Clean eating has become the latest fad, or rather instagramming your clean eating or the view from your run or a cup of tea and a book or even, the juice/smoothie in a jar. By no means am I disputing this because I'm a serial instagram clean eater and I honestly hopped on the clean eating bandwagon purely as a result of instagram.
This however, is not a bad thing. A couple of months ago when I initially discovered this crazy world, I started running every day at sunset. I'd get to this point on my route and honestly think "Oh goodness this would look so nice on instagram" as a result of this, I became so confident in my body and felt so good all the time and finally after way too long, I got into the next round of my school cross country carnival. This, by no means was the problem, because as well as improving my health and fitness, I became more motivated in every aspect of my life and studied exceptionally hard for my exams and in so doing, got the marks I've always wanted. Weirdly enough, this was mostly because of instagram.
The problem however, is that now I've slipped into old habits as the stress of my final year of school builds up and the time to run everyday is scarce...yet I still eat cleanly enough so that on occasion I can instagram my fabulous food or the view from my run and still fool my followers into thinking I'm a health advocate but really I'm only fooling myself. If the photos are there, I become a part of the instagram community. This however, guarantees that I haul in the likes for my photos because if someone is eating healthily and doing healthy things then in liking their photos, you're encouraging them and live through them and even become motivated by them. (Well this is my theory anyway) Which again, I don't think necessarily is a bad thing. It becomes bad however when you become inspired to make something really clean but it just tastes appalling and you never want to eat clean again.
But it can't be a bad thing to have a community of people who in just by living their life and posting about it, inspire those who follow them to follow the same lifestyle. At the end of the day, this kind of thing "Isn't a diet; it's a lifestyle"
To conclude, here are some of the photos I've taken and edited on some app in my phone to show people how cool and trendy I am.
My first homemade juice (it was awful, pretended it was nice)
Recent creation; raw cocoa and coconut balls
Caption: Run to paradise
(spent whole time running actually taking photos)
The view from my normal running route (note the vsco effect)
Fog on my run this morning! (Didn't instagram this one though)
View from my run 2.0
Whole foods market in Perth that I didn't buy anything from because it was too expensive.
Again
First jar juice!
One of the more recent; edamame (so cultured)
Liv xo
