What do you mean eat clean ~ wash my food real good? Ok, so surely everyone has heard about eating clean. So what is it? Hype? Real Deal? And is it possible?
There is no fitness goal which you can achieve without first cleaning up your diet. Changing your diet is one of the biggest challenges when faced with improving your health. A majority of people are used to eating highly processed foods on a regular basis and breaking away from that can be difficult. The good news is, it isn’t impossible and once you make it a habit to eat clean, it becomes a part of your life.
In a nutshell, eating clean is eating whole, natural foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and complex carbohydrates and staying away from the junk that typically makes up the Standard American Diet (S.A.D)! These types of food include man-made sugar, bad fats (hydrogenated, trans-fat), preservatives, white bread, and any other ingredients that are unnecessary.
An easy way to remember if a food is clean is: “if man made it, don’t eat it.
Basically – to follow a clean diet someone:
* Eliminates refined sugar
* Cooks healthy meals
* Packs healthy meals
* Makes healthy choices when dining out
* Drinks a lot of water
* Eats 5-6 small meals per day
* Eliminates alcoholic beverages (or significantly limits it)
* Always eats breakfast
Really, it is not impossible, it doesn’t have to be super difficult and it can make a HUGE difference in your health and life! When you get rid of the junk, and replace it with whole, natural foods, your body will thank you. There are even some great recipes on the Team Beachbody message boards to give you ideas.
http://teambeachbody.com/connect/message-boards/-/message_boards/message/71170093