Balance Chaos
IN YOUR LIFE
Your favorite performance dietitian nutritionist in San Diego, helping you thrive, build confidence, and create an authentic life that aligns with your deepest values.
with food + fitness
7 Years of Sports Nutrition Coaching Backed by NCAA D1 Experience
As a sports performance dietitian nutritionist in San Diego, I’ve supported Division 1 collegiate athletes and athletes of all ages, individuals recovering from RED-S, and those healing their relationship with food, body, and self. My approach is compassionate, evidence-based, and built around what feels realistic and supportive for your unique life.
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Sports nutrition advice for every body – high school, college, professional athletes, and adults who love to be active! We’re here to guide you to make food choices from a place of confidence, empowerment, and compassion.
Common struggles we help with:
- Unsure of what to eat for peak performance
- Overwhelmed by meal planning, grocery shopping, or cooking
- Feeling out of control with food, especially sweets or “junk food”
- Worried about losing progress if you take one day off from the gym
- Stuck in obsessive calorie or macro tracking but unable to stop
- Struggling with bloating, gas, or other GI issues
- Experiencing fatigue, heavy legs, or sluggishness during workouts
My Services
Nutrition Coaching (Virtual & In-Person)
We offer personalized support rooted in your lived experience, whether you’re an athlete, healing from disordered eating, navigating mental health, or in recovery. Every plan is evidence-based, flexible, and designed to support a more peaceful relationship with food.
Personal Training
We specialize in programs for those new to fitness or getting back into a fitness routine, focusing on building a healthy relationship with exercise and your body. We’ll build a plan that supports performance and recovery, with enough structure to keep you progressing and enough flexibility to protect your mental and physical health.
Gut Health Testing
Struggling with bloating, fatigue, or digestive issues that won’t quit? Our GI-MAP testing gets to the root of it. You’ll also receive clear, supportive nutrition plans and recipes tailored to your gut health needs, without cutting out everything you love.
What Can Change When We Work Together
balanced perspective
Confident choices
Self compassion
enhanced performance
health metrics & labs
improved body image
“Chelsea helped me untangle so much of the worry and shame I carried around nutrition and movement.
Through actionable worksheets, authentic listening, and grounding every conversation in self-empathy, I was able to move away from rigid ideas about how I ‘should’ eat or move. Our work also extended to interpersonal dynamics and self-talk, which greatly influenced my food and exercise habits.” – Ellen T., age 34, Nutrition Coaching Client
Meet Chelsea—San Diego’s Favorite Dietitian Nutritionist
I’m Chelsea, a registered dietitian nutritionist in San Diego with a background in sports performance nutrition, mental health, and eating disorder recovery. Since 2018, I’ve worked with athletes at every level, from high school to collegiate to adult athletes, along with anyone navigating gut issues, eating disorder or substance use recovery, ADHD and executive functioning issues, and body image struggles.
With 7 years of experience in nutrition coaching and 14 years in personal training, my approach is both compassionate and judgment-free. I offer both in-person and online support to help you feel more confident in your food choices and body image and take action to reach your goals.
I believe that this work isn’t about willpower. It’s about getting the support you need for your unique needs and lifestyle. At Balance Chaos, I offer evidence-based guidance with flexibility for your lived experience, your identity, and your real life. My job is to help you feel more positive in your body, more confident in your choices, and more connected to what really matters to you. You don’t need to figure it all out before you start. You just need someone in your corner who gets it.