A lot of people refer to their diets nowadays as "eating clean" but I am not sure if everyone understands this term. Eating clean obviously doesn't mean that we wash our food before we cook it or eat it, because we obviously nobody eats "dirty" food (nobody I know. So what do we mean by eating clean?
Eating clean is referred to as consuming meals that are low on glycemic load (GL) meaning that they affect our glycemic levels causing us to feel hungry and unsatisfied shortly after we eat. These foods are not only good to lose weight, but to keep weight off permanently. A few years ago someone recommended the book The Glycemic Index Diet by Rick Gallop.
It is a great book to learn about clean eating, it is easy to read, follow, and understand. It highlights in red the foods to ovoid, yellow the ones that we can eat but rarely, and the foods that we can eat all the time in green. So if you are still new to clean eating, get yourself a copy on Amazon used for less then $5. If you don't want to get your own book yet, there are a lot of websites like this one that list the foods that we can eat while eating clean.
Understanding that changing our habits will take from our will power, and that the first 3 days of eating clean we might feel headaches, difficulty focusing, and maybe a bit irritable. Please know that it is all normal as our bodies are learning to function on clean eating. After the first week, you will feel energized and better than ever! So stay strong, and do not give up when you get those sugar cravings, that will go away only if you don't cheat.
Sample clean foods:
Egg whites
Cottage cheese (fat free)
Skim milk
Whey protein powder
All bran
Old fashioned oatmeal
Whole wheat bread
Grapefruit
Oranges
Grapes
Pears
Almonds
Olive oil
Lima beans
Peas
Blackeyed peas
Lentils
Teas without sugar
Brown rice
Nonfat and sugarfree yogurt
The book gives you a whole list of things that can be replaced by good foods. Remember that the most important part of sculpting our bodies relies on our diets!
Happy 4th of July!
Eating clean is referred to as consuming meals that are low on glycemic load (GL) meaning that they affect our glycemic levels causing us to feel hungry and unsatisfied shortly after we eat. These foods are not only good to lose weight, but to keep weight off permanently. A few years ago someone recommended the book The Glycemic Index Diet by Rick Gallop.
It is a great book to learn about clean eating, it is easy to read, follow, and understand. It highlights in red the foods to ovoid, yellow the ones that we can eat but rarely, and the foods that we can eat all the time in green. So if you are still new to clean eating, get yourself a copy on Amazon used for less then $5. If you don't want to get your own book yet, there are a lot of websites like this one that list the foods that we can eat while eating clean.
Understanding that changing our habits will take from our will power, and that the first 3 days of eating clean we might feel headaches, difficulty focusing, and maybe a bit irritable. Please know that it is all normal as our bodies are learning to function on clean eating. After the first week, you will feel energized and better than ever! So stay strong, and do not give up when you get those sugar cravings, that will go away only if you don't cheat.
Sample clean foods:
Egg whites
Cottage cheese (fat free)
Skim milk
Whey protein powder
All bran
Old fashioned oatmeal
Whole wheat bread
Grapefruit
Oranges
Grapes
Pears
Almonds
Olive oil
Lima beans
Peas
Blackeyed peas
Lentils
Teas without sugar
Brown rice
Nonfat and sugarfree yogurt
The book gives you a whole list of things that can be replaced by good foods. Remember that the most important part of sculpting our bodies relies on our diets!
Happy 4th of July!
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