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Emmet Rushe, owner and operator of Rushe Fitness, gives expert advice for ladies wanting to get in shape.

Five ways to make weight loss easy for yourself 4 years ago

Five ways to make weight loss easy for yourself

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Our June challenge is in full swing in Rushe Fitness Live.

We have loads of members who are keeping healthy and active while the gyms are closed and we …
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Why you DON’T need another meal plan to lose weight 4 years ago

Why you DON’T need another meal plan to lose weight

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Last Thursday I held my ‘How to Lose Weight Without Dieting’ seminar here in Letterkenny.

The 1st point I brought up at it was that I wasn’t going to mention …
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5 diet myths you may believe 5 years ago

5 diet myths you may believe

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This is the 1st part of a 2-part article for you all.

This one will focus on popular nutrition myths and next week’s will focus on Popular Training Myths.

I’m …
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The Food and Mood diary challenge 5 years ago

The Food and Mood diary challenge

By  •  Fitness, Health

I think we can all agree that food is great!

The members of my lean in 2019 program all agree to that too

We are always welcoming new members in …
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This eat REAL food challenge could be easier than you think 5 years ago

This eat REAL food challenge could be easier than you think

By  •  Health

Convenience has become part of our lives.

I have written before about how impatience can be costing us our goals when it comes to our health and fitness.

This also …
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Recipes: Three healthy meals that taste great too 5 years ago

Recipes: Three healthy meals that taste great too

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Today, I’m going to give you a day of recipes that you can use straight away and they all taste great.

The one thing that I hear time and time …
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9 ways to avoid Christmas weight gain (and still have fun) 5 years ago

9 ways to avoid Christmas weight gain (and still have fun)

By  •  Health

Are you expecting to feel ‘bleugh’ from indulging too much this week?

Christmas is a time for relaxing and partying, and often a time when we overdo it on …
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How to survive the season of indulgence 5 years ago

How to survive the season of indulgence

The Christmas Party season has officially begun, and holiday nibbles will be everywhere.

Every house, shop and workplace will start to be filled with ‘Pringles’, ‘Roses’ and any other number …
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Six steps to getting in shape for Christmas 5 years ago

Six steps to getting in shape for Christmas

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The goal for most at this time of year is to get in shape for the Christmas party season.

New clothing will be bought, photographs will be taken and everyone …
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5 reasons why you aren’t seeing progress in your nutrition 6 years ago

5 reasons why you aren’t seeing progress in your nutrition

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This is 2nd part of a 2 part article on progress and why you might not be seeing any.

The 1st part can be seen on Donegal Daily here and …
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How to lose friends and alienate people 6 years ago

How to lose friends and alienate people

By  •  Health

People like to feel comfortable.

No matter what the situation is, for most people, if they feel comfortable in their surroundings, they will be quite happy where they are.

This …
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Should you be hungry on a diet? 6 years ago

Should you be hungry on a diet?

By  •  Health

I am currently on a ‘diet’.

By ‘diet’, I mean that I am currently in a phase of my training where I am dropping body fat.

The goal of this …
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What it really means to get ‘toned’ 6 years ago

What it really means to get ‘toned’

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Have you ever looked at a model on the cover of a magazine and thought, ‘I would love to look like that?’

Maybe you have taken the 4-week workout; you …
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3 ways to beat night time snacking 6 years ago

3 ways to beat night time snacking

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One thing that seems to be a huge obstacle for people is snacking in the evenings and at night.

The scenario usually goes like this;

You manage your meals fine …
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Reasons you don’t need another diet 6 years ago

Reasons you don’t need another diet

By  •  Health

Every diet works, until it doesn’t!

If that sounds confusing, it shouldn’t. In fact it’s pretty much true for every diet you have ever tried right up to reading this …
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Can eating pasta help with weight loss? 6 years ago

Can eating pasta help with weight loss?

By  •  Fitness

Good news for pasta lovers, a new study in the BMJ has been looking at the effects of eating pasta on weight loss, BMI and waist circumference.

