I bet you thought this was an innocently simple question?
I am begining to ask the same myself, as I explore eating clean.
Definitions are important if you want to be able to classify. Peanuts- Good or Evil?? I think if you have a clear personal guide for what you 'admit to your temple,'(based on your goals, your health, your pms quotant,how well the diet has been going lately, etc) you'll be better equippped to sort through the choices, which are always made within a given context.
I would be more for the 'French womens diet' of enjoying everything in moderation- but the key is to be very in control.
Most commercially available yogurts, sweetend with splenda, aspertame,corn syrup, whatever- would not meet my standard. An organic brand like Stoneyfield farms, without the fruity bottom, is my pick. Your sugar source should be as unprocessed as possible. Sugar is not 'bad,' it's all in the dose. I am suspect about the cost/ benefit ratio in choosing chemical sweetener. (But I do have a weakness for diet pepsi that I indulge 2-3 x's a month, so pick your poison. I am trying to quit, I swear!!)
You can learn to like plain-er yogurt by buying the fruity bottoms and not digging all the way to the bottom. Get your taste used to a less sweet yogurt.
It takes many tastes of a new food to acquire it. Don't run from the flavor- embrace its scary new-ness like lactic acid in your muscles starting your 3rd set lunging under 40 lbs.!!
Make clean changes progressively where and when you can.
Sometimes eating clean can make one a little self-righteous, after all that sacrifice. People will like it better if you're quietly smug.
Cheers and Clean Eating to All in their measure!!!
I am begining to ask the same myself, as I explore eating clean. Definitions are important if you want to be able to classify. Peanuts- Good or Evil?? I think if you have a clear personal guide for what you 'admit to your temple,'(based on your goals, your health, your pms quotant,how well the diet has been going lately, etc) you'll be better equippped to sort through the choices, which are always made within a given context.
I would be more for the 'French womens diet' of enjoying everything in moderation- but the key is to be very in control.
Most commercially available yogurts, sweetend with splenda, aspertame,corn syrup, whatever- would not meet my standard. An organic brand like Stoneyfield farms, without the fruity bottom, is my pick. Your sugar source should be as unprocessed as possible. Sugar is not 'bad,' it's all in the dose. I am suspect about the cost/ benefit ratio in choosing chemical sweetener. (But I do have a weakness for diet pepsi that I indulge 2-3 x's a month, so pick your poison. I am trying to quit, I swear!!)
You can learn to like plain-er yogurt by buying the fruity bottoms and not digging all the way to the bottom. Get your taste used to a less sweet yogurt.
It takes many tastes of a new food to acquire it. Don't run from the flavor- embrace its scary new-ness like lactic acid in your muscles starting your 3rd set lunging under 40 lbs.!!
Make clean changes progressively where and when you can.
Sometimes eating clean can make one a little self-righteous, after all that sacrifice. People will like it better if you're quietly smug.
Cheers and Clean Eating to All in their measure!!!
