Eat Clean Diet
The Eat Clean Diet was developed by Tosca Reno, a columnist for Oxygen Magazine. She was overweight after having three children and lacked energy to figure out how to lose the weight properly. However, she wrote this diet plan based on her personal experience of figuring how to eat clean and lose the weight for good. She is actually now a swimsuit model thanks to her own diet plan, according to the program itself.
The goal of this diet is to consume foods that are natural, meaning that they are unprocessed and whole. For example, fresh fruit is better than canned fruit, and everything that you eat can be considered clean if it’s prepared from scratch with only ‘clean ingredients’.
The Eat Clean Diet isn’t really a low calorie diet or anything, but more of a course in paying attention to the type of food that you eat. The plan offers some advice on calorie control, but it’s not what it’s all about, according to Tosca. She stresses the importance of a healthy breakfast and never skipping meals because your body will go into starvation mode and shut down your metabolism. She also encourages people to plan accordingly for eating away from home by choosing foods that travel well and being prepared. The suggested diet is 6 small meals every day, composed of clean foods only. Each meal is going to be 300-400 calories and have protein and complex carbs in order to be effective.
The Eat Clean Diet does allow for one cheat meal a week, because of the strict nature of the plan. You will have to change your entire lifestyle with this diet, not just what you eat. Fresh fruits and vegetables are perfect, as are rice, oats, and lean proteins that are fresh, not pre-packaged or chemically modified. Anything that is processed, includes refined sugar or grains, and foods that contain a lot of saturated or trans fat are big no’s on this diet plan. Any diet that is going to be effective for the long term has to take this approach. You can’t just go on a diet to lose weight and keep it off, you have to change the way you eat and adopt a new lifestyle to make any diet effective.
Exercise is a critical part of any weight loss program, and the Eat Clean Diet recommends as much activity as people can do, with at least a 30 minute weight training program three days a week. She also uses her own experiences to relate to people what works best. The book costs about $17, there is a cookbook for $20, and a DVD for $20 that you can purchase as well. Even when you buy all three, you’re spending less than $60 on a plan that focuses on eating right, which is the best way to approach weight loss for permanent results.
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Finally you guys write about the Eat-Clean Diet! I’ve tried a million different diets out there (as I’m sure most people reading have!) and have never found success they way I have by eating clean.
It was definitely not easy to switch in the beginning to eating clean, most whole or organic foods, things that aren’t processed or natural and that don’t come out of a box or have ingredients that I can’t even read on the label! But it was also one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I feel better, I look better, my skin is cleared up, and I have much more energy than ever before!
After I read Tosca’s book it was like a light bulb went off. Never have I felt or looked better and the best part is I don’t even crave bad food anymore! This was not always the case, but after cheating a couple times and not liking the feeling of indigestion or terrible acid reflux since my body is no longer use to those toxins, I don’t want to cheat!
I definitely would recommend the Eat-Clean Diet to anyone looking for a complete change, it’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle change for sure!
And one last thing of course, her recipes are delightful. Who would ever think Tofu Crème Brule would be delicious? But it is! Yum!!