Fuel

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day…or it is for me at least. I am one of those people who wake up absolutely starving in the morning and I need something really filling to give me energy for a busy morning.

Many of us will eat something before the gym, and drink a protein shake afterwards with little thought to how what we consume is affecting our bodies. What if we could significantly improve the results of our workouts through the exact science of post-workout nutrition?

Brunch is somewhat of a ritual in my world. There is nothing more delightful than snoozing in and skipping the plain porridge I eat every weekday, in favour of venturing out and indulging in something special.

Who said salads were exclusive to summer? As Autumn approaches we are automatically drawn to hot comfort food. While I’ll never be the kind of girl who passes up a hearty meal, I don’t think we should stop our love of fresh crisp salad because […]

There’s no denying it, I am the queen of tupperware boxes! I take my breakfast into work in one, I have another box for my lunch, and then an additional one, or sometimes two, for healthy snacks throughout the day. There’s so many lunchboxes in […]

“It’s 20% exercise, 80% diet”, “you can’t out train a bad diet” and “abs are made in the kitchen” are all phrases you’ll hear flying around the fitness industry time and time again, but can you eat healthily for less?

Do you know someone who gives you a judgemental look everytime you reach for some unhealthy food? Perhaps they even comment on what that food will do to you? Yeah, we all know somebody like that, unfortunately for my Mum that person is her own […]

Does anybody else feel that they have to eat something different for breakfast on a weekend? Porridge is great Monday to Friday, but it just won’t do on a Saturday or a Sunday! 

In the spirit of National Vegetarian Week I decided to give up meat for seven days. I kick started my journey by watching a very traumatic, but insightful, documentary called Vegucation which shocked me so much that, at one point, I did even become a […]

I’ve never been a fan of fad diets or anything that involves cutting out food groups, so when I heard about the Raw Til 4 movement I was concerned…