Testimonials

Jillian has been an incredible addition to my training and coaching team. I began utilizing her when I decided to take on the Unbound Gravel 200 race this year. I finished with gas in the tank and feeling well fueled.

Boy do I wish she would have prepped me ahead of Leadville 100 race across the sky last year! Do yourself a favor and just use her! Thanks for everything Jill. 

Big thanks Jill, you are certainly a top-class nutrition wizard.

If you're looking to really get your own personal nutrition plan dialed in to get the best out of your body, Jill is your woman! Jill is not only extremely knowledgeable, passionate and adaptable but also extremely approachable and a pleasure to talk to. Having tested many different nutrition approaches to multi-day races, Jill helped me figure out what is best for my body at this time.

I am an ultra-cyclist, nutrition is big part of my racing, it can make or break my races. I highly recommend Jill.

I have been working with Jill for the past couple of years. Her plan and program are very specific to YOU. I have worked with other nutritionists, and they tried to fit me into their plan. I have never worked with anyone else who is more flexible than Jill to find a plan that works for you. She is very detailed, and her plan works wonders for my unique metabolism.

If you are looking for someone to help you with nutrition, look no further, Jillian is the one person you need!

First of all Jillian is a great person and so very nice to work with. She has been instrumental in helping me figure out my nutrition for my cycling events, and also in life. I deal with living with MS and good nutrition is key to living my best life. Jillian has been able to help me fully understand what my body needs, and has given me confidence to fuel it correctly.

I have great goals for 2024 that | believe I will reach and will be stronger and leaner because of Jillian's work with me.

As a female masters cyclist, I felt my nutrition on long rides was suffering. I own a business, work too hard, and then give the rest of me to my family, my responsibilities and my bike.... My body was aching... I knew I needed more..... and along came Jillian. 🚴‍♀️ She is in Ireland and I am in South Carolina and we never missed a beat. We zoomed, plotted and planned what I like to eat, what works for me and then Jillian added her magic....an aging endurance female athlete's nutritional needs are different than a man's and to be real there are not many sixty year old women riding bikes competitively or for endurance so I felt very alone trying to figure this out... the whole gut thing ... I did not like eating on the bike so what was I going to do? Again, along came Jillian with more strategic magic!! She helped with caloric planning by the hour so I was functioning metabolically where I needed to be.... I have met so many cookie cutter nutritionists who just send out a robo plan and charge lots of money but not Jillian Mooney! She is so special. She changed everything for me on and off the bike. I am so grateful I found Jillian.

I highly recommend working with Jill and sticking as closely as possible to the plan for the results you want.

I’d been thinking about trying to find a nutrition coach for a while. I saw Jill’s posts giving advice and tips and decided to book onto her starter month.

I’m just under 3 weeks in. I feel I may have been a client with lots of needs - marathon runner, vegan, menopause age, wanting to lose weight and still have enough going in to get what I need for the training.

I’ve lost about half a stone, I’m feeling lighter and faster when I run and best of all my heart rate whilst running has reduced.

Jill’s starter programme gave me good food ideas to be having each day, great tips on running fuel and included unlimited questions. I do ask a lot of questions, so this may be a regret for Jill, but she has answered everything with a great reason as well as the answer so I feel I’m learning lots as we go.

Thanks Jillian for your encouragement and support of over 50 women athletes you truly are a gifted and talented individual!!!!

Jillian is an extremely talented and knowledgeable nutritionist for any athlete. She is personable, funny, and a real people person. She is extremely dedicated to her clients and is extremely supportive as well as informative. I would highly recommend any nutritional needs seek her out.

She’s amazing

Jill - I want to thank you for setting me on my way to healthy nutrition.

Your guidance has been wonderfully supportive and really useful. I'm enjoying eating with more awareness and knowing more about how it all works. Latterly, I have found that my muscles can sustain longer exercise than before. I will never be an athlete, but if my muscles can do more exercise, hopefully I will stay healthy for longer! Thank you for your guidance and support.

Jill, you're amazing and everyone should know it.

I was a bit nervous about having a session with Jill because I'm as far removed from a sportsperson as you can imagine. But good old menopause has hit me hard, and I needed some nutrition chat.

Jill is amazing! She didn't judge my choices, but she did educate me on the importance of protein for both my menopause issues and keeping my brain functioning, point out what I wasn't doing so well at, and totally put me on track for fixing things.

Our session was fun, informative, and VERY motivating. I also went out and bought Weetabix for the first time in years!

She followed the session with a recording, more advice, and a lovely recipe book that I can't wait to dip into.

Highly recommend Jill -no matter what goals you might have in mind, she'll definitely be a guiding force!

When I set big running goals this year, I knew I needed to have a large focus on nutrition. Enter Jill. Working with her the last three months has enabled me to take a deeper look at fueling at the right time and for the specific workout. She never made me feel bad on days I didn't hit target goals and helped reframe some of way I look at food choices. Jill helped guide me every step of the way, making adjustments where we needed. And best of all, I appreciate that her approach is never to cut anything out, but to really build off what you enjoy and what you already eat.

