Calories/Clean Eating/Undereating

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sarjenki wrote: »

bshrom wrote: »

It's the point of moving people away from items such as cookies, cakes, chips, pop tarts, ice cream to a diet of minimaly processed foods such as veggies, fruits, beans, and legumes. Honestly a lot of people are overfed but they are malnourished, I was one of those people! I am extremely passionate about a whole foods diet because it has radically changed my life. I lost weight in the past eating frozen diet meals and prepackaged diet foods but I still felt like garbage and I was always hungry. I switched to whole foods plant based and it completely changed my life. The point is not all calories are created equal. I could sit here and eat that bagged spinach, cucumbers, kale etc till the cows come home and nothings gonna happen, in fact I'm gonna lose weight, if you sit there and eat the same amount of calories in cookies and cakes your probably not gonna lose weight.

My "favorite" thing about clean eating is how chips are always mentioned as evil. Yet according to the rules of clean eating, chips should be allowed. (This is not a plug for chips as a health food BTW, just an example)
"Potatoes, Canola oil, salt" - ingredients in my favorite chips
I can pronounce all those ingredients, there are less than five of them, and know what they all are. Does this mean chips are good for you?
... just sayin

Yes, exactly right. There was a long discussion a few months back about whether Fritos were "clean."

Of course, the three definitions you gave are not the only ones. In addition to the "foods that fuel your body" definition listed above, @diannethegeek maintains a long list of "clean eating" definitions that sometimes gets trotted out when someone claims that "everyone knows" what clean eating means. These are all definitions offered by posters when asked to explain what "clean" meant to them:

• Nothing but minimally processed foods.
• Absolutely no processed foods.
• Shop only the outside of the grocery store.
• Nothing out of a box, jar, or can.
• Only food that's not in a box or hermetically sealed bag, or from e.g. McDonald's.
• No take-out or junk food at all.
• Nothing at all with a barcode.
• Nothing with more than 5 ingredients.
• Nothing with more than 4 ingredients.
• Nothing with more than 3 ingredients.
• Nothing with more than 1 ingredient.
• No added preservatives.
• No added chemicals.
• No chemicals, preservatives, etc. at all.
• No ingredients that you can't pronounce.
• No ingredients that sound like they came out of a chemistry book.
• Nothing that is processed and comes in a package or wrapper, or has any ingredient that sounds scientific.
• Don't eat products that have a TV commercial.
• Don't eat foods that have a mascot.
• If it grows or had a mother, it is ok to eat it.
• Don't eat products that have a longer shelf life than you do.
• Eat "food" and not "food-like substances."
• No added sugar.
• No added refined sugar.
• Swap white sugar for brown.
• No "white" foods.
• Nothing but lean meats, fruits, and vegetables.
• Nothing but lean meats, fruits, vegetables, and beans.
• A plant-based whole food diet.
• Eat foods as close to their natural state as POSSIBLE, and little to no processed food.
• Only meat from grass-fed animals and free-range chickens.
• Only pesticide-free foods.
• Nothing that causes your body bloat or inflammation.
• No trigger foods, nothing from fast food chains, nothing in the junk food aisles, and no high gmo foods.
• No red meat, no sweets, no pasta, no alcohol, no bread, no soda, nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables, complex carbohydrates and lean proteins.
• Eat a plant based diet consisting of whole plant foods.
• No bad carbs and processed foods.
• Anything that makes a better choice.
• Not cheating on whatever diet you are on.
• Any food that doesn't make it difficult to hit your macro/micro targets.
• Clean eating means eating optimally.