Dietitian Ellen

Dietitian Ellen ⚡️Sports Dietitian - Here to help you hit your PBs⚡️
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🥘 Making healthy food taste amazing 🫡

What I meal prepped this week as a sports dietitian getting back into training… ⚡️🏋️👟Back by popular demand (from 🫡😂) O...
07/06/2026

What I meal prepped this week as a sports dietitian getting back into training… ⚡️🏋️👟

Back by popular demand (from 🫡😂)

On the menu this week:
🍗 Chicken and chorizo pasta sauce
🍚 Asian chicken rice bowls (coconut & lime rice, roasted air fryer veggies with an Asian marinade (aka whatever was in the cupboard), and mixed bean salad)
🍌 Banana muffins
🥣 Overnight oats - my go to post gym breakfast (ofc still have my pre-gym carbs!! ⚡️⚡️)
🍓 Yoghurt pot - Greek yoghurt, honey, strawbs, & museli

What’ve you made this week? 💬

Follow for more balanced meal prep inspo 🤍

Exciting things coming up with Bombers Physical Training 👀🙌🏼⚡️
07/06/2026

Exciting things coming up with Bombers Physical Training 👀🙌🏼⚡️

01/06/2026

It’s dietitians week!! 🙌🏼⚡️ aka the best job 🫡✅ - I will always say I have no idea how I get paid to talk about food all day, literally living the dream 💭😅

And as someone who’s started a slightly different career path recently as a freelance sports dietitian (alongside my nhs work!), this is a little insight into what it looks like so far 👀🤝

The joy of freelance is being able to do whatever you want with your job! 🥰👏 however… the graft is real & income isn’t always guaranteed as with your more typical roles 😅

I started as a freelance sports dietitian for my own personal interest, as well as being frustrated with a society that consistently tells women to eat less & only exercise in certain ways to avoid being ‘bulky’ 😩 - I don’t think so 🙅‍♀️

So, on my journey in the freelance world, some snippets of my role include
💬 Meeting 1:1 clients to support them with their nutrition - usually in the build up to a certain race
⚡️Giving nutrition talks to various sports groups to support nutrition within the team & hopefully help everyone understand their nutrition a bit more!
📸 Making content for my own social media accounts - won’t let any friends eat their food before I’ve taken a photo 😅😂
🥘 Recipe creation, again for my own content, and also to give clients (and followers!) balanced recipe inspiration that’s quick, easy, and supports training (no following low carb tiktok recipes)
🧪 Reading research papers, watching webinars, and peer support with my fellow sports nutrition crew 🤍

It’s definately been a journey and I’m sure this part of my career will change as I continue, but I can’t wait to see where we go with this 🥰

Follow to see what happens 👀

🏅May 26🏅Feels like summer finally arrived 🥰🤝May highlights:🏅we ran a half marathon again finally!! 🇮🇹 followed by a litt...
31/05/2026

🏅May 26🏅

Feels like summer finally arrived 🥰🤝

May highlights:
🏅we ran a half marathon again finally!!
🇮🇹 followed by a little trip to Venice
🥰 visiting family at home - the best
🍅 becoming obsessed with tomato + burrata
☀️ Pilates in the sun 😍😍
🏃‍♀️ supporting with their nutrition - in my element ⚡️✅
🌊 finally getting some beach days in

Hope your month has been just as gorgeous 🤍

The biggest mistakes I see athletes making with their nutrition… 🥲😅Spot any that you’re making?1. Not eating properly ar...
26/05/2026

The biggest mistakes I see athletes making with their nutrition… 🥲😅

Spot any that you’re making?

1. Not eating properly around and during their training because they ‘feel fine’
🏃‍♀️ Exercise is known to affect appetite but sometimes as an athlete you need to be eating even when you don’t feel hungry
🥯 Eating enough & at the right times = essential for our performance, recovery, adaptation, & health
⬇️ Eating too little can affect our bone health, hormonal processes, & cognitive function 🥲

2. Prioritising protein and forgetting about every other nutrient
💪🏼 yes, protein is important for muscle recovery and growth
⚡️ your overall energy intake, carbohydrate intake, fat intake, and micronutrient intake are also important - and you won’t get stronger if you aren’t getting enough of these either
🧐 In clinic, I see athletes not meeting their carbohydrate requirements (& underperforming as a result) as they’re filling up on protein rather than getting their carbs in

3. Using caffeine to fuel training instead of carbs
🪫red bull doesn’t count as a pre-workout snack alone…
☕️ while there’s nothing wrong with having a bit of caffeine prior to your workout (it can actually boost our performance!), carbs are the most important and give our bodies real energy to undertake our training and recover from it
👻 caffeine only tricks our body into thinking we have energy, meaning you might get through your training - but your body is taking a hit in the process 🔫
💩 having caffeine pre-workout may also stimulate some other things…meaning you then come to me and tell me you can’t tolerate any carbs pre-workout 🤔

