Is gluten free cous cous a 'clean' food?

Can you tell explain the definition of clean food?

What's "unclean" about carbs?

Hate to break it to you but cous cous is pasta. Nothing clean about pasta. Nothing dirty about it either. Eat what you want, and you'll lose as long as you're within your calorie goals.

Agreed!

http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/Gluten-Free-Grains/fl/Is-Couscous-Gluten-Free.htm

Unless you have Celiac disease or gluten intolerance, there's no reason to limit how many carbs you're eating. It won't make you lose weight any faster to cut out or down on carbs.

Just maintain a calorie deficit, either through diet and/or exercise, and you'll lose weight.

I eat both quinoa and cous cous on a regular basis and wouldn't say cous cous in unhealthy but it is not the same and not really a substitute for quinoa as they are different foods entirely. I prefer quinoa as it has more protein but I like both so I eat both. If you are trying to limit your carbs then you could just adjust other meals to keeps your carbs in check overall and still eat cous cous for one of your meals.

It is a fair point that a deficit is a deficit but at the same time, I don't agree that limiting carbs doesn't help with weight loss as for me personally, if i up my protein and fat and reduce my carbs, over the course of a couple of weeks I will see much faster results than if I ate the same calories but with higher carbs and less protein and fat.

Hate to break it to you but cous cous is pasta. Nothing clean about pasta.

Oh really? I didn't know. Thank you. Straight for the bin then.

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Really hope OP is messing with us.

Unless you have Celiac disease or gluten intolerance, there's no reason to limit how many carbs you're eating. It won't make you lose weight any faster to cut out or down on carbs.

Just maintain a calorie deficit, either through diet and/or exercise, and you'll lose weight.

I eat both quinoa and cous cous on a regular basis and wouldn't say cous cous in unhealthy but it is not the same and not really a substitute for quinoa as they are different foods entirely. I prefer quinoa as it has more protein but I like both so I eat both. If you are trying to limit your carbs then you could just adjust other meals to keeps your carbs in check overall and still eat cous cous for one of your meals.

It is a fair point that a deficit is a deficit but at the same time, I don't agree that limiting carbs doesn't help with weight loss as for me personally, if i up my protein and fat and reduce my carbs, over the course of a couple of weeks I will see much faster results than if I ate the same calories but with higher carbs and less protein and fat.

That's because carbs = water retention and higher glycogen storage. Any extraneous weight loss or gain you experience from cutting them out/down or eating them again is artificial.

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