Eating Clean

TRAINING IS EASY - EATING CLEAN IS THE HARD PART! I'm sure we have all heard this or some form of it - it's 80% diet 20% gym - Abs are made in the kitchen - and all that other diet stuff. So what I have found out already in 12 weeks - this is SO true! The training is not easy but eating clean and staying faithful and not slipping is even harder. It takes the most will power I have ever had to use. I quit smoking a while ago and that takes some willpower for a few weeks but then your done and that's over. This eating clean is a part-time job - u need to shop-alot-to get fresh produce and meat. You need to prep it and have it basically prepared if you work fulltime like me. If you are going out for the day, you need to bring it all with you, it really is tons of work. Don't get me wrong here and I am not complaining - I'm just telling it REAL - so that you have an idea what is involved. Before I started this path, I wasn't a terrible eater and I ate pretty good. However, we would go out alot and grab subway or wraps for lunch, etc. I was never a fast food person so that doesn't bother me. I was however a huge salt person, I loved to eat popcorn, chips, pretzels. The sweets weren't really my weakness except the double stuff Oreos - love those little guys. Over the last 12 weeks I have found myself time to time dreaming about ice cream and chocolate. Today it was consuming me. I had to chew about 14 pieces of gum today - lol. It is so strange that all of a sudden I want SWEETS. I am allowed one medium sized fruit mid morning with my protein and let me tell you the fruit takes like candy its soooooooo good. My point here is it would be very easy to just cave in and go for ice cream or eat chocolate and the temptation is everywhere, all the time. If you want it bad enough you will just find a way to deal with it. I chew gum - lol and then blog about it.

Stay strong and eat clean - it will all be worth it :)