My Magic Measure – The Greatest Motivational Tool!

There’s nothing quite so motivating as seeing your inches disappear when you’re trying to lose weight. It is total evidence that you are shrinking and that spurs you on to further success.

Earlier this year I had an idea to produce a tape measure with some removable tags that would show how many inches you were losing as you progressed on your dieting campaign. The result is my Magic Measure and it works!

It comprises a tape measure with holes punched at every inch on the tape plus two packs of clip-on tags – one set are permanent and the other set are removable. Each tag is colour coded for different parts of the body. When you commence your diet you clip on the appropriately coloured permanent clip at your ‘start’ measurement. Each week thereafter, when you have re-measured yourself, place the correspondingly coloured removable tags at your ‘new’ measurements and watch the inches reducing. It is then so easy to see how well you are progressing.

Today we launch www.rosemaryconley.tv. This is a web based television channel that allows people to watch online on demand, 24/7, totally free of charge. As well as expert advice and interviews with some of our successful slimmers. It is simple and incredibly effective.

www.rosemaryconley.tv takes us to a whole new level of communication, whether you want to see recipes being demonstrated, interviews with our Slimmers of the Year, or just need some motivation, log on to this free state-of-the-art facility.

Roadshow in Swansea

Today I am in Swansea at one of our Roadshows with 275 women who have travelled from all over the South West and across Wales to find extra motivation to lose weight and get fitter. Apart from listening to talks from myself and my fitness colleague Mary Morris, they will do a couple of workouts and have a low calorie, low fat lunch. The highlight of the day so far has been the fact that they have met our three female slimmer of the year finalists – Gillian, Ginny (pictured above, before joining our classes and below, as she is today) and Glenda who, between them, have lost over 30 stone.

Few people had as much weight to lose as these three wonderful women. But on one day in their lives they decided that losing weight was worth the effort. They decided to join their local Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness class, face the music on the scales and face up to the fact that they were morbidly obese and needed help.

Their weight did not go on overnight – it was a lifetime’s work – yet they all lost their weight within a couple of years of joining the classes and now their lives are transformed. Ginny Jones attends classes here in Swansea and received a rapturous response from everyone present today.

Two years ago Ginny could walk only with the help of a stick and was about to order her mobility scooter because she couldn’t walk more than 100 yards. Now, 11st 5 lbs lighter, Ginny attends 5 of our diet and fitness classes a week plus an additional belly dancing class to keep her trim and fit and to help maintain her new figure. Next birthday Ginny will be able to draw her pension for the first time but instead of heading towards retirement in potentially a wheelchair, she has decided to make choices that have given her back her life and now she is living it to the full. A true inspiration to all of us!

Slimmers of the Year at the Vitality Show

We are all still recovering from our marathon Vitality Show Extravaganza but have had time to reflect on the event of the last four days and the high spots. We were so proud of our four national Slimmers of the Year who attended the show and met the public on our Stand. We had lifesize before and after photographs of all four of them and the expressions on the faces of the general public when they saw the winners in the flesh was a total joy. Between them the slimmers have lost 40 stone and they are living proof that diet AND exercise is the only answer to a healthy body and a good figure. They are all members of Rosemary Conley Clubs and are tremendous ambassadors for everything we stand for. Click here to see more photographs and read their stories.