How do you justify eating clean?
This may be one of the hardest issues to deal with...trying to explain to friends and family why you are dieting (or chose a healthier lifestyle). From personal experience having to justify and explain myself everytime i went to family dinners was sooo draining Now my family totally understands our lifestyle but it was hard in the beginning. I'm just wondering (maybe this will help others) how you deal or dealt with this type of behaviour and what were your reactions and actions? Even a simple task of going to a restaurant can be a very horrible experience.
Right now I am cruizing My BF and I lead pretty strict eating habits and we both love it. Health comes first to us and people are learning to accept it. My BF family always jokes about us (in a good way) not eating this or that and we always get health goddies from health shop for birthdays and X-mas When it comes to eating out NZ is sooo laid back and anything you ask goes...nobody will even blink if you ask for egg white omelette ,no salad dressing etc. People actually think you are very cool if you eat strict and do not eat junk and sodas But in the past some people would think I am too obssesed with food and crazy carring cooler bag with pre-packed food. But others would think that I am very discipline and admired me ...so I guess it has been 50/50. I am always doing my best to educate people why I eat this way.For most people it is a challenge to get one decent meal in so they freak out when they see my eating plan and say no ways they could be so organized or to be able to stick with it! All I can say the choice is yours and keep your head up and proud..at the end who looks good and healthy...You or the people who are of shape out of breath and riddled with medical problems
Re: How do you justify eating clean?
I have only been eating super clean for about 2 months now, as i have only just made new goals of a having a fit, lean, muscular body.
I always ate healthy well mostly LOL and i always cook but i now have a better understanding of "Clean food" and i now do a weekly cookup of vegie and chicken snacks and stirfries i also eat alot of steamed veg and fish
I have bought myself a cool esky bag thingy that is now my new best friend and people are still very unsure of it and when i start eating their like "How can you? Isn't that bland or Why bother....etc" and i still have moments of failure to eat what i have bought due to family asking to many questions and watching everything i eat, and also what makes it hard is i feel that my friends look at me differently and don't ask me out anymore as they feel threatened or something about the fact that i dont eat crap and i don't drink alcohol
But i am trying to be strong and learning how to cope and one day i hope people will see the effect all my hard work is having on my body and no longer look at me as the fat chick
Em
Re: How do you justify eating clean?
Well, Just as you wouldn't take financial advice from a broke person......You shouldn't let fat people deter you from your goals of proper dieting.
Now, thats a blunt way of putting it, but really, if you think about it, Most normal people, Myself included, know nothing about proper nutrition and how to get it. We eat what is put in front of us and we never give our diet a thought And then "All of the sudden" we're having heart problems or some other type of health problem that is probably connected to the way, and to what we eat!
Don't be like everyone else, make yourself healthy and live a longer life!!
Now my family totally understands our lifestyle but it was hard in the beginning. I'm just wondering (maybe this will help others) how you deal or dealt with this type of behaviour and what were your reactions and actions? Even a simple task of going to a restaurant can be a very horrible experience. 
My BF and I lead pretty strict eating habits and we both love it. Health comes first to us and people are learning to accept it. My BF family always jokes about us (in a good way) not eating this or that and we always get health goddies from health shop for birthdays and X-mas
When it comes to eating out NZ is sooo laid back and anything you ask goes...nobody will even blink if you ask for egg white omelette ,no salad dressing etc.
People actually think you are very cool if you eat strict and do not eat junk and sodas
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