Eating clean and butter

CoachReddy

Are you just trying to make fitness more challenging by creating handicaps for yourself?

This is what I was wondering too!! What's the big deal. I think when you have to start asking of foods are "allowed" on some diet plan, you are going down an OCD path that has nothing to do with weight loss and fitness.

We all pretty much can use our common sense to know what is whole minimally process foods and what is not. The whole "eating clean" thing gets ridiculous as everyone has their own interpretation and then starts building in restrictions. Just eat mostly whole nutrient dense foods and stop worrying about what's considered clean and what's not.

I actually think it's a great idea to embrace clean eating and think it's imperative that you research what is going into your body. We eat organic and gmo free (primarily) and it takes a lot of time to avoid GMO's. However, it's safer for my family. It can be overwhelming when you first start.

I don't think it is overwhelming really. It doesn't have to be that complicated. Whole foods close to the source about does it. The whole GMO thing and it's negative effects has yet to be proven by any study. If you want to eat non GMO, that's your choice. Organic can be important on some thing and not on others. For example, what difference does it make if your banana was grown organically and there is no proven nutritional difference and you throw away the skin which may contain any pesticide residue. A leafy green vegetable or an apple would be more of a concern.

But, your question wasn't about this kind of issue. It was about whether a food that is defined by law as only having 2 ingredients at most is OK for eating clean. My first question would be, define eating clean. Ask 100 people. get 100 definitions. There is no universal standard. Then throw in the question of dairy products, legumes and grains. To some, healthy, to some poison.

Again, I'm going to reiterate that when you start to worry about a simple, close to the source, whole food, it is unnecessary at best and bordering on OCD at worst. It's majoring in the minor.

this is a great response.