As the festive season comes to a close, our minds inevitably turn to shedding those recently added Christmas pounds - and maybe those from the year before that we never quite shifted too! But wait, before you give up or don't start at all, read on - all is not lost. There is a way you can forget about hunger and cravings with Slimming World's 'Food Optimising'. Food Optimising is already famous for its 'free foods' - whereby you can choose from hundreds of foods, including pasta, potatoes, lean meat and fish, and eat as much of them as you like! The hardest part is choosing which of the delicious choices to enjoy each day: Green or Original! With 'free foods' you will find you are eating more than you ever used to. Add to this more food in the form of 'healthy extras' and 'syns', and you will never be hungry, but amazingly you will lose weight! And, as if that wasn't liberating enough, with 'Food Optimising 2005', slimmers will have more choice, flexibility and freedom than they ever thought possible! In addition to the Green and Original choice, slimmers can now choose between two new advanced Food Optimising choices: Mix2Max and Success Express! Tenby's Slimming World consultant, Eirian Rogers, explained how the last seven months had been some of the most rewarding of her life. "Watching people changing shape and becoming more confident and then getting to target has endless rewards, even more rewarding than losing weight myself, because I too as a member lost three-and-a-half stone with Slimming World and have managed to stay at target weight for 12 months. "Since the first opening night on May 27, 2004, the members at Tenby Slimming World have lost between them an impressive 1,560lbs, and the New Year will be even better with more choices, more flexibility and more variety than ever before." Eirian is looking forward to another good year with even more members and even greater weight losses. She would like to wish a very happy New Year and a great big thank you to all the members of Tenby Slimming World group - held at Augustus Place Community Centre on Thursday evenings at 6.30 pm - for all their help and support during 2004. For more information, 'phone Eirian Rogers on 01834 831640 - she'll be happy to help.