Success stories from those who eat (mostly) clean! please!

beckysiz

I try and eat as clean as possible. Whole foods, organic and grassfed/pastured meats. The better the food you put into your body the better you body will feel.

Hazel9999

wow, ure looking good girl, well done what a difference::flowerforyou:

rockieschick

Keep your stories coming! Love it!

Acg67

I started eating mostly clean and never felt better

NewLIFEstyle4ME

Keep your stories coming! Love it!

Yes, please do!

crissygm

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somanyrhoades

In all honesty I have probably eaten 50% clean for the past 2 years or so, but that wasn't enough! With me it wasn't so much that I started cutting things out of my diet, but I started added a ton more clean foods to my diet... veggies, fruit, nuts, legumes, freen range meat etc... As I started added these things to my diet, there suddenly wasn't a need to add butter, sugar and salt to everything on my plate. My cravings stopped after the first couple weeks. I still get cravings for processed food once in a while, but they are not as intense and they are shorter-lived. More often now I find myself getting smacked with cravings for things that are good for me... for 2 days I wanted nothing but kale smoothies and today I HAD to run to the grocery store for a sweet potato (kid you not, it was silly). Fatigue, bloating, and daily heartburn are completely gone, my skin looks great and my digestion has improved immensely. I am down 11 pounds so far, I don't feel deprived, I feel amazing! I would say my diet is 95% clean now. I do still eat a few processed things like cheese, but I try to make sure it's organic, free range and raw. Added bonus... I have learned how to cook so many new and delicious things using herbs! And people will argue with you saying a calorie is a calorie, which is true, but clean food is much better for you in the long run because your getting all the compounds/nutrients that are good for your body that "dirty" food just doesn't have. There is a wealth of research being conducted world wide on the specific compositions in specific fruits and veggies and how they benefit us.

forrestgumpx

Here is my ongoing revolutionary transformation. It's very rigorous and radical. It's not suitable for everybody but it works for me, in a constructive healthy way.

Male. 172cm / 5.58ft
Starting weight: 77.7kg / 171.3 lbs

First Goal: 69 kg / 152.1 lbs in 60 days but achieved it in 40 days

Adjusted Goal: 65 kg / 143.3 lbs excluding muscle gain in 48 days, i'd have to lower my fat% from 19 to 10-12 (wild guess)

Method:
* Low-Carb Diet - switched from unhealthy food to absolutely 100% clean food.
* Switched from doing nothing to 7 days of sport per week. 3 hours per day. (yes, you've read that right)

Principles:
Stopped drinking alcohol at work (DJs tend to party and drink....)
Drink water and green tea only
Eating 1.5 kg / 3.3 lb vegetables per day
Eating 1 kg / 2,2 lb fish and lean meat per day
4-5 eggs per day.
500 gram / 1.1 lb cottage cheese / lean quark/curts per day (whatever the English translation might be)
Not using oliv oil anymore for cooking.
Not using salt
Not eating fruit (carbs)
Not eating bread, rice, pasta
1 multivitamine & mineral pill per day
1 magnesium & calcium tablet per day
Eat 6x per day with max 3 hours in between.

Sport Notes:
* 60 minutes interval-training running. 5-14.5 km/h (3-9 mp/h) around 2 minutes for straight 60 minutes.
or
* 30 minutes Higher Interval training running 6 - 9.9 mp/h around 2 minutes.
* 1 to 1.5 hour of strength training.
* 0.5 hour of light cardio or sometimes i skip this.

Results:
* mental health, it feels great.
* amazing noticeable body transformation results. nice benefit as well
* losing fat at an amazing rate. 3.08 lb per week. constructively, no crash diet.

And I tend to step up my game by doing High Interval Training combined with strength.

Too many years I lived a bit unhealthy. Somehow I was aware of that but didn't took any action.

And now, I'm very happy I did.

Life is more fun eating healthy and being healthy. Hope my story inspire others. Feel free to add me as a friend. I'd like to stay in touch with like-minded, it'll keep each other motivated

Alkirra

I've cooked from scratch for many years, I'm fact in The 1980's I was involved In pioneering the organic foods market, threw growing organics on a farm and writing articles for grass roots magazine.
I still eat clean and I still cook from scratch. In my life it was ageing and not expending enough energy to what I was eating and drinking. (Drinks meaning alcohol and soda/ soft drink / wine). Food means al acart'e with no mind for how much cheese to get the flavour happening or how much oil was needed to make it ll happen. A conscious and yet unconscious cook.

Loosening my waist line and getting fitter has become another passion and I think I've succeeded.

I've lost 30 kilo / 66 pounds I've just turned 50 and I feel great! I eat clean 85 % of any one day and every day counts toward a lifetime. good luck I hope you can do what I have done, you won't regret it!

Jen800

I eat "clean" and have lost 41 pounds in around 6-8 months or so, but I've been plateaued for quite a bit.

But to me "clean" means no/very little processed carbohydrates, artificial anything, etc. It does not mean I don't eat meat, greek yogurt, etc. I try to follow the "outside of the store" rule as well as read every ingredient in the things I put in my body.

I DO eat junk food occasionally, especially if I go to a restaurant. I am not paying 12 dollars to eat a wilty salad. Those are the days when I let my hair down, but I also know that I will be right back to clean eating the next day. Doing this helps me to avoid any type of "binge" eating and continues to never make me feel like I'm dieting or can't enjoy myself. I also have NEVER missed a day of logging and am sure to hit my macros.

Edit: I should also add in the EMOTIONAL benefit of clean eating. You feel WONDERFUL by viewing food as fuel, seeing what energizes you and what doesn't, etc. By clean eating I felt like I actually had purpose, that I wasn't just wasting planetary space (A little extreme, I know.. ha) but it really changed my outlook on life.