Looking for clean eaters
sharitapita
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Hi there! I have been actively using MFP for 557 days, but who's counting? 
I have lost about 40 pounds, but have been hovering around this number for about 10 months now. I exercise 4-6 days a week and count all of my calories. After watching a lot of food documentaries, I have come to believe that processed sugar and carbs may be to blame. I eat pretty healthy, but have a sweet tooth. I thought allowing myself a treat a day within my calories wouldn't hinder my weight loss, but I think that may be the problem. I have been transitioning to clean eating over the past few weeks or so. I have made changes like switching my sweeteners to stevia or honey when making a "treat" and using natural nut butters (and making my own sometimes!). I am hoping all of these little changes will impact my weight loss. I am trying not to focus on the number, and realize that no matter what, I'm a healthier version of myself. I haven't given up and gained the weight back. I haven't stopped exercising or counting calories.
I have some great friends on MFP who are supportive and active. I get discouraged when I see their continued weight loss and they aren't eating nearly as healthy as I am, so I'm looking for other users who eat clean to help motivate me and to exchange tips and recipes with. If you are one of those people, please add me and include a message that you read this post. (I had been adding anyone who asked, but it seems there are quite a few friend hoarders on here, lol). Look forward to hearing from you!
I have lost about 40 pounds, but have been hovering around this number for about 10 months now. I exercise 4-6 days a week and count all of my calories. After watching a lot of food documentaries, I have come to believe that processed sugar and carbs may be to blame. I eat pretty healthy, but have a sweet tooth. I thought allowing myself a treat a day within my calories wouldn't hinder my weight loss, but I think that may be the problem. I have been transitioning to clean eating over the past few weeks or so. I have made changes like switching my sweeteners to stevia or honey when making a "treat" and using natural nut butters (and making my own sometimes!). I am hoping all of these little changes will impact my weight loss. I am trying not to focus on the number, and realize that no matter what, I'm a healthier version of myself. I haven't given up and gained the weight back. I haven't stopped exercising or counting calories.I have some great friends on MFP who are supportive and active. I get discouraged when I see their continued weight loss and they aren't eating nearly as healthy as I am, so I'm looking for other users who eat clean to help motivate me and to exchange tips and recipes with. If you are one of those people, please add me and include a message that you read this post. (I had been adding anyone who asked, but it seems there are quite a few friend hoarders on here, lol). Look forward to hearing from you!
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Can I just say think carefully whether you really wnat to use the phrase clean eating as a lot of posters get very excited by anyone who uses that term. You should define what you mean by clean eating as you understand it and to head off a lot of frithing at the mouth.
Good luck on the cleaning. Hope you like gifs.0 -
sharitapita wrote: »Hi there! I have been actively using MFP for 557 days, but who's counting? I have lost about 40 pounds, but have been hovering around this number for about 10 months now. I exercise 4-6 days a week and count all of my calories. After watching a lot of food documentaries, I have come to believe that processed sugar and carbs may be to blame. I eat pretty healthy, but have a sweet tooth. I thought allowing myself a treat a day within my calories wouldn't hinder my weight loss, but I think that may be the problem. I have been transitioning to clean eating over the past few weeks or so. I have made changes like switching my sweeteners to stevia or honey when making a "treat" and using natural nut butters (and making my own sometimes!). I am hoping all of these little changes will impact my weight loss. I am trying not to focus on the number, and realize that no matter what, I'm a healthier version of myself. I haven't given up and gained the weight back. I haven't stopped exercising or counting calories.
I have some great friends on MFP who are supportive and active. I get discouraged when I see their continued weight loss and they aren't eating nearly as healthy as I am, so I'm looking for other users who eat clean to help motivate me and to exchange tips and recipes with. If you are one of those people, please add me and include a message that you read this post. (I had been adding anyone who asked, but it seems there are quite a few friend hoarders on here, lol). Look forward to hearing from you!
