What Is Clean Eating?
Clean eating means eating more whole foods and avoiding processed foods, particularly those high in sugar and refined flour. Some people have tried clean eating and focused on how difficult it was and maybe you were one of those people. It doesn’t have to be, although if you eat in restaurants frequently, it is a little harder. It can be an inexpensive, simple method of losing weight forever. At Rising Fitness, we’ve made it easier with a personalized dietary plan to help you learn how to cook healthier to develop healthy habits. If you’re eating in a restaurant, you’ll learn ways to choose healthier foods.
Start with meal planning and eating at home.
We create the meal plans for you, which includes a shopping list. With that help, you can do meal prep ahead on the weekend and just heat and eat during the week. That makes meals quicker during the week and saves time, while ensuring you get all the nutrients you need without extra sugar or additives. That means clean eating can save you money, since you’ll use all the ingredients for various meals throughout the week.
If snacking is your downfall, clean eating has you covered.
Clean eating doesn’t mean eating less or starving yourself. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It means learning to eat healthier and includes snacks for mid-morning and mid-afternoon. The snacks are healthy and provide extra nutrition, while filling you up without excess calories. Some options include nuts or homemade trail mix, veggies and dip or a piece of fruit.
Clean eating doesn’t mean eating just raw fruits and vegetables.
Quite the contrary! It also doesn’t mean you can’t have any processed food. Almost all food is processed in one way or another. In fact, washing fresh fruits or vegetables is a form of processing. Frozen fruit and vegetables without any additives, such as sugar, can be part of a clean eating diet. Canned food that doesn’t have added sugar or salt can also be in a clean eating diet. In fact, even canned beans that have added salt can be rinsed several times and used.
- When you eat in a restaurant or a family get-together or business luncheon, it’s not always possible to eat clean. Choose the healthiest options, but if they’re not available, it’s not the end of the world. Just go back to clean eating at your next meal.
- Our program has a grocery list, so it eliminates that step. You can check the ingredients you need for the next week’s meal and do all your shopping at once. Shop after you eat, so cookies and snack foods don’t tempt you.
- Always wash, chop and store fresh fruits and vegetables when you get home from the grocery. That way you’ll have snacks immediately and cut preparation time on the weekend.
- You can freeze leftover fruit and vegetables and have them in the freezer for smoothies and other quick meals. It helps you save money. Ripe bananas can be cut in rounds, frozen on a tray and stored to make healthy ice cream that takes just a minute.
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It doesn’t matter what you do, everything has a sweet spot. You know when it’s just the right amount. Goldilocks knew it when she sat on the chair, tasted the porridge and slept in the bed. There’s also a sweet spot when it comes to how long and how often you workout. It’s one reason we recommend that you time your workouts. Timing can tell you a lot.
I firmly believe that Rising Fitness in Houston, Texas, provides the best program to get clients fit faster. However, once people start here, they often want to live a fitness lifestyle that goes beyond the walls of the gym. That includes having fun with the family hiking, biking and even running. We help clients get into shape to run and guide them on getting started. Each new physical undertaking requires knowledge to stay safe and injury free.
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If you want a longer life, keep your body healthier. Your heart plays an important role in your overall health and ability to function. Making small changes for a healthier heart also improves other areas of your body and allows you to be more active, which improves your heart health even more. It’s all connected and continuous. It’s never too late to get started, but the older you are, the slower the changes will occur. It’s all about living healthy every day.
We provide nutritional guidance at Rising Fitness in Houston, TX. When people see fats in their nutritional plan, they are often surprised. In fact, many have been consuming low fat or no fat foods, which actually sabotages their weight loss. There are three main categories for fat, saturated, unsaturated and trans fats. Unsaturated fat is liquid at room temperature, while saturated fat is solid. Saturated and unsaturated fat are easily found in nature, but most trans fats are man-made with just a small amount naturally occurring.
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Sometimes when you’re done with your daily responsibilities, you may feel totally stressed out and just want to watch TV or videos. While it might feel good to engulf yourself in the story, it won’t help you relieve the stress you feel. What should you do instead to relieve stress? The answer is simple, just workout. Try it sometime and you’ll see. It doesn’t have to be a traditional workout, just running up and down stairs or going for a brisk walk can help lower stress levels and make you feel great.
While it’s normal for children to run like wild animals when playing and be active, it’s not necessarily how it is today. We are a nation of screens and video games and kids are caught up in the technology. Today, we have to take an active role to ensure that our kids get the activity they need. We have to do the same as adults, since manual labor has been replaced by modern machinery. How do you teach kids to be healthy? It starts by being a good role model.
The minute you enter Rising Fitness in Houston, TX, you’ll realize that we’re different. We take a holistic approach to fitness that’s based on each person’s individual needs. If you’re already eating healthy, but have a difficult time with stress and don’t get nearly enough exercise, there’s no reason to focus on your diet. We talk to clients to find the best ways to help them. While the person with a healthy diet may get a few tips, we’ll focus more on the problems he or she faces, stress and a sedentary lifestyle.