Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Day 9- Whole foods challenge!






More and more diets and programs seem to be promoting « eating clean », but that may mean something different for everyone. There is certainly a lot of conflicting information out there, but one thing that nearly all expert agree on is that processed foods are not doing anyone much good.

However, like anything else, the concept of eating clean can be taken to varying extremes. For instance, a popular recent diet know as “The Whole 30”, forbids all processed foods, including any dairy, legumes, grains or sugars for 30 days.


Although the Whole 30 will undoubtedly provide great results, many followers will likely have a hard time maintaining such a rigid diet. That’s not to say that we all can’t start eating cleaner today. After yesterday’s grocery shopping challenge, it seemed fitting to have a whole foods challenge. Think about what you’re eating today. How natural is it? Has it been altered, genetically modified or processed? If so, is there a more natural option you can reach for instead?  It may not be realistic for everyone to avoid processed foods altogether, but focus instead on eating as many whole, natural foods as you can.

What is one thing you can change or alter in your diet to eat cleaner today?


Now for the dirtayyy……

There are plenty of tough daily workouts that you can find online here:


Or here:


But I came across a workout recently that sounds like it would be really challenging called Death by (Insert single exercise here, i.e. burpees, squat jump, thruster, etc.). Basically, the idea is to do the exercise once in the first minute, twice in the second minute, three times in the third minute, and so forth, until you can no longer make the number of exercises in one minute. It doesn’t sound all that hard but if the exercise you chose is hard enough it gets tough quick. And to make it even more challenging, try holding a plank or doing situps in between doing the exercise!


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