I first learned of Clean Eating magazine when I randomly picking up a copy of Oxygen magazine. I'm a fairly active person, but had been in the fitness/nutrition doldrums for a while. Food was boring me, frankly. Healthy food most especially. I dreaded mealtimes because of my indecision and lack of inspiration, which had only been made worse in recent years by the addition of a fussy British husband who has very particular ideas about what constitutes "real food". I was eating out about 90% of the time, and not particularly enjoying the experience of cooking and eating in.
Enter Clean Eating (CE) magazine. The few CE snippets I was able to glean from that copy of Oxygen (along with some great tips I got from the CE website and fan blogs) was enough to kick-start my new addiction. The recipes are fun, simple, tasty, and HEALTHY. I'd resigned myself that despite my fairly active lifestyle and healthy food choices, I was at my body's "comfortable maintenance weight". 2 months of Clean Eating later, I've effortlessly lost 5 lbs. I'm hardly ever hungry (and if I am, it's because I wasn't paying attention and skipped a snack). My energy levels are through the roof. The recipes have kept me and my picky husband interested all the while.
With most magazines I end up clipping one or two recipes. I *gut* Clean Eating... everything is super-tasty, and a totally feasible amount of effort, even on a weeknight. After experimenting with 30+ recipes, I've only had one "meh" experience. Those odds are as good or better than any other recipe resource I've tried. I've even heard about one reader who uses the magazines as her cookbooks!
Which I guess leads me to the bottom-line: health aside, these recipes are just GOOD. I never find myself thinking, "Oh, this was nice... but would have been so much tastier if I could have used XYZ." Nope. This is real-deal yummy eating, folks. Part of me wants to shout about Clean Eating mag from the mountain tops, but part of me wants to be greedy and keep my new secret weapon safe. So as I said... shhhh! ;-)Get more detail about Clean Eating.
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