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Eating Clean – the Dirty Truth

Throughout many of my blogs I talk about eating “clean” and this seems to always generate questions about what I mean by “clean”. Eating clean is a lot more than eating good nutritious food; it’s also about when you eat and your food combinations. Here is my checklist of the three things you need to do to truly eat clean.

Eating Whole Unprocessed Food – this is where reading labels are so important and specifically reading the ingredients. The ingredients should be nothing other than what you are intending to eat. Eating certified organic food is a great start but there can still be preservatives and fillers which can throw you off of eating clean. And, watch those sodium levels.

Eat Small and Often – timing is a big part of eating clean. Spreading your calories throughout the day ensures a higher metabolism and a much lesser chance of storing body fat. Eating small amounts of good nutritious food is much easier for your body to break down and process for energy.

Eating Good Food Combinations – this is the one where many people make mistakes.  Overall, you should shoot for 50% carbohydrates, 20% protein, and 30% fat. This is a general guideline and will fluctuate per individual and according to your weight loss goals. A good rule of thumb is to shoot for making half your plate fruits and vegetables and use the percentages I listed above during most of your meals. If you are trying to lose weight, greatly reduce or eliminate carbohydrates from your dinner.

To truly eat clean takes a lot of dedication and knowing that it’s about a lot more than just the food you eat. You can still become unhealthy by eating good food if you eat too much, too often, or in the wrong combinations. Your body and especially your heart love you when you give it clean fuel to run; Keep it clean, rev it up, and run like the wind.

Weighing Your Options

When it comes to managing your weight, it really comes down to making more good eating choices than bad choices. Now, if only it were that easy. We all know that the opportunities to eat bad food, fast food, and too much food are literally around every corner. With all of this convenience to make bad eating choices, we need to weigh our options before we make that bad eating choice that is going to make us feel bad for eating poorly. Before you drive through that fast food restaurant, eat way more than you should, or go crazy eating at the next party, take a second to run through this checklist.

• Is It Worth It? Are a few moments of satisfaction from eating bad food worth the despair you’re going to feel for the next several days or even weeks for making a bad choice?
• Remember When – remember how you felt the last time you made bad eating choices and how bad it made you feel. Remember asking yourself “why did I do that?”
• It All Adds Up – Every single choice you make adds up over the long run. If your good eating choices outweigh your bad eating choices, great things will happen; keep the scale in your favor.
• Be Honest and Be Accountable – journal your food, both good and bad. But, write down EVERYTHING you eat and drink and be honest with yourself by leaving nothing out. This leads to accountability and can help you make the good outweigh the bad. Read your journal often and make a point to review it often.

Weight management is a part of life. It is different for all of us and some of us have a lot tougher time than others at being successful at having and maintaining a healthy body weight. Whatever your challenges may be with your weight, constantly remind yourself of how good it feels when you make the right food choices, especially when that choice was made in the face of temptation.  And, take another step to where you really want to be and smile.

The Heat Is On; The Truth About Burning Body Fat

It seems without a doubt that everyone involved in various forms of exercise all have one definite goal in common; to lose body fat. At the same time, it is very obvious as to why many people are confused and misled when it comes to understanding and knowing how to lose body fat in a healthy way. For this very reason, I have listed the three essential variables you must employ and provide for your body to truly lose body fat and keep it off.

1.) Feed the Muscle – A big mistake many people make when trying to lose weight and body fat is they cut too many calories across the board. The first thing you should do is make sure you are getting plenty of good clean protein to support your muscles which should be about 1-1.5 grams per pound of body weight. Next, do not eliminate complex carbohydrates from your diet. On a molecular level, protein needs complex carbohydrates to truly build and maintain lean muscle mass. And, make sure you are getting plenty of good unsaturated fats in your diet. Every cell in your body relies on good fats to support your cell health and your immune system. Do Not Starve Your Body; Feed It.

2.) Time Your Eating – Eat smaller and more often. When your body has too much food at once, your digestive processing slows down and so will your metabolism. Eating smaller amounts of food 4-5 times a day every 3-4 hours will ensure a higher metabolism and will keep your body from storing more fat. Also, reduce calories at the end of your day (dinner) and omit starchy complex carbohydrates and fruit, and eat a very small amount of good clean unsaturated fat. Stick with clean protein and green vegetables for dinner.

3.) Avoid Over Training – I see this all of the time, people doing way too much exercise. When you over train, your body will actually reduce the amount of fat it burns because it senses a physical threat and will reserve body fat for the very high energy needs you have placed upon it. Not only for the energy you need to exercise, but also the energy your body needs for basic functions and blood support.

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Go ahead and turn up the heat on burning body fat, just be sure it’s body fat your truly burning.