An update: Clean Eating Flinger Style
Dec, 21, 2009 -- By: Mrs. Flinger
As it turns out, one can gain weight if one cooks all natural, whole, delicious home-cooked meals all the time.
Hu.
Next up? PORTION CONTROL!
Mylands but it’s so good.
I found an article I wanted to share with you. Clean Eating: Why Eating Clean Is The Unfad Diet That Works. I thought it has a pretty good run-down on the principles behind clean eating.
I’ve also decided I may need to take up another sport. Comon, folks, I’m lying to myself here. Do you really gain five pounds eating healthy? OR is it that you don’t workout as heartily as you once did and thus your calorie needs have dropped while your yummy food factor went up? I have a few friends that are in to bike racing. Manual Bike Racing, that is. As in road bikes. I don’t know if I’m one to be in to bike racing or not, but I like the idea of having a team to ride with, the easy-on-the-knee exercise and the hope that one day I can use my own two legs to get from Way Out Here to In To Town for work is a pretty neat goal to have.
I’ll let you know.
For now I might try to stay more on lines with this “sample” the article above lays out:
So under the Clean Eating approach, your meals for the day might look like this:
- Breakfast: Bowl of oatmeal with fresh fruit and scrambled egg whites with one whole egg
- Morning Snack: And apple with almond butter
- Lunch: Sliced chicken breast (from a home-cooked chicken breast, not deli lunchmeat) on Ezekiel 4:9 sprouted grain bread with lettuce and tomatoes and a side salad with olive oil and vinegar dressing
- Afternoon Snack: Low-fat, low-sugar homemade granola
- Dinner: Salmon filet with herbed brown rice and steamed asparagus in Dijon mustard sauce
- Evening Snack: Cup of low-fat cottage cheese with a handful of almonds
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Yeah, that sounds like a healthy eating plan. Hrm. Maybe I should try one of those. ;p
My problem with diets is I always end up eating a lot more than I would in my normal day to day life! So I end up gaining weight on diets! Good luck with that though! And cycling is such good exercise too - but swimming is much less like hard work. Perhaps try that?
You had me right up until the Evening Snack. My cottage cheese would have to covered in chocolate. Or rather, just skip the cottage cheese and go straight for the chocolate covered almonds. K?
Can you type that shit in English next time please? kthxbai.
Also I may be eating half a gingerbread house over the next week or so. Does your clean food know that I have this temptation sitting here? Does it?
That’s a *ton* of protein and carbs in that sample menu. “Clean” and yummy though it may be. That kind of menu sounds more like what I should be eating while growing and nursing tw humans here and needing the extra food and protein, honestly. *More* fruits and veggies, maybe a little fewer nuts and such may help (oatmeal can pack a heckuva lot of calories, depending on what you throw into the mix, especially if it’s granola).
And you know how you exercise it out? Spend 12 hours in the kitchen prepping/preserving during the fall/winter, then garden until you drop in the spring/summer. At least that’s the old-fashioned way of doing it.
Last night I made sweet dumpling squash filled with a “stuffing” of apples, walnuts, a little bit of sugar and butter, and something else. Yum. Now to go dehydrate more apples to get them out of my garage. :D
Portion control is my WORST enemy. I swear I eat healthy, but when you pile it on the plate…it somehow doesn’t have the desired results. Good for you in eating clean though - and good luck with those portions!
By the way, I also nominated you for an award on my blog, because I love reading yours so much.
http://beyondalice.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/my-first-award/
I don’t know if I’m one to be in to bike racing or not, but I like the idea of having a team to ride with.thank u for sharing
Really the eating approach is very good for healthy life.
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