Clean eating

Following on from my previous post, I thought I should just give you all my take on what 'clean eating' means to me. I know we all hear this word being tossed around social media, but what does it really mean? Many people think that clean eating means just eating greens and smoothies. This is NOT true.

My understanding of clean eating is having a BALANCED diet incorporating proteins, carbohydrates, and yes, FATS! Eating small amounts of fats is so so important to maintain a healthy and balanced diet. Healthy fats such as peanut butter, avocados, dark chocolate (my absolute favourite) are all perfect examples of what should be included in your diet!

The things that you should be limiting and ultimately excluding from your diet (in my point of view) are saturated fats and processed foods! These include your chocolate bars, takeaway foods, chips, a lot of different spreads, butter, oils etc.! So many unnecessary calories and fats in these foods that your body just does not want or need to ingest. 

When I consider 'clean eating' this is what I will include in my diet:

• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Limited amounts of pasta
• Proteins (I mainly get my proteins from chicken - yummmy) 
• Dark chocolate
• Peanut butter
• Porridge 
• Protein pancakes
• Green tea or any herbal tea
• Salads
• Smoothies (personal fave is the original strawberry and banana!)
• Occassional cheat meals (MODERATION IS KEY)
• Rye bread

That's all I can think of right now, but trust me clean eating is purely about MODERATION, PREPARATION and BALANCE. You don't have to restrict yourself from your favourite treats, as long as the rest of your diet is clean and well-balanced, as well as your exercise routine - all is well! Just because you want that good summer body, doesn't mean you get to miss out the best things in life - such as chocolate!! From just one week of clean eating, as listed above, I lost 2.9% body fat!!! It just shows you how important nutrition is during your fitness journey :)

If you have any questions about your nutrition, post them below and i'll get back to you :) 

Remember - the key to your ideal body is 80% diet, 20% fitness!