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It’s A New Year – let’s set some SMART goals!     The arrival of the New Year is a time to refocus and set some goals for the year ahead. Whether these goals are to eat healthier, reduce your alcohol

    I’d like to set you a challenge for 2019 – Ditch the scales! Why? There are many reasons why athletic performance can’t be measured by the numbers on a scale. I avoid weighing athletes in my day to

Managing Your Sports Nutrition as A Gluten Free Athlete Reasons why an athlete might follow a Gluten free diet can be due to a Diagnosis of Coeliac Disease. Coeliac disease is a lifelong auto-immune condition which is diagnosed via a

It’s Tough Being a Female Athlete  Do you find it hard being a female Athlete? Balancing work, family life and training can be hard enough but as females we also have to balance the effects of our hormones which can

It’s so hard these days to find sensible evidence-based advice on how best to control your weight! The internet and social media are filled with articles on the next best celeb diet from the Ketogenic diet to the metabolic diet,

For many runners training for a half marathon is the moment the penny drops that nutrition isn’t just a case of ‘winging it’ and the realisation strikes that nutrition is actually pretty important when it comes to performance! So Why

Healthy Weight Loss Spanish Style! : February 17th 2017 : Victoria Prendiville RD  Reflecting on a recent trip to Spain I thought I would share an idea based around the Tapas or ‘small plate’ concept’. This idea could help you

          As a self confessed coffee addict (I have two children… it’s a question of survival!!) I’ve played around with a few recipes for energy balls and have found that these work really well for me!

Recovery Nutrition : February 9th 2018 : Victoria Prendiville RD  I recently delivered a talk on recovery nutrition to a local triathlon club so I thought I would pull together a quick post on this subject  as this is such a

Healthy Weight Loss Goals: January 12th  2018 by Victoria Prendiville RD A new year is often the time to focus on goals for the year ahead with many of us making a commitment to shift those unwanted Christmas pounds to improve