Clean Eaters - I need help!

drop the honey, you are sweet enough (lol), seriously, its all unneeded sugars.

Breakie - good, watch the total cal on the protein shake, they are not for calorie watchers (but for those who break and rebuild muscle, i highly recommned it)

Snack - excellent, minus the honey

Lunch - ok looks good, try to get some grilled/baked chicken breast chunks on the salad if you can

Snack - up it to 2-3 eggs, white only (there will be strong disagreement by some on this, but yolk is lots of cholesterol)

After workout - perfect

Dinner - great

Not all protein shakes are clean.
Check what you're consuming.

Also, be cautious of your sugar intake.

i make a spinage salad, with black berries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and pecans, with balsmic vingarette dressing.
Sometimes I add shedded parmsen.

Good work. Next think to clean eating is to know where your food comes from and how its produced. I try to get organic. It will help you understand what I mean if you see this:
http://www.infowars.com/food-the-ultimate-secret-exposed/

love it but it comes down to getting a good quality protein shake ! what kind do you have?

that is a quality protein as far as i know so you should be good

I have finally begun believing in clean eating and am going to give it a shot. So I've drafted a sample meal plan. I tend to follow the same eating plan every day. After a while I may change it but I need to get in the swing of it first.

Breakfast - 1/2 cup oats with 1 cup blueberries with a tiny bit of honey and cinnamon. Also a protein shake

Snack - 200grams of strawberries and 5oz of Greek plain yogurt with .5tbsp of honey

Lunch - salad with peppers, celery, cucumber, carrots and radishes. 1.5 tsp of my favorite salad dressing...Italian basil and Romano

Snack - 1 hard boiled egg whites with a whole hard boiled egg and 1 tsp of low fat mayo

After workout - protein shake

Dinner - veggie and meat. Usually chicken flavored with spices although sometimes it's ground beef with some mixed veggies.

Does this sound alright?? If anything isn't "good" what's a replacement for it?!

Thanks for any and all help!

I think your diary is good.. eventually maybe replacing the protein shakes with other sources of protein? I still use it occasionally, usually when I'm craving chocolate I make a chocolate milk out of it. I'd throw tuna or chicken or ham or beans into the salad. You can replace the mayo a lunch with avocado for healthy fat.

I don't see a problem with the raw honey.. although I dropped in in favor of using 2 different fruits to sweeten my oats/yogurt (bananas, mango, strawberries and pineapple are all super sweet!) or my homemade strawberry jam sometimes. I had a bad day today.. Caved to cadbury... but i eat clean about 90% of the time. Also switching to organic,. About half my pantry is currently organic, even if it's not logged that way. I wish I could just throw it all away.. but I can't.

In my opinion the whole concept of clean eating is a wash if you don't also eat organic. This is not everyone's opinion.

The best advice I can give you is to do a little research on food and what is *actually* in what you are eating. You will be shocked at how much sugar you really are eating and how many chemicals you ingest everyday. Clean eating aims to rid yourself of this. You need to look it up for yourself and decide what you are most comfortable with putting in your body. I'll tell something.. going to clean eating helped me with my skin and my energy level.. and even with only being half organic I am even more energetic and I feel much much better.

ETA: Natural does not mean organic.. they are two different things. stuff in a box or pre-made stuff is only bad if it had additives and chemicals in it. Ingredient lists should be short and you should be able to buy everything on the list yourself. It's easier to just not buy it, then it is to check everything. And I feel your pain with the blender.. my son broke ours last week.. and it's killing me to not have it.. I didn't even realize how much i use it now. LOL

Check out this 1700 or less calorie, 1 week plan I found!

http://www.nomagicpills.com/1700caloriefood/