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Former Miss NI launches new health and fitness 'bible' for working women

Former Miss Northern Ireland Tiffany Brien has created the 'Fit Body Bible' sharing her experiences in health, fitness and dieting
Former Miss Northern Ireland Tiffany Brien has created the 'Fit Body Bible' sharing her experiences in health, fitness and dieting Former Miss Northern Ireland Tiffany Brien has created the 'Fit Body Bible' sharing her experiences in health, fitness and dieting

FORMER Miss Northern Ireland and popular beauty blogger Tiffany Brien has drawn on her vast experience in health and fitness to a create a new instructive guide for working women.

Juggling life as an estate agent in her father's firm Simon Brien Residential, while sharing her fitness exploits online and acting as a brand ambassador for local companies the 26-year-old has found time to create the 'Fit Body Bible', due to go on sale in the coming weeks.

The 100-page health guide includes a 12-week fitness programme created with personal trainer Ben Canning, a recipe book written with local eatery Slim's Healthy Kitchen, as well as a section on hormones, with specific reference to bloating.

"The Fit Body Bible is me sharing my experiences in health, fitness, diets, hormones, everything. I've put my body through so much stress from bodybuilding work to Olympic level sports," she said.

"I've gone through the wars when it comes to dieting and fitness, but you realise that girls just want to look good in a bikini in the summer on their holidays and that's it. They don't want to be super-ripped, they want muscle and tone, but don't know how to get it.

"I think everything in it is what I would want to read as a girl who is struggling with fitness or weight or have IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). It's not eat these macros and you'll be this skinny and you'll be this ripped and have this less body fat.

"Girls are meant to have body fat, and what I've realised from putting myself out there is girls want to have that little bit of balance where they look good, but they're also strong and they've got tone, it's not stick insects any more."

The competitive sailor, who narrowly missed out on selection for both the Beijing and London Olympics, has always been interested in sport and began blogging about her healthy eating and fitness regime after winning the Miss Northern Ireland title in 2012 - first under the alias Peanut Butter Girl and now simply as Tiffany Brien.

Tiffany Brien (centre) pictured at the launch of the all-new Reebok zone at Podium 4 Sports in Belfast
Tiffany Brien (centre) pictured at the launch of the all-new Reebok zone at Podium 4 Sports in Belfast Tiffany Brien (centre) pictured at the launch of the all-new Reebok zone at Podium 4 Sports in Belfast

With over 90,000 likes on Facebook and over 40,000 followers on Instagram the former beauty queen has inspired many women to document their own fitness journeys, but has no plans to give up her day job just yet.

"My main thing is my career, I love my job, it's my sanity," she said.

"I still work for my dad and I try so hard to make the company succeed as I love it. Showing my life on social media as a girl who goes to work is much more endearing than a girl who goes to the gym at 11 o'clock and does a few meetings. That's not real. Every girl who follows my page works and they want to know how can you do all of this, how can you look this way, how can you go to the gym with kids if you've got a job.

"So I think what helps me keep my following is the fact I'm sharing my lunch boxes and sharing work-outs at 9 o'clock at night and 6 in the morning. That's real life and I think that's why I do it and I love it. I wouldn't have it any other way."

Tiffany was speaking at the launch of the all-new Reebok zone at Podium 4 Sports in Belfast.