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Rosemary Conley
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thumb|Rosemary Conley in 2013
Rosemary Conley (née Weston, 19 December 1946) is an English businesswoman, author and broadcaster on exercise and health. Conley authored a low-fat diet and exercise programme, The Hip & Thigh Diet in 1988, which sold more than two million copies.
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It's a day which the team and I have worked incredibly hard to try to avoid but the board and I believe that this is the most responsible course of action to take.
My heart goes out to the staff affected, and we are talking to them today to try to work out how best we can help them
Rosemary Conley leaves business to go into administration 3 February, 2014
I wasn't sorry to lose my SAGG [Slimming and Good Grooming organisation] back in the 80s
It'd been a very fraught involvement. I'd worked very hard, my first marriage was wrecked. I gave everything and I got gallstones.
But everything is for a reason and through suffering gallstones I discovered the hip and thigh diet. I think the Lord put his hand on me. That I discovered low fat, I honestly believe came from the Lord. I can't deny that. I was chosen to spread the word.
I think mine is more acceptable, it rolls off the tongue better. But it certainly reduces the whole area. More from the seat than the hips, to be honest.
because I'm from a family where food was a very important and enticing temptation. But I didn't enjoy it much at home. Only when I left I enjoyed it, when it wasn't prepared by my mother. I became a compulsive eater – it was gluttony. Before I was born again.
Rosemary Conley on her journey to loosing weight 15 June, 2014
"Selecting the best eating plan to help you lose weight is very much down to the individual."
"No one diet is more popular than another. It is all down to personal preference."
"It is important for us to find a form of exercise we enjoy so that we keep doing it."
"The advent of the internet, internet shopping and mobile phones all mean that we can run our lives without moving around as much as we used to. I really don’t know where it will end unless people take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing."
An Interview With Rosemary Conley CBE. February 7, 2017
I did more classes around the county and it just grew
It went from talking about how to make the most of yourself to actually doing some exercise
The wonderful thing is that most of my class have been coming to me for at least 30 years, if not 40 years.
Rosemary Conley marks 50 years of slimming classes 14 January 2022
"When the credit crunch came, it seemed like a perfect storm."
"Human nature puts people on a pedestal and we like having someone to look up to."
"One of the hardest things when our company went into administration was that someone else could use my name."
Extract from Through Thick And Thin by Rosemary Conley published by Express sharing Rosemary Conley's saddest day of her life and how she reinventing herself at 73. July 25, 2022
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Category:1946 births
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Category:Women authors from England
Category:People from Leicester