Okay, I'll try to answer this...
To me, 'eating clean' = eating healthy food, i.e. unprocessed fruits, veggies, lean meats, whole grains, beans, etc.
On Body for Life, there is an 'authorized' foods list. When I stick to the 'authorized' list, to me that is eating clean.
Eating at McDonalds or stopping at Krispy Kreme would most defintely NOT be 'clean eating'!
I'd also include drinking all my water (I aim for 1 gallon of H20/day - don't always get there tho'
) as part of 'clean eating' as the water plays an important role in 'washing away the fat'.
I love what Pam Brown (Pam B) at
www.leanandstrong.com says about water:
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I drink LOTS of water! I drink between 1 and 2 gallons per day. I know that it is important to transport all of the fat waste out of my body. Here's an analogy: Let's say that you wanted to clean your floors. You spent all this time sweeping and sweeping up all of the dirt and grime and put it in a pile. Then you realized you didn't have a dust pan to get it into the trash and out of your house. The pile of dirt just sat there and eventually dispersed itself on your floor again. I think of fat in the same way, you do all of this exercise to get rid of it and you dislodge it from the cells of your body, but it keeps circulating until it has a "dust pan" to take it out of your body. That dust pan is the water you drink.
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Hope that helps - and DO feel free to visit our Body for Life thread! Take care.
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