Calling Clean Eaters

I'm a clean eater and would love to help. Your body will thank you for it.

Clean eating is the way to go, to look and feel better!
Best of luck to you on this journey

what is "clean eating"?

There are so many choices for eating healthy and they for sure will make your body&mind feel beautiful forever.... :-)




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I'm Susan, and I came here because I wanted to remain accountable while maintaining a 70-lb. weight loss - something I've never been able to achieve before. So for me, maintenance is *at least* as important as weight loss was. For the past three months, I've stayed at my goal weight.

Clean eating works for me. Not only that, but my blood fats and blood sugar respond beautifully to it, dramatically so. Over time - I've been at this process for 15 months now - clean foods, especially fruit and vegetables, taste better and better to me. Especially by going to the farmer's market each week in the summer, I'm able to find delicious, appealing produce unavailable in the chain grocery stores. I'll be meeting with a dietitian (RD) in a few days to fine-tune my new way of eating, which was initially recommended by my internist.

I am a clean eater.... but occasionally cheat. Not much tho... only since I hit my goal. That said, it is the way to go, you feel so mych better. Look into the cookbook " The Best of Clean Eating". Also the magazines "Clean Eating" and "Eating Well", "Whole Living " is not too bad but there are a lot of adds.

Some things I will not give in on and eat tho is artificial sweeteners, any thing containing Potassium Benzoate, Sodium Benzoate, Calcium Benzoate, Nitrates, High Fructose Corn Syrup, BHA, Blue, green, red and yellow colorings, palm oil, and MSG. There are others, just do a little but of research. Jillian Michaels is a very clean eater she has a lot of info.

what is "clean eating"?

Avoiding anything processed and junk food. You will get several answers, but eat things that are in their natural state or very close to it.

I'm almost a true vegan and I eat mainly organic food. The key is to make incremental changes so your body doesn't freak out.

I see, I try to eat things that have only real ingredients in them. If I have never heard of it and it sounds like a chemical, I don't like to eat it. Being on an extremely tight budget means there are some less natural things in my fridge and cupboards but I agree that eating things that are "real" is definatly better. I told someone the other day that if she wants whipped cream on her strawberries, use actual whipped cream and not cool whip. Even the "lite" is nothing but chemical mess. I think it's better to eat a bit of sugar and fat from actual food then to use fake food to save some calories. Is this kinda what clean eating is about?

Also, staying away from sugar, other than in fruit and diary is included in clean eating. Sugar is a death sentence, but it's very hard to get away from it as it is in a lot of food.

I try to eat clean when I am doing well. The effect on my body - energy, etc is fantastic. I always feel so much better the cleaner I eat. I started by reading Tosca Reno's Clean Eating Diet and now read Oxygen Mag for recipes, etc.