One of my most recent "loves" is following Tosca Reno. She was a 40-something mother who realized one day that she was tired of being unhealthy, overweight, and unfit. She immediately began a journey that led her to a lifetime passion...Clean Eating. Clean eating essentially means that you eat foods as close to natural as you can, you limit sweetners, and you plan your meals with the idea that food is fuel for activity. She managed to lose a great deal of weight and use strength training as a means to help her metabolism. At 50+, she looks fantastic!
See her before and after photos http://www.eatcleandiet.com/tosca_reno/biography.aspx . In my opinion, she is an inspiration to us all. She has several books following the Clean Eating theme, including how to pack a cooler (something to which my disorganized self aspires) and she also has great recipes. Now, granted, she IS married to Bob Kennedy who is a fairly well-known publisher of many bodybuilding guides and magazines. Clean eating has long been the domain of hardcore body builders who desired to get lean and stripped for contests. Now it has entered the mainstream as a viable way for us non-body builders to eat healthy and get lean.
As I said, she is an inspiration and my goal is always to eat clean. I generally let life get in the way, however, as packing a cooler and planning meals around clean eating takes a great deal of commitment and time. Regardless, I am a work-in-progress and it's another of those "fights" that this old girl will keep fighting!
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