Chit Chat: Clean Eating

A couple of weeks ago Tracy and I decided to do the Clean Eating 7 Day Challenge. It was Tracy's bright idea to give it a whirl and I was up for giving it a go. Secretly though, I had my doubts about whether or not we would make it. I thought it would be too drastic of a change from our normal eating habits and that we both would be lucky to make it a couple of days. I mean, we were willing giving up chocolate, sweets, and fast food. I did have faith that Tracy would outlast me though.
I learned several things during our challenge though. It is very difficult to find clean foods in the small town that I live in. It is impossible to get clean bread here and unless you know what you are looking for, it takes a lot of time to scan labels for foods you can have. It took me like 20 minutes to find a pasta sauce that is clean. There are just so many foods out there that have sugar or chemicals in them, even foods you wouldn't think would.
During our week of clean eating, it came much easier than I thought. I was able to eat meals that I normally would, like lasagna, I just had to make clean choices when it came to ingredients. Tracy and I ate as much food as we wanted, we just ate clean food, and without even trying we both lost several pounds each. This really makes you wonder about the foods we had been eating. Have you tried clean eating before?
Tracy and I have decided that we want to continue eating healthier. We are going to try to eat clean 80% of the time. Living here, we can't buy all our foods totally clean, but we want to make the healthiest choices possible.

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