Therapist Spotlight

Prioritising your health can be a challenge when you have a busy life, yet we all know it is vital to our quality of life. We catch up with local weight-loss coach Julie Ritchie and talk to her about Zumba, weight-loss and her brand new website redsirens.co.uk

I have always been interested in health and fitness and have been qualified as a Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer for over 10 years. I lived in London for 7 of those years and I took a job managing a community nutrition project. It was mainly desk based with long hours and over the years I began piling on the pounds and became overweight.

I made a decision last year to leave London and move back to the East Sussex countryside, (having completed an Msc in Weight Management) to follow my dream of having my own fitness business. I lost the excess weight and set up my business Shine Weight Management and Fitness Services.

My new website (www.redsirens.co.uk) is all about Health and Wellbeing and specifically there to help women of all ages. There's loads of information on weight loss, nutrition, wellbeing, relationships, even dating. There are also lots of free resources and links.

SHINE aims to help people to make lifestyle changes that mean they can lose weight whilst still living their life. I offer one to one weight loss coaching, Personal Training and advice on nutrition and exercise and also do telephone coaching.

I recently got qualified to teach Zumba which is a Latin inspired dance, fitness class. Anyone can join in and people love it because it is to much fun it doesn't feel like exercise. My classes are based mainly in the Hailsham area.

Find Julie here on the Wellbeing Directory