About Me
Nutritionist – Intuitive Eating Coach UK – Body Image
Fat acceptance – Body Positive – Positive Body Image – Body acceptance
TLDR ; Jeanette Thompson-Wessen Bsc (Hons) PGCE, Degree in Human Nutrition and Secondary Education, over 10 years of Nutrition and Cooking teaching children and freelance Nutritionist work, body Image and Counselling Skills trained, Intuitive Eating Courses in the UK.
I am a mid-fat, cis gendered, straight, white, able bodied, potentially neurodivergent woman.
My weight had always been something I felt like I needed to change or at the very least, be ashamed of. I was all or nothing in my approach to myself. Having been interested in food and nutrients from an early age and having a passion to want to help people led me to studying Human Nutrition in University.
I worked in a Dietetics and Nutrition department helping in heart rehabilitation and diabetes education. I even worked in family weight management. I wanted to become a nutrition counsellor but thought that I couldn’t because of my weight. I have never looked like any nutrition influencer. I became a Food and Nutrition teacher following my passion to help people and their health.
I am still passionate on passing my knowledge onto children and teaching them the joy of cooking.
I have always known deep down that we can be healthy at every size. I know I was healthy at whatever size I was but that need to be a person in a smaller body and achieve a “target” weight that has been shown to every single one of us took over.
I went on to try Slimming World a number of times, calorie counting, Slim Fast, fat free diets, vegan for thinness rather than ethical/moral reasons.
Each time, I would lose weight. But after a while, my weight would always rebound and I would end up heavier than when I started.
After discovering Health At Every Size and Intuitive Eating myself before my first child as born, I started on my own journey which eventually ended up with me becoming proffesionally invested in this way of eating.
I am now a professional that helps people accept their bodies while also learning how to nourish themselves in a realistic way that suits them with little time.
I am available for speaking and also guest podcasting. Please do get in contact with me.
Did you know I have a blog that you might like to read?
From Intuitive eating and gentle nutrition to the dangers of dieting and if you can lose weight while intuitively eating; I talk about a range of topics to help you undiet your life!
How I became a Body Image, Body Neutrality and Fat Acceptance coach and Intuitive Eating specialist
After starting on a journey of body positivity after having my first baby, I got to a good place but after my second baby, I couldn’t even recognise myself in the mirror anymore. I put all my work into my intuitive eating journey and into body acceptance and just knew this was what I was supposed to be doing to help women. I trained with the London Institute of Intuitive Eating to specialise in Intuitive Eating and have trained in Body Image. I now work with fat liberation and fat acceptance to really help untangle what we have learnt over the years about our body. I also have training in Counselling skills to be able to make your sessions as safe as possible.
I aim to help you ditch the diet for good and develop healthy behaviours and align with Health at every size principles. I want you to be in a place where you have fat acceptance so you can be present in your lives. I want you to be able to challenge your internalised fat phobia when and where it comes up. To take up space apologetically.
What I Do
I work with large/fat people exclusively to help them become OK with being in a large body. I help large bodied people learn how to support their health regardless of their weight through nutrition and intuitive eating approaches.
My Approach
My approach is totally anti-diet and fat positive. I work through social justice and intersectional feminist lens to help people see how their marginalised bodies and/or identities impacts their lived experience.
My Core Values
My core values include self compassion, kindness, person-centered, social justice and Health at every size aligned.