Colby King, RD, LDN, CPT
Trained Chef, Registered Dietitian, and Certified Personal Trainer
Nutrition Counseling
Sports Performance
Weight Management
Personal Training
Mindset Strategies
COOK.
Trained Chef
I have always been fascinated by food. As a little girl I would spend hours watching my Mom in the kitchen make classic Italian dishes exactly how her mother would make. The endless possibilities of flavors, textures, colors, combinations…the list goes on and on. The culinary world is so diverse and all I wanted to do was learn more. I decided pretty early on during junior year of high school that I wanted to look for collegiate programs that included food and health/nutrition; this is also when I began working in kitchens. Johnson & Wales University of RI was the perfect choice for me because they offered a bachelors program in Culinary Nutrition. My first two years of school were strictly focused on culinary arts and honing in on my chef skills (I even had the opportunity to cook for Emeril Lagasse…BAM!!!). I then had to apply and gain acceptance into the nutrition program for my final two years of school where we focused more on clinical dietetics and nutrition. The balance between being able to counsel clients/patients on how nutrition therapy can help them while also teaching them how to cook the food properly to taste good is honestly unmatched.
EAT.
Registered Dietitian
From there I endured the grueling process of dietetic internship matching and was accepted into the year long clinical dietetic internship program at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT. Myself, along with 10 other accepted graduates from around the country, completed this year-long experience at one of the most prestigious hospitals in the region. I learned how to provide medical nutrition therapy to a large variety of patients while under the guidance of preceptor dietitians. A few short months after the internship was over, I sat for my registration board exam and passed! I could then officially call myself a Registered Dietitian and started putting all of my hard work to the test with my own patients at Rhode Island Hospital. As a Clinical Dietitian, I was able to experience first-hand how medical nutrition therapy can benefit all different kinds of patients in the acute care setting. The most rewarding was being able to work alongside the Providence Bruins Men’s Hockey Team during my sports performance rotation in helping them with pre-game fueling snack ideas!
TRAIN.
Certified Personal Trainer
In between all of this schooling and learning, I was a very competitive soccer player. I started at the age of 4 and really never stopped. I started playing for a premier club team at the age of 10 and spent most weekends with my team traveling around New England year-round for games and tournaments. I ended up playing all four of my high school years on the varsity team, and was able to earn some scholarship money from Johnson & Wales to play for their Division III women’s soccer team. This is really where my love for the gym and love for lifting started because once soccer was over I needed a new kind of structure that I didn’t know I needed before because it was provided for me. I started to truly understand how my own body works, moves, grows, and thrives in that type of environment. The more I learned about fitness through my journey the more I wanted to start helping people in their own journeys. I set out to achieve a certification in personal training from the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and started working in the field within 3 months of completing the nationally accredited course. I am continually motivated by the goals that clients set for themselves and are able to surpass them along with following a healthy non-diet approach to cooking and nutrition.
Interested in working with me?
I will always have the same, if not more, motivation and passion that I had for my own journey for your journey as a client of The Balanced Athlete & Lifestyle Academy. We will go in-depth discussing and focusing on your goals as an athlete or former athlete in our very first conversation together!
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