Clean Eating Club - Wednesday 11/26

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!

Feel free to add your own tip or recipe for the day. Ask questions. Tell us what you're eating and how your clean food journey is going. How is it helping your or changing your life?
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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!

Feel free to add your own tip or recipe for the day. Ask questions. Tell us what you're eating and how your clean food journey is going. How is it helping your or changing your life?
________
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

Carrie6o6

What is refined sugar? Like in what foods?

Hanna1983

Sorry just saw I posted this in yesterday's post. :laugh:


So here it is again :

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

I then went ahead and ate a low fat (Weight Watchers) yoghurt, 120gr pot. guess what, that had 7gr sugar!!! 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

Angiebangie

Coffee
Magical Leek Soup (all day, to counter the 10, yes 10, lbs. of water weight I gained over 3 days of crappy, very unclean eating :embarassed:
Water, water, water.

But for dinner I get greek marinated chicken with roasted veggies and grapes! Yay!

cherapple

Coffee
Magical Leek Soup (all day, to counter the 10, yes 10, lbs. of water weight I gained over 3 days of crappy, very unclean eating :embarassed:
Water, water, water.

But for dinner I get greek marinated chicken with roasted veggies and grapes! Yay!

Oh yeah, I meant to ask about that Magical Leek Soup and whether that was all you were eating all day long. Wow, you are dedicated to losing that water weight. I don't think I could do it! That means no protein until dinner?

cherapple

Hi, Hanna and Carrie. Welcome!

"Refined sugar" is white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and any sugar that doesn't come naturally in a food. Hanna, I wouldn't worry about the sugar in fruit. I stopped tracking my sugar on MFP because I was going over after eating a banana and drinking a glass of milk. Those are healthy sugars. Nectarines are perfect! The sugars you want to avoid are the added ones.

I will sometimes use maple syrup, molasses, or honey because those are not refined sugars, but I'm finding that the less sweetener I eat, the less I want, so I am not even eating those. I used to drink a cup of coffee substitute with a spoonful of maple syrup (and cream) every day and I looked forward to it. Now I think about it, and I'm thinking "yuck, too syrupy and sweet."

An "overprocessed food" is anything manmade, basically. Anything that comes in a box. Anything made and manufactured by a machine. Anything with expensive advertising. Any food that has been taken from nature and turned from its original form into something unrecognizable.

Weight Watcher's yogurt is a good example. It is full of sugar and who knows what other chemicals. Most so-called "diet" foods are highly processed because processing makes more money than not processing.

Unprocessed foods, on the other hand, are found mostly around the perimeters of the grocery store, they don't have added ingredients, and they've had as little as possible done to them. You want to eat mostly fresh produce, meat, and dairy.

I hope that answers your questions. If anyone else can explain better, please jump in! :laugh:

Cheryl

cherapple

:flowerforyou: TODAY'S TIP:

The Top Ten Worst Foods
Doughnuts
Marshmallow Fluff
Sodas and carbonated beverages
Bacon and processed meats (like balogna)
Unhealthy health foods (granola bars and sugary "diet" foods, for example)
Sugary breakfast cereals
Fruit drinks and juices (it's natural sugar, but unnaturally concentrated)
Potato chips, tacos, deep-fried snacks
Candy
French Fries

What to Buy:
Ground chicken, bison, or buffalo (who eats bison or buffalo?)
Fresh fruits and vegetables
Egg whites
Turkey or chicken breast
Skim milk or low fat soy milk
Low-fat cheese, cottage cheese, or goat cheese
Clear broth or broth-based soups
Unsalted nuts
Sliced chicken, turkey breast, or fish
Flatbreads, pitas, wraps or Ezekiel bread
Muesli, whole grains, or shredded wheat
Unsaturated oils
Lemon juice or balsamic vinegar
Brown, black, or mahogany rice

~Source: Clean Eating, Oxygen Magazine Collector's Issue, Oct. 2007

Angiebangie

Coffee
Magical Leek Soup (all day, to counter the 10, yes 10, lbs. of water weight I gained over 3 days of crappy, very unclean eating :embarassed:
Water, water, water.

But for dinner I get greek marinated chicken with roasted veggies and grapes! Yay!

