Eating clean?? Help please!!!!!

I personally don't follow the eat clean routine, so am no expert, but that said, any path you choose is going to negate something that is considered to be healthy. So yes, yogurt is healthy, but not allowed if you are eating clean. No your body will NOT go into shock without sugar; it will probably applaud you! Organic is just a term that refers to how something was raised or grown - without chemicals/additives - so you can find just about anything organic these days.

I try to follow a clean eating lifstyle as much as possible. Yogurt IS good for you...but not the kind with lots of sugar or artificial sweetner. The whole premise of eating clean is not eating anything processed.

The more you follow it, the more your body actually prefers it...I no longer get sugar cravings like I used to!

Good luck!

if you go to Tosca Reno's Eat Clean diet, (google search it) she talks alot about it there. You basically eat as close to it's natural state, meaning no processed foods, whole grains, lean meats, etc. I follow it for the most part, but you will do what works for you. I was eating cottage cheese and some yogurt, but after awhile, can't even stomach that without getting a tummy ache. I have been eating this way for over a year now and when I cheat or go outside of my normal clean foods, I pay a price. I have to say I feel SO much better eating this way. I was always tired and dragging, bloated, gassy, irregular, etc. and now my body inside and out feels so much better. I encourage it, but for me, it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle. I don't see myself going back to my old eating habits. It's not for everyone though.

Good luck

Eating clean?

One question I would ask myself before doing this and that would be, could I "eat clean" for all my life and if the answer was no, then I wouldn't start it in the first place. If it is just to lose weight, what happens when I have lost all my weight and start eating processed foods?

Here's what "eating clean" means to me: it is mostly about trying eat foods in the form they came in. I'm not a raw food-ist, so I do cook a lot of my food, but I go to the grocery store to buy INGREDIENTS for foods. I want most everything in my cart to have an ingredient list of one item. (Or as short as possible. I do buy some convenience foods, like peanut butter and yogurt, but, for example, peanut butter should have one, maaaaybe two ingredients: peanuts, maybe salt. That kind of thing.) A turkey patty might be clean and it might not be. Is it just ground turkey breast maybe with some spices that is prepared for me for convenience? Or is it: ground turkey breast plus about fifteen other things that I don't even recognize? I would consider the first pretty clean and the second, not so much.

I don't find it necessary to eliminate dairy. Yeah, it has been processed by being pasteurized, but that is hardly the worst thing done to food these days. I do buy organic dairy, though. There are probably as many different ideas of what "clean eating" can mean as there are different people out there. I would start with small changes and try to think about whether the food you are putting in your body is REAL (as in, your great grandmother would recognize it as food) or if it is cleverly manufactured, marketed and processed to resemble food. Start there and, when you do by processed/packaged foods, look for short ingredient lists with things you recognize.

(And no, your body won't go into shock from cutting out the sugar.)

I always wash/rinse my fruits and veggies, and dishes....wait....WHAAAAA?!?!

Eating clean?

One question I would ask myself before doing this and that would be, could I "eat clean" for all my life and if the answer was no, then I wouldn't start it in the first place. If it is just to lose weight, what happens when I have lost all my weight and start eating processed foods?

I totally agree! You need to (IMO) come up with an eating plan that is sustainable for life.

Similar to other posters on this thread, in my own experience, I eat a lot more fruits, veggies and dairy than I did before joining MFP, and I feel fantastic. I also eat yogurt every single day, something I never did before because I couldn't stand the taste. Now I discovered I love whole milk yogurt (plain mixed with fresh fruit or with honey & cinnanmon). I have cut out almost every type of packaged prepared food from my diet, I buy my veggies from a CSA and my meats from a local farm where the animals are raised in fields, and I feel better than I ever have in my life.

Whatever u do don't waste your money on a weight loss program. I am on the Food Lover Fat Loss System. I could have just gotten the same information from buying a book on the low glycemic index. Do what works for you and research as much as u can.