Fuel for Thought

Renee McGregor is a leading sports and eating disorder specialist dietitian with over twenty years’ experience working in clinical and performance nutrition. She has worked with athletes across the globe at Olympic level (Rio 2016) and has provided team management on numerous occasions at major championships in a variety of sports. She is the nutrition lead for English and Scottish National Ballet and was actively involved in producing the consensus statement about the management of REDs in dance. She is also on the international task force for orthorexia and is a named author on the consensus document on definition and diagnostic criteria for orthorexia nervosa. She is one of the leading voices in the country in REDs, female hormonal health and performance nutrition, and works with a number of professional athletes, teams and brands on a consultancy basis providing expert support on REDs and ensuring nutritional and clinical guidance for both performance and health. She is the founder of Team Renee McGregor, managing a leading multi-disciplinary team of practitioners specialising in supporting individuals of all ages in their sporting endeavours and providing expert advice to athletes seeking support for a dysfunctional relationship with food and training. This is reflected in her work on social media where she prides herself on proving an educational hub for both the professional and everyday athlete. Renee is the bestselling author of More Fuel You, Training Food, Fast Fuel and Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Goes Bad, and she writes a monthly column for Runner’s World. She is often asked to comment and provide technical support for news and media, and she was the clinical advisor for the BBC documentary Freddie Flintoff: Living with Bulimia. Renee is a Montane athlete and a trustee for Black Trail Runners, supporting and advocating the importance of increased diversity and accessibility to minority groups to the outdoors. When not inspiring others with her work, Renee can be found running in the mountains and chasing the trails around her home in the Lake District In 2022, she became British trail running champion for the short distance in her age group and finished third female in the Montane Summer Spine Sprint. In 2023, she finished fourth female and within the top ten in the Mustang Trail Race in Nepal.