OUT OF POCKET OUT OF MIND?

Let us begin this first blog on the SAFE side, well health-wise. We are still relatively early into the year and our bodies HAVE NOT, I repeat HAVE NOT recovered from the foodie syndrome that came with the holiday season. EATING CLEAN made it to most of our New Year's resolutions and Njaanuary deemed it great to eat out our brains ey... GOOD NEWS is that we can use our empty pockets to our advantage during these post-holiday foodie blues. Guzzling French wine and devouring an aged T-bone steak from prime cuts is definitely out of question and MAMA MBOGA will subsequently get "TRUMPED'",.no?

What is EATING CLEAN? Simplified, eating clean means stripping your diet of nutritionally meaningless foods. This means no fatty, fried,processed or sugary stuff. In comes the WHOLE FOODS.

Why? If you eat processed foods, they are pretty much already "broken down" for you, so the time it takes to digest a french fry will be waaaaaayyy quicker than the time it takes to digest a baked or boiled sweet potato with skin. Makes sense? These "bad foods" also usually have a TON of sugar, sodium and presevatives that make them quite addictive. if you try to ween yourself out of these though your taste buds will rewire themselves so as you will not want them anymore. It will take at least 2 weeks for that but YES WE CAN! Tasting WHOLE, real food is so much more satisfying in comparison to eating food hiding behind a blanket of nutritionally unavailable junk. Did you know that eating clean actually means you can EAT MORE??? That's right, eat MORE on LESS calories. How amazing is that. Who doesn't love eating? Ummh I do, and if i can eat more, gosh darnit, I will!

So how do you EAT CLEAN? EASY... See below:

HOW TO START EATING CLEAN:

1. Stop eating anything fried, sugary, and processed
2. Start eating a ton more veggies and lean protein
3. Eat things in their whole form! Fresh fruits, veggies, real meat (not patties and chicken nuggets)
4. Replace refined carbs (like white rice) with whole grains (brown rice)
5. Drink tons and tons of water to stay hydrated
6. Eat 5 times a day. If this is not possible, it is OK to do 3 a day, but just make sure each meal is balanced
7. Make and take with you as many meals as you can,so as not be swayed by temptation

See, EASY as pie, right? Well i hope you learnt something, or if you already knew that, i hope it motivates you to start the EAT CLEAN lifestyle.