Clean Eating questions

alisont91
alisont91 Posts: 54
in Food and Nutrition
So, I'd like to get into clean eating. I feel like refined sugars and bad carbs are taking over my life. Today I couldn't stop eating this carrot cake that I had made and then a Mimosa muffin and a bunch of other terrible stuff that is full of bad chemicals and crap! Does anyone have any websites/books that have helped them transition lifestyles? Like what do I buy and how can I easily tell if something is 'clean'?
Is anyone out there that is willing to give some support or tips that might help me?
Thanks :)
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  • lisao62
    lisao62 Posts: 80 Member
    thegraciouspantry.com is a great website. Has advice about starting out, shopping for basics as well as recipes. I have found it to be very helpful. Good Luck
  • missprincessjenny
    missprincessjenny Posts: 104 Member
    Google Tosca Reno clean eating. She has a website and numerous books about clean eating. There are a number of pages on facebook about it if you search.
  • dafoots0911
    dafoots0911 Posts: 347 Member
    Google Tosca Reno clean eating. She has a website and numerous books about clean eating. There are a number of pages on facebook about it if you search.
    This. Have just about all of her books and have done very well with her principles.
  • mhotch
    mhotch Posts: 901 Member
    I am a Tosca Reno fan myself.
  • rlv2680
    rlv2680 Posts: 289 Member
    bump
  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
    <---for me clean eating means using a napkin. :bigsmile:
  • PrairieGurl69
    PrairieGurl69 Posts: 3
    There is actually a magazine and a website "clean eating dot com" - both are fantastic. Great recipes! :smile:
  • livestar
    livestar Posts: 140 Member
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  • biddysaurus
    biddysaurus Posts: 156 Member
    www.perrysplate.com has some nice recipes. Not all are "clean" but many are and so far everything I've made from that site has been delicious!
  • jayanne0907
    jayanne0907 Posts: 33 Member
    Jillian Michaels Master Your Metabolism is a great read for someone entertaining the transition to clean eating. Initially I got it from the public library then decided it was worth buying to add to my collection of healthy living books.
  • Ange_
    Ange_ Posts: 324 Member
    You could do what i do and make a rule that you'll only eat bread or cake, pasta etc if you have made it yourself FROM SCRATCH.
    That keeps me eating less of the stuff and it is a bit of time and effort to make. Homemade tastes so much better too and obviously no chemical preservatives etc.
    Carrot cake isn't necessarily bad, if you can find recipes that replace or lessen some of the ingredients. Such as use agave or honey instead of so much sugar (and less of it too), and perhaps apple sauce (made from apples not from a bottle) instead of oil. And of course portion size. I bought some tiny little cake tins and make things in those. If more servings don't exist then i can't eat them!

    I think perhaps if you decide one day you want to eat carrot cake or pasta or whatever search 'heathy -- recipe' and scan through the ingredients so you can see if it really clean or not. That way you aren't limited to what is on one particular site.
  • GreenGettingLean
    GreenGettingLean Posts: 252 Member
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  • crystalhoneycutt
    crystalhoneycutt Posts: 3 Member
    definitely recommend Tocsa Reno's: the eat clean diet book

    it will help alot :)
  • alisont91
    alisont91 Posts: 54
    Thank you everybody! And at least I replaced the oil in my cake with applesauce, but I did use a box mix so there's added crap in there. I will for sure check out Tocsa Reno!
  • Saunz5
    Saunz5 Posts: 165 Member
    Jamie Eason talks about it on bodybuilding.com That's where I first learned about it. She also has recipes on it. http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/get-lean-eat-clean-with-jamie-eason-main-page.htm

    Kind of a silly question, but just in case you haven't, have you googled it and checked out different websites? Good Luck! :)
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    I know this makes me look bad, but oh my gosh, Mimosa muffin? Recipe please!
  • plhv19
    plhv19 Posts: 46 Member
    Jillian Michaels Master Your Metabolism is a great read for someone entertaining the transition to clean eating. Initially I got it from the public library then decided it was worth buying to add to my collection of healthy living books.

