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Happy Day You Gorgeous Curvy Woman! 

Are you ready? Are you thinking of making the switch from clean eating to Keto? This is your beginners guide to clean lazy keto.

But what is Clean Keto? What is Lazy Keto?

Women, today get a simple approach to health without the tight rules. Learn why this health coach became a “Clean Lazy Keto Eater.

It’s time to get help to reduce stress, gain energy, improve your mood and kick start your weight loss even if your in a 6 month plateau.

If you are:

• experiencing a plateau in your health journey
• you can’t lose weight with just clean eating
• a woman that is tired and stressed out  
• need a plan not centered on exercise
• feel controlled by your emotions
• struggle with losing weight
• constantly overeating even when you don’t want to
• have a sweet tooth that wont quit
• want to figure out what is stopping you and holding you back from having a body you feel confident about…

Then this blog is for you.  Learn how to switch from clean eating to Clean Keto and finally break the stall in your weight loss.

Clean Eating 

I started my clean eating journey after my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer.  I was looking for health, maybe some weight loss, but mostly I just wanted my insides to be in optimal health, so I could avoid finding myself in my mother’s situation.  I felt empowered by clean eating.

If you are new to this, let me share briefly what clean eating is. 

Clean eating is simply choosing foods that are as close to natural as possible.  It is whole, “clean” foods such as:

• Organic grass-fed meats
• Wild caught seafood
• Organic eggs
• Vegetables and fruits*
• Nuts and seeds
• Fermented foods (sauerkraut, kimchi, coconut water, kombucha)
• Healthy fats like olive, coconut, avocado oil, and grass fed butter
• Raw honey and pure maple syrup (in moderate amounts)

It is avoiding processed foods as much as possible.  So instead of wheat bread, I had sprouted grain bread.  Instead of  pasta, I had chick pea pasta or rice pasta.  It wasn’t about being perfect with it, but just about moving the needle more toward clean, organic non processed food and away from processed junk made of ingredients no person on God’s green Earth can pronounce.  

Progress

This worked great for me for a while.  Clean eating was my jam. It did so much for me. 

• I lost 30 + pounds
• I started sleeping better
• I reduced my reflux
• Eliminated my Constipation
• Less bloating
• Improved mood
• Clearer Skin

It was what I needed at that time of my life with coping all that my mom was going through.  I am glad to say that 3 years later she is doing great and her cancer is gone.  But even with her healing, my pursuit of healing my body had begun.  My passion had been stirred and I needed to follow it. 

Mind, Body, Soul Approach

During the time following my start of clean eating, I also became a certified health coach.  This was great because it taught me so much more than just nutrition.  It gave me a complete mind, body, and soul approach to my health transformation.   When you approach your health with concideration to mindset, stress, habits and nutrition, real change is able to happen.   The mind, body, soul approach to health is key to lasting transformation.  

Healthy Habits

Some of the healthy habits I developed in the process were:

• Eating slower
• Honoring my hunger
• Honoring my fullness (stopped overeating)
• Chewing
• Drinking my water
• Reduced stress
• Prayer and Meditation
• Visualization
• Stopping the triggers that cause emotional eating
• Gaining control over my cravings

It has done so much for me, and I love my new view with food, but I needed more.  I had lost over 30 pounds with this way of eating and living, but clean eating and healthy habits alone wasn’t all my body needed.  

Step 3 – Strict or Lazy Keto

Strict Keto

The strict Keto diet follows a plan where you takin in 80% fat, 20% Protein and 5% Carbs.  The strict Keto dieter, usually has a list of foods that are Keto safe and not safe.  They keep close track over every single gram of protein, fat and carbs that they take inside their body.  To me this is time consuming and takes too much work. 

Lazy Keto

For a way of eating to be life long, I shouldn’t have to track it in an app.  So when I say I am a clean (ish) lazy Keto eater.  I mean I try to keep most of my meals organic and clean.  (I still have dairy though since it doesn’t upset my stomach.) and I eat low carb hight fat, but I never track my macros. 

No Counting Macros

I may not track my macros on an app, but I do read food labels and have an idea of how many carbs are in a certain type of food.  Siri, will tell me with the click of a button.  I do this just to have an idea in my mind if it is something that will spike my blood sugar and slow down my fat burning. 

At the end of the day, I don’t know if I’ve had 20 grams of carbs or 50,, but I know it is in that area most days.  I know this from a small running total in my head.  If I’m off  5-10 grams I don’t stress and just move forward with how my body feels. 

Step 4 – A New Way of Eating

Tuned In to the Body

But after transitioning through these stages over the period of a couple of months, I found myself no longer just a clean eater, but a clean slightly lazy Keto eater. 

Now, I was still very in tuned with how my body felt and practiced my healthy habits that had helped me have a freedom relationship with food.   

I still only eat when I am hungry, and I stop when I am at about a 7 on the hunger scale (10 = stuffed).  I chew carefully and let my meals take their time.  I try to be present and mindful during the meal. That is how I eat.  

However, what I eat has transformed a bit.  I now look for high fat low carb meals that are full of clean healthy fats like coconut oil, organic veggies and fruit, grass fed beef and antibiotic free chicken.  Like my former way of clean eating, I don’t stress being perfect, just making progress and honoring my body.  

Results

What difference did I see in my body?  Well over the first 3 weeks I had a loss of 8 pounds.  Eight pounds that haven’t moved off my body in prior over 6 months.  Praise God the plateau has broken. 

Want to try it?  Here is your next step

1. Reduce your sugar.  Use my free mini course to help you.
2. Cut out higher count carbs. I have this great meal prep guide and planner for the Curvy Woman on a Clean Lazy Keto way of eating.  It includes:

• What is Meal Prep
• How to Plan it
• Schedule to get the prep done in minimal time
• Weekly plan
• Shopping List 
• Printable Planning Page

Till next week friends, join us in our Free Private Facebook Group to help you stay motivated and moving forward on your health journey. 

Health and Happiness Blessings,

Angela Naumann,  The Curvy Woman’s Health Coach