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In her Books, through a character who resembles her, Nathalie Jegou tries to help people lose weight in a lasting and peaceful way. The latest work by this nutrition coach has just been published.
For years, Nathalie Jegou went through diets without managing to lose weight sustainably. A long journey strewn with pitfalls and eating disorders. From the age of 14 until she was 33, this resident of Colomiers, north of Toulouse, suffered from bulimia.
Episodes of discomfort and a need for control that took Nathalie years to understand. Until this meeting with a psychologist who allowed him to put into words the origin of his anxieties. “My memory opened. At the age of six, I experienced rape at summer camp. My brain had cut off the memories. » A revelation which did not change his discomfort. On the other hand, working with this specialist allows him to “wake up and reveal himself”. “So much so that I wanted to help people who wanted to free themselves from food obsessions.”
Keys to understanding
In 2018, Nathalie, then aged 42, began a professional shift: she left the world of real estate to become a behavioral nutrition coach. A few years later, when she explained to one of her friends that she was often bored between two coaching sessions, he recommended that she write a book. “My first reaction was to say it wasn’t possible but he had planted the seed. Three days later, while going for a walk, I saw my heroine appear. »
In the space of two and a half months, the Haut-Garonnaise wrote her first book. “What now? Caesar salad or Bolognese pasta?” will be published in 2023 by Baudelaire Editions. It will be followed the following year by a second work: “Hey! Losing weight isn’t easy!”
With lightness and derision, Nathalie Jegou takes us into the daily life of Marie-Louise Carpentiers, a 34-year-old young woman obsessed with her weight and who is trying at all costs to lose her excess pounds. Through this character, the author wanted to instigate the advice that she also gives during her coaching sessions and provide keys to understanding the mechanisms that prevent lasting weight loss. The author particularly highlights the importance of experienced trauma and epigenetics. “I wanted people to get out of diet culture. It is first by transforming ourselves from the inside that we can permanently change our relationship with food and weight.”
Nathalie Jegou's books are available to order in traditional networks (Fnac, etc.)
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