And some of the side benefits is that despite some major stress happening in other parts of life, having the right nutrition has made a difference in my cognitive function, which has in turn helped in managing the stress.

The 2023 Marc Poland/Team Joe Barr ultra-cycling camp was truly the "bomb".

World class cyclists Marc Poland, Joe Barr and technical manager Jill Mooney have distilled years of racing and cycling knowledge into a package for absorption by attendees during the all-too-short week. Good food, camaraderie and a beautiful cycling venue combine for a unique, high-quality bicycling escape.

A+ roads, scenery, and hospitality made for lots of great memories!

I’m so much more informed and aware of my body.

I’ve learned to make the most delicious porridge bread and I look forward to finding and making lots more healthy snacks and meals for myself and my family.

The recipes that Jillian shares have been real winners with my family and it makes sticking to the plan so much easier when the whole family can eat the same meals.

Jillian’s bubbly personality immediately put me at ease and she is very easy to talk to.

It was clear at the start that we could work together as long as I wanted but that she would expect me to gain enough knowledge to be self-sufficient after a couple of months, and that is exactly what happened.

I cannot recommend these camps more highly.

I am an avid cyclist and have returned at least four times. Every experience has brought warm and lasting memories that I will cherish always!

Marc is an expert cycling guide with the unusual skill of catering to all levels of riders, from the elite down to day trippers and even seniors who are struggling. Nelly Read full testimonial

From my first contact with Jillian I knew I was on a winner. Working with her has completely changed my performance on the bike.

She is so professional and a joy to work with and I also think that the service you get is very good value.

Without a doubt I could not have accomplished my goal without Joe and Jill. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.

With Jill and Joe on your team you can accomplish any goal.

Jill provided me with a nutrition plan to support my body during the training process. The food was wholesome, easy to make and delicious.

Jill has an amazing ability to take feedback and construct a simple and effective plan to get maximum nutrition.

I was a novice cyclist, a busy working mum of three. Joe designed a bespoke training plan for my ability.

He is caring, knowledgable and listened to my feedback and adjusted my programme to suit my body.

Working with Jill has been the single most rewarding thing that I have ever done both in terms of my weight and my mental health around the issue.

I am a Triathlete, and I put the emphasis on ‘try’. Since childhood, I have struggled with managing my weight. I have completed Half Iron Distance triathlons with a BMI that makes me clinically obese. No amount of exercise could best my body's ability to gain and retain weight. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t magic. I have a sweet tooth and I like to eat but even on a fairly “normal” diet weight would not shift.

My background is in science, and I knew that there had to be a solution. I am not a plant and cannot take energy from the sun, so there had to be something interesting going on with my metabolism. I always figured that there were three things that it might be, Psychological, Medical or Nutritional. I had ruled out the first two. There was no emotional eating and no undiagnosed medical condition, so I needed a Nutritionist. Rory Clancy Read full testimonial

Jillian and I worked closely together for 4-5 months, fine tuning my off-bike and on-bike nutrition.

Both her fine listening skills and her continuous research were enormously helpful to me.

What followed in the two months I did with Jillian can only be described as mind-blowing!

Not only did I lean up, losing 5kgs of body fat, my recovery from hard training has improved immensely.

Through Jillian’s constant, gentle advice I was able to learn all about the types and quantities of food I need to perform at my best. And she did all this without mentioning calories once!

For anyone who has ambitions to take their first endurance event, or for someone who simply wants to become a better cyclist, in my opinion Joe Barr is the coach that will make the difference.

Highly recommended.

There is such a difference between experience and knowledge but Joe Barr in my opinion uniquely brings a vast amount of both into his coaching. 

Outside of the structured training programme, from an overall endurance point of view, Joe helped to instil in me, a real belief in my ability to achieve my goals and as he says himself, to reach further!

For the last few months, not a week has gone by in The GDI (my membership group) where one of the team hasn't asked if they can "please heap praise" on fellow GDI-er, Jillian Mooney.

Jo Watson, Copywriter, and founder of A Good Write Up Read full testimonial

I had a goal: To set the first female solo cycling record to circumnavigate Australia.

A significant and daunting record. The route would take more than 14000km through remote areas and I would likely endure extreme temperature conditions.   Lesa Ashford, Guinness World Record Holder Read full testimonial

Working with Jill has been an absolute game-changer for me! She took a holistic look at my nutrition and pinpointed exactly why I was feeling so tired and generally rubbish. In all honesty, I had started to believe that it was normal to feel that way - I'd forgotten what the opposite even was.

Throughout our month together, with constant WhatsApp support, Jill suspected a vitamin deficiency and gave me the confidence to ask my doctor for a blood test. She was right! Victoria Tretis, Access to work coaching for employed and self-employed ND adults Read full testimonial

Jill is everything you need and more - Joe would say in life but I'll stick to nutrition and friendship. The one hour Kitchen table talk felt like I got a lot more than I paid for. She made nutrition SO easy to follow, and also how to think about it. I left with copious notes and a plan I implemented the next morning, that's how simple it is. She's such a wonderful human, glows from the inside out, and it's so easy to trust her. She understands you and gives you what works for you, all in her charming style. So go on, you 100% need her in your food corner.