Fuel to Thrive 2025 Year in Review: Spokane Nutrition, Strength, and Endurance Coaching in Action
I’ve always been someone who looks ahead—setting goals, making plans, and chasing what’s next. But this year, I’ve truly fallen in love with looking back.
Taking time to reflect on a full year of work has been both grounding and empowering. When you zoom out, it becomes clear just how much can be accomplished through consistency, intention, and a whole lot of small wins. As a Spokane-based private practice nutrition and performance coaching team, reflection has become a powerful confidence builder for us—and a reminder that meaningful change doesn’t happen overnight, but through steady, aligned effort.
With that in mind, here’s a look back at what 2025 looked like at Fuel to Thrive.
ABOUT US: SPOKANE NUTRITIONISTS
We are a group of registered Spokane dietitians and personal trainers who have a passion for helping you feel in control of your health.
We work mainly with athletes, those with chronic GI conditions, and women in perimenopause and menopause. We create customized nutrition plans to empower and educate you in your health journey.
Fuel to Thrive 2025 Wins
Business Growth & Community Impact
Supported 400+ clients through Spokane nutrition coaching, customized nutrition plans, strength training, and endurance coaching
Published high-performing educational blog content focused on fueling, recovery, and long-term health
Fully revamped our website to better reflect our dietitian private practice supporting the communities we serve, including those navigating gut issues, perimenopause/menopause and endurance training.
Added three new small group training classes in Spokane, expanding access to strength training for women and athletes
Built strong referral relationships with Spokane-area healthcare providers, physical therapists, and coaches
Nutrition Coaching Highlights
In 2025, our Spokane nutritionists and registered dietitians supported clients across a wide range of goals, life stages, and health challenges, including:
Helping a frequent-traveling client increase lean mass and maintain fitness gains through realistic meal planning and fueling strategies
Supporting a client who moved from meal skipping and food stress to a sustainable eating pattern, improving energy and relationship with food
Guiding a client to significantly reduce alcohol intake, leading to better sleep, mood, body composition, and metabolic health
Working with many clients experiencing GI symptoms, with support from an IBS dietitian, identifying root causes and improving gut health and performance
Helping endurance athletes recover from overtraining syndrome and RED-S, restoring energy availability and long-term health
Supporting clients in healing their relationship with food and moving away from restrictive or disordered eating patterns
Helping post-menopausal clients implement implement nutrition for menopause, including menopause meal plans that support muscle mass, bone density, and longevity
Coaching clients using GLP-1 medications on how to fuel adequately, preserve lean mass, and maintain performance
Supporting individuals navigating chronic fatigue with personalized nutrition, recovery, and lifestyle strategies
Performance-based Highlights
Providing fueling education to a local Spokane cross-country team, contributing to a 3rd-place finish at state
Supporting an athlete through her first 100-mile ultramarathon with a successful fueling and hydration plan
Helping athletes understand how to fuel and train through perimenopause, including use of a perimenopause meal plan, reducing fatigue and injury risk
Guiding a first-time Ironman athlete to the finish line with no fueling or GI issues
Helping postpartum clients return to exercise while managing breastfeeding, recovery, and changing energy needs
Working with competitive and professional athletes on fueling for training blocks, travel, and race day
Creating individualized fueling plans that helped athletes cross 75+ finish lines in 2025
Spokane Marathon Training & Endurance Coaching
Coached a 45-year-old athlete to an 8-minute marathon PR through individualized Spokane marathon training and nutrition for endurance athletes
Supported an athlete through a cancer diagnosis, adapting endurance training through multiple stages of treatment
Helped endurance athletes adjust training, fueling, and recovery during perimenopause and menopause
Personal & Small Group Training in Spokane
Helped clients reach strength PRs through structured, progressive training
Supported endurance athletes through full race seasons without injury
Helped clients build consistent, enjoyable exercise routines that fit their real lives
Worked with many women to increase confidence, strength, and comfort in the gym
Personal Wins from the Fuel to Thrive Team
Amy ran her first marathon under Boston Qualifying time and was mentored by an experienced triathlon coach
Jessica became Run Coach Certified and completed graduate school
Lori summited two North Cascades peaks and completed her first 25K trail race
Beth stepped into her role as Associate Dean of Health Sciences at Whitworth University
Looking Ahead to 2026
2025 was a year of growth, resilience, and deep community impact here in Spokane. As Spokane nutritionists working in a private practice nutrition setting, we’re carrying that momentum into 2026 with big goals for education, performance, and sustainable health.
If you’re looking for Spokane nutrition coaching, nutrition for endurance athletes, marathon training, support in healing your gut health, menopause meal planning, or strength training that actually supports your long-term health, we’d love to walk alongside you in 2026.
Here’s to another year of fueling strong bodies, resilient minds, and sustainable progress.
— Fuel to Thrive Team
