Have you ever tried clean eating?
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I wash my fruits and veg before i eat.6
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xmichaelyx wrote: »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.
Top notch attitude! I expect that there is a lot many of us could learn by trying a different eating system every now and then.3 -
Mandygring wrote: »Lol awesome guys. Thanks for all your responses, negative and positive.xmichaelyx wrote: »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.
I realize I haven't been totally honest with you, OP, not on purpose, but I forgot.
I've been doing the same as xmichaelyx, but I didn't start out that way and with that as a goal. I DID try to eat clean, paleo, primal, I DID believe clean food was a thing, I DID believe I was addicted to sugar and that sugar and additives were poisons that manufacturers put into our food with the intent to make us sick, hungry and addicted. This aversion made me motivated to make more food from scratch (and eat it) and look for single ingredient foods. My attitude NOW - that cooking from scratch is a pleasurable activity, that it's flexible, fun, economical and provides more nutritious and tasty food, would NOT have been enough to spark a change in habits.
Whatever belief or idea that makes you improve your habits, if your habits need improvement, is valuable, and I will try be a little less patronizing and impatient when I participate in these kinds of threads in the future.7 -
bclarke1990 wrote: »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.
You know, I tend to agree with that, with one caveat. Fueling your body with good food feels satisfying, but fueling your mind with satisfying foods feels good and contributes to better mental health, stress reduction and sustainability.
In that sense I do eat clean, I suppose, since I care how nutritious a lot of my foods are, but I also eat "unclean" because I care about my health in holistic ways that are not limited to macros and micros, and in ways I know can be easily and indefinitely sustained.6 -
This is likely to be one of those things where terminology becomes the bigger difference than application when comparing clean eaters to those people who are successfully dieting but not necessarily eating clean.
Mindset is also a potential difference.
Just for example I think MOST people who are successful in the long term very likely eat "mostly" nutritious foods that are minimally refined. By "most" definitions of the phrase "clean" (yes, it's ambiguous) you could say that these people eat mostly clean.
And I think most clean eaters probably don't maintain 100% adherence to their own definition of clean.
However I do think the mindset difference is worth noting and is significant when it comes to the outlook of the diet. Let me be clear that this isn't something that's going to apply to EVERYONE:
Taking a stance where you have foods that are good and foods that are bad is likely something that can lead to an unhealthy mindset (IN SOME, not ALL people) about dieting in general.
Taking a stance where you view your diet as "I'm going to eat these foods most of the time, and I'm only going to eat these other foods once in a while as something special/etc" is likely a healtheir and more sustainable mindset/viewpoint.
The actual differences in diets probably aren't all that big.12 -
I'll also add, that ironically, when you look at my diet when I'm in a fat loss phase it very closely resembles "clean eating" by most standards, in that it's almost all minimally refined foods, very little heavily refined foods, no logging of calories, relying on satiety and food selection to create the deficit.
This, by definition is flexible dieting because it fully aligns with my dietary preferences for fat loss.5 -
Nope
I do try to incorporate plenty of more nutritionally dense foods into my diet, but I do love me some good highly processed foods4 -
If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.1 -
I guess it depends on how you define that...
My diet is relatively "clean"...but it's not like I don't eat some processed foods and go out to eat and stuff like that. I just eat a well balanced and highly nutritious diet and don't sweat the small stuff because the small stuff is pretty irrelevant to the whole.2 -
Mandygring wrote: »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.
I got into a routine of doing it and got amazing results, I've really slipped up with it recently. I felt and looked quite a bit better and had more energy2 -
If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.16 -
If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.16 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.
But the chemicals and unpronounceable words In them bottles! Careful now;)9 -
queenliz99 wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.
But the chemicals and unpronounceable words In them bottles! Careful now;)
Bleach is pretty easy to pronounce. Shouldn't be consumed, however.11 -
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queenliz99 wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.
But the chemicals and unpronounceable words In them bottles! Careful now;)
Bleach is pretty easy to pronounce. Shouldn't be consumed, however.
A lot of people can't pronounce 'courgette' properly....3 -
queenliz99 wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.
But the chemicals and unpronounceable words In them bottles! Careful now;)
But they're clean by definition! (Side note: anyone has smilies stuck in their reply box?)3 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.
But the chemicals and unpronounceable words In them bottles! Careful now;)
But they're clean by definition! (Side note: anyone has smilies stuck in their reply box?)
Yes!0 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.
But the chemicals and unpronounceable words In them bottles! Careful now;)
But they're clean by definition! (Side note: anyone has smilies stuck in their reply box?)
Happens to me occasionally...oh look! It's happening right now!
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If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
How is spaghetti and meatballs "unclean"?4 -
A nice write up and research review by Alan Aragon on the subject of clean eating.....
simplyshredded.com/research-review-the-dirt-on-clean-eating-written-by-nutrition-expert-alan-aragon.html2 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »(Side note: anyone has smilies stuck in their reply box?)
Yes Been like that for a while 
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TavistockToad wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.
But the chemicals and unpronounceable words In them bottles! Careful now;)
Bleach is pretty easy to pronounce. Shouldn't be consumed, however.
A lot of people can't pronounce 'courgette' properly....
That's why zucchini works
PS I have smilies stuck too. Creepy m83 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
How is spaghetti and meatballs "unclean"?
Because you can't pick them off a spaghetti tree or a meatball bush?! :laugh:8 -
I love smilies
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TavistockToad wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.
But the chemicals and unpronounceable words In them bottles! Careful now;)
Bleach is pretty easy to pronounce. Shouldn't be consumed, however.
A lot of people can't pronounce 'courgette' properly....
That's why zucchini works
PS I have smilies stuck too. Creepy m8
Bloody yanks! :laugh:3 -
I've been doing paleo for 5 days now and I've lost 5.2 pounds....clean eating is working for me so far.2
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I'm 80/20. It works for me. I don't binge eat anymore when eating too "clean". I like cake, pizza, and spaghetti every now and again. Everything in moderation
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The two posts by @SideSteel on this thread sum it up for me and are two of the best posts I've seen on MFP for a while.
Maximum kudos points awarded.1 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »If I can't pronounce it on the label, then I don't eat it. Mainly stay to outside perimeter of the store now. I have however been known to breakdown and have a spaghetti and homemade meatballs
>_> Pasta...weakness is strong with this one it is.
These are, however, the two most common clean eating 'rules' that get pointed as unreliable guidelines for basing a diet on.
"Can't pronounce it" : Many people are able to pronounce much of what's on a typical ingredients list very well. On the other hand there's a lot of people who couldn't pronounce quinoa to save their life.
"Shop the perimeter": most grocery stores near me have baked goods, deli meats, sausages, cheeses, and wine and beer on the perimeter. The aisles have frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, pasta, rice, and spices and seasonings. While cheese and beer and charcuterie are all wonderful things, they're pretty calorie dense and don't fit my day-to-day needs. The latter list helps me keep a varied, tasty, and easy to prepare diet that fits my goals.
If those rules are working for you, that's great. But they don't help someone understand how to maintain a consistent calorie deficit and meet their nutritional goals.
You're lucky. At least you get to eat cheese instead of cleaning supplies like in my case.
I get all sorts of bread, tinned tomatoes, soups, curry sauces and dried pasta, the whole meat isle, some veggies, dairy and alcohol on the perimeter. Not bad
I shop mostly on the perimeter, btw.
And about clean eating: Yes, I do wash my fruits and veggies before using them.
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