Clean Eating Club for Tuesday 11/25

cherapple

This "club" is for anyone who wants to eat five or six times per day and eat natural, healthy, "clean" foods. Let's support each other in the quest to eat well, feel satisfied all the time, eliminate cravings, and melt off body fat. Anyone is welcome to join, and anyone can start the thread each day. Just copy and paste this first message into a new topic. You don't have to follow the diet perfectly, but it's easier than you might think!
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What is clean eating?

"In a nutshell, eating clean is the practice of eating whole, natural foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and complex carbohydrates. It also means 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.

A person who eats clean:

* Eliminates refined sugar
* Eats 5-6 small meals per day
* Combines healthy proteins with complex carbohydrates at every meal
* Drinks a lot of water
* Eliminates alcoholic beverages (or significantly limits them)
* Always eats breakfast.
* Cooks healthy meals
* Packs healthy meals
* Makes healthy choices when dining out."

~Adapted from http://www.eatingcleanworks.com

cherapple

This "club" is for anyone who wants to eat five or six times per day and eat natural, healthy, "clean" foods. Let's support each other in the quest to eat well, feel satisfied all the time, eliminate cravings, and melt off body fat. Anyone is welcome to join, and anyone can start the thread each day. Just copy and paste this first message into a new topic. You don't have to follow the diet perfectly, but it's easier than you might think!
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What is clean eating?

"In a nutshell, eating clean is the practice of eating whole, natural foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and complex carbohydrates. It also means 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.

A person who eats clean:

* Eliminates refined sugar
* Eats 5-6 small meals per day
* Combines healthy proteins with complex carbohydrates at every meal
* Drinks a lot of water
* Eliminates alcoholic beverages (or significantly limits them)
* Always eats breakfast.
* Cooks healthy meals
* Packs healthy meals
* Makes healthy choices when dining out."

~Adapted from http://www.eatingcleanworks.com

stylistchik

OH! for once I started off the day on a good note with an egg, and a whole-wheat english muffin with organic peanut butter! YUM! :bigsmile:

cherapple

OH! for once I started off the day on a good note with an egg, and a whole-wheat english muffin with organic peanut butter! YUM! :bigsmile:

Go, mm! Thanks for posting and letting me know I'm not all alone here! :laugh:

cherapple

:flowerforyou: TODAY'S TIP: Make a list of all the bad things that sugar and processed food do to YOUR body. Post it on your fridge, take it to the grocery store with you next time you go shopping, or even take it with you to Thanksgiving dinner. That's what I'm going to do to remind myself why I don't want to go crazy with indulgence this holiday! My list:

Sugar and processed foods:
*Sap my energy :yawn:
*Make me moody :explode:
*Make me depressed :indifferent:
*Clog my sinuses :sick:
*Muddy my brain :huh:
*Clowd my memory
*Cause food cravings :frown:
*Make me hungrier :grumble:
*Make me gain weight :noway:
*And Make me obsessed with eating MORE sugar! :sad:

Cheryl

Angiebangie

I had a bad, very bad weekend, I never fully recovered from book club :embarassed: and then Sat. night hubby and I went out to eat, and junked out, and I ate most of my baked goods :sad: I am getting my period, and though that is no excuse, this one is going to be bad, I have bad ones every few months, and it starts with a backache about a week before, and it hurts so much!!

So anyway, today and tomorrow I'm doing the Magical Leek Soup, where you drink the broth all day and eat the leeks (they're very nutritional) and then tomorrow night have a 4-5 oz. piece of protien and veggies, and a fruit, then it's back to CLEAN EATING!

Angiebangie

overprocessed and refined foods (taste yummy, but) make me:

sluggish
perspire excessively at night
sleep too heavily
retain tons of water (I'm not kidding, like 10 lbs, really!)
have dry mouth, even if I'm drinking lots

cherapple

overprocessed and refined foods (taste yummy, but) make me:

sluggish
perspire excessively at night
sleep too heavily
retain tons of water (I'm not kidding, like 10 lbs, really!)
have dry mouth, even if I'm drinking lots

Water retention must be what happens to me, too, given that I dropped three pounds immediately upon getting refined foods out of my diet. I couldn't have burned fat that quickly. I haven't lost anything since then. I'll add that to my list!

