Clean Eating
jyow01
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Does anyone follow a clean eating plan. If so how did you get started, my daughter graduates in May from college and I really want to look my best. I have thought about clean eating before but don't know where to start.
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Does anyone follow a clean eating plan. If so how did you get started, my daughter graduates in May from college and I really want to look my best. I have thought about clean eating before but don't know where to start.
What is your definition of "clean eating" as it varies greatly.3 -
Buy whole unprocessed or minimally processed ingredients and prepare meals from that.0
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I want to try and move away from overly processed food, my daughter will be moving home in May and she is newly diagnosed with Gluten Allergy as a family it would also be easier to go Gluten free. It will make meal prep easier.2
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I try to. I stick to bacon, salame, steak, birds, butter, fishes. Sometimes I'll have a snickers bar or a cookie.2
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No surprise you don't know where to start. Nobody really does. Clean eating is a nebulous term, it means different things to different people. Not very useful, in other words.
Do you want to lose weight? Eat less, move more.
Do you want to get healthier? Eat a varied diet, mostly fresh, whole foods with some treats thrown in, in appropriate amounts. Exercise moderately. Get enough sleep and rest.8 -
"Clean" and gluten free are completely different. Gluten is a real thing that you can be intolerant to. "Clean" eating is a BS phrase for people who believe you can't lose weight eating "junk" food.
If you want to lose weight for her graduation, you need a calorie deficit. If you are going to cut out gluten, I would look in the recipe threads for ideas or use google.5 -
I want to try and move away from overly processed food, my daughter will be moving home in May and she is newly diagnosed with Gluten Allergy as a family it would also be easier to go Gluten free. It will make meal prep easier.
It sounds like you know exactly where to start. Just do what you described in this post. Move away from overly processed foods and cook more meals from scratch. It's simple really.2 -
It's just food that's not processed. I usually say if it has more than 5 indgredients in it or if it has chemical words I don't understand (lol) I don't buy it. Gracious pantry (blog) has some really awesome recipes....Pinterest your butt off....and read!!! Milk for instance is only one ingredient but unless it's organic it's not clean....the antibiotics and rbst in it can make you sick....MSG is allowed to be called a "natural flavor" so I stay away from anything that says that too! so you just have to read read read!!! everyone will be a little different but if you just start incorporating Whole food into your diet you'll be better for it.
On a side note...clean eating (and The Lord) cured my husband of severe asthma!!! Our whole family feels better!3 -
It's just food that's not processed. I usually say if it has more than 5 indgredients in it or if it has chemical words I don't understand (lol) I don't buy it. Gracious pantry (blog) has some really awesome recipes....Pinterest your butt off....and read!!! Milk for instance is only one ingredient but unless it's organic it's not clean....the antibiotics and rbst in it can make you sick....MSG is allowed to be called a "natural flavor" so I stay away from anything that says that too! so you just have to read read read!!! everyone will be a little different but if you just start incorporating Whole food into your diet you'll be better for it.
On a side note...clean eating (and The Lord) cured my husband of severe asthma!!! Our whole family feels better!8 -
It's just food that's not processed. I usually say if it has more than 5 indgredients in it or if it has chemical words I don't understand (lol) I don't buy it. Gracious pantry (blog) has some really awesome recipes....Pinterest your butt off....and read!!! Milk for instance is only one ingredient but unless it's organic it's not clean....the antibiotics and rbst in it can make you sick....MSG is allowed to be called a "natural flavor" so I stay away from anything that says that too! so you just have to read read read!!! everyone will be a little different but if you just start incorporating Whole food into your diet you'll be better for it.
On a side note...clean eating (and The Lord) cured my husband of severe asthma!!! Our whole family feels better!
This is a bit of nonsense really.8 -
trigden1991 wrote: »"Clean" and gluten free are completely different. Gluten is a real thing that you can be intolerant to. "Clean" eating is a BS phrase for people who believe you can't lose weight eating "junk" food.
If you want to lose weight for her graduation, you need a calorie deficit. If you are going to cut out gluten, I would look in the recipe threads for ideas or use google.
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It is atrigden1991 wrote: »"Clean" and gluten free are completely different. Gluten is a real thing that you can be intolerant to. "Clean" eating is a BS phrase for people who believe you can't lose weight eating "junk" food.
If you want to lose weight for her graduation, you need a calorie deficit. If you are going to cut out gluten, I would look in the recipe threads for ideas or use google.trigden1991 wrote: »"Clean" and gluten free are completely different. Gluten is a real thing that you can be intolerant to. "Clean" eating is a BS phrase for people who believe you can't lose weight eating "junk" food.
If you want to lose weight for her graduation, you need a calorie deficit. If you are going to cut out gluten, I would look in the recipe threads for ideas or use google.
