Blog — clean eating food

There’s nothing better than feeling like everything is running smoothly in your body. You feel energetic after you eat, your tummy looks nice and flat, you get a restful sleep every night and your skin has never looked so radiant. Well, that would be an amazing scenario to talk about, right? The truth is, most of us have a hard time check-marking all the boxes. Often times, the well-oiled machine starts to feel a little frayed around the edges. Digestion slows down. You feel a little (a lot) bloated. Your skin is looking kind of blotchy and your giddy up...

We all have to eat. It’s critical for survival. It feeds our minds, our creativity, our coping abilities, our stress management and critical decision-making. So, why does it end up on the back burner of priorities? We let others dictate what we fuel our bodies with and we haven’t even dated. Cookbooks aren’t always very practical, with their laundry list of hard to find ingredients and complicated techniques. And the Food Network? Sssseeeeeriously. That’s not where you’re going to learn how to eat for health, Pioneer Woman with recipes filled with gobs of white sugar and butter. Enjoy food that’s...

My mama always told me you are what you eat. I don’t know about you but cheap, fast and full of crap is not how I want to be known. Eating healthy is expensive, time consuming and inconvenient, so the barrier to entry into the kitchen just got a little higher, right? That’s what society wants you to think, because then it keeps you on medication and diet plans. The habits of good health are faster, cheaper and better than any drug on the planet. The pill only addresses the side-effects but it doesn’t get to the problem. We can’t...

Welcome back for another amazing episode of Recipes for Your Best Life. Mareya lists the best 10 ways how to prep for clean eating success and how to create lifestyle habits to achieve balance, de-stress and succeed. Tune in for another episode by Mareya, The Fit Foodie. Podcast available to subscribe on Stitcher and iTunes ‘Clean Foods + smaller portions at regular intervals = higher metabolism. If that doesn’t sound like a license to eat, I don’t know what more a fit foodie could ask for!”‘We’ve been trained to adapt the idea that organic equates to healthy!’ – Mareya Ibrahim,...