I think I can eat clean....

The same friend of mine who turned me on to Cross Fit has been on a kick this year with clean eating.  You know, organic, healthy, no additive, whole foods.  Another friend of ours even claims that this clean eating has solved the eczema problem she has been dealing with her entire life. (Wow!) I was very, very skeptical at first, but when I heard about that fact, I started paying attention.  And I started wondering how "fake" foods may be affecting my life as well.

I have dealt with chronic headaches for just about my entire life.  It started in high school and has been a battle ever since.  I wake up with them, get them in the middle of the day, go to bed with them, everything.  They range from tension headaches to almost migraines to pain that starts in my neck and moves to my head.  I even can get a headache from holding my head in a certain position for too long. It is quite frustrating, to say the least. So when my friends started saying how eating clean helped some of the body problems they've had all their lives, I began to wonder if it could help me.

So, starting tomorrow, I am doing a detox and clean eating diet for 3-5 days.  The meal plan I found gives a 3 day breakdown of breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks in-between meals.  It focuses on drinking plenty of water and eating real, whole, natural foods.  I'm going to try it (although I am allowing myself black coffee in the mornings) for 3, possibly 5 days.  The author claims that you will feel results within the first day. So we will see how I am feeling and I might continue the rest of the week.  It is very uncommon for me to go without a headache for 5 days, so I would think that, if I don't have any headaches, there may be some validity to this whole idea that clean eating can affect how your body feels. I mean, after all, you are what you eat, right?  I'm not saying it will be easy.  In fact, I have a cabinet full of Reese's Eggs and Kit-Kats that will be taunting me and eventually become the bane of my existence over the next 3 days.  But I am willing to try anything for a few days if it means I may find a cure for my incessant headaches. Stay tuned!!