Clean Eating

It may take months to start seeing and feeling a difference in your health and appearance. Two weeks in no where near enough time to see improvements. You might want to open your diary and let us see what you are eating since you are just starting out. Do you have any goals?

Calories are calories are calories. It's all in your head.

Calories are calories are calories. It's all in your head.

^^^This... end thread.

What does that mean, it's all in my head?

You've decided clean eating (or shakes, pills, etc) will make you feel better, and believing that makes it "true."

Well, this looks new and interesting. What could possibly go wrong with this thread?

I'd appreciate any advice that you guys could give me. I'm looking for encouragement. Thank you

What specific questions do you have?

What does that mean, it's all in my head?

they just mean that feeling a difference in your body between eating clean and not eating clean is mostly just going to be in your head... the placebo effect, if you will.

What does that mean, it's all in my head?

Don't listen to them, they've drank the Kool-aid. "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie" is bull**** that's used to justify eating unhealthily, with the justification that "it's inside my calorie limit". Food is not all the same.

Nutrients are different, yes, but calories are the same.

And Kool-Aid is not "clean."

I've always understood clean eating to mean avoiding pre-processed, packaged, additive laden foods - synonymous to the "one-ingredient" theory. It seems reasonable to me on a common-sense level that this can only be better for you. Or have I gotten something wrong here?

Unless you're going to grow your own garden/farm and eat exclusively what you raise under your sole control, clean eating is a myth. And even then, you're still consuming the chemicals used to treat your weeds/seeds, along with the "unclean" feed that your animals eat.

But hey, whatever makes people feel better, right?

What does that mean, it's all in my head?

Don't listen to them, they've drank the Kool-aid. "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie" is bull**** that's used to justify eating unhealthily, with the justification that "it's inside my calorie limit". Food is not all the same.

That's crazy talk - you are talking crazy

I've always understood clean eating to mean avoiding pre-processed, packaged, additive laden foods - synonymous to the "one-ingredient" theory. It seems reasonable to me on a common-sense level that this can only be better for you. Or have I gotten something wrong here?

Unless you're going to grow your own garden/farm and eat exclusively what you raise under your sole control, clean eating is a myth. And even then, you're still consuming the chemicals used to treat your weeds/seeds, along with the "unclean" feed that your animals eat.

But you can't deny that eating an organically grown apple is better for your body than a McDonald's apple pie, can you?
But hey, whatever makes people feel better, right?

Calories are indeed calories. You can eat a bag of M&M's for every meal and it would probably fit your calorie goal for the day. You will lose weight, absolutely. There is a physical reason that doctors tell you to eat your veggies though.

Clean eating is not going to help you lose weight besides just pointing you to foods that are less-calorie dense and more filling. It might make you feel more alert, might keep your complexion cleaner (cutting fried foods out has shown to help with things like acne), maybe help you recover a bit faster from a workout. But there isn't going to be a big noticeable change. Not right now.

The real benefit comes many, many years down the road when you are older and your body still works about as good as it did in your 20's, while everybody else might be feeling the effects of age a lot more.

I've always understood clean eating to mean avoiding pre-processed, packaged, additive laden foods - synonymous to the "one-ingredient" theory. It seems reasonable to me on a common-sense level that this can only be better for you. Or have I gotten something wrong here?

Unless you're going to grow your own garden/farm and eat exclusively what you raise under your sole control, clean eating is a myth. And even then, you're still consuming the chemicals used to treat your weeds/seeds, along with the "unclean" feed that your animals eat.

But you can't deny that eating an organically grown apple is better for your body than a McDonald's apple pie, can you?
But hey, whatever makes people feel better, right?

Depends on what I'm in the mood for. I eat an apple every day (my diary is open and fair game), AND I eat something "equivalent" to a McDonald's apple pie (I find them a little on the small and molten side). Yesterday I ran for 12 miles and had a Kit Kat and a chocolate Easter bunny, and my skin is **still** glowing and radiant, and all that other feelgood nonsense clean eaters profess. I don't deny myself what I want due to irrational food dogma.