The Eat Yourself Beautiful Guide to Portion Sizes

As I try not to focus on counting calories as the most important aspect of weight loss or maintaining your ideal weight, because not all calories are created equally, I concentrate more on nutrient-dense foods ...

Chocolate-Chip Cookie Dough Protein Amazeballs

Happy Friday!! I hope you’ll love my special SoSueMe recipe this week, which is chocolate chip cookie dough protein amazeballs. They’re one of my favourite treats and these chocolatey, squidgy balls of y...

Stress and Diet

Stress  Stress has become a major part of modern life for many people. We all encounter some form of stress on a day-to-day basis, and sources of stress may be a physical, emotional or psychological stim...

Fitness Friday: Split Squats

As many of you may already know, the squat is the ultimate exercise for strengthening glutes and legs, encouraging muscle growth... and giving you a perky backside too! Squats can also help to improve posture a...

Creamy Coconut and Fig Porridge

The weather has turned a little chilly in Ireland in the past week, so I've been starting to think about warming, comforting breakfasts for when the darker autumn and winter weather properly arrives. Porridge i...

Hunger Control: My 5 Top Tips

Do you ever have days or weeks when you feel hungry all the time and no amount of food can satiate you? Or other times, you don't seem to have much of an appetite at all and even forget to eat regular meals? ...

The Beauty of Fibre

You will see the word fibre mentioned plenty of times on this site, in relation to recipes, diet and plant-based eating. Fibre is found in only plant-based foods, as animal foods are devoid of it. F...

Fitness Friday: Teaser Plank

It's safe to say that I'm hopelessly addicted to classes at Pilates Plus Dublin! I started going at the beginning of the summer, and have felt a huge difference in my strength and flexibility over the past ...

Sleepytime Banoffee Split

Oh sleep! So completely essential for our physical and emotional health, yet it seems that a lot of us simply don't get enough of it.  There are days when I have to be dragged out of bed having pres...

Fitness Friday: Tricep Dips

Friday is usually leg and bum day for me at Bodybyrne Gym (ouch!) but I also got some arm work done during my workout today. When it comes to training your triceps, one of the very best exercises you can do ...