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Eating Clean lunch

Wondering if we’re still Eating Clean, me too!! So, truth be told we’ve been struggling with it lately. No big surprise, it’s March 4th and most of us have fallen back into our old routines statistically speaking. I have a ton of excuses of course, we travel a lot, life’s too busy, etc. You know them. However, since I’m not one to simmer over the negatives, let’s discuss what amazing new habits have been formed from our time taking Eating Clean seriously.

1) I’m off coffee completely. Not because I ever had too many cups, I was a one cupper. I just couldn’t drink, wouldn’t drink it without lots of cream and sugar, so I’m an Herbal tea drinker now, sweetener free, hard core! And you know what, my kids like a nice cup of nicely flavored decaffeinated herbal tea with me now in the evening too:-) – Bonus!

2) We use hardly an salt. Eating Clean calls for mostly NO salt. So we had completely cut it out of our diet for a while, got used to food without it which has allowed us, mostly me, to add it back in very small amounts.

3) I love Steel Cut Oats now and eat breakfast every day! I was NOT a breakfast eater and I know it was terrible for my metabolism, but now every morning I fit it into my routine.

4) Bye-Bye sour cream, hello Plain Greek Yogurt! Even the kids!

5) Well adjusted to Whole Wheat Pasta, Yay!

6) Ezekiel Bread products are the only bread products we buy now! They are made with Living Sprouts, they are incredibly yummy & so much better than regular bread. We love their English Muffins!

There are more I’m sure, but these are the biggies, so there is always a positive and we haven’t given up completely, it just isn’t happening at every meal. Things I really need to work on: Well, exercise is at the top of that list:-)!

Well, somehow we survived the cruise. I’m not saying we stuck to our new Clean Eating program, we did not. But we didn’t go nuts either. I continued my herbal tea drinking, yes I gave up coffee to eat clean. You see, I was never an avid coffee drinker anyway, just my one cup in the morning and it had to loaded with cream and sugar. Well, no cream & sugar = no coffee, so done with that. I’m really enjoying the herbal teas, I have at least two a day, one with caffeine in the morning, at night a soothing herbal tea blend. For breakfast on the ship, we continued eating our egg white omelet filled with veggies, salsa on the side. I also found a wonderful whole grain bread I topped with lox, capers and a smidge of cream cheese (at home I use Greek yogurt cheese), squeeze of lemon, OMG, so yummy!

I tried to stick to a large salad most lunches, well, except those we spent on the islands when we ate local cuisine, I insist!

Here at the home front we are continuing to educate ourselves and experiment with healthy foods, super foods.  We have found that we all (PFkids included) really love some of the new items, and of course there have been those we don’t.  We are cleaning our produce upon arrival home from the CSE pick-up or grocery store and placing them up front & center in the fridge for easy grabbing.  The PFkids love ants on a log in their lunch, along with the Chobani yogurt.  Ezekiel bread products are a staple now, made with living sprouts, loaded with flavor and good things for the body.  We spread on a mixture of Chobani Greek yogurt combined with yummies like scallions, capers, sun-dried tomatoes, or herbs/spices, top it with sliced tomato and a side of egg whites scrambled with peppers and onion.  Or we load up our Steel Cut oats with cinnamon, warm skim milk and honey, maybe raisins or diced apples.  These are just examples of breakfast.  The kids are enjoying an Ezekiel English muffin with natural peanut butter, banana and honey.

Continuing to eat 5-6 small meals a day to keep our metabolism on high:-), lots of water with lemon and I just started a capsule a day to help cleanse my liver of toxins.  Gotta love your liver, it’s a work horse for you.

We’ll have to cover Mid Meals, Lunch and Dinner another time.  For now… Mangia!

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It was perfectly said today by my friend Raffi, “So, you’re Skinny-fat”.  Yes, I am & not happy about it.

A little about me, I’m turning 39 next month, not sedentary, but don’t work-out regularly.  It’s getting increasingly more difficult to go into the gym following a period of not going.  I’ve always been little, still am,  so when mentioning that I need to lose weight, get fit to many friends and acquaintances, they look at me like I’m nuts. Well friends, size is deceiving.

Did you know that 32% Body Fat in women is considered obese?  I didn’t, I know this is a high number, but I found out that my little Size 4-6 body currently has 31.5% Body Fat.  HUH??  I knew it would be over 26% which is what I was last time I checked it, but, REALLY??

I wasn’t planning on realizing how un-fit I truly am when PFMan and I decided to start to Eat Clean this year and get in better shape.  (See our beautifully transformed fridge below:-). We are eating lean meats/protein paired with a healthy complex carbohydrate every 6 hours.  So lots of Chicken breasts, egg whites, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, salad greens, green beans, etc.  Every morning since Sunday we have had Steel Cut Irish Oats with Flax Seeds, Wheat Germ and Bee Pollen (two tbsp each), with half an apple diced up, and two scrambled egg whites, and I’m surprisingly liking it a lot.  This hard core diet is only temporary, an extreme to help our bodies dispose of the fat faster, then we get to add in many more healthy, yummy ingredients!

Yes, I’ve also added workout to the mix. Zumba, Pilates, Cardio, met with a trainer for strength training know how, etc.  To those who know me, I may even give Yoga a run, ha.

I’ve already lost 3 pounds since Monday night!  Heading in the right direction:-).
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For more information on Clean Eating check out this websites:
The Eat-Clean diet
Eating Clean Magazine
Clean Eating Club
Oxygen Magazine for when you’re ready to hit the gym:-)

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