A Diet Plan that Produces Results & Makes Sense
Using the Eat Clean Diet is Simple and Can Produce Great Results
It seems like everyone is looking for a way to lose weight and get healthier, especially during the summertime. Whether it's just those pesky last ten pounds, or a more significant amount of weight, the "Eat Clean" plan may be just what everyone has been searching for! Based on simple concepts of eating healthy foods, using food as fuel for the body, and exercising with weights, eating clean is becoming more popular and is featured in nearly every issue of one of the leading women's health and fitness magazines.
What is "Eating Clean?"
According to creator Tosca Reno, the eating clean lifestyle is based on some pretty simple guidelines:
- Eat a small meal every few hours; this should end up being five or six times per day.
- Meals should include lean protein and complex carbohydrates. No sugar, white flour, processed, or refined foods.
- Learn ideal portion sizes and stick with them.
- Drink tons of water every day!
- Bring a lunchbox with you filled with "clean" foods to snack on throughout the day.
Basically, clean foods are all the items that you get out of the fresh departments at your grocery store and prepare them yourself or eat them raw. Reno promises that eating foods this way provides your palate with true flavor, not supplemented by fats, preservatives, or other additives. After getting used to eating these fresh, healthy items, it will become less satisfying to eat sugar-packed, fatty foods.
Snacks like raw almonds and unsalted nuts, carrot sticks, cottage cheese, lean lunch meats, or fruits and veggies are all considered clean foods. It's a pretty simple concept, and lately its been featured in almost every issue of one of the leading women's fitness magazines - producing fantastic results.
Eating is Only Half the Battle
Of course there is no exact recipe for weight loss. Although, if you followed this plan exactly, and ate only the allowed clean foods, you would surely lose some weight. However, we all know that there is more to weight loss and getting healthy than only changing your diet. Exercise is just as important as what you eat. In order to turn your body into a machine that will burn fat and operate efficiently, you must exercise to boost your metabolism and blast calories. Muscle burns significantly more calories than fat, and another part of the whole plan is just this -- building muscle.
Wait... Women in the Weight Room?
Yes. Women have a place in the weight room. Many women think that weight training will make them big and bulky, but this is simply not true. The women you see in magazines train non-stop to look that way. For many of them, it is a profession to become a bodybuilder. For the average woman working out, she will never even come close to looking like the women that body build and compete professionally.
The fact of the matter is that if all women are doing is running on the treadmill, they are really cheating themselves. Weight and strength training are essential to a healthy body and for cranking up metabolism. The way you get a sexy, toned body is to work out with weights. Try it a few times; when you start to see the definition on your body and begin to feel better than you've ever felt, you will be hooked. Guaranteed.
Yes, it Works
Eating clean is a nice title for a plan that is really common sense. Eat wholesome foods that are rich in vitamins and minerals, prepare foods at home, don't eat processed junk food, drink lots and lots of water, and (tah-dah!) you will lose weight and become healthier. Once you're using food as a fuel for your body, add weight training into the equation, and you are almost guaranteed to be on your way to an amazing body and even better quality of life.
Sources
The Eat Clean Diet, by Tosca Reno
Oxygen Magazine
Clean Eating is Key to a Healthy LIfestyle
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