Happy New Year!

Well, at last it is the New Year! And a very happy and healthy New Year to all of you!

I love January because it’s the time when our business is at its busiest. We announce our 2011 Slimmers of the Year to the press on 5th January in London at a glittering ceremony and on 6th January my latest book is published – my Amazing Inch Loss Plan in its new paperback version that has many chapters added to it and lots of wonderful testimonials from slimmers who have followed the diet over the last 12 months and transformed their lives as well as their bodies. At only £6.99 I know it will fly off the shelves. You’ll find it in your local supermarket or bookstore  - no doubt at a very low loss-leader-price  - or, of course, you can buy it from our website.

This year’s Slimmers of the Year are outstanding. There are 10 winners have lost 100 stone between them. Four of them have lost all their weight over the last twelve months on the Amazing Inch Loss Plan diet at their local RC Diet and Fitness Club. Because we teach exercise as well as weight loss at our classes, their bodies are amazing. Toned up, sylph-like and looking as though they have never been overweight in their lives. I so love the moment when the press meet them in the flesh. The photographers often say to me, “Your Slimmers of the Year are always the best because they are always so toned up”. I am like a proud ‘mum’ as I show off these wonderfully transformed, confident folk to the world. It is what we work towards all year! This is what we do. We help people to lose weight, get fit and live life!

All of our Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Club franchisees will have been walking miles over the last week or so delivering leaflets advertising their classes because January is the time when most people join a slimming club. Just think -  the four Slimmers of the Year I mentioned earlier who, this time last year were embarking on their own war on their weight - it you could be you standing in their shoes next January! They will be rewarded with not just a cash prize of £1000 each on Wednesday but they have a new body that they didn’t think could be theirs and instead of wearing size 28 they are wearing size 10! Money can’t buy a new body but with the help of our wonderful instructors at our classes, or our coaches on www.rosemaryconleyonline.com , we can support, nurture, encourage and motivate you to success – success that is sweeter that you could ever imagine.  As one of my own members told me before Christmas, ‘I can now get into my old wardrobe of clothes I haven’t worn for three years. I can’t believe it! It is so exciting’. To find your nearest Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Club click here.

We are also launching our Solo Slim range of ready meals that can be delivered to your door or purchased at our classes. In a Solo Slim trial we asked 30 folk to stick to the Solo Slim plan for four weeks. They lost 32 stone between them! That means that the average weight loss over a month on Solo Slim was 1st 1 lb. That’s amazing! Just check out our website for more details. It’s the easiest, foolproof way to lose weight healthily. There’s no tie-in tricks or hoops to jump through, you just select what you want to order, add fruit and veg and your preferred breakfast and you lose weight like never before. You decide how long you want to stay on the Solo Slim plan or you can dip in and dip out. It’s dead simple. My new Amazing Inch Loss Plan book has a couple of chapters offering menu suggestions where I have done all the calorie counting for you for your accompaniments or alternatively,  you will get a free booklet at our classes or when you order a 28 Day Solo Slim food box. It really is so easy.

So, yes, I am excited about January and I hope you are too. It’s a time for new beginnings - making a decision to look after our body because if we don’t, no one else will!

It’s December and I love Christmas!

This year Christmas is going to be special. It’s not that we are doing anything exotic or different, it’s just that it’s been a pretty tough year in many respects and now it’s all coming good!

I knew this year would be busy. I had to write a new diet book and record a new fitness DVD. We also decided to build a television studio and launch a new online television channel. To do that, you also need to film a lot of stuff! Then we decided to launch a range of ready meals and soups and sell it by mail order. In the Spring I had a brain-wave and had an idea for a motivational gadget so we set to work to make it. In the midst of all this my lovely mum-in-law became really poorly and we thought we might lose her – thankfully, we didn’t. She’s moved in with us now and she is positively flourishing! We haven’t had a holiday since early June because we couldn’t leave MIL – but that’s fine.

So now it’s December. The book is written and, having tried and tested the diet with a team of 50 Trialists, I know it works better than any diet I have ever created. It will be published on 6th January. My 30th (and last) DVD was recorded in March and will be released on 28th December. It is a cracker and I think folk will love it. The television studio is finished and is fabulous. rosemaryconley.tv is being tested right now and will be available to everyone, 24/7 in January. My range of Solo Slim meals is complete and will launch after Christmas. With no ‘E’ numbers and a shelf life of up to 12 months, this is a very exciting proposition for dieters. And my motivational gadget will be launched in January. You’ll love it and everyone who joins one of our classes in the New Year will get one free.

To top it all we have 8 Slimmer of the Year titles to announce in the New Year with the very best slimming success stories you will have ever heard. You will be able to read about them in our 100th edition of my magazine, Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness, which will be out in the New Year, together with a free 44 page recipe book of my favourite 100 recipes from across the years included in every copy. You’ll love that too!

So yes, I’m looking forward to Christmas for the fun and relaxation with all the family – and particularly having my mum-in-law here with us. I’m looking forward to the New Year because I know it’s going to be really, really exciting. We’ve worked our socks off this year but in January I know that all that hard work will have been worth it. That’s why I love life so much - because it’s fun!