Clean eating and the fabulous fitties

Today I am going to talk about Clean Eating a bit and my amazing support system/challenge group. Clean eating I think for me has been the key to my weight loss so far. I never realized how much bad stuff is in the food we eat. I am an ingredient checker to the max now, I stay away as much as possible from anything with preservitives, GMO's, BPA, etc. I try to eat organic when I can and stick with food that is as natural as possible. The challenge of course comes when eating out, but I've been having fun finding places that offer local, fresh, organic ingredients. Pita Jungle is a huge favorite, Chipotle as well, even Panda Express is allowed. Woo hoo! No but seriously, I don't even crave the bad stuff hardly at all anymore, except for maybe pizza, I love pizza. The previous times I've tried to lose weight, I would eat well but still eat things that weren't great for my body. I purged my entire fridge/pantry and everything I buy fits into my lifestyle. So when I have an urge, I am forced to eat something healthy. Unfortunately with my diabetes, I cannot consume many carbs from grains (rice, quinoa, bread, etc.) it all raises my sugars. But I can eat fruit which is a huge relief, as it helps kill the sugary cravings. I also eat five times a day, and this week has been rough, as I haven't been eating as often as I should and it's messed up my whole metabolism. Crazy how your body becomes so used to something and when you change it, your body reacts. My body reacted by gaining weight. Hopefully with going back to work next week, it will fix my body. I've been lucky to be home for the first half of my program and haven't had to do much meal planning. Tomorrow is my first real experience with that. Will blog about that on a different day. So part of my program is to join a Facebook Challenge Group. This is probably my favorite part of team beach body. As part of my program, I have to post every day in the group talking about my food, water, workout and shake consumption for the day, and any hurdles or wins I may have had. I also must post transformation pictures from the start, 30 day and 60 day as my program is 60 days (some are longer, some shorter)and I must measure myself and post my weight every saturday (or as we call it Staturday!). This group is amazing, you get to see people's transformations, you can ask questions and they are always there to support you as they all want us to succeed. It's so wonderful to have a support system. I also got to meet some of them at a huge Beach Body event where we learned about the business aspect of Beach Body, heard awesome transformation stories and got to do two workouts. We share recipes and we challenge ourselve and use that group for anything we can in order to help us reach our goals. Especially after a tough week like this one, I can start fresh, knowing that my fitfam has my back and I not only want to make myself proud but them too. Beach Body is amazing in every aspect! <3 this program!