Well done if you have kept to your New Year's resolutions to eat healthy halfway through 2020 now, but it is still not too late to pick up this habit again if you have faltered. That is why we have designed this seven-day clean eating challenge!
Whether your goal is weight loss or just general health, a clean eating challenge will kickstart the habit and help you switch to healthier food choices.
Here's what happens to your body when you eat clean for a week: you will feel more energetic, have better mental focus and less bloated when you are no longer eating meals high in sugar, excessive fat and sodium. Those certainly are good reasons for why we should have a healthy diet.
How to start eating clean?
An easy guideline to follow for clean-eating recipes calls for a lot of fresh ingredients. That means no processed items such as bacon, chips, cereals and pasta. It helps if you are doing your own grocery shopping and cooking so that you can have a better meal plan.
Do keep in mind that clean eating does not mean starving yourself. Remember to have balanced meals with a lot of fruits, vegetables and lean protein in the meal plan.
Clean eating recipes
Let's find out what are the meal prepping ideas that you can try in your 7-day clean eating game plan.
Day 1
Breakfast: Overnight oats with berries
Lunch/Dinner: Poke bowl, baked chicken with broccoli
Day 2
Breakfast: avocado and banana smoothie
Lunch/Dinner: Noodle soup with chicken and choi sum, tuna and tomato wrap
Day 3
Breakfast: Banana oatmeal pancake
Lunch/Dinner: Sweet and sour chicken with rice, kale salad
Day 4
Breakfast: Muesli with berries
Lunch/Dinner: Balsamic Dijon chicken, glass noodles with pak choi and chicken
Day 5
Breakfast: Avocado egg toast
Lunch/Dinner: Brown rice with pan-fried fish and vegetables, quinoa salad with falafel
Day 6
Breakfast: Frittata egg muffin
Lunch/Dinner: Roast chicken and Brussels sprouts, miso ginger chicken with bok choy
Day 7
Breakfast: Banana oatmeal pancake
Lunch/Dinner: Pork chop with broccoli, cauliflower fried rice
Can clean eating cause harm?
“Excess of everything is bad.” While focusing on fresh, low-fat and low-carb foods, clean eating might omit a variety of fat, protein and carbs for your body to function properly. This challenge helps build a healthy, conscious lifestyle, let’s not forget a balanced diet – consisting of six types of nutrients: proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and water – is the key to a healthy life.
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