It is definitely a bs phrase. You say you eat non processed but milk that is processed is clean?5 -
singingflutelady wrote: »It's just food that's not processed. I usually say if it has more than 5 indgredients in it or if it has chemical words I don't understand (lol) I don't buy it. Gracious pantry (blog) has some really awesome recipes....Pinterest your butt off....and read!!! Milk for instance is only one ingredient but unless it's organic it's not clean....the antibiotics and rbst in it can make you sick....MSG is allowed to be called a "natural flavor" so I stay away from anything that says that too! so you just have to read read read!!! everyone will be a little different but if you just start incorporating Whole food into your diet you'll be better for it.
On a side note...clean eating (and The Lord) cured my husband of severe asthma!!! Our whole family feels better!
And here we go off track of the OP's question.1 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »It's just food that's not processed. I usually say if it has more than 5 indgredients in it or if it has chemical words I don't understand (lol) I don't buy it. Gracious pantry (blog) has some really awesome recipes....Pinterest your butt off....and read!!! Milk for instance is only one ingredient but unless it's organic it's not clean....the antibiotics and rbst in it can make you sick....MSG is allowed to be called a "natural flavor" so I stay away from anything that says that too! so you just have to read read read!!! everyone will be a little different but if you just start incorporating Whole food into your diet you'll be better for it.
On a side note...clean eating (and The Lord) cured my husband of severe asthma!!! Our whole family feels better!
And here we go off track of the OP's question.
Sorry. Just wanted to point out the issues with this poster's statement.2 -
I've been told I'm doing a clean eating cause I don't do processed food, no gluten or corn or milk products, just lot's of clean meat, veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds.
I don't know what clean eating is but I recommend that diet I'm on.. It's proving to be very effective for me.0 -
Wow...I'm just sharing my experience to the OP sorry I'm not knowledgeable enough for all of you...lmao
Enjoy the rest of your day ✌1 -
Does anyone follow a clean eating plan. If so how did you get started, my daughter graduates in May from college and I really want to look my best. I have thought about clean eating before but don't know where to start.
I hate the term "clean eating," but I don't think it's supposed to be a plan, I think it's just eating only (or mostly) food prepared at home from whole ingredients. I mostly do that, but I also like greek yogurt and cottage cheese and occasional protein powder and pickled vegetables and smoked salmon and canned tomatoes (out of season) and dried/canned beans and dried pasta and don't see any reason why eating those things or going out to dinner and eating something prepared from whole ingredients there would be contrary to health. So I don't really get the "clean eating" thing.
But if you want to try it, cook from whole ingredients at home (which I recommend as an easy way to watch calories and generally worthwhile anyway, and a tasty way to control what's in your food). If it were a different time of year I'd also recommend trying to focus on what's in season, but that's getting more limited lots of places. I am concerned about where I source my meat, which is a thing for some "clean eaters," not all. I think most (not all) will focus on getting lots of vegetables, which I recommend unrelated to clean eating -- it's just nutritionally sensible.
If you want to lose weight watching calories or portions and understanding what you are eating and how caloric it is will be more helpful than clean eating, but I suppose if you eat lots of highly processed stuff and aren't that tempted by less processed things (I was the opposite) then it could lead to a reduction in calories.
Does that help?
Edit: oh, I see it's about gluten free. Gluten is not necessarily considered "unclean" -- at least many would see homemade bread as perfectly clean, for example, which shows the problem with the term.
I agree that if you are eating lots of packaged stuff that may or may not have gluten cutting them out and doing most cooking from whole ingredients or ingredients you know are safe is a good plan. I'd call that eating gluten-free, and there are a number of people here who do that and could help you.4 -
Well I try to eat as clean as I can. Buying minimal amounts of processed foods. No frozen, canned or packaged products. Try to buy whole foods and cook them from scratch yourself. This takes a lot more time but eliminates the chemicals and preservatives added in processed foods. I make more than I need and freeze small portions to reheat later. Like homemade soups, spagetti sauces, enchilada sauce, alfredo sauce, things like this.0
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singingflutelady wrote: »It's just food that's not processed. I usually say if it has more than 5 indgredients in it or if it has chemical words I don't understand (lol) I don't buy it. Gracious pantry (blog) has some really awesome recipes....Pinterest your butt off....and read!!! Milk for instance is only one ingredient but unless it's organic it's not clean....the antibiotics and rbst in it can make you sick....MSG is allowed to be called a "natural flavor" so I stay away from anything that says that too! so you just have to read read read!!! everyone will be a little different but if you just start incorporating Whole food into your diet you'll be better for it.
On a side note...clean eating (and The Lord) cured my husband of severe asthma!!! Our whole family feels better!-1 -
Wow...I'm just sharing my experience to the OP sorry I'm not knowledgeable enough for all of you...lmao
Enjoy the rest of your day ✌
'Clean' eating is a hot topic around here. It's a very subjective term that has a lot of woo surrounding it (as your previous post pointed out so well). But, to each their own!
OP-you'll have better luck just checking out the clean eating group
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/133-clean-eating-group1
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