Meet The Team
Founder of The Weight Loss Academy
Anna Wallace
Anna Wallace is the founder of The Weight Loss Academy which prides itself in revolutionising how women lose weight, increase energy and gain confidence without low calorie diets.
A Registered Associate Nutritionist, NLP Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist with extensive eating disorders training. Anna once found herself in the same shoes as her clients, starting a new diet every Monday, taking laxatives to lose weight, jumping on the scale everyday and emotionally eating. She found herself in a vicious dieting cycle with her weight going up and down.
After a personal transformation which involved vowing to never diet again, Anna sought out to learn more about food and the impact it has on us. Anna studied Food and Nutrition at the University of Ulster, N.Ireland and over the years through education, training and personal mastery, Anna lost weight, never gained it back (even after pregnancy) and finally got control back with food.
Fast forward 8 years Anna and her programs have transformed the lives of over 7000 women around the world. Anna is disrupting the dieting industry, she is passionate about getting women away from low calorie, restricted diets. Instead support them with creating flexible, positive relationships with food and connection back to their own body.
Anna and her husband John have a young son called Leo and you will often find them galavanting around the world.
wla nutrition consultant
Audrey Rankin
Dr Audrey Rankin completed her BSc (Hons) degree in Food and Nutrition with a Diploma in Industrial Studies at Ulster University, Northern Ireland in 2009, graduating with a 2:1. During this time, Dr Rankin undertook a placement year within the School of Psychology at Ulster University, working on a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of fish consumption on positive and negative mood states in healthy free-living older adults aged 55 to 79.
Dr Rankin then worked as a Research Assitant at Ulster University working in the area of B vitamins and overall health outcomes, before commencing her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Ulster University in 2011.
Dr Rankin’s PhD is entitled “Factors determining uptake and effectiveness of personalised nutritional interventions”. This was a mixed-methods framework of work which aimed to understand the public perspective of personalised nutrition and to establish best practices, develop services and policies that will enable personalised nutrition to promote dietary health in the general population.
Since completing her PhD in 2015, Dr Rankin has worked in a number of research positions at both Ulster University and Queens University Belfast in a number of areas including psychology, mental health and behaviour change interventions.
Dr Rankin now works at the Weight Loss Academy as a Nutrition Consultant, where she writes nutrition-related content for social media and develops healthy recipes.
Dr Rankin says she enjoys working in nutrition as you get to see the direct impact of your knowledge. You can see people change their relationship with food from negative to positive. Food should be enjoyed, so it is nice to see people get excited about food and cooking again!
wla Customer Service
Rutchel Garcia
Joining the Weight Loss Academy is a massive breakthrough for Rutchel…
She spent most of her career in the customer service industry, being a customer service representative then worked her way up the corporate ladder as a unit manager.
She landed a job in office administration when she went to Dubai, and is now working as Anna’s personal assistant, supporting her and the WLA team with various tasks behind the scenes.
She is the lady behind the customer service emails. If you have any technical problems, you email Rutchel and she’ll sort it out for you…
“Working in the academy made me realise my potential and purpose. I wouldn’t know that I have skills in designing, until I’ve tried doing it. It is such a beautiful feeling as well knowing you are supporting the whole team and the clients to overcome their struggles at the end of the day. I will be forever grateful for being a part of this team”.
Meet The Team
Founder of The Weight Loss Academy
Anna Wallace
Anna Wallace is the founder of The Weight Loss Academy which prides itself in revolutionising how women lose weight, increase energy and gain confidence without low calorie diets.
A Registered Associate Nutritionist, NLP Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist with extensive eating disorders training. Anna once found herself in the same shoes as her clients, starting a new diet every Monday, taking laxatives to lose weight, jumping on the scale everyday and emotionally eating. She found herself in a vicious dieting cycle with her weight going up and down.
After a personal transformation which involved vowing to never diet again, Anna sought out to learn more about food and the impact it has on us. Anna studied Food and Nutrition at the University of Ulster, N.Ireland and over the years through education, training and personal mastery, Anna lost weight, never gained it back (even after pregnancy) and finally got control back with food.
Fast forward 6 years Anna and her programs have transformed the lives of over 7000 women around the world. Anna is disrupting the dieting industry, she is passionate about getting women away from low calorie, restricted diets. Instead support them with creating flexible, positive relationships with food and connection back to their own body.
Anna and her fiance John have a young son called Leo and you will often find them galavanting around the world.
Weight Loss Academy Head Coach
Sinead Murray
“I can’t believe how much the Weight Loss Academy changed my life. Now I enjoy all food in a healthy and balanced way. The no-nonsense approach in the WLA really transforms lives and I feel very privileged and grateful to be part of the team to support more ladies along their journey”.
Sinead is a mother of two girls from Dublin, Ireland.
Sinead came to the WLA after struggling with her weight and yo-yo dieting for most of her adult life. She had reached a point where she couldn’t face another diet yet she knew for the sake of her health and her future, she couldn’t continue the cycle of losing and gaining weight.
Sinead joined the academy and worked through the process and discovered that weight loss
is about so much more than counting calories (in fact the WLA doesn’t count calories at all).
As Sinead experienced massive breakthroughs and mindset changes going through the programme, she wondered why more coaches weren’t offering this simple and sustainable approach to weight loss. Soon after she jumped at the chance to train as a coach and help other ladies, like herself, make peace with food.
In the summer of 2019, after completing the certification process, Sinead joined the team of coaches in The Weight Loss Academy as Head Coach. Sinead is passionate about helping ladies to reach their goals and conquer their food demons using healthy and sustainable methods.
As head coach, Sinead is your biggest cheerleader but also coaches you to be your best.
Weight Loss Academy Coach
Danielle Coetzee
Baker, master organizer and meal prepper, lover of delicious food and most importantly a health coach.
In May 2017, Danielle joined Anna’s coaching program. Danielle had always battled with weight and saw her first nutritionist at 13 years old and after having moved a continent by herself to a country where she did not speak the language and had no support system. Daniell emotionally ate and put on even more weight. With Anna’s help, she was able to learn to love and enjoy food again and not be afraid of food groups as well as learning healthy coping techniques instead of turning to food.
Coaching and teaching people has always been a passion of Danielle’s, in April 2020, she joined The Weight Loss Academy Coaching Certification as Danielle wanted to be able to help more women to learn to enjoy food and be more confident and happier within themselves.
Danielle is known for being the queen of meal prep and often delivers cooking classes in the academy.
Weight Loss Academy Support Coach
Dee Kidson
“I love my role supporting and encouraging the ladies in the Academy through the ups and downs in their journey, celebrating the wins and navigating the challenges – the community is amazing! I am excited to be undertaking the WLA certification so that I can learn more and support everyone from a position of knowledge alongside my personal experience.”
Dee had always battled with her weight, done every diet going and failed them all – a perpetual yo-yo of ups and downs, gains and losses.
When Dee stumbled across the WLA advert, she had given up, resigned to being the biggest she had ever been and was increasingly becoming a recluse.
Dee is still on her personal journey. Following the WLA lifestyle and adopting the principles in her own life, she has lost more weight than ever and is excited to continue until she reaches her happy place.
Dee’s relationship with food has transformed. Food used to be both her biggest source of comfort and biggest source of guilt, but not anymore – Dee loves eating to nourish and fuel her body and eat more mindfully, thoroughly enjoying indulgences with no regrets.
For Dee, it is an honour and a privilege to have been taken on as a support coach within the WLA.
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