4. Skipping breakfast
BUT WHY 🥲🥲 breakfast is so goodddd
🍳 having breakfast soon after waking first of all helps athletes meet their nutritional requirements and second of all, signals to our body that we’re giving it the energy it needs & all the little processes going on in the background can continue as normal 😌

5. Going low carb
Please help them when will they get the message…
EAT UR BLOODY CARBS 🥯🥖🥐🍞

Follow for more sports nutrition advice ⚡️

Book via the link in bio for more in depth support ✅

Hot but worth it in every other way😍⚡️Your sign to run an Italian half marathon - if only for the carbs and nothing else...
17/05/2026

Hot but worth it in every other way😍⚡️

Your sign to run an Italian half marathon - if only for the carbs and nothing else 🤤🤤

Also mildly fuming it was cloudy by the time I took finish photos so now I look like I’m complaining about heat for nothing 🥲😂

Send this to someone who should run an Italian half marathon with you 👋🏼🤩

14/05/2026

⚡️Spreading the word on sports nutrition⚡️

A gorgeous evening spent with Blackburn Road Runners last night supporting with some post-run fueling and a whistle stop tour of sports nutrition basics for endurance runners ✅⚡️🏃‍♀️

We covered:
⏫ The athlete nutrition hierarchy - the importance of getting the basics right before taking performance supplements
🍞 My favourite topic aka carbs including types & timings
🥛Protein, fats, & fluid for athletes
🦴 Some key micronutrients - calcium, vitamin D, and iron
🍽️ The athlete plate - what proportions you should aim for your meals to be
🏃‍♀️Pre, during, and post training/race fueling - and the importance of practicing this pre-race: your gut is a muscle & can be trained to take on fuel better (and improve your performance!⚡️)

We also provided a range of post workout snacks for runners to have on their return (couldn’t have anyone going hungry! 😉)
🥣 Greek yoghurt bowls with museli, frozen raspberries, peanut butter, dark chocolate, and honey
🥭 Mango milkshake made with frozen mango, milk, Greek yoghurt, and honey
🥕 Carrot cake oat bars made with oil, peanut butter, grated carrot, oats, walnuts, and dark chocolate

Interested in a talk like this at your run club? Get in touch via email or DM 💬

🩵 Nov 25 🩵The month of slowing down 😌🫶🏼Honestly this month has absolutely passed me by 😅 how is it December tomorrow!?! ...
30/11/2025

🩵 Nov 25 🩵

The month of slowing down 😌🫶🏼

Honestly this month has absolutely passed me by 😅 how is it December tomorrow!?! 🎄❄️🎁

Some highlights ✨
🤍 Most gorg gals weekend away in Poole
🍃 Countryside wanders with friends
🥪 best sandwich ever from 😍
💇🏼‍♀️ Chopped my hair off
🏃‍♀️ Getting back to some consistency with the gym and running (apart from this last week where I’ve been feeling absolutely rotten 🤧🥲)
📚 Started the last masters module of 2025 (and last one for a while…)

What’ve you been up to this month? 🫶🏼

👋🏼 A little bit about me…It’s been a while and there are a few new faces round here (welcome!) so let me give a brief in...
16/11/2025

👋🏼 A little bit about me…

It’s been a while and there are a few new faces round here (welcome!) so let me give a brief introduction to myself & why I do what I do 🫶🏼

First of I love a bit of gym, running, yoga, and spending time with my gorg friends 🤍 (when I do get free time 😅)

I started this page way back in first year of uni (2020 😮) during covid sharing recipes & nutrition tips with no aim - just a bit of fun (and distraction from doing uni work 😂)

Once I’d graduated, the page became dietitianellen to reflect my new status 💁🏼‍♀️😮‍💨 and the page shifted towards nutrition tips alongside sharing the odd recipe 🥘

While in my final year of uni, I completed my first half marathon 🏃‍♀️🙌🏼 however lost 5kg due to under-eating, and had no fueling strategy (other than scranning a few jelly babies) which resulted in me hitting ‘the wall’ and coming short of my goal time by 6 minutes ⏳🥲 - despite being an almost qualified dietitian, I knew nothing about Sports Nutrition other than what I’d learnt from Instagram 🤷🏼‍♀️

Since graduating, I’ve completed my PgCert in Sports Nutrition and really solidified the power of nutrition in this area. Adequate fueling isn’t an added bonus within sports, it’s essential - even for those who consider themselves amateur athletes 🫡

Under-nourishment can have long term consequences on our health and performance - I’ve learnt that the hard way, and I want to help others to prevent this happening to them ❤️

Join me on my journey & hopefully I can help you on yours 🏅

Suporting both child & adult athletes - book a discovery call via the link in bio or dm me for a chat 💬

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