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Week 4 Challenge: Eat Clean

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I’m the owner of Carrots ‘N’ Cake as well as a Certified Nutrition Coach and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P). I use macros and functional nutrition to help women find balance within their diets while achieving their body composition goals.

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Good morning!

Are you ready for this week’s challenge? Here it is!

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Eat clean. It sounds simple enough, right? Well, it’s probably one of the toughest challenges for me””and maybe you too!

As you know, I love dessert and eat it everyday. Of course, this is totally fine if you do it in moderation, but I’ve recently found myself overdoing it a little too often. Gluten-Free Almond Brownies, Flourless Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies, Creamy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Balls, Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels”¦ you know what I’m talking about, right?

And when I frequently indulge in these kind of treats, I don’t typically consume a lot of nutritious foods, so when it comes to Baby Haupert, I’m not doing the greatest job with my diet. It’s not like I’m going crazy with the junk, but I feel like I am getting a little lazy with my food choices””grabbing a handful of pita chips instead of making some guacamole and eating it with baby carrots””and, basically, not making the best decisions that I can. That said, this week is all about cleaning up our diets!

I’d go 100% clean with my eats this week, but I know it’s not realistic for me. I’m pregnant with crazy hormones and, honestly, I just love dessert so much not having it in my diet just kind of blows! Ha! But, seriously, I’m aiming for 90% clean eating this week. Feel free to set an individual number for yourself this week too. If you can go 100% clean, do it! If you really love desserts/salty snacks and know you’ll be miserable all week not having them, go with 90% or even 80%. Make your goal a challenge so you clean up your diet, but make it realistic too!

So, what is “clean” eating? I think the definition and practice really depends on the individual, but, for me, it involves these principles below:

  • Choosing whole, natural, real foods and eliminating processed and refined foods from my diet.
  • Making fresh, colorful produce the center of my meals and snacks.
  • Including some protein, carbs, and fat with every meal and snack that I eat.
  • Limiting excess sugar, (bad) fat, salt, alcohol, and other not-so-healthy foods from my diet.
  • Planning well-rounded meals and making conscious choices about what I put into my body.
  • Drinking lots of water.

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As I mentioned above, I’m leaving a little wiggle room for fun foods this week, so I’ll likely allow myself one treat per day, but not go overboard with it. Maybe something in 100-200 calorie range? I think that’s do-able, and it will allow me to fill up my diet with other nutritious foods while not making me crazy either.

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