Christina Kilton, RDN, LD, is a Registered Dietitian with over 20 years of experience in sports nutrition, dedicated to helping athletes maximize their performance through tailored fueling strategies. As a former student-athlete, gymnastics coach, wife, and mom, Christina understands the challenges of balancing nutrition, training, and daily life. Her passion lies in guiding athletes to fuel their bodies for success both on and off the field.

My story:

I grew up loving sports. Some of my first memories include doing cartwheels around my mom and teacher. I was put into dance classes, softball, and basketball when I was young. I eventually made my way to gymnastics and track and field.

Unfortunately as a child/teenager I became increasingly aware of my weight and felt that I needed to be smaller to be better even though I could outperform most of the boys on the playground. I started restricting and dieting while being a multisport athlete (read: track after school, gymnastics after track type schedule). By the end of my senior year I had been on crutches 7 times and had knee surgery.

Nutrition wasn’t at the forefront of sports back then, but I had noticed that some days I felt really good at practice and other days not so much. My coaches were great and had a dietitian come talk to us. This is where I realized what I ate made a difference in how I felt and performed. It was a long road but after a few years off from sports and lots of education I was able to take some gymnastics classes again and discovered that it was soooo much easier to play sports being properly fueled.

Now I love guiding young athletes on their own journey’s to improved performance. I hope to reach other young athletes so they won’t have the disappointing injury laiden experience I had.

Nutrition has made its way into sports, but so has “diet culture” and other forms of body comparisons that can harm young athletes. Learn how to stop the negative body image and how to be the best athlete you can be. Fuel your life, fuel your sport, fuel your confidence.