Relinquish is led by Louise Heta, an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) and Nutritionist based on the Gold Coast. With over 20 years of experience, we provide trusted support for both NDIS participants and private clients, specialising in eating disorder care, intuitive eating, and non-diet approaches.
Our mission is to help you stop dieting, relinquish toxic diet mentality, food rules and body shame. To assist you in eating intuitively most of the time and connect to your body’s hunger cues becoming your own body expert!
Reconnect with the pleasure of eating and life by truly healing your relationship with your body and food.
We believe in a weight neutral approach to health. This means we don’t make assumptions about your health based on your size. We don’t hold the view that weight loss is necessary for health or self-care. All bodies are worthy of care, kindness and respect and this includes eating without restrictions or guilt and moving your body in a way that you enjoy.
Founder
Louise Heta is the founder of Relinquish and has over 20 years’ experience in dietetic private
practice. Louise is an experienced eating disorder dietitian and works using a client-centered, non-
diet, Health At Every Size (HAES®) approach.
Louise assists clients in moving away from the conventional use of structured meal plans and
teaching intuitive and mindful eating practices to reconnect with the body’s natural hunger and
fullness signals.
Louise is an Eating Disorder Credentialed Dietitian. She has specific training and expertise in eating
disorder treatment, body image healing and trauma-informed dietetic care.
Louise is also a very experienced sports dietitian with over 20 years of experience working with elite-
level athletes (AFL, VIS, Swimming Aus, Aus Lacrosse, Red Bull Pilots) to help them eat well to fuel
performance. She has worked with many athletes from recreational through to elite levels to
achieve peak performance nutrition and overcome disordered eating and Relative Energy Deficiency
in Sports to support optimal well-being and sports performance.
In her free time Lou enjoys training and competing in sports including boxing, powerlifting and
Crossfit. She loves cooking for her husband and 3 boys and moved to the Gold Coast for the sun,
beach and waves. She loves exploring new places, walking her dog Rocky and having a dance and
sing whenever she feels like it!
