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Kristy Baumann
FOUNDER & CEO
Kristy is a Minnesota-based Registered Dietitian who helps runners and active individuals build confidence in fueling their bodies for performance, recovery, and everyday health.
As a marathon runner and mom, Kristy understands the unique demands of balancing training, work, and family, and she specializes in creating realistic, science-backed strategies to help her audience thrive both on and off the road.
Whether she’s preparing runners for their next big race, guiding them to avoid underfueling, or helping families create balanced meals, Kristy’s approach is practical, relatable, and rooted in the belief that nutrition should be simple and enjoyable. She shows her clients how to optimize their performance and energy while embracing their favorite foods.
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Achievements/Certifications:
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Registered Dietitian (RD) - Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Licensed Dietitian (LD) - Minnesota
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Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics - Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota
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Dietetic Internship with 1200 hours practical experience - Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina​
Kelly Niederloh
Registered Dietitian
Kelly is a Registered Dietitian from Minneapolis, Minnesota, a 5x marathon runner, 8x half marathon runner, fiance and doting dog-owner. Kelly is passionate about helping runners maximize their running potential by utilizing nutrition to fuel their success and enjoy their training.
Kelly has consistently ran since junior high school, but didn’t start learning to fuel strategically to support her running goals until recent years. Kelly struggled with finding a fuel and hydration plan that didn’t make her stomach upset while running. Once Kelly learned different ways to fuel and committed to prioritizing her nutrition and hydration before, during, and after runs, she started seeing breakthroughs in her running goals, feeling stronger, and experiencing faster recovery as a result. Kelly believes nutrition is highly individualized and that everyone can find fueling strategies that will compliment their lifestyle and running goals.
Kelly is excited to support other runners in creating a positive relationship with food to enjoy the process of training, feel good, and maximize running success.
Achievements/Certifications:
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Registered Dietitian (RD) - Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Licensed Dietitian (LD) - Minnesota
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Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics - College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, St. Joseph, Minnesota
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Master’s Degree in Public Health Nutrition (MPH) - University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Dietetic Internship with 1200 hours practical experience - University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Kristy Baumann
Founder & CEO
For the longest time, I thought I was fueling well as a runner - even after becoming a Registered Dietitian. It wasn't until 8 marathons later that I realized I was under fueling and holding myself back from reaching my full running potential and living a life of food freedom.
My food obsession all started when I would spend hours on Pinterest looking for the nutritious, low sugar recipes. Yet, I had a biggest sweet tooth and ate desserts daily. I was intentional about eating healthy during the day, only to find myself raiding the pantry at night. I pre-portioned my snacks and told myself "I need to wait until 2pm to eat," even though I was hungry earlier. That only lead lead to eating spoonfuls of peanut butter out of the jar.
With running, I found myself feeling nauseous after long runs and struggling to recover. During hard effort workouts, I fizzled out and failed to hit paces. On race day, I experienced muscle cramps and stomach problems that showed up unexpectedly. I thought running on an empty stomach was the best way to become a fat-adapted runner, avoid stomach problems, and manage your weight to run faster. I thought carbohydrate loading was eating a large pasta dinner the night before a race and that if you wanted to stay hydrated on a run, you just had to drink water.
Little did I know, my relationship with food and beliefs about fueling were the exact things that were holding me back as a runner and leading to hormone imbalances (aka loss of period), reoccurring injuries, poor recovery and an obsession with food.
I was missing one of the most powerful tools as a runner - a belief that food doesn't need to be feared and a proper fueling strategy takes your running to new levels. Since making changes, healing my relationship with food, and learning to fuel properly as a runner, it has transformed both my running and life. I broke 3-hours in the marathon and there is no more food guilt.
Now I help other runners feel confident with their fueling strategy and live a life a food freedom. There's no more "hitting the wall" or experiencing stomach problems on race day. When you learn these fueling strategies and have a healthy relationship with food, the best part is, is it frees ups brain space to focus on other things in life and pass that healthy relationship with food to your children and generations to come.
EDUCATION
CREDENTIALS
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Training
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Registered Dietitian (RD) - Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Licensed Dietitian (LD) - Minnesota
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Bachelors Degree in Food, Nutrition & Dietetics - Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota
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Bachelors Degree in Exercise Science - Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota
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Dietetic Internship with 1200 hours practical experience - Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina
My fastest marathon is 2:59 at the California International Marathon (CIM) in 2022. I was 16 months postpartum after my second child and nursed through the entire training cycle. The best part was I got run & experience this race with my sister.
FUN FACTS
About Me
The thing that inspires me the most is when clients tell me they want to pass on a healthy relationship with food to their kids.
My husband and I met through a local running group. The funny thing is, we both attended the same small college, were collegiate athletes (me running, him football), graduated the same year, but never knew each other.
