question : will eating clean help me to lose weight faster

Does eating clean have some advantages over just simple calorie counting?

Well do you want to change? if yes then begin to re-educate yourself, faze out processed food, and eat fresh local home cooked food,
avoid cakes and chocolate and eat fruit nuts seeds etc. Eat the way people did in the 1950s and be generally very active. Aim to be a better stronger version of you, one step, one day at a time, Understand the habits that got you here and set to work on building new healthy eating and exercise habits. Above all 'DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHERS' this is your journey, learn to love you self, do it your way.

Good luck

Why?
Why can't I eat cake and chocolate?

Did anyone tell you you couldn't?

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If you have a problem with Junk food, Triggering cravings, or not being able to control you eating when it comes to certain foods, than taking them out of your diet, may be your key to success.

I dont class wholemeal Pasta and rice as unclean foods?! However i do class poptarts as unclean.

Tell me what constitutes "unclean".
What makes a Pop Tart unclean?

Eating clean is simply the practice of avoiding processed and refined foods and basing your diet on whole foods (poptarts are not whole foods and are overly processed, wholegrain pasta and rice are 'whole' foods.

Maybe we should agree to disagree and you can eat your poptarts happily

Faster, no. But it could make it easier to eat mostly whole nutritious food that tend to make you feel full and keep you from going over unless you have great discipline.
Plus for many they just feel better and have more energy when they eat that way. I look at is as if you can eat "clean" for the most part, then you dont have to worry over and sweat about that piece of pie or ice cream.

This. I do notice a difference in my running and overall energy levels when I eat better. And for all I know, it could simply be the placebo effect. I feel like I'm doing something better for my body so therefore I feel better. Either way, calorie deficit is the big key to weight loss.

Read the quoted text.

I did. Perhaps it would help you on a re-read of the text if I specified who wrote what.

A person asked a question about clean eating, he got an answer from someone about clean eating, and encourages them to "do it their way". An uninvolved third party felt the need to ask why someone was telling him why he can't eat cake or chocolate -- which, of course, no one did, because no one was talking to him.

(miller0438) Does eating clean have some advantages over just simple calorie counting?

(alwayskungfu)Well do you want to change? if yes then begin to re-educate yourself, faze out processed food, and eat fresh local home cooked food,
avoid cakes and chocolate and eat fruit nuts seeds etc. Eat the way people did in the 1950s and be generally very active. Aim to be a better stronger version of you, one step, one day at a time, Understand the habits that got you here and set to work on building new healthy eating and exercise habits. Above all 'DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHERS' this is your journey, learn to love you self, do it your way.

Good luck

(MrM27)
Why?
Why can't I eat cake and chocolate?

(me)
Did anyone tell you you couldn't?

Clean eating is better for your overall health. There is no argument about this, and if you argue, you're just being a douche.

Well that escalated quickly. I guess I'm a douche then. Oh well.

You too, eh? Whateves. You guys have it wrong. A diet of Doritos and bud light will not help you in anyway.

You'll die more quickly on a diet of broccoli than a diet of frozen pizza.

See how dumb it is to jump straight to "a diet of nothing but xxx food"?

Especially considering you can get broccoli on a pizza, but can't get pizza on broccoli. I'll stick with the pizza diet.

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Clean eating is better for your overall health. There is no argument about this, and if you argue, you're just being a douche.

I'll argue it. It's nonsense.

Now call me a douche.

Then I would also guess he would get really pissed at me if I asked if eating tofu stored in PVC containers is considered eating clean?

How about drinking wheat grass from a styrofoam cup?

Sorry, cant help being a douche.

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Read the quoted text.

I did. Perhaps it would help you on a re-read of the text if I specified who wrote what.

A person asked a question about clean eating, he got an answer from someone about clean eating, and encourages them to "do it their way". An uninvolved third party felt the need to ask why someone was telling him why he can't eat cake or chocolate -- which, of course, no one did, because no one was talking to him.

(miller0438) Does eating clean have some advantages over just simple calorie counting?

(alwayskungfu)Well do you want to change? if yes then begin to re-educate yourself, faze out processed food, and eat fresh local home cooked food,
avoid cakes and chocolate and eat fruit nuts seeds etc. Eat the way people did in the 1950s and be generally very active. Aim to be a better stronger version of you, one step, one day at a time, Understand the habits that got you here and set to work on building new healthy eating and exercise habits. Above all 'DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHERS' this is your journey, learn to love you self, do it your way.

Good luck

(MrM27)
Why?
Why can't I eat cake and chocolate?

(me)
Did anyone tell you you couldn't?

Ah. I see. You just like to argue and will argue about anything and everything because you're probably bored.

Note made.

Read the quoted text.

I did. Perhaps it would help you on a re-read of the text if I specified who wrote what.

A person asked a question about clean eating, he got an answer from someone about clean eating, and encourages them to "do it their way". An uninvolved third party felt the need to ask why someone was telling him why he can't eat cake or chocolate -- which, of course, no one did, because no one was talking to him.

(miller0438) Does eating clean have some advantages over just simple calorie counting?

(alwayskungfu)Well do you want to change? if yes then begin to re-educate yourself, faze out processed food, and eat fresh local home cooked food,
avoid cakes and chocolate and eat fruit nuts seeds etc. Eat the way people did in the 1950s and be generally very active. Aim to be a better stronger version of you, one step, one day at a time, Understand the habits that got you here and set to work on building new healthy eating and exercise habits. Above all 'DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHERS' this is your journey, learn to love you self, do it your way.

Good luck

(MrM27)
Why?
Why can't I eat cake and chocolate?

(me)
Did anyone tell you you couldn't?

Oh so what you are saying is someone posted a topic asking a general question. Someone else posted a strategy which I found issue with so I questioned it. That's where I went wrong ? Questioning something someone said in a public forum? OK, I get it now.

I could say the same to you. I questioned the person who said about chocolate. Which I'm still waiting for that person to come back and address. You decided to give your opinion which I did not ask for. See how it works both ways.

The person's answer only exists within the context of talking to someone who has already expressed an interest in clean eating. Someone asked how clean eating works, and the person described it to them. You somehow took that as an assault against people who don't follow clean eating, or a belief that what you're doing is wrong. It simply did not exist in the post you responded to.

The OP asked if clean eating has advantages. The response you're defending did not, actually, answer that question. The response told the OP that he (she?) should eat clean and how to do it.

That wasn't the question.

Healthful eating is a thing, you guys. And, it does matter. So, is enjoying food and having variety. Pizza, beer, ice cream is all part of life. But, you need to be mindful of your macros and think about health. If you don't think at all about it, why the fukc are you even on this site? Just stop being arguing douche bags and relax.

Yes, you need to be mindful of macros.

You don't need to be mindful of how "clean" your food is, unless you're talking about the absence of dirt.

He obviously didnt see your post about the data point of your health screenings.

What I am getting from some people here are that if you dont eat Doritos and drink alcohol you are somehow better than the rest of us?

I recently read The Fast Metabolism Diet (http://www.fastmetabolismdiet.com/) and according to that, eating clean WILL make you lose weight faster. It's something about how the chemicals your body needs to break down the food you eat for energy instead of storing it for fat are produced by your liver. But your liver also filters out all the toxins you eat (ie additives in food that aren't actually food), and if its busy doing that, its not making the chemicals you need to keep you from storing fat. I got the book from the library so I can't double check the exact reasoning for you, but that's the gist.