Does clean eating really make a difference for you?

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  • sally884
    sally884 Posts: 51
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    I think yes! Possibly the weight will come off either way, but eating cleaner will have so many additional benefits and in my opinion will help you keep the weight off longer. Eating less and tracking it everyday is easy. Once you stop it can be hard to keep the weight off. If you eat well now it will stick with you for life. But enjoy your treats too!
  • madi777
    madi777 Posts: 11 Member
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    Absolutely I notice a difference! I can see my abs within about 3 days and let me tell you- I just lost about 2 kg in less than 2 weeks eating around 1500 calories per day and exercising (Pilates, Zumba and HIIT) and I only weighed 65.2 kg to begin with! This morning I was 63.1 kg. So yes, I am eating more than before of clean foods and losing a heck of a lot more body fat as a result.
    Hydration is also important- aim for 3 L per day!
  • RHachicho
    RHachicho Posts: 1,115 Member
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    For me clean eating made all the difference. When I started I was hooked on sugar and junk food. And giving that stuff up was the hardest stuff I had to do. However I went cold turkey natural sugars in fruit and milk only and no junk food or instant meals. All my food was cooked from ingredients for 2/3 weeks and that broke my sugar and junk food addiction and it made ALL the difference. I swear to god it is the best thing I ever did for myself. When you eat clean nutritious food you simply feel less hungry because your body usually has all or most of what it needs within your calorie restriction. I only really get bothered by food cravings if I eat a lot of empty calories and my body still wants stuff. It makes sense if you think about it your body doesn't care about calorie limits it's just going to keep saying I'm hungry till it get's what it needs. And in general willpower can only go so far It WILL get what it needs.

    Now I'm not saying you have to eat 100% clean forever but it really makes a huge difference to adjust your habit so that a majority of your diet is clean nutritious food. You get less hunger pangs. And honestly if you can cook worth a damn the food tastes a lot better. And is generally less calorie dense so you can eat more of it. Sugar is the worst part of dirty eating. It is ABSOLUTELY addictive. You've heard of people who can't live without full sugar soda or chocolate right? They are addicts plain and simple. Don't get me wrong sugar has it's place in your diet. But you need to make sure your metabolism doesn't become hooked on the quick easily burned energy it provides.

    To top it all off when you are addicted to sugar things taste less sweet. You often hear the line . I can't drink diet soda it tastes like *kitten*. That was me. Now diet drinks taste about right to me. Full sugar sodas taste sickly sweet.. And fruit tastes awesome again not tasteless and bitter like it did before.

    Not only that but if you somehow manage to resist eating over your calorie limit and eat dirty your reward at the end of your diet is basically that you have wrecked your health your body and organs are starving for nutrition your muscles have probably wasted away and your skin lacking the resources to repair itself now hangs off your frame like droopy the dogs face. Hardly the outcome you would wish for right? Besides in that sort of situation once you go back to eating a decent amount of calories you usually just blow up again. I think by far the best approach is to make your body healthier. If you try and shift weight at the expense of your bodies actual health you will just wreck yourself. And a Healthy well fed body at a moderate calorie deficit will drop pounds quite willingly.

    Basically go full clean for a few weeks. And see the difference for yourself. You will lose weight more reliably suffer less from hunger be healthier and after you are comfortable you can treat yourself to the occasional slice of cake or soda can or junk food meal as a treat. Dirty calories aren't really bad as long as your body get's enough nutrition from your overall diet not suffer.

    Well that's my experience with it.
  • coletoy
    coletoy Posts: 3 Member
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    If you've got better digestion going, you're going to lose more weight. Retain less water and be less bloated.
  • LadyGisborne
    LadyGisborne Posts: 32 Member
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    I have always "eaten clean" - even my binges were on food made from scratch and I partly credit it for being in very good health even when I was very overweight (good blood sugar and cholesterol levels, no gestational diabetes during my pregnancies...)
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,065 Member
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  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,626 Member
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    After I switched to only healthy food - maybe a couple months in - I broke down and ate part of a cheeseburger and fries. When I felt icky later, I realized what a difference the healthy food made. I was so shocked to realize it. I'd never really believed people did feel so much better eating only healthy food.

    After that, it wasn't at all hard to skip that stuff. I wasn't eating healthy food just because I had to. I was doing it because I wanted to.

    The cravings and "Oh, poor me, I can't eat cake" had gone away after a couple weeks, but I'd still been missing the red meat. After that, I didn't even care about the red meat. I still miss the taste of ribs and barbeque, sometimes, but I'd rather skip them. :)
  • Melwillbehealthy
    Melwillbehealthy Posts: 882 Member
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    When I eat clean, I eat meat, veggies, fruits, even ancient grain breads, brown rice., etc. The thing I love is that I don't have to count calories. I did this for one year (due to a health issue) and I lost about 45 lbs. without trying. AT the time, I wasn't concerned with losing weight, just with getting healthy. I ate whatever, however much I wanted of clean foods. In my case I didn't eat. dairy or processed foods.