Clean eating success stories?

sdaj8506

I have recently started clean eating. A very strict clean eating diet. Anyone have any tips? Success stories? I feel a million times better (which just pushes me more) I am less bloated and feel like I could lose weight. I need to drop about 30 lbs by August. Hard, I know... But do-able. Anyone do this?

elphie754

Clean eating alone will not result in weight loss. To lose weight you have to be in a calorie deficit.

If you have only 30lbs to lose, trying to lose it by August is really aggressive. That is 2.1lbs per week which is outside the healthy suggested rate of loss. Also, the less you weigh, the less you should be aiming for per week. With only 30lbs to lose, .5lb-1lb a week is more realistic.

kgeyser

Check out the clean eating group, lots of tips and success stories in there: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/133-clean-eating-group

kommodevaran

Clean eating means nothing and being strict may or may not be useful for success - "strict" diet can mean "accurate" as well as "deprivation", and as accuracy is important and helpful for weight loss, deprivation is a recipe for failure. If you want to lose weight, you just need to eat fewer calories than you burn. It's simple, but not easy - but it's a lot less hard if you eat food you like and food that make you feel full.

Whether 30 pounds by August is realistic, depends on how much you have to lose and how accurate and persistent you are. Setting a time frame for weight loss is usually a bad idea. You have total influence over your food intake, and you can decide to be more active, but you can't really decide to lose weight - your body metabolizes fat in its own rythm, as long as you are in a calorie deficit. Counting calories correctly and weighing yourself regularly, is a foolproof method to make sure you are in a calorie deficit.

MommyL2015

OP, I think if you like the way you're eating and it's sustainable for you, it can work. The key is sustainability.

I'll ditto what has been said above me that I have lost 50 pounds and improved all my health markers while eating "dirty". LOL Food restriction and requiring a lot of eating rules has the opposite affect on me but that doesn't mean it won't work for you.

The conclusion of any weight loss story is that you need to be in a calorie deficit to lose weight, no matter how you achieve that.

usmcmp

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Steph1080

sdaj8506 wrote: »

I have recently started clean eating. A very strict clean eating diet. Anyone have any tips? Success stories? I feel a million times better (which just pushes me more) I am less bloated and feel like I could lose weight. I need to drop about 30 lbs by August. Hard, I know... But do-able. Anyone do this?

I have been eating clean for nine years now. I lost 100 lbs by eating clean and working out. Was it an over night success no it wasn't. It's not a diet either. It's a life style. I don't look at the scale much now but how I look and feel in my clothes. And I feel pretty great. Clean eating gives me more energy and keeps me on track

bpetrosky

sdaj8506 wrote: »

I have recently started clean eating. A very strict clean eating diet. Anyone have any tips? Success stories? I feel a million times better (which just pushes me more) I am less bloated and feel like I could lose weight. I need to drop about 30 lbs by August. Hard, I know... But do-able. Anyone do this?

Good luck. You may need to recalibrate your target of losing 30lbs by August. It's very hard to maintain a nearly 2 lb/wk rate unless you have a lot to lose. The closer you get to a normal weight your room for a deficit shrinks and you will slow down.

Keep in mind it is more important to stay within your calorie target. If you "slip up" and don't maintain your strict plan that doesn't mean all is lost, having a "forbidden" list is unsustainable for a lot of people over the long haul. Clean eating is a wonderfully nebulous term that means considerably different things to different people, so the rules they follow differ greatly.