Our church is doing a Biggest Loser contest. The nutrition part is encouraging everyone to "eat clean". Basically, if God didn't make it, don't eat it. Having never watched Biggest Loser, I wasn't familiar with eating clean.

I did some research on the internet and it sure sounds healthy, lots of veggies, fruit, etc. Any one familiar with eating clean have any tips?

TIA!
PattyLen

I watch the Biggest Loser, but never seen any mention of eating like this. Very interesting.

Perhaps this is a referral to clean foods vs. unclean foods, like kosher vs. not. I don't know.

For health reasons, I've had to change my eating habits drastically in the last three and four months, and I'm so glad I did it. My skin cleared up, I lost weight, the age spots on my face even started to fade. Weird symptoms that I thought were psychological have cleared up, too. I had to go way beyond what I assume your church is doing because I couldn't have yeast or fungi or sugar. But I'm so glad I did it!

It's really not that hard to do when you stop and think it through. You can make this a really fun thing, a built-in excuse to try new foods and recipes, and seeing the changes in yourself when you stop eating processed foods is fascinating.

Good luck on your project!
Deanna

Clean eating involves not eating processed foods. I am currently reading "12 Steps to Raw Foods". Quite interesting!

sounds like organic or natural foods- you can't go wrong with that!

Yes I've heard of this, not in the same context though. It's basically eating veggies raw (and they taste great), not eating anything white such as white sugar, white flour, white pasta/rice, etc and instead eating rye bread or brown bread, wholewheat pasta/rice/flour. Things like that. I did it for a while and felt so good but then got back on the junk food van.

On the subject of raw veggies (which I just LUV!!!), I was doing some research on underactive thyroid (I have one) and read that some veggies should not be eaten raw ... they should be cooked (cauliflower and broccoli, to name 2). Again, this was advice for folks with underactive thyroids and I'm not yet sure if it's the home remedy opinion or medical advice .... still researching.

There's also an "Eat Clean Diet" by Tosca Reno..she's got cookbooks and rules and what not. Why not just eat healthy and exercise? (The correct number of grains, fruits & vegs, fats, protein, etc...)...Keep in mind that to lose 1 lbs. a week you need to cut back your daily caloric intake by 500.

My nutritionist showed me this wicked website www.eatracker.ca (it's Canadian, created by the Dieticians of Canada...i'm assuming the US has a similar website).

I just eat healthy and excercise...no diets, no nothing....If you are going to follow any type of rule follow the 80/20 rule. 80% of the time eat what you are supposed to... I do, however, eat as much organic food as I can.