Anyone who knows me knows how much I love my food. Indeed, I have been ribbed that my excitement for a chocolate cake on a Friday or a fancy dinner outweighs a lot of things in my life, but after a recent stressful spell left me severely run down, I thought it was time to call in the professionals to take a look at my nutrition. You are what you eat after all, as Athlone nutritionist Lynda McFarland was about to show me!. Firstly, I kept a food diary for three days, a bit of an eye-opener to be honest, before handing it over to Lynda for her judgement. Lynda's Verdict, You seem to make an effort to include fruit and veg each day which is great, your lunches and evening meals are quite good. There does seem to be a bit of a pattern going on though, where you are reaching for sugary foods/chocolate in the afternoon or evening. It would seem that your blood sugar is unbalanced and I would suspect this is as a result of your breakfast choices, you are having refined carbohydrates and fruit juice without any protein