Clean Eating Club ~ Dec. 3-7

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  • cherapple
    cherapple Posts: 670 Member
    Ok here i am! So today i'll blame all of u Americans for making milky way and lay's chips taste sooo gud! :laugh: It's that time of the month and i crave chips and chocolate!
    But today is a new day! I had my chocolate yesterday and I am in full going clean and excercising mode again!
    ok so a few questions! how bad is diet pepsi for me? i am addicted to it! i rarely had it until in caqme to the us and it's everywhere and sooooooo addictive! Secondly is deli meat ok as far clean eating or even in trying to lose wweight? if not what are the alternatives?
    I have never watched what i ate, it was healthy stuff all around as i was growing up! However now it's a struggle because even if i cook Pakistani meals the meat is processed or stuff tastes funny! plus it's too much work!
    So pls what are aquick easy ways to eat healthier meals? Does it make sense? I'm lost when it comes to lunch and dinner?
    I was also reading ur posts about IBS...I am not sure what it feels like but i've noticed since I ccame to the Us, i often get terrible stomach aches...often to the point where i need to find a bathroom and i'm sitting there sweating. it's a pain that feels like gas and becomes painful where i sweat and sometimes even feel lightheaded...i have hypoglycemia so maybe the lightheadeness from there but i
    have noticed i get it more if i eat out a lot...is that ibs or i'm just a lost cause! lol!
    also is there a way to make water taste gud? i drank water all the time bcoz pepsi or coke was a rare treat but now i've become 'americanised' in the sense that i like other stuff better and water tastes yucky!
    i know i sound like a crazy person but am telling u, food can really erase any and all cultural barriers! lol!
    Help me please!

    Hi, Jawaria!

    Same here on that "time of the month"! I've been feeling like a bottomless pit, I'd love some chocolate, and I can't lay off the nuts! :laugh:

    I will eat deli meat as long as it doesn't have any added sugar. I eat the leaner varieties like turkey. I can't do diet drinks because, like Jess, the chemicals give me headaches. I figure that probably saves me from some health issues that diet products can cause! :laugh:

    As for healthier lunch and dinner ideas, you can look at the kinds of things that we eat when we post our meals here. I highly recommend the Eat-Clean diet books, if you can afford them. (It might make a perfect Christmas present request! :bigsmile: )

    Sometimes I will add lemon juice to water, or you could even add a small amount of any kind of juice. Flavored Stevia is good, too, which I've done in the past. Stevia is an artificial sweetener that is supposed to be healthier, but it still bothers some people, or they don't like the taste of it. I felt like it made me thirstier in drinks, but I still like it in my oatmeal, yogurt, and hot cocoa. What about unsweetened iced herbal tea? Yum! But I prefer my water plain now.
  • sehar35
    sehar35 Posts: 23 Member
    any pakistani???
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,015 Member
    shar140 wrote: »
    Does anyone know of a "clean" (or cleaner?) alternative to sports drinks like Gatorade? It wasn't so bad before they added HFCS to the formula a few years ago (at least the powdered mix doesn't contain HFCS...yet). When I am doing heavy cardio or exercise outdoors in the summer heat, I do need it.

    I've seen a recipe to make your own from OJ, water, & salt....but that would limit my flavors to just orange! Plus...I'd have to keep it cold then, I'd think? (hard to do when you're walking in 90+ degree heat for long periods!)

    Not sure if it's considered clean but I like to make a drink of...

    24 oz water, 1 - 2 lemons squeezed and a tablespoon of honey.
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