Jamie's love life picks up when his feelings for a beautiful woman are returned. However, obstacles fall into place, including her daughter and she's got an ex-con ex-boyfriend. The gang head back to Trisha for their final weigh-in. While Jamie provides the catering, Kelly gives birth to a baby boy.

Claire and her little girl have moved in with Jamie, but are her feelings of sickness more than just a dodgy curry? The barmaid at Woody's seems to know the answer and so much more, as she doesn't even know Claire by that name. Rebecca suspects the truth, but keeps her mouth shut until it's too late.

Rebecca decides it is time to leave home. Her boyfriend Sean is keen to help with the move, but her break for independence is short-lived when tragedy strikes and Norma needs support.

It's Christmas Eve, but the Simpson household isn't filled with joy. Betty can't stop thinking about meeting the son she gave up for adoption when she was just 15.

Despite being overweight, Rebecca Patterson is generally content with life – particularly with her job as assistant manager at a garden centre that allows her to work alongside the man she secretly adores. But the shy and retiring twentysomething's cosy world is shattered by the return of a figure from her past, who proceeds to subject her to cruel psychological tortures.

Kelly spends the night at the club, but the slimming pills and alcohol make her lose all inhibitions. Kevin tries to find out why he was kept in the dark about the photo session. Meanwhile, there's shocking news for Betty when she tries to collect a prescription.

Jamie thinks his fortunes have changed when he makes the acquaintance of secondhand car dealer Craig. He spends his birthday money on flash clothes and a mobile phone in a desperate bid to fit in with Craig's friends, but soon realises his new friend is a shady operator with a criminal past — can his policeman father help him cut his ties with the shady crowd?

Betty's already stressful life takes another twist when her childhood sweetheart joins the slimming club, prompting the return of long-suppressed feelings and revelations about a dark secret from her past.

Kelly Simpson is determined to get in her two-sizes-too-small wedding dress in time for her big day. Meanwhile, at the slimming club, her mum, Betty, has won through to the regional finals of Superslimmers 2000, even though her husband isn't that happy about her losing weight.

Alan Ashburn is losing weight for his 20th wedding anniversary celebrations but a romantic meal out with his wife ends in their relationship crumbling.

The arrival of divorce papers send Alan's blood pressure rocketing, with the result that he fails a medical and loses his job.

Carol faces her own problems when her husband leaves, leaving her alone with her son. Things take a darker turn when she decides to go on a diet.

Lauren Harris has won a role in a soap she's convinced that losing five pounds would make her a better actress. However, problems arise with not only her mum, who is convinced she's anorexic, but also her boyfriend Gareth, whose nickname for her is "Pudding".

Carol faces problems when she realises she has fallen for fitness instructor Max, which raises new troubles with her teenage son.

Lauren has the chance to make all her acting dreams come true — but at the price of losing everything and everybody that matters. Can she get back her friends when she needs them most?

The group return from the Spanish vacation they won from Trisha. Betty can't wait to get home to see her long-lost son Simon, and Kelly struggles between raising her baby and helping Kevin run the fish and chip shop.