Eating Clean Newbie.. Advice?

I am just about to start clean eating and hopefully the kids will get on board too they are 16 and twins 8 so might be a little harder to change their views, 2 of them are autistic so what they will and won,t eat is limited anyway. I have suffered from constipation and chronic candida my whole life so hopefully this will be the way forward. I dont eat a lot of processed food anyway but will be reducing sugar and alcohol drastically not that I am an alcoholic but like the odd glass of wine. Good luck if you want to add me so we can encourage each other feel free.

What is your definition of clean eating - that sounds more like low carb? Will you be eating oily fish, dairy, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds? If you are cutting out any food groups how are intending on replacing the lost nutrients? Whilst you have made a great start you cannot apply an adult weight management diet to a developing child, you are mentioning lean protein and fruits/ veggies but little in the way of essential fatty acids, minerals and complex carbs? Kids should not be eating egg whites except under medical advice or supervision, you lose the fats and vitamins in the yolk. If you wish to make eggs healthier perhaps choose omega-enriched eggs for essential fatty acids (avocado is super healthy but monounsaturates are not essential)?

If you intend to eliminate grains be sure to eat beans, lentils, nuts or seeds at every meal and snack for the minerals, carbs and fibre. If you hope to eliminate dairy consider plenty of bioavailable calcium (it is bound in certain vegetables), if you cut red meat consider iron and so on. Do try to get a balance of different coloured fruits and vegetables (blue/ purple, red, orange/ yellow, green) not an overload of greens.

HTH.

Thanks for the input, I welcome everyone opinion. As you will see in my original post, I just started eating this way three days ago and today is the only day so far I have logged my foods so I know how crappy I used to eat which is why I am doing this now.
My definition of clean eating is not eating foods that have ingredients I can’t pronounce or that where manipulated in some way or another. Therefore I plan to not eat processed foods and if I have to I will chose the least processed option. I just want to eat what the body needs.
As far as my son’s diet, I have already talked with his dr. about this and he has no qualms with it. I don’t plan on cutting out complex carbs he is still enjoying brown rice, whole grain organic bread and lots and lots of beans/lentils. We eat soups made from scratch, organic cereal with little as possible chemicals in it. I think it’s the smart healthy thing to do for our bodies considering that 80% of the foods we eat now are not food but products created to taste yummy and keep you coming back for more. We are eating healthy fats from nuts, avocados and seeds I made sure to research and have plenty of knowledge in the needs of my adult body and his which is why I want to do this for him so he doesn’t grow up addicted to sugary cereal and nutrient empty carbs that will do nothing for him but keep him addicted and compared to the processed crud he eats now I know this will do nothing but benefit him :-) won’t be cutting out fats either since our bodies need them to process properly but we will be eating healthy fats created by the planet just how we were intended to.