Oh yeah, I meant to ask about that Magical Leek Soup and whether that was all you were eating all day long. Wow, you are dedicated to losing that water weight. I don't think I could do it! That means no protein until dinner?

No protein until dinner (none yesterday though), doesn't bother me, drink enough water and I'm always full, plus I get to eat the leeks! I do like to cleanse though, I've been doing that on and off for years, probably goes hand in hand with the yo-yo-ing.

cherapple

No protein until dinner (none yesterday though), doesn't bother me, drink enough water and I'm always full, plus I get to eat the leeks! I do like to cleanse though, I've been doing that on and off for years, probably goes hand in hand with the yo-yo-ing.

I've never done cleansing. I guess "clean eating" is enough of a "cleansing" for me right now! :bigsmile:

Hanna1983

Thank you Cheryl, that explained alot to me especially with the sugar.

H

Angiebangie

Yes, clean eating is a good way to cleanse, without putting much effort into it, it's the best way...I just have to stop the crappy food binges and be consistent.

Carrie6o6

:flowerforyou: TODAY'S TIP:

The Top Ten Worst Foods
Doughnuts
Marshmallow Fluff
Sodas and carbonated beverages
Bacon and processed meats (like balogna)
Unhealthy health foods (granola bars and sugary "diet" foods, for example)
Sugary breakfast cereals
Fruit drinks and juices (it's natural sugar, but unnaturally concentrated)
Potato chips, tacos, deep-fried snacks
Candy
French Fries

What to Buy:
Ground chicken, bison, or buffalo (who eats bison or buffalo?)
Fresh fruits and vegetables
Egg whites
Turkey or chicken breast
Skim milk or low fat soy milk
Low-fat cheese, cottage cheese, or goat cheese
Clear broth or broth-based soups
Unsalted nuts
Sliced chicken, turkey breast, or fish
Flatbreads, pitas, wraps or Ezekiel bread
Muesli, whole grains, or shredded wheat
Unsaturated oils
Lemon juice or balsamic vinegar
Brown, black, or mahogany rice

~Source: Clean Eating, Oxygen Magazine Collector's Issue, Oct. 2007

I LOVE Bison!! Bacon!! awwwwww Thats on my grocery list today! I dont have it much! Once every few months! haha But I do love potato chips!! :grumble: How do you eat trail mix though? I find it hard to eat nuts and seeds because they are so high cal!

Count me in this group.. I will try to post often! :bigsmile:

cherapple

Yes, clean eating is a good way to cleanse, without putting much effort into it, it's the best way...I just have to stop the crappy food binges and be consistent.

Without much effort?! Humpf! LOL. :laugh:

cherapple

What I've eaten today (I switched my breakfast up, for once!):

Pre-workout snack:
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup egg whites
Stevia

Breakfast:
1/2 cup low fat plain yogurt
1/2 cup cottage cheese
Banana
1/8 cup Grape Nuts
Stevia

Snack:
Plain multigrain rice cake
Peanut butter

Lunch:
Protein pancake
Fruit "ice cream"

Dinner:
1 cup milk
Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo
14 almonds

It's another "maintenance" day (I'm a little over on calories), which I'm fine with until after the holiday.

I may be absent for a few days because I'm going out of town, so everyone have a great Thanksgiving :flowerforyou: and I'll see you when I get back! Feel free to get the thread going each day. I'll post if I can.

Cheryl

cherapple

I LOVE Bison!! Bacon!! awwwwww Thats on my grocery list today! I dont have it much! Once every few months! haha But I do love potato chips!! :grumble: How do you eat trail mix though? I find it hard to eat nuts and seeds because they are so high cal!

Count me in this group.. I will try to post often! :bigsmile:

I didn't even know you could get bison or buffalo in the grocery store! I eat nuts and seeds in small quantities, but I try to eat a few of them every day. I add them to my yogurt or my oatmeal, or just have a (carefully measured) handful as a snack.

cherapple

We still haven't left, and I think I'm getting nervous about not being able to eat the way I want to while we're gone. I've got the wicked munchies! Even without sugar, I'm still a stress eater. :grumble:

Argh! See you soon!
Cheryl