It was suggested …
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Don’t eat chocolate! And other motivational nonsense 6 years ago

Don’t eat chocolate! And other motivational nonsense

By  •  Fitness

This is going to be short and sweet today. After all, it is a Bank Holiday and most of you are probably still in bed.

I am pre-empting an early …
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Trigger foods: How to avoid a bingefest 6 years ago

Trigger foods: How to avoid a bingefest

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Everyone has one.

Some of us have more than one.

Some of us have a whole array of foods that set us off on a bingefest that can leave us …
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Looking for the best fat loss supplement? There’s one thing you should know 6 years ago

Looking for the best fat loss supplement? There’s one thing you should know

By  •  Health

January may be over, but It seems as if you cannot turn on your computer, phone, TV or radio, without being met with some form of advertisement for “Fat Loss …
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5 healthy hunger-busting breakfast ideas 6 years ago

5 healthy hunger-busting breakfast ideas

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Breakfast doesn’t have to be difficult.

The one thing I ALWAYS teach the members of my Lean in 2018 Program is that they shouldn’t stress over food.

The one question …
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Don’t let the ‘success’ of others put you off 6 years ago

Don’t let the ‘success’ of others put you off

By  •  Health

Social media is a both a blessing and a curse.

It allows us to keep in touch with friends and family around the world and also to ‘see inside’ their …
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Don’t compare your weight loss to others 6 years ago

Don’t compare your weight loss to others

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The January resolutions are in full swing.

Everyone is making some sort of healthy change to their activity levels or their diets.

When you see that 80% of resolutions fail …
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The best way to lose weight in January is… 6 years ago

The best way to lose weight in January is…

By  •  Health

January dieting usually follows a very similar trend around the world.

  • Let’s lose ALL THE WEIGHT…..
  • When do we want to lose it?
  • THE 1ST 2 WEEKS IN JANUARY …
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Keep calm and party on: 4 low-calorie Christmas drinks 6 years ago

Keep calm and party on: 4 low-calorie Christmas drinks

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It is officially December and that can only mean one thing; Christmas party season has officially arrived.

With the upcoming festivities and with Christmas being only a few weeks away, it …
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The Top 5 ways hidden calories creep into your diet 6 years ago

The Top 5 ways hidden calories creep into your diet

By  •  Health

You can be doing everything right.

You can be training, eating healthy, drinking your water, following everything you are being told to do and yet, you may not be getting …
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Recipes: Four treats that won’t trick your diet 6 years ago

Recipes: Four treats that won’t trick your diet

By  •  Health

We are coming into the Halloween break.

It is one of the best times of the year and is great fun for children and adults alike.

People will be having …
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How distracted eating is affecting your weight 6 years ago

How distracted eating is affecting your weight

By  •  Health

There are numerous reasons that Ireland is in the middle of an obesity epidemic.

  • Poor food choices
  • Over consumption of calories
  • Over consumption of alcohol
  • Lack of exercise


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What are you waiting for? 6 years ago

What are you waiting for?

By  •  Health

The average life expectancy in Ireland is 81 years.

That is 8 decades + 1 year.

There are 10 years in each decade.

The graph below is where I am …
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How to dine on a diet 6 years ago

How to dine on a diet

By  •  Health

One of the biggest struggles people can have when dieting, is eating out.

Not knowing what to order in restaurants to keep on track, can make it difficult to know …
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The side to dieting that no one talks about 7 years ago

The side to dieting that no one talks about

By  •  Health

Dieting is thought of as 2 parts.

  1. Losing weight
  2. Gaining weight

That is usually how the conversations go about it and that is usually where they stop.

However, …
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This is what you should do when weight loss stalls 7 years ago

This is what you should do when weight loss stalls

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Weight loss stalling when dieting is not uncommon. In fact, I’d hazard a guess that weight loss stalls are the downfall of the majority of diets

If you have ever …
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Nutritionist Thérèse tells us exactly how to fuel up for the Donegal Marathon 7 years ago

Nutritionist Thérèse tells us exactly how to fuel up for the Donegal Marathon

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The Donegal Marathon gets going on Sunday, 20th August 2017, are you ready? Whether you’re taking part this year or doing a long-distance run in the future, take note of these …
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5 low calorie summer cocktails 7 years ago

5 low calorie summer cocktails

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Sunshine!

