7-Days Easy Clean Eating Challenge
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7-Days Easy Clean Eating Challenge

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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. 

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.

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

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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

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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

“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.

Sources:

  1. Beautybites - 7-Day Clean Eating Challenge & Meal Plan

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