Not to be Debbie Downer - but have another look on what you just wrote there, and especially the bolded part
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kommodevaran wrote: »sharitapita wrote: »Hi there! I have been actively using MFP for 557 days, but who's counting? I have lost about 40 pounds, but have been hovering around this number for about 10 months now. I exercise 4-6 days a week and count all of my calories. After watching a lot of food documentaries, I have come to believe that processed sugar and carbs may be to blame. I eat pretty healthy, but have a sweet tooth. I thought allowing myself a treat a day within my calories wouldn't hinder my weight loss, but I think that may be the problem. I have been transitioning to clean eating over the past few weeks or so. I have made changes like switching my sweeteners to stevia or honey when making a "treat" and using natural nut butters (and making my own sometimes!). I am hoping all of these little changes will impact my weight loss. I am trying not to focus on the number, and realize that no matter what, I'm a healthier version of myself. I haven't given up and gained the weight back. I haven't stopped exercising or counting calories.
I have some great friends on MFP who are supportive and active. I get discouraged when I see their continued weight loss and they aren't eating nearly as healthy as I am, so I'm looking for other users who eat clean to help motivate me and to exchange tips and recipes with. If you are one of those people, please add me and include a message that you read this post. (I had been adding anyone who asked, but it seems there are quite a few friend hoarders on here, lol). Look forward to hearing from you!
Not to be Debbie Downer - but have another look on what you just wrote there, and especially the bolded part
Yeah... you are going to get some serious hate for that one.
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I saw it and felt it was a bit depressing. They are slow to catch on.....0
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Sorry if I wasn't clear. I just mean eating whole foods. Fruit, vegetables, whole grains. Not eating processed foods with chemical additives or fast food. Maybe I should have said healthy eaters? Lol. I don't know. Just looking for some new friends with similar diets.
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OP the reason you are not losing weight is more then like you are eating more then you think!!
Do you weigh your solid foods??....measure your liquids??
Does not matter what type of food you are eating, if you are eating in surplus you will gain if you are eating in a deficit you will lose!! You know that science thing.
ETA: Read OP:http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p10 -
sharitapita wrote: »Sorry if I wasn't clear. I just mean eating whole foods. Fruit, vegetables, whole grains. Not eating processed foods with chemical additives or fast food. Maybe I should have said healthy eaters? Lol. I don't know. Just looking for some new friends with similar diets.
You can friend me if you want. I tend to eat like that about 80% of the time. I find it just works best for me.
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If you're interested in eating healthy, and losing weight, GREAT!
Ask your questions here:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/133-clean-eating-group
folks here hate the phrase "clean eating", and will derail most any thread that talks about it.
The folks in that group can answer your questions in an educational way.
Tell them you're not losing. They'll suggest many of the same things folks here are: you're eating too many calories etc. But they'll do it while considering your goal to eat healthier foods.
Best of luck.0 -
sharitapita wrote: »I have made changes like switching my sweeteners to stevia or honey when making a "treat" !
You do realize that most honeys have as much, if not more, fructose than an equivalent amount of HFCS (and definitely more than sucrose)? It depends on the nectar the bees collect.
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Unfortunately, I can't change the title to remove the term clean eating. Sorry
I am just looking for others with similar diets. I appreciate the input, but at this time I am not really looking for other suggestions. I am transitioning to eating whole, natural foods and using natural sweeteners. A lot of the science now suggests there is a lot more to the way our body metabolizes food than "a calorie is a calorie." Regardless, it is obviously healthier to eat all whole foods, so I am giving it a go. 0 -
sharitapita wrote: »Unfortunately, I can't change the title to remove the term clean eating. Sorry I am just looking for others with similar diets. I appreciate the input, but at this time I am not really looking for other suggestions. I am transitioning to eating whole, natural foods and using natural sweeteners. A lot of the science now suggests there is a lot more to the way our body metabolizes food than "a calorie is a calorie." Regardless, it is obviously healthier to eat all whole foods, so I am giving it a go.