Every time we get a burst of sunshine, 2 things happen.

  1. The barbecues are dusted off
  2. People like to enjoy a few drinks in the sunshine.

The …
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Meet Jenny 7 years ago

Meet Jenny

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The blog may be titled “Meet Jenny”, but I can guarantee that you have already met her and probably know her quite well.

Are carbs the enemy? 7 years ago

Are carbs the enemy?

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Carbs are public enemy No1!!!!!

It’s common knowledge that if you want to lose weight, you simply cannot eat carbs because they make you fat….right?

Not exactly.

If you have …
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How to beat weekend binging 7 years ago

How to beat weekend binging

By  •  Health

I am going to keep this short and sweet today ladies.

I’m writing this from the airport as I’m getting ready to board my flight to New York.

It is …
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THIS is the secret behind Holly Willoughby’s weight loss 7 years ago

THIS is the secret behind Holly Willoughby’s weight loss

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Holly Willoughby made the news during the week as speculation grew over how she achieved her new figure.

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Weight loss is simple, not easy 7 years ago

Weight loss is simple, not easy

By  •  Health

This article might not go down well with some.

It might touch on a nerve or two.

But it’s time to realise that everything we do is a choice.

Whether …
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Protein: What you need to know 7 years ago

Protein: What you need to know

By  •  Health

Protein is a German word that is taken from the Greek word Proteios, meaning the first in.

There is no question about it; protein is the most important macronutrient in …
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19 reasons why you aren’t losing body fat 7 years ago

19 reasons why you aren’t losing body fat

By  •  Health

1. You aren’t in a caloric deficit. It doesn’t matter what you have heard, or what you have read, if you are not losing body fat, you are not in …
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Is eating healthy preventing you from losing weight? 7 years ago

Is eating healthy preventing you from losing weight?

By  •  Health

I hear it all the time in consultations. You may have even said it yourself at one stage or another.  It is one of the most confusing things for most …
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The truth about treats 7 years ago

The truth about treats

By  •  Health

So, you are having a bad day at work. Your boss is on your case, your supervisor is being a pain in the posterior and you have to pull up …
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Don’t trust your scales 7 years ago

Don’t trust your scales

By  •  Health

If there is one thing that I have learned from training hundreds of people over the last few years, it is this:

The scale is a great tool for measuring …
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How sleep can affect your diet and waistline 7 years ago

How sleep can affect your diet and waistline

By  •  Health

This past week has been an eventful one for me.

It all started at 5am last Friday morning. The alarm went off as usual for me to get up for …
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Three tasty low-calorie recipes for your three meals today 7 years ago

Three tasty low-calorie recipes for your three meals today

By  •  Health

I know that for some of you, resolutions are a distant memory, but for those of you that are hanging onto your New Year’s goals by a thread, I am …
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Please don’t sabotage your friends’ goals 7 years ago

Please don’t sabotage your friends’ goals

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When someone starts out on their health and fitness journey, they are faced with an array of obstacles; How do I train? Which diet should I follow? Can I eat …
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Be careful about weight loss myths 7 years ago

Be careful about weight loss myths

By  •  Health

When it comes to weight loss everyone has an opinion, and I mean EVERYONE! Every single day I hear countless stories from clients and members of the gym, all of …
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How 2 words can change your life 7 years ago

How 2 words can change your life

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If you were to ask 100 people how they felt whilst on a diet, there would be a few answers that would stand out.

Things like;

A different approach to New Year’s Resolutions 7 years ago

A different approach to New Year’s Resolutions

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Happy New Year ladies.

I hope that it is what you expect it to be and you have a healthy and happy one 😀

If you are planning your …
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