I do!
Well… it’s normally hard. Especially at the beginning. But the longer I’m at it the less my body craves all the ‘dirty’ stuff.
Normally, I like to be a very low maintenance person. I’d never send a plate of food back if I ordered something at a restaurant and it came the wrong way.
It’s the same with what’s offered. If I went to a potluck and was on a new diet I’d probably just call it a free day and enjoy what was there. I wouldn’t pack my own picnic filled with ‘safe-clean foods’.
This has changed! And I really think it needs to to make healthy-clean eating party of daily life.
LUNCH!
Today for lunch my dad smoked tri-tip for sandwiches here at the office. The old Maren would have scrapped the clean eating and had a meaty sandwich on a fluffy french roll topped in lots (and lots and lots) of honey bbq sauce. But the new Maren said “wait a sec!”.
I took 15 minutes, went to the store bought some sourdough sprouted grain bread, a little premade spinach salad and a Kombucha tea!
I got to enjoy the tri-tip, keep up my healthy eating habits, and I feel super good about myself for making such great choices.
Making great choices when trying to be healthy is a HUGE MOTIVATOR!
Here’s the real deal… if eating a certain way, working out every day, or whatever it may be is going to become part of life then it has be to real life. There will be times that I’ll have to go out of my way to make it happen.
Yes, I’m 138% all about things being easy when it comes to my clean eating and fitness habits. For me, if it’s not easy and fitting into how I live then I’m not going to be successful. But the fact is that this is a new habit and I’m going to have to go out of my way to live a more healthy focused life.
Voila… 15 minutes and I cleaned up my lunch!
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I go through phases- although I’m usually craving healthy foods although last week I had a bagel and pizza in one day! ha I listen to my body and give it what it wants/needs and lucky for me what I want is usually veggies
Good for you for cleaning up your lunch!!! You are so awesome and make healthy eating look so easy!
You go girl!! Seriously, clean eating can be a tough thing to stick to when you’re in the company of others, but it looks like you did a fantastic job avoiding the temptation of something you would’ve loved in the past. Way to go :D
I wish I had self control like you, I seriously have zero self control when delicious sugar is around me. I hate it because it never makes me feel good afterwards. ugh.
Oh I have like zero control around candy too. It’s awful. I ate 2 of those huge mint chocolate cookies the other night and had the worst stomach ache after.
Good job making lunch healthy! The longer I eat clean, the easier it is to not crave all the junk!
I know. I totally craved all the junk at the beginning but now that I’ve been at it a few months I don’t crave it any more. So so so cool!
Love that attitude. Should’ve been thinking that when I was downing Jelly Bellies for lunch today!!
HAHA. I eat candy for lunch a lot! Just call it pre-workout fuel!!!
It’s always hard not to be influenced on the way other people are eating, good job! It’s always super hard for me to go out to eat and make sure I still eat clean by ordering the right things off the menu. Especially when we go Mexican, because those chips and salsa always get me ;)
Mexican food is my weakness. I can’t stay away from the chips.
Something I do sometimes is ask them to bring the chips & salsa but not until they bring our actual food. When I do that I’ll eat a couple of chips but not too many. It really works.
Good for you for trading up withthose food choices! Yeah, that’s a tough one for me. I love making better choices, bt I really don’t like being that high maintenance person.
I know. I totally let lots of clean eating opportunities slide because I don’t want to make a fuss about it.
That is one good looking salad!
Maren, great job on changing things around! Eating clean isn’t always easy when others around you aren’t, but you’re sooo right that the longer you do it, the more natural it feels and it’s so rewarding at the end. :D And I love that you’re a flexible gal and “forgiving” when they bring your order a certain way, because I’m the same way most of the time. But sometimes, if we know our bodies NEED clean food (mine does many times due to stomach aches from heavy foods), then we gotta do what we gotta do!
i see we now how similar blog theme colors. love… except the details of your blog are 10x better :)
I notice that when I start getting more produce in my diet I crave the “junk” a lot less. Especially sugar.
I agree. I am working to bring healthy and clean foods into my diet for every meal. I still bake a lot of sweet treats. But most of those are for clients (weddings, parties, etc…) and if I do sample, I only have a bite or two. I feel so much better when I focus on whole, healthy foods! It is so good to visit your blog, sweet friend. Hugs and love.
Way to make a great swap! I’m still working on making clean eating a habit and sometime easy wins out :/
Hey Jayme. Thanks for stopping by. I can’t wait to check out your blog. :)