Angiebangie

I kid you not, I was 145 last Thursday morning, and yesterday (after 3 days of bad, bad eating)

cherapple

I made the Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo recipe that I posted yesterday. My husband ate it and liked it -- chicken, cottage cheese, and all! I went on a bit of a binge in the afternoon because I was stressed after one of my kids had a melt down. But I didn't eat any sugar, and I really didn't want any! It's not like when I would binge on sugar and other junk, and I wouldn't stop until I felt sick. This time I ate a few things and it didn't take me long to feel like I was done and full. I am only 100 calories over for the day.

My food today:

1/2 cup oatmeal
Sliced apple
1/4 cup skim milk
1/4 cup egg whites

1/2 cup skim milk
1/4 cup Grape Nuts
15 Kellogg's unfrosted shredded wheat
14 almonds

Banana
1 piece whole wheat bread
1 Tbs. peanut butter
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce

1 cup skim milk
Unsweetened cocoa powder
Stevia
15 Triscuits
2 Tbs. Hommus
1/2 can tuna
1 plain rice cake
1 Tbs. peanut butter

Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo
1/2 cup corn

I don't think being a vegetarian for so many years did me many favors. My diet could have used improvement as it was, and then I started eating processed, "fake" animal products, and not even getting THAT kind of protein on a regular basis. My body needed MORE protein, not less. Vegetarianism and sugar eating were not a good combination! I'm feeling so satisfied now, and ... balanced. I can almost feel my insulin levels evening out!

Cheryl

cherapple

I kid you not, I was 145 last Thursday morning, and yesterday (after 3 days of bad, bad eating)

Angie, were you trying to say that you gained 10 pounds in three days? You'll lose it quickly, as soon as you get back on track! :flowerforyou:

Angiebangie

Yes, I did gain 10 lbs. in 3 days, but it happens to me whenever I go off the deep end of eating and I know it will be gone in a couple of days, just water, but can you believe that? !0 lbs.!!!:noway:

cherapple

I ate more after I posted last night, and I also remembered a couple other things I snacked on yesterday and forgot to track, so I was actually more than 300 calories over yesterday. But that's still okay. That's maintenance level, and it helps to even out the days I was under for calories, right?

cherapple

Yes, I did gain 10 lbs. in 3 days, but it happens to me whenever I go off the deep end of eating and I know it will be gone in a couple of days, just water, but can you believe that? !0 lbs.!!!:noway:

Ten pounds of water weight is crazy! How tall are you? I don't remember whether you've said. I'm just 5'2", so it looks like my body puts on just three pounds when I eat crappy -- at least this past time it did. I hope not to find out again! But never say never, especially around the holidays, and when I'll be staying in someone else's home. I'll be stopping at the store to pick up some staples to take with me, so I'm hoping I can stick with it pretty well.

Determined,
Cheryl

Hanna1983

Hello ladies,

what exactly are "overprocessed foods" please?

I am trying to eat healthier. I have abig problem with sugar. Maybe you can help me with that?
My MFP calculator gives me only(?) 20g sugar per day allowance. I am really trying to look out for sugar in my meals, but it seems imposisble, Yesterday I thought I would be good and eat 2 nectarines. 1 nextarine has 11g sugar already! So I was over my allowance already by eating 2 pieces of fruit :sad:

I then went ahead and ate a low fat (Weight Watchers) yoghurt, 120gr pot. guess what, that had 7gr sugar!!! :noway: I know sugar is bad that is why I try and reduce it. but it seems impossible. Any ideas what I can do?

Thanks.
Hanna :flowerforyou:

Angiebangie

Yes, I did gain 10 lbs. in 3 days, but it happens to me whenever I go off the deep end of eating and I know it will be gone in a couple of days, just water, but can you believe that? !0 lbs.!!!:noway:

Ten pounds of water weight is crazy! How tall are you? I don't remember whether you've said. I'm just 5'2", so it looks like my body puts on just three pounds when I eat crappy -- at least this past time it did. I hope not to find out again! But never say never, especially around the holidays, and when I'll be staying in someone else's home. I'll be stopping at the store to pick up some staples to take with me, so I'm hoping I can stick with it pretty well.

Determined,
Cheryl

I'm 5'6", and that's how it always is for me, about 3lbs. per day of crappy eating, that should be a lesson in itself, no?

I think because I "yo-yo" back and forth eating so healthfully (very clean, compulsively clean) that when I stray, I go crazy, so my body is like-whoa!!!

Magical Leek Soup took off 6 of those lbs. yesterday, well some of it would have come off anyway, but the leeks are great!!!