years I have held two diet and fitness classes at the Holiday Inn in Leicester city centre on a Monday evening. It has been a long and happy relationship and five years ago the Holiday Inn have even named a meeting room after me – The Conley Room. Hundreds of ladies and some men have happily come along to enjoy a workout and dietary advice every week during that time. In fact the

Awesome Women!

Yesterday I was honoured to be invited to the Women of the Year Lunch at London’s Intercontinental Hotel on Park Lane. It is always a prestigious affair with an array of women who have achieved all kinds of success in any manner of fields of life. Of course you have your celebs such as Esther Rantzen, Maureen Lipman and Katherine Jenkins as well as household radio names such as Sarah Kennedy and

The inspiration of meeting successful slimmers!

You would be amazed how often we are asked by the press for a before and after photograph of one of our slimmers who fits into a specific profile: eg in their twenties, forties, who’s lost 6 stone, who can wear a bikini, etc., etc.Last Thursday we had a wonderful day at Quorn House when we invited some fabulously successful dieters who had attended our classes to be photographed specifically for

Only do the things that only you can do.

This is the advice I gave myself 20 years ago and also to some very enterprising women I have had the pleasure of meeting in the last couple of days. Let me explain.I actually enjoy cleaning. When I do it I think I do it well but twenty years ago I realised that there was stuff I should be doing, that only I could do, that I didn’t have time to do because I was cleaning. So, I decided to employ

Fat parents = fat kids?

It is very rare that I will use the ‘f’ word ‘FAT’. It’s not very PC in the world of diet and exercise and one that often causes offence. It’s a word we use on ourselves but not one we like people to use to describe us.So how about ‘obese’? That is a much more offensive word, in my opinion, and one that we would never use to describe ourselves yet it is a word used every day in the media and by

Why cereal is still the best breakfast

I heard on the news this morning that it has been recognised that some breakfast cereals contain a lot of salt. By ‘a lot’ I think they are meaning ‘more than you would imagine’ rather than a ‘salt-pot-full’. The majority of breakfast cereals offer less than 1 gram of salt per serving and we are recommended to restrict our daily salt intake to around 6 grams a day. So what’s the fuss?We are

Free parking for hospital visitors

So the government are talking about allowing free NHS hospital car parking for those visiting their loved ones. Good! Let’s hope it happens. For anyone who is visiting a hospital the whole experience is difficult. Knowing where to go, worrying about getting there on time, queuing up for visiting, taking time off work – the whole experience is stressful and tiring yet incredibly valuable to the