Join the group I linked. You'll find plenty of like minded folks there. cheers0 -
Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »sharitapita wrote: »Unfortunately, I can't change the title to remove the term clean eating. Sorry I am just looking for others with similar diets. I appreciate the input, but at this time I am not really looking for other suggestions. I am transitioning to eating whole, natural foods and using natural sweeteners. A lot of the science now suggests there is a lot more to the way our body metabolizes food than "a calorie is a calorie." Regardless, it is obviously healthier to eat all whole foods, so I am giving it a go.
Join the group I linked. You'll find plenty of like minded folks there. cheers
Thanks! I have joined 0 -
If you think eating "clean" (whatever that means) food will make you lose weight, your in for big surprise, either way good luck.sharitapita wrote: »Unfortunately, I can't change the title to remove the term clean eating. Sorry I am just looking for others with similar diets. I appreciate the input, but at this time I am not really looking for other suggestions. I am transitioning to eating whole, natural foods and using natural sweeteners. A lot of the science now suggests there is a lot more to the way our body metabolizes food than "a calorie is a calorie." Regardless, it is obviously healthier to eat all whole foods, so I am giving it a go.
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OP - processed food, sugar, carbs are not the enemy …overeating calories is…clean eating has absoluty nothing to do with weight loss…zip, zilch, nadda…
for the record, what do you define as clean?0 -
sharitapita wrote: »Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »sharitapita wrote: »Unfortunately, I can't change the title to remove the term clean eating. Sorry I am just looking for others with similar diets. I appreciate the input, but at this time I am not really looking for other suggestions. I am transitioning to eating whole, natural foods and using natural sweeteners. A lot of the science now suggests there is a lot more to the way our body metabolizes food than "a calorie is a calorie." Regardless, it is obviously healthier to eat all whole foods, so I am giving it a go.
Join the group I linked. You'll find plenty of like minded folks there. cheers
Thanks! I have joined
Great. Now walk away from this thread lol. cheers0 -
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This. As a thought experiment, if those are the issues, then why is it your friends are all continuing to lose weight while eating them, while you are stalled and not eating them?OP - processed food, sugar, carbs are not the enemy …overeating calories is…clean eating has absoluty nothing to do with weight loss…zip, zilch, nadda…
for the record, what do you define as clean?
I think you've been watching too many documentaries. Food documentaries are less fact driven, and more agenda/profit driven.0 -
u wot: I get discouraged when I see their continued weight loss and they aren't eating nearly as healthy as I am
It is all about calories in vs calories out. But eating like *kitten* will catch up to some people if it done on the regular basis. Plateaus happen for many reasons. If you have been dieting for a while, keep in mind that you need to constantly be updating your TDEE as the calories you need at a higher weight will change at a lower weight. Additionally, some people start out with such a large deficit that it is no longer viable to cut calories to continue weight loss.
Lastly, increasing calories a bit for one day every 1-2 weeks depending on bodyfat for a refeed will only aid your progress not hinder it as it will reset leptin levels and keep you sane. This doesnt mean to increase your calories to a point where you blow out your weekly deficit. That is where some fall into a cyclical cycle of maintaining a deficit the whole week then eating it all back in one cheat day.
In my opinion these are the most common things that lead to stagnant weight loss.0 -
OP what sort of deficit are you running and not losing on? Excluding and then including exercise.
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »If you're interested in eating healthy, and losing weight, GREAT!
Ask your questions here:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/133-clean-eating-group
folks here hate the phrase "clean eating", and will derail most any thread that talks about it.
The folks in that group can answer your questions in an educational way.
Tell them you're not losing. They'll suggest many of the same things folks here are: you're eating too many calories etc. But they'll do it while considering your goal to eat healthier foods.
Best of luck.
Right, because only people who self-identify as "clean eaters" and who think the essence of eating healthy is eliminating whatever it is they think is "unclean" are interested in eating healthy and exchanging support for doing that. So get away from the dirty main forum as fast as possible and don't interact with people around here.
Fabulous!
And some wonder why the clean eating stuff annoys people.
