Have you ever tried clean eating?
Mandygring
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I'm curious if anyone has tried clean eating and saw results. I have been doing it for a while now and feel so much better.
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Nope2
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It depends on what you're definition of "clean" is5
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Define clean eating please.4
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I used to follow the Tosco Reno version of "clean eating".
I never got results until I started calorie counting. I also found that I had a tendancy of restricting - sometimes to the point where I wouldn't eat because I couldn't find anything to fit the definition of clean - would end up in me breaking down and overboard on "unclean" foods.
I found that not restricting foods or deeming them "clean" or "dirty" went a long way in being able to stick with it. Counting calories helped me lose the weight finally.
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How exactly are you defining clean eating? I consider my diet to be mostly clean, but not sure if it would fit what you're referring to.1
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Joe Wicks is the cleanest i've done0
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Rhe mlst processed foods i eat is my pretzles and my yogurt. Everything else is produce or from the meat department in the store. And its amazing the results and the feeling.:)3
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You sound like me
I try to stay in those departments too but I am a chips and salsa nut lol 1 -
What's your version of clean? Seems lile.everyone has a different version...kosher, halal, vegan.....2
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unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.10
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No. I find it too restrictive for me.8
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It can be but I cheat sometimes! Shhhh lol1
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Mandygring wrote: »It can be but I cheat sometimes! Shhhh lol
So basically doing the same thing as many of us here are doing, eating a diet primarily of whole foods with the occasional, um, less nutritionally dense food added in.18 -
No dairy, only fruit that doesn't contain sugar (are there any?), nothing frozen or cooked, no bacon or rib-eye steak, no coconut oil?
No haven't tried that. Sounds miserable to be honest.
Best of luck.12 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Mandygring wrote: »It can be but I cheat sometimes! Shhhh lol
So basically doing the same thing as many of us here are doing, eating a diet primarily of whole foods with the occasional, um, less nutritionally dense food added in.
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The placebo effect is a wonderful thing. I'm being very serious.
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Yes, no dairy, fruit, sugar or grains. I ate 1lb of veggies, "clean" meats, "good" fats, low carb. I'll do it for a period of time as a metabolic reset. But it's not a constant lifestyle. I did that for 3 months and lost 30lbs. I didn't even cheat once, nor did I want to. I felt completely satiated!Mandygring wrote: »unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.
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Mandygring wrote: »unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.
So my lunch of stir-fried vegetables in olive oil with chicken and black beans would earn me a "clean" designation, but the frozen yogurt bar I just had wouldn't. OK. In your usage, or rather in the usage of the community which influenced you to claim this status, is "clean" a moral judgement?0 -
I've been eating all whole foods for the last few months. Something psychologically satisfying knowing I'm fueling my body with good stuff and eating for health rather than calories and weight loss. So yea, sort of.8
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Mandygring wrote: »unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.
So my lunch of stir-fried vegetables in olive oil with chicken and black beans would earn me a "clean" designation, but the frozen yogurt bar I just had wouldn't. OK. In your usage, or rather in the usage of the community which influenced you to claim this status, is "clean" a moral judgement?
Olive oil is heavily processed (fiber and nutrients removed and pure fat extracted), and I don't think any informed RD would recommend it as a staple in a diet focused around health.
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bclarke1990 wrote: »JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Mandygring wrote: »unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.
So my lunch of stir-fried vegetables in olive oil with chicken and black beans would earn me a "clean" designation, but the frozen yogurt bar I just had wouldn't. OK. In your usage, or rather in the usage of the community which influenced you to claim this status, is "clean" a moral judgement?
Olive oil is heavily processed (fiber and nutrients removed and pure fat extracted), and I don't think any informed RD would recommend it as a staple in a diet focused around health.
How about Dietitians if Canada?
http://www.dietitians.ca/Your-Health/Nutrition-A-Z/Heart-Health/Healthy-Eating-Guidelines-to-Prevent-Heart-Disease.aspx
Or Ontario
http://www.eatrightontario.ca/en/Articles/Cooking/Food-Preparation/How-to-use-different-oils-when-cooking.aspx#.V3g1PvR6Wc01 -
Nope
*continues to happily eat her nachos*16 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Mandygring wrote: »unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.
So my lunch of stir-fried vegetables in olive oil with chicken and black beans would earn me a "clean" designation, but the frozen yogurt bar I just had wouldn't. OK. In your usage, or rather in the usage of the community which influenced you to claim this status, is "clean" a moral judgement?
Not even olive oil (one of the most widely accepted healthy oils....) would make the clean cut as it contains some saturated fat along with the majority of monounsaturated fat.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "results." I ate raw for a few weeks just to see what it was like. I learned a lot about foods I don't normally eat, and it was very educational. Ditto for primal. Ditto for keto.
I didn't do these things in order to lose weight; I did them to educate myself about different ways of eating, my attitudes towards them, finding things that make me feel full, and to see what I was missing.
Doing this is very useful and interesting (to me!), but completely changing your eating habits -- including "eating clean" -- is totally unnecessary for weight loss.11 -
I tried to figure out what clean eating IS (and isn't), but failed and gave up. So I just decided to eat, weigh and log, and hit calorie goal, lost 50 pounds, and keep it off 20 months later. I think that counts as visible results.
Concepts like "clean eating" may be well meant (but I really think they are created to sell books and plans), but they seem to be based on the assumption that people who don't think of their diet as "clean", don't care about what they eat, at all. It ain't necessarily so. Even though I eat "processed" food (my milk and yogurt, crispbread and oatmeal, my smoked salmon and ground beef, have all been through a factory-like facility), I also eat quite a lot of fruit and vegetables, but I don't avoid naturally fatty meats or naturally occuring saturated fat or sugar, because that would mean cutting out large amounts of nutritious (and delicious) foods, for instance that aforementioned fruit and dairy and salmon and beef. Defining "artificial" is just as hopeless as "processed". Trans fats is not an issue because I do a lot of my own cooking from ingredients that don't have trans fats, and dont burn it.
Oh, and I don't cheat. Even if I don't track, my body does it for me.5 -
Lol awesome guys. Thanks for all your responses, negative and positive.3
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5 second rule! Unless it's something moist or gets a hair stuck to it. That's my clean eating.31
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Id say im eating clean as I cant imagine what eating dirty is like LOL!!! nahh but really..Im just making healthier choices in general.. I dont want to be too restricted or i would probably fail haha CICO for me. 1
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Hahahahaha 5 second rule is great!
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Lovee_Dove7 wrote: »
Yes, no dairy, fruit, sugar or grains. I ate 1lb of veggies, "clean" meats, "good" fats, low carb. I'll do it for a period of time as a metabolic reset. But it's not a constant lifestyle. I did that for 3 months and lost 30lbs. I didn't even cheat once, nor did I want to. I felt completely satiated!Mandygring wrote: »unprocessed, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and no artificial ingredients, preservatives, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat.
no such thing as a metabolic reset. you cannot reset your metabolism.14
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