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Clean Eating: 5 Reasons to Clean Up Your Diet…Like Weight Loss
I think clean eating is the way to go if you’re serious about losing weight and keeping it off. This isn’t rocket science and the “less is more” theory applies here — less food of a higher quality can help you lose weight.
What do I mean by clean eating? It’s a way to approach and embrace food as a lifestyle not a diet. Clean eating focuses on whole foods — fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean cuts of meat like chicken, turkey and fish. Even more, it’s all about ditching processed foods full of sugar, sodium, and artificial ingredients, which, while convenient, do a number on our bodies, sabotaging weight loss efforts. Clean eating also includes buying locally grown food, limiting the impact on the environment and drinking copious amounts of water.
So here are 5 reasons to clean up your diet that I think are compelling and have me sold on it as a lifestyle:
- You will feel a world better when you ditch processed foods. Your natural energy levels will increase and you’ll have more focus to do the things you love.
- You will lose weight and keep it off. We all know diets don’t work, this is about adapting your lifestyle. When you invest the time to do it consistently, you will see a difference.
- You will save money! Clean foods (thinks beans, whole grains, etc.) can actually cost less. By creating a weekly plan and choosing foods like whole grains that aren’t expensive but are super nutritious, you can save some dough. Meat isn’t cheap and it’s not that healthy either. When you clean things up, you’ll spend less (the key is in the planning).
- You will get to know and appreciate your body. Our bodies really weren’t meant to be garbage cans, yet many of us treat them that way by abusing them with the wrong kind of foods. When you eat clean and start to feel better, it opens up all kinds of possibilities to take better care of yourself.
- You will inspire others to action. By making healthy changes, increasing your energy and feeling better, others will take note. What’s better than losing a few pounds and being able to tell your friends and family you did it in a healthy way? Be a weight loss and clean eating role model!
What have you done lately to clean up your eating? How has that helped you lose weight and keep it off? What possibilities exist for you if you adopted a cleaner way to eat and live?
Wendy Battles, aka the Clean Eating Coach, helps busy men and women, and their families, to ditch junk food, embrace eating clean, whole foods and plan quick, healthy and delicious meals that won’t break the bank. Visit her at www.DontWorryGetHealthy.com.