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I currently have it set to lose 1.5 lbs per week. I have tried TDEE. I have tried zig-zagging my calories. I do eat back most of my exercise calories. I have a HRM to monitor my burns. I have changed my workouts fairly frequently over the past year. Currently 3-4 days a week, I usually do a DVD workout at home - PiYo, TurboFire, or Jillian Michaels. I take Zumba weekly and another class that combines intense cardio with strength training. Most days at home, I burn between 150 and 450 calories. I also walk 30-60 minutes most days (but don't typically eat back those calories). At class, between 500 and 700. I feel like I have tried just about everything. Regardless, as I mentioned, my shift in diet is just more about health and nutrition. Obviously, if it sparks weight loss, GREAT! If not, I'm thinking of visiting with a nutritionist or dietitian perhaps.OP what sort of deficit are you running and not losing on? Excluding and then including exercise.0 -
Please try to keep your posts positive guys. I know it is the internet and a public forum and people tend to get wrapped up in stuff, but we all have a common goal in one way or another - to be healthy. I appreciate the input you all have offered, but let's try to keep the negativity to ourselves. Thanks! 0
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Do you weigh your solid food?? That's the question of the thread.0
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I am a very dirty eater. You would not believe the stuff I put in my mouth. Or what comes out of it.0
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No, I don't have a food scale. I do measure using measuring cups. I know that it is not as accurate. Just not in the budget right now and for me, it's about sustainability and I don't see myself weighing my food forever. Perhaps it's something to consider in the future to give me a better sense of how things weigh out, but it's not feasible for the time being.Do you weigh your solid food?? That's the question of the thread.0 -
sharitapita wrote: »
No, I don't have a food scale. I do measure using measuring cups. I know that it is not as accurate. Just not in the budget right now and for me, it's about sustainability and I don't see myself weighing my food forever. Perhaps it's something to consider in the future to give me a better sense of how things weigh out, but it's not feasible for the time being.Do you weigh your solid food?? That's the question of the thread.
I got a digital food scale for $9, it's lasted for several years now.0 -
sheepotato wrote: »sharitapita wrote: »
No, I don't have a food scale. I do measure using measuring cups. I know that it is not as accurate. Just not in the budget right now and for me, it's about sustainability and I don't see myself weighing my food forever. Perhaps it's something to consider in the future to give me a better sense of how things weigh out, but it's not feasible for the time being.Do you weigh your solid food?? That's the question of the thread.
I got a digital food scale for $9, it's lasted for several years now.
This. Measuring cups aren't even really "sort of" accurate. They rely wholly on how big or small you cut something, which has a huge impact on how much food there actually is.0 -
sharitapita wrote: »
No, I don't have a food scale. I do measure using measuring cups. I know that it is not as accurate. Just not in the budget right now and for me, it's about sustainability and I don't see myself weighing my food forever. Perhaps it's something to consider in the future to give me a better sense of how things weigh out, but it's not feasible for the time being.Do you weigh your solid food?? That's the question of the thread.
Well, the essence of weight loss is the deficit and if you are not measuring accurately, you are not logging/tracking accurately and all the efforts you are making with your exercise are being underminded by that. Whole and nutritious foods are great. You will still need to weigh and measure them - accurately. Until you are willing to do that, you are doing a great disservice to yourself.
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Weighing food seems rather tedious. Seems easier to exercise everyday and not eat back your calories.0
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Ok, here's a question, and it's more of a rhetorical one than one needing an answer: you said you already lost 40 lbs but are just now transitioning to eating more whole foods - so if the carbs/processed foods are causing you to hold onto weight for the last 10 months, why didn't they prevent you from losing those initial 40 lbs? Food for thought.
Honestly, it sounds like you are not in a calorie deficit. Have you recalculated your numbers for TDEE on a site other than MFP recently to see how they compare? You don't give your stats, but your calorie burns sound high to me.
As far as the food scale, you can get one for about $10-20, and they are really helpful, especially as you get closer to goal and your margin of error shrinks. You can gain weight on a clean diet just like you can eating anything else. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with whole foods, as I eat quite a bit of them, it just sounds like the source of your weight loss frustration may lie elsewhere.0
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