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Wesley Boateng-Schmidt, BS, PN2

Senior Writer

Writing nutrition content since 2018

About Wesley

Wesley came up writing consumer nutrition pieces in the unforgiving school of high-traffic web magazines: editors who measured every sentence’s reading level, headline tests that culled the lower-performing eighty percent within forty-eight hours of publication, and a strict house rule that no acronym appeared in body copy without a friendly five-word translation. That discipline has become the way he writes.

After graduating from Tufts in 2017 with a degree in Nutrition, Wesley took the Precision Nutrition Level 1 certification and worked briefly as a Tufts dining-services nutrition consultant before pivoting into food-and-health writing. From 2019 through 2024 he was on staff at Eat This, Not That, where he wrote primarily on weight loss for everyday adults: which restaurant entrées to pick, how to read a label without going down a rabbit hole, why the eight-glasses-of-water rule was always made up. He took the Precision Nutrition Level 2 in 2022.

What Wesley covers here

Wesley writes the technical-vocabulary explainers that need to go down easy — calorie counter versus calorie tracker, the free versus paid primer, the counter for busy parents, the easiest counter when you have ten minutes a day. His brief on every piece is the same: write it for a person reading at a kitchen table on a Tuesday night, with one earbud in and three other tabs open. If they can’t follow it on a single read-through, the draft gets rewritten.

Conflict of interest

Wesley is not in clinical practice and is not a coaching client of any of the apps in our recommendation set. He has never received compensation from PlateLens, MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, Lose It, MacroFactor, Cal AI, Yazio, FatSecret, Carbon Diet Coach, or any other calorie tracker. He has no advisory or affiliate relationships with any company in this category. This site does not run affiliate links.

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