What is Clean Eating?

WHAT IS CLEAN EATING?

Eating "clean" will make life easy for your body, it it wasn't around thousands of years ago, chances are your body has no idea how to break it down and use it for energy.

Keep your diet full of food that your body is deigned to eat. As soon as you add processed foods, sugars, and chemicals to your diet, your body has no idea how to break them down so it just stores them as body fat/toxins. When it does try to break them down, it can't so your energy will become depleted and your skin will begin to show the stress from your digestive system and your body will store the food that it doesn't know how to process as body fat.

Food is fuel for your body, so the best thing you can do is switch your thoughts, think of the food you are eating as the gas you put in your car. If you slow down and get tired and grumpy after eating, that there is telling you it's the wrong foods. After eating, you should be motivated, energized and ready to rock and roll!

 There is no fitness goal which you can achieve without first cleaning up your diet. Changing your diet is one of the biggest challenges when faced with improving one's health. A majority of people are used to eating highly processed foods on a regular basis and breaking away from that can be difficult. The good news is, it isn't impossible once you make it a habit to eat clean, it becomes part of your life.

In a nutshell, eating clean is the practice of eating whole, natural foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins and complex carbohydrates. IT also means staying away from the junk that typically makes up the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.). These types of foods include man-made sugar, bad fats (hydrogenated, trans-fat), preservatives, white-bread, and any other ingredients that are unnecessary. An easy way to remember if a food is clean is: "if man made it, don't eat it."

If you are going to embrace this health challenge, then the boxed goods, canned goods and plastic shrink wrapped packages ... have to go!