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Your Good Intentions For Losing Weight Can Work Against You If You Try To Eat Clean All The Time
I want to challenge your idea that weight loss is dependant on eating clean. I’ll discuss how aiming for perfection actually leads to stagnation and why going off your diet every now and again is actually a good thing and helps you build more confidence with food.
'Eating clean' is the nutrition version of 'How long is a piece of string'
It’s a term so embroiled in vaguery that it could run for parliament and get votes from everyone.I would say that 99% of my clients that I’ve worked with in the last 10 years have, at some point, said they wanted to eat clean, or have tried to eat clean to lose weight.
What is 'clean food?'
Well in this year of great things virus related, ironically clean food is probably anything you buy from the supermarket if you are wiping down everything you buy.I’m not making light of that habit by the way, many of my friends are in the shielded sector and this is normal behaviour.
Eating clean has a health halo around it.
Clean foods automatically MUST be good for losing fat. Logically, anything that is ‘natural’ and free of ‘chemicals’ must be good for our body and therefore help us lose body fat. RIGHT?‘Dirty’ foods by comparison are only good for gaining weight, or all night orgies.Whipped cream anyone?The main problem with this viewpoint is that healthy foods don’t always help with our cosmetic goals of losing body fat.
Would you say that these foods are 'clean'?
NutsAvocadoSalmonOlive OilI think most people would agree that they could be classed as clean. They are natural, contain vitamins and minerals and are full of colour. These are all foods I eat and I’m a nutritionist so I must know what I’m on about. However these foods are also quite high in calories. Too many calories can lead to weight gain. Healthy or not.It must also be said that vegetables, fruit and leaves are great low calorie clean food options which can help keep you fuller for longer.
Hold on though, I also eat cheesecake, crisps, ice cream, chocolate orange....
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By Tom BlackmanYour Good Intentions For Losing Weight Can Work Against You If You Try To Eat Clean All The Time
I want to challenge your idea that weight loss is dependant on eating clean. I’ll discuss how aiming for perfection actually leads to stagnation and why going off your diet every now and again is actually a good thing and helps you build more confidence with food.
'Eating clean' is the nutrition version of 'How long is a piece of string'
It’s a term so embroiled in vaguery that it could run for parliament and get votes from everyone.I would say that 99% of my clients that I’ve worked with in the last 10 years have, at some point, said they wanted to eat clean, or have tried to eat clean to lose weight.
What is 'clean food?'
Well in this year of great things virus related, ironically clean food is probably anything you buy from the supermarket if you are wiping down everything you buy.I’m not making light of that habit by the way, many of my friends are in the shielded sector and this is normal behaviour.
Eating clean has a health halo around it.
Clean foods automatically MUST be good for losing fat. Logically, anything that is ‘natural’ and free of ‘chemicals’ must be good for our body and therefore help us lose body fat. RIGHT?‘Dirty’ foods by comparison are only good for gaining weight, or all night orgies.Whipped cream anyone?The main problem with this viewpoint is that healthy foods don’t always help with our cosmetic goals of losing body fat.
Would you say that these foods are 'clean'?
NutsAvocadoSalmonOlive OilI think most people would agree that they could be classed as clean. They are natural, contain vitamins and minerals and are full of colour. These are all foods I eat and I’m a nutritionist so I must know what I’m on about. However these foods are also quite high in calories. Too many calories can lead to weight gain. Healthy or not.It must also be said that vegetables, fruit and leaves are great low calorie clean food options which can help keep you fuller for longer.
Hold on though, I also eat cheesecake, crisps, ice cream, chocolate orange....