Performance Nutrition Counseling & Coaching
Telehealth & in-person sessions available.
Are you unsure how best to fuel and hydrate your body?
Would you like to enjoy all foods that you love, not feel deprived and reach your full athletic potential?
Would you like to feel better in your body?
Would you like to make peace with food?
Why work with Katie?
I am passionate about empowering athletes who are feeling confused and unsure how to fuel and hydrate their bodies due to the mixed messages they receive from the media and others to listen to their inner wisdom and observe their body’s internal cues and responses so that they can decide how best to apply sports nutrition guidelines to their sport, training schedule, food preferences and lifestyle to achieve peak athletic performance and reach optimal health and well-being.
After becoming a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics in February 2010, I realized that athletes can fuel their bodies for peak athletic performance AND nourish their bodies for optimal health and well-being. Who knew?
Finding this balance can be confusing and overwhelming since we are constantly inundated with advice (which may or may not be accurate) about what to eat and drink to achieve greater endurance and speed, build stronger muscles, and recover faster to achieve peak athletic performance.
I sift fact from fiction in order to provide you with the tools to optimally fuel AND nourish your body. I also provide support and compassion during your journey to help empower you to listen to your inner wisdom because you are the expert of your body.
I provide athletes with the knowledge and skills required to bring greater awareness, curiosity and compassion to their food choices, amounts, thoughts and feelings so that they can thrive at sports and life.
Think. Fuel. Perform.™
By applying the message of Think. Fuel. Perform.™ to how you fuel and hydrate your body you will be able to maximize your energy, make peace with food, treat your body with respect AND reach your full athletic potential.
By developing a mindful and intuitive fueling practice you will be able to bring greater awareness, curiosity, and compassion to your sport and life. This will allow you to cultivate your inner wisdom and learn how to gently use accurate sports nutrition knowledge so that you can feel your best both physically and emotionally. This will lead to peak energy, strength, speed, stamina, fluid balance and decrease recovery time.
Intuitive and mindful fueling is a journey not a destination.
Each fueling experience is an opportunity to learn something about yourself.
Working together as a team you will learn how to optimally fuel your body which will lead to:
1. Peak performance. Your speed, strength, power and stamina will be at its best.
2. Improved academic performance, mood, and decision-making
3. Postponed fatigue and enhanced energy levels during exercise and all day long.
4. Better and faster recovery.
5. Minimized soreness and inflammation
6. Reduced injury risk and improved return-to-play time after injury or surgery.
7. Enhanced immunity.
8. Ability to excel as an athlete for many years.
The Benefits of Us Working Together Are:
Explore reasons for wanting to make changes by identifying your personal and athletic values and how to align your actions with your values for lasting results.
Understand how to apply scientifically-based sports nutrition guidelines to your specific sport, training regimen, and lifestyle
Find a healthy balance between training, recovery, and rest for optimal athletic performance, and enjoyable, sustainable physical activity for health and wellness.
Cultivate compassion for yourself and your behaviors which will allow you to develop personalized strategies and skills that foster long-term, sustainable change.
Learn why dieting doesn’t work and can lead to disordered eating and eating disorders.
Make peace with food and eliminate possible feelings of guilt/shame associated with eating, food choices and amounts.
Learn to enjoy all foods in the real world without depriving yourself by cultivating awareness, curiosity and compassion for yourself, behaviors, patterns and thoughts.
Learn to use your hunger and fullness cues to decide when to start and stop eating by developing a mindful and intuitive eating practice.
Recognize and reduce triggers for overeating and/or restricting food.
Develop effective and caring ways to cope with emotions (this may or may not involve food based on the situation).
Learn how to respect your body and develop a more positive relationship with food and your body.
Support, compassion and encouragement throughout your journey.
Photos of Katie by Amy Lane Photography
My Journey
Due to my own food and body journey, I am passionate about helping athletes who are struggling with their relationship with food or their bodies find peace and learn to trust their inner wisdom. Everyone is unique and so is their body. It’s important to respect your body for its individuality and not try to make it become something it is not designed to be. Strength and fitness are not one-size fits all, they come in all shapes and sizes! I am passionate about empowering athletes who are feeling confused and unsure how to fuel and hydrate learn to intuitively and mindfully fuel and nourish their bodies in order to reach their full potential in sports and life.