

Weight Concern
Nourish & Thrive offers individualised assessment, education, and ongoing support for nutrition for a wide range of needs, both children and adults.
Each of our dietitians has particular specialty areas and experience to offer. When you call to book an appointment, we will help you be matched with the dietitian best suited to your needs.
Weight Concern
Nourish & Thrive dietitians treat their clients’ concerns about weight seriously. They recognise the often difficult and long journey that has led a client to reach out for professional support. They are therefore very invested in supporting clients to create a sustainable, happier, healthier approach to eating.
We can help in the following ways:
Adults & Older Teens: Intuitive Eating & Non-diet Approach
Nourish and Thrive dietitians utilise the principles of Intuitive Eating and the Non-Diet Approach to help support their clients to ditch restrictive diets and learn to trust and find joy in food and eating.
Is Intuitive Eating right for you?
Do you:
Find yourself constantly on and off diets or identify as an “all or nothing” eater?
Wish you could stop counting calories, macros or points?
Feel confused, stressed or overwhelmed about food decisions?
Experience anxiety, guilt and shame after eating certain foods?
Regularly feel worried about your weight?
Experience difficulty in connecting with your signals of hunger and fullness?
Find yourself feeling out of control around food?
Identify as an emotional or mindless eater?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you may benefit from a new and sustainable way of eating and taking care of your body. Intuitive eating is an evidence-based approach that helps people move toward a more positive relationship with food, movement, their bodies, and themselves.
Find the principles of Intuitive Eating here: https://www.intuitiveeating.org/10-principles-of-intuitive-eating
How does intuitive eating work?
Whilst everyone’s journey with intuitive can look very different, this approach can help you to:
Learn to connect to your appetite signals such as hunger, fullness and satiety
Enjoy all foods without a sense of anxiety, guilt or shame
Nourish your body with a wide range of different foods
Recognise and reject diet culture
Explore how feelings and emotions impact on your eating
Work out the foods that support health conditions such as PCOS, diabetes or IBS
Feel less out of control, stressed and overwhelmed about food
Plan meals and snacks based on the foods that are enjoyable, satisfying and suitable for your own nutrition needs
Find ways to be kind and compassionate to yourself and your body
Learn to enjoy moving your body in a way that feels good
Live a fulfilling life not dictated by food rules and the scales
Find the principles of Intuitive Eating here: https://www.intuitiveeating.org/10-principles-of-intuitive-eating
Children & Weight
Nourish & Thrive dietitians are very sensitive to the impact of weight and body-related conversations on children, especially when they are connected with food. Our perspectives and practices are informed by:
Non-Diet Approaches
Neurodiversity affirming and responsive feeding frameworks
Trauma-informed practices
Strengths-based practices
Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility (sDOR)
We will therefore ask you not to bring your child to a dietitian appointment where there is a weight concern, in particular the first appointment.
It is vital that parents can speak freely about their concerns.
Our dietitians’ role is to guide and support parents to understand their child’s individual growth pattern, their nutrition needs and create a safe, enjoyable food and eating environment. This includes helping parents and carers to have child-friendly, appropriate and non-stigmatising conversations about weight, bodies, appetite, food and eating.
How we help you and your child
We will help you to navigate weight concern for your child and support them to:
Feel good about and take care of the body they have, regardless of size or shape
Have positive mealtime experiences
Explore new foods with curiosity and without judgement
Build awareness of body cues
Discover and use their own internal motivation to develop food and eating skills
Improve their relationship with food and mealtimes
Feel competent with eating
Explore and experience enjoyable ways of moving their body
Optimise their physical, emotional and psychological health