"cLeAn EaTiNg" and why it sucked for me 😫

Here’s the truth about clean eating 😬 It much as it helps people, I want you to see it for what it really is.

You generally lose weight because…

- the food groups you’re now eating from are without sugar (which may make you overeat because it makes things taste so damn good)

- the food you’re eating is lower in calories

- the food you’re eating is less appealing, so you won’t eat as much

- you’re in a super disciplined mindset to ‘eat clean’ and take your fitness serious, so your compliance levels are very high which puts over into your training and physical activity levels too.

I love what clean eating does for people to ‘whip them in shape’ in a pretty quick time frame but I’ve also had people come to me saying, "I’m eating clean and still not losing weight, help 😩".

That’s because no matter how clean you eat, if you eat too much you won’t lose weight. You’ll even gain weight. Even if it’s from broccoli, kale, avocado, brown rice and chicken breast.

Which brings me to a question I have for you…

If you eat clean and don’t lose weight, how do you lose weight? Do you ‘eat cleaner’?

The answer is… no.

This is when your need to track calories to actually see how many calories you’re eating because it’s too much for you lose weight on, so you need to reduce it in order to create a calorie deficit to lose weight.

Eating clean is a great reset for people but also a pretty unsustainable way of eating (without ice cream 🍦).

Don’t forget, you can eat ice cream and lose weight. You can eat sugar and lose weight. You can eat tasty good food like pizza and lose weight. Just try and make it approximately 20% of your diet and get the other 80% form nutritious ‘clean’ foods.

The 80/20 rule, works a treat 🍕

I say it works a treat because I use to be stuck in cyclical bing eating and had no way out and clean eating helped me but also done me over.

Clean foods helped me feel full but a whole diet of it, for me, made me feel deprived and want to cave in and eat everything in sight.

Remember it doesn't have to be one or the other, which is where I think the 80/20 rule (flexible dieting) wins.

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