Clean eating
Cleaner calories? Is food dirty now? Do I need to scrub my steak? There’s something off with the food?
Today if you google ‘clean eating’ results show anything from fad diet to freeing food from carbs, fat or protein and going plant based, for ethical considerations for a cleaner earth and climate change or cleaner tummies avoiding food borne pathogens. What’s clean eating to you?
After reading Dark Calories https://www.fitbynature.org/blog/book-review-dark-calories, early 19th century sky rocketing tallow prices lead to alternatives and the use of cotton seed oil, a waste product, to produce new ‘Ivory soap’: getting clean using waste! Then the breakthrough of hydrogenation and the ‘accidental’ lard like product that resulted in crisco! Colourless and flavourless features were turned into a positive by the P&G marketers who called it ‘clean’. This one decision would change our nutritional and subsequent medical health for the next century: food and health are only good if ‘clean’!
For me, eating clean is eating to feel good:
What’s the least amount of food I can eat, build and maintain muscle mass, have all the energy I want to do all that life offers me, never get sick, and most importantly not be hungry. Never craving or sacrificing through ‘I could be eating and, I feel hungry, but I’m gonna fight thru it.’ That’s not my life.
It’s about the amount of food to satisfy me, thru to the next meal. I cannot fathom being a slave to the fridge or dependence on stockpiles of food in readiness for my next hanger emergency.
its about meals from in season produce for ripeness of flavour and nutrients, textures, macros and micro nutrients, and connection with others while I do that!
It’s about loving every bite and knowing when I’m satisfied
It’s my mission to teach people how to listen to their humanness, intuitively go thru life, not to count calories or macros just enjoy your meals, your workouts (find ways to play!), your rest and not apologising for getting 9 hours sleep.
Enjoy your life and thriving in what it means to be a human in this fairly hectic world we’ve created for ourselves.
