Do you
remember when Christopher Columbus realised the world was round and we didn’t
have to sail in straight lines anymore (you probably don’t, it was the 15th
Century) So then every explorer and his dog set off on a spherical adventure.
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| *disclaimer, this photo isn't historically accurate |
Then in the 16th Century Galileo upped the anti and went “hold on, I
reckon there’s planets other than the earth, I’m pretty certain there’s a
Solar system” (he probably said this in Italian and it probably took him a bit
longer to reach that conclusion) but you get my point.
I think dieting has become the same. First we
should eat carbs, then we shouldn’t, then we should eat fat, then we should
concentrate on a low fat diet, and then maybe just eat half a grapefruit and a
bit of cottage cheese, the amount of diets that have been in fashion over the
years is scary. Then eventually the dieting version of Columbus went, I think I
know how you loose weight….
So that’s
what people started to do and lo and behold, people started to lose weight,
dieting mystery solved.
However then the dieting version of Galileo
went “yes that works well, but as well as eating less and moving more, you need
to eat clean and lean” and everyone went “brilliant”
Over the last few months, I’ve heard lots of
my friends’ talk about eating clean and lean and quite frankly it confused me!
All the food I eat is clean, because I wash and prepare it correctly! I buy
lean meats, so am I eating clean and lean? Am I meant to be eating fat? If I do
eat fat, it has to be good fat and low fat really isn’t good for me?
There’s no wonder anyone without a degree in
nutrition struggles to make sense of it!
Now I’m a sensible kind of girl (well ish) so
as I figured I needed to understand exactly what clean and lean meant, so I
turned to Amazon, typed in “books about eating clean and lean” and discovered
this bad boy!
It had great reviews and James Duigan had
worked with Elle McPherson, a lady known as “The Body”, it felt like the right
choice. I can achieve an Elle body by next year? Right?
When the book arrived, I spent a bit of time
reading it and getting my head round what it really meant.
It turns out basically just don’t eat any
processed stuff! Eat fresh meat and fish. Green leafy vegetables are very good
for you, berries are also an excellent choice, nuts are a good snack and
there’s these things called mung beans and chia seeds, which you can sprinkle
on salads.
The book is full of recipes and being to
cooking, what John Sargent was to dancing, it’s been a bit of a test. There
were a few early pancake disasters, but it turns out raspberries can mask the
taste of “burnt oats”, but I’m getting there.
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| A flipping disaster! |
I’ve even learnt to like avocado and been
able to drink 2 and half litres of water a day, which apart from having to wee
having 10 minutes is OK.
I wouldn’t say I’ve totally perfected the art
of eating lean and clean. There’s no section of the book that suggests red wine
is an acceptable drink, so there have been a couple of slip ups, but there’s
more good than bad eating days.
So I shall
continue being a clean, lean, green eating machine, well that is of
course until someone else pipes up with the dietary equivalent of walking on
the moon!
PS – any
clean, lean recipe ideas greatly received!
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