The alarm goes and I get up shortly after that. Between six and nine in the morning is my time. I walk to the Luas to meet my brother for breakfast.

8am

I have scrambled egg, mushroom and black pudding. I have no problem passing up on the bacon, the sausage, and on the hash browns but I do find the black pudding hard to resist.

I normally have de-caf coffee, but they don’t have any, so I take a regular one with milk.

Last January, I set out to lose a stone-and-a-half and I have been conscious of eating healthily.

9am

I’m back on the Luas heading out to the RTE studio in the Dundrum Centre.

9.30am

I will usually work straight through until 5pm without eating solid food, which is a bad habit that I acquired during the years when I was a correspondent abroad.

2pm

I feel the blood sugar dropping and go off and get a cup of coffee and a banana.

Normally I spend the day editing programmes for broadcast but this evening I have a live broadcast

7pm

I take the Luas into town and walk to the National Concert Hall. On days when I don’t have a live concert I’d normally eat dinner with my wife. We eat well, having lots of veg, fish and very little red meat.

When I’m doing a concert I’d normally have a cup of tea and a salad wrap but I don’t have time.

11pm

Back home, I remember I am hungry. Tonight my wife has left food for me: brown rice salad with chopped vegetables including peppers, asparagus, tomatoes, cucumber and broccoli. I add some salt and sprinkle on some chilli sauce to give it a kick.

I have my salad with a cup of green tea and finish with an apple.

I’m not really into any serious fitness regime. However, fitness is a frame of mind and faced with a choice of getting in the car or walking, I walk.

1am

I go to sleep.

Eamonn Lawlor presents the Lyric Concert on RTE Lyric FM at 8pm Mon- Fri. He is patron of The Irish Freemason’s Young Musician of the Year Competition taking place Oct 6-8 in Freemasons’ Hall, Dublin 2

– Nancy Previs

What would be on the menu of your favourite meal?

Mozzarella with basil, tomato and olive oil, roasted vegetables with herbs, American apple pie with ice cream.

What are a few of your favourite foods and beverages?

Fennel, pasta dishes of all kinds, mushrooms, anything flavoured with lemon rind or almonds, wine (cheap and cheerful will do), green tea.

What things won’t you eat or drink?

Horse.

How much sleep do you need?

Six hours.

How do you keep your body fit?

I walk every day and use the stairs instead of the lift.

How do you keep centred and relaxed?

I meditate.

Do you have a sweet tooth?

Yes. Sometimes it’s under control, sometimes it’s not.

What’s one thing you’d like to change about your diet or the way that you exercise?

I’d like to go completely vegetarian.

How does Eamonn’s diet rate?

Eamonn appears to get absorbed in his work and needs to organise his day to include time for eating and drinking.

On this day, Eamonn eats few calories which means his diet is a little low in protein, calcium and essential vitamins and minerals. The other side is that Eamonn has successfully lost weight and wants to maintain this new healthier weight. The best way to do this will be to routinely eat a healthy balanced diet.

My advice would be to eat within an hour of getting up, then he should try to eat something every three to four hours. Carrying fruit, nuts, cereal bars, water and dried fruit would be a good idea.

Keeping hydrated is very important for energy levels and transporting nutrients around the body.

Eamonn’s food choices are good. Adding some brown bread to breakfast will help boost his fibre; adding some fish, meat, poultry, nuts or seeds to his evening meal will help boost his protein intake. During the day some nuts or a smoothie would help balance out his day.

? Aveen Bannon, Dublin Nutrition Centre

 

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