Today, I’m delighted to introduce Paulina Sutton from Embrace Nutrition, a nutritional therapist and personal trainer who will be providing advice on healthy eating for sport performance in future guest blog posts. To kick things off, I asked Paulina to tell me a bit about her personal background and her business…

“From an early age, having had interest in sport and fitness, I began playing badminton and ended up playing as a professional for my country of Poland. As a national champion, I started participating in many international competitions including World and European Championships, winning a silver medal.

“In my mid 20s, I switched my interest to triathlon. I was inspired by a magazine article about a female triathlete competing in Hawaii. However, I wasn’t a swimmer, a cyclist or even a runner, so gradually trained in these disciplines to compete in my first triathlon. Over the years, I increased the race distances, which enabled me to race competitively at full Ironman distance (2.4 miles swim, 112 miles bike, 26.2 miles run).

“Through my training for the races, I realised that I had a passion for coaching and training and could help others achieve their goals. I became a British Triathlon Federation coach and also qualified as a Personal Trainer and now work full time working either online or one-to-one with clients enabling them to compete in triathlons of all distances.

“A highlight of my coaching career was a trip to the Ironman World Championship 2019 in Hawaii, to help my client achieve her goal of competing.

“During my personal training and coaching career, I started realising how important it is to eat well and how eating healthy meals can have an impact on health and wellbeing. This motivated me to complete a four year Nutritional Therapy course at the College of Naturopathic Medicine. This course allowed me to give my clients a full package of exercise, nutrition and positive lifestyle changes to meet their needs and goals and therefore become healthier and perform better, faster and stronger.

“In my practice, I mainly work with individuals who would like to address nutritional balance and help support their body towards sport nutrition, maintaining health and performance.”

Nutritional Therapy is for everyone and here are some examples of when it can help: