Hello and welcome to another episode of an Irishman running abroad with me, Jarlet

Regan and of course Irish running legend Sonia O'Sullivan freshly released from her quarantine hotel.

Before we get into that and find out what that feels like, Sonia, today's episode is about food,

something that I know you've been working on a lot

the last two weeks. And to say that most people's food intake is haphazard is an understatement.

And I am guilty of everything, mindless, eating, starving, gorging, eating the same thing too

often, too much before I run, too much after I run buying foods because they

used the word protein on the label. It's not that I don't buy healthy food. It's just that a lot of

the time, the way I consume fruit and veg is I buy loads and loads of it, and I wait for it

to go rotten and then I put it in the bin.

Honestly, Sonia, I've been really open about this in the last while, especially on our Men Behaving Better podcast.

I did an episode with Peter Stringer, and I've huge anxiety around.

I think a lot of people, a lot of guys as well do.

I'm often overloaded with help. So I thought, who better than you? Because honestly, the feedback that

we get on this podcast is that people love your no-nonsense approach to everything. Can you,

my first question is, can you strip away the nonsense around this and give

us kind of the key things that make a good food plan? I can try to anyway. I can tell you

everything I suppose that I've learned down through the years. And, you know, it does take time and practice and you just

kind of work things out for yourself, I think. And like I would never have considered myself

to be a fussy eater. I would have thought, you know, I would eat anything. But you can become

a fussy particular eater. Like, it's not that you don't eat things, but you want to

eat particular things, if that makes sense that you're, you know, I mean, I, you know, I'd eat plenty,

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