Clean Eating

You can eat clean if you like, but you can still eat some of the foods you enjoy as well. As long as you get your servings of fruits and veggies, take your multivitamin and fish oil as well as get your minimum required protein and fat macros you'll be fine and healthy.

I eat somewhat clean, but I also eat some junk and still lose weight just fine, and I'm still very healthy.

As far as websites, go to Alan Aragon's site, Lyle McDonald's site or Martin Berkhan's site.

I use recipes from eatingwell.com all the time. Also, I make a lot of things with beans and have learned how to used dry beans and I use recipes from eatingwell.com. I am trying to eat clean as well and am learning/practicing each day. I hope to get good at it soon--I eat 1000mg or less of sodium as well which is easy if I am avoiding processed foods.

Best of luck

The clean eating magazine has great recipes and info

I've never read a book on it... But, it's quite simple actually. Don't buy prepackaged/prepared food. Buy your own meats, veggies, and whole grains (brown rice, oatmeal, etc) etc and season & prepare them yourself.

http://www.cleaneatingmag.com/

Our whole family has started following a similar "diet" (paleo lifestyle). You might not be interested in going to that extent, but everything in the paleo diet would be considered "clean eating". So, if you do some searches on "paleo recipes" or "paleo snacks", you should get none processed options/ideas.

I started doing this about 6 months ago after I was diagnosed with MS, before I started MFP. I haven't used any websites or resources, but basically I have been doing the bulk of my shopping at Whole Foods, and started buying all these fruits and vegetables that I would normally just pass over (beets, turnips, whole carrots, any kind of berry, pineapple, papayas, avocados). I do still eat some processed foods, but choose healthier foods, for example, my new go-to cereal is Kashi Go-Lean. For dairy I only purchase organic products (other foods I'm not as picky about). Most days now I've stopped eating meat even though I don't consider myself vegetarian. No more fast food. Sparkling water for my water most days. Instead of rice I do a rice/quinoa mixture. That sort of thing. I keep walnuts and raw pumpkin seeds in my pantry, which have the highest amount of omega fatty acids. I am not completely off diet sodas but have started to have coffee with just skim milk, no artificial sweetener.

So it hasn't been really following any sort of diet, just exploring more areas in the grocery store I used to ignore. You feel a lot healthier, I feel like I have more energy instead of being sluggish or blah after eating.

Also I thought it would be more expensive but actually the produce is usually the bulk of my shopping and isn't that pricy, and I've saved a lot on eating out. I think I'm actually spending a little less on food now.

Good luck with it, it's a great change to make!

I just finished reading the "Eating Clean Stripped" By Tosca Reno. She will explain in the book what you need to eat and rules to fallow to strip those last 10 lbs. I already live a eating clean lifestyle (I don't believe in using the word "diet" either ) , but still found reading the book helped me refocuse on exactly what I need to do to get rid of these last few pounds and "lean" up!
Good luck! Kelly :happy:

Oh and I totally agree with the person who recommended "Food Inc." It will change how you view food! It's available on instant queue in Netflix.