Clean Eating -
What Does That Even Mean?

What is clean eating, anyway? Here's my definition. 

This means to eat foods that are as little processed as possible, with as few additives and preservatives as possible, with as few anti-nutrients as possible, and as GMO-free as possible.

Depending on where you live, this may be fairly easy to do, or not so much. My daughter lives in Australia. I live in Canada. She finds it easier to have a healthy diet in Australia than when she's visiting us in Canada. There are more healthy choices is Australia than Canada, and the labeling laws are clearer.

We also don't have access to items like grass-fed butter in our stores. Perhaps I could find such a product in a health food store, but I don't get to them too often. I am an hour and a half drive from the one closest to me and the cost of organic food at these stores is often prohibitive.  

These conditions and others as well are why I include the phrase “as few as possible” or “as GMO-free as possible” in my definition. Sometimes I think I'm eating quite well, and then I'll find out, for example, that the zucchini I'm buying is GMO. Zucchini! Who knew!

No Generation Has Ever Eaten
The Way We're Eating

You are eating non-food ingredients in your food that have never been in your foods before. GMO foods did not exist before this. And your biggest source of toxins - if you're eating the normal American food every day - is that food!  And it's not doing you, or anyone else, much good, either.

And if you are one of the many who is having a tough time losing weight, this normal American food, or the "Standard American Diet" could well be one of the reasons as well.


This is why: your liver has the job of dealing with all the toxins you take in. Sometimes there is too much, so your liver puts the excess toxins aside - in fat cells around your belly. If more often than not, you continue eating too many toxins for your liver to handle daily, your liver continues put the excess aside, and you get more and more belly fat.


You can even be a fairly skinny person, and still have rolls of fat around your waist. And you just can't get rid of it, right?

There's a Little Bad News,
But a Whole Lot of Good News!

The bit of bad news first - you can't actually exercise those rolls away!. You might get really finely toned muscles under that fat, but the fat will stay in spite of exercise.

And those rolls won't go away just because you go on a strict diet and reduce your calories.  

But the good news is way better than all that. The good news is that Yes! Absolutely you can get rid of those rolls and get rid of all that excess fat! When you start clean eating, you'll find that the fat will melt away like magic. You give your liver a break. It can deal with the toxins that come in, and then your liver has some spare time to get at the stored toxins.

It doesn't happen overnight, but it will happen. Clean eating enables you to lose the belly fat and definitely helps you get down to your ideal weight and stay there. For some of you, this might be the motivation that finally persuades you to eat clean; then you reap all the other benefits as well - better energy, happier moods, clearer thinking, the cycle of constantly getting sick ends, you'll love how you look and feel, and serious illness are much less likely to happen. 

There is absolutely no down side to clean eating and there is every reason to be eat clean. 

Where Do You Start With
Clean Eating?

This is why I wrote "S.A.D. to Glad", to give you a step-by-step plan you can follow on this journey to clean eating (available on Amazon). It's really not that hard! You will probably take a few days, or maybe even a few weeks to complete each "Day" in the book, but each step is easy. Stay on each day long enough so that you're comfortable with that step, and before you know it, you'll be feeling great and you will also be able to reach and stay at your ideal weight. 

Also take a look at why it's important to keep your blood sugar levels even, and the "Best Diet Ever!"  Enjoy clean eating, stay better - not sick, and enjoy your life!

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Teresa has left the city life and lives in Prince Edward Island, Canada with her husband
and is wondering if raising chickens will be her next project.
She has 4 grown up children and 5 grandkids who try to visit when they won't
have to spend too much time dodging mosquitoes and black flies.
Teresa is a certified Strategic Interventionist through Robbins Madanes training,
a certified StrengthsFinder adviser,
and a life coach with a life-long interest in nutrition.
Teresa has a passion for helping others to find and fulfill
their full potential and to live with abundance.
She sees optimum health as a necessary part of this,
and besides, isn't this what you want?