    This book changed my life and how I look at food. I now read ingredients before I even read anything else on labels. In fact, I hardly look at cals, fat, sugar, carbs, etc. anymore. Highly recommend.
  • kristy8403
    kristy8403 Posts: 18 Member
    The Lean by Kathy Freston
  • ahubar
    ahubar Posts: 6 Member
    I know what you are talking about. I stumbled on to Dr. Joey Shuman and her books and I have used others, but always go back to her. She makes everything seem simple. Her books are The Natural Makeover Diet, The Last 15 and her newest book is The Metabolism Boosting Diet.
  • ahubar
    ahubar Posts: 6 Member
    I meant Dr. Joey Shulman
  • kcoyle220
    kcoyle220 Posts: 34 Member
    bump!
  • splashwags
    splashwags Posts: 262 Member
    Alot of the same...Clean Eating Magazine, Tosca, Gracious Pantry. Read labels, try to only eat things the either had a mom or came from the ground...
  • splashwags
    splashwags Posts: 262 Member
    Jamie Eason talks about it on bodybuilding.com That's where I first learned about it. She also has recipes on it. http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/get-lean-eat-clean-with-jamie-eason-main-page.htm

    Kind of a silly question, but just in case you haven't, have you googled it and checked out different websites? Good Luck! :)

    Love her turkey muffins...
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Good for you! I think "clean eating" is a great goal! I've been doing it for 10-15 years (before it was call that I just called it a low crap diet). If you believe cutting back on the crap is for you GO FOR IT!!! Don't let any nay sayers tell you otherwise!
  • JoshuaL86
    JoshuaL86 Posts: 403 Member
    <---for me clean eating means using a napkin. :bigsmile:


    Me too!!
  • sweetsarahj
    sweetsarahj Posts: 701 Member
    Clean eating to me is simple. Eat stuff from your fridge, not your pantry.

    That's it.

    I should also add that it took me a solid year to transition to eating ~90% of my food from the fridge, and I'm on the paleo diet now so really the only pantry foods I eat are quinoa and spices.
  • zewolf77
    zewolf77 Posts: 173 Member
    Check out "The Engine 2 Diet" as seen on the documentary "Forks Over Knives" (good movie, btw).

    Rip Esselstyn is a clean eating stud.. but it's all Vegan.
  • joannezuk
    joannezuk Posts: 153 Member
    Start with Tosca Reno's Eat Clean Diet so that you can learn what it means to eat clean. She has some great recipes there, and there are a couple of cookbooks under the same name, as well as Clean Eating magazine.

    Essentially though, to make this stick, you need to incorporate the principles of clean eating into your life - you don't necessarily need to follow a strict diet plan. If you're eating clean foods for all of your meals and snacks, you're eating clean. It doesn't have to mean eating a bodybuilder's diet of 14 egg whites per day plus vegetables.

    You'll find a lot of diet plans are very strict. If you're anything like me, eating the same thing every day with very little variation gets old quickly, and that carrot cake (or in my case chocolate whatever) becomes very attractive again. If, instead, you modify your lifestyle so that you are eating a variety of clean, healthy foods every day, you can take or leave the carrot cake (or chocolate), indulge when you decide you want to (if you even care to), and have the ability to stop because you aren't being controlled by sugar. Furthermore, you can still eat the foods you like - you'll just learn how to make them clean.
  • Sp1nGoddess
    Sp1nGoddess Posts: 1,134 Member
    Tosca Reno/ Oxygen Mag
    Nerd Fitness
    Stumptuous
  • alisont91
    alisont91 Posts: 54
    I know this makes me look bad, but oh my gosh, Mimosa muffin? Recipe please!

    They were so delicious! But a bit dry. I might have cooked them too long, though.
    http://www.inspiredbycharm.com/2012/04/guest-post-mimosa-muffins-from-no-2.html

    Thanks so much everyone! I think I'm going to start after finals--I cannot be expected to not binge a little during this time--and hopefully set a goal of clean eating all summer. I definitely would love for it to become a lifestyle. These are great references!

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