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Rachel's mantra

Are you?
- intimidated by gyms?
- disheartened with faddy diets
  or diet clubs?
- not sure how to take the first
  step to make positive
  changes in your life?
 
We will help you:
- feel more positive about yourself
- get your figure back
- be happier and feel sexier
- have more focus and become
  more motivated
- feel more energised and to be
  less stressed
- feel more confident, inspired and
  creative

We help women of all ages, shapes and sizes feel more confident about themselves both mentally and physically.  This is achieved through fitness, weight loss, life coaching and hypnotherapy.
 
Absolutely Fabulous is based in the Reading area and works one to one with clients in their homes or offices.

 

Meet Rachel
Rachel McGuinness who founded absolutely fabulous originally worked in the events industry, and has worked in health and fitness for the past seven years inspiring women of all ages to live better lives through fitness, healthy eating and lifestyle mentoring. 
 
Fat & unfit to health & fitness expert
She has not always been fit and healthy herself.  "In my early thirties,  I smoked, drank far too much, ate everything in sight, lived on ready meals with little or no exercise.  Did I want to be fat and forty or fit and forty?  So I quit the cigarettes, cut down on the alcohol, started to eat sensibly and did the scary thing and joined a gym.  I soon reaped the benefits with fantastic weight loss and change in body shape just with healthier eating and simple exercise.”
 
“I know how intimidating it is to go to the gym when you feel fat and lack confidence in what you are doing, which is one of the reasons I started this company to reach those women who want to make changes in their life, but don’t want to do it in front of others”.

Rachel is qualified as a Certified Eriksonian Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, a lifestyle mentor, a personal fitness trainer, a trained Pilates teacher, a nutritional advisor,  and stress management coach.

In her spare time Rachel loves to travel, chill out, read and listen to music.  She also loves cooking with her husband Andy and eating fantastic food.

Rachel in the press...
Rachel's articles on health, fitness and well being have appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Korean Herald, the NHS magazine Prime, and the following magazines: Woman & Home, Cosmopolitan, Health & Fitness, Chat, Closer, Woman, Tesco Magazine, Holland & Barratt's "Healthy" magazine as well as local media.   She regularly appears on BBC Radio Berkshire as their fitness expert. She has also contributed to a celebrity cook book which raised money for the Tsunami appeal called East Meets West in 2005.  She also wrote "The Why do you overeat? Diet Cookbook" with Zoe Harcombe in 2005, which has been republished as the  "Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight Recipe Book" in 2008.