New to clean eating, Questions!

  • Hi Everyone!


    I have had an account here for a while now I believe but never really kept up. I have now decided to try clean eating. Hope I can do well since I am really picky and don't like A LOT of things but I am trying a lot of things I don't think I like and trying to get used to eating them. Although right now I am eating better than I have in the past before I started my weight loss journey, I seem to have hit a plateau and staying the same weight and kind of blame that on me eating a lot of processed/packaged food. I have never really been one to use protein powder/shakes but are there any clean plant based protein powders out there? I was looking at Garden of Life Raw Organic Protein, Vanilla and it seems pretty clean. Also, is milk allowed? I have seen some say that it isn't unless its raw which you can not really find but say that regular whole milk is acceptable. Any tips would be great as I am very new to this.
  • Hi jtolley90,

    This might be helpful: Michael Pollan's 64 Food Rules. I don't agree with all 64, but i like his approach to going healthier with food, and enjoying it. I imagine most people make it up as they go--more like 'cleaner' eating. Good luck!

    Michael Pollan?s 64 Food Rules ? global food and thought

    1. Eat food
    2. Don’t eat anything your great‐grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food
    3. Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry
    4. Avoid food products that contain high‐fructose corn syrup
    5. Avoid food products that have some form of sugar (or sweetener listed among) the top three ingredients
    6. Avoid food products that have more than 5 ingredients
    7. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third‐grader cannot pronounce
    8. Avoid food products that make health claims
    9. Avoid food products with the wordoid “lite” or the terms “low fat” or “nonfat” in their names
    10. Avoid foods that are pretending to be something they are not
    11. Avoid foods you see advertised on television
    12. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
    13. Eat only foods that will eventually rot
    14. Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature
    15. Get out of the supermarket whenever you can
    16. Buy your snacks at the farmers market
    17. Eat only foods that have been cooked by humans
    18. Don’t ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap
    19. If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
    20. It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car
    21. It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language (Think Big Mac, Cheetos or Pringles)
    22. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves
    23. Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food
    24. Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs [cows, pigs and other mammals].
    25. Eat your colors
    26. Drink the spinach water
    27. Eat animals that have themselves eaten well
    28. If you have space, buy a freezer
    29. Eat like an omnivore
    30. Eat well‐grown food from healthy soil
    31. Eat wild foods when you can
    32. Don’t overlook the oily little fishes
    33. Eat some foods that have been predigested by bacterial or fungi
    34. Sweeten and salt your food yourself
    35. Eat sweet foods as you find them in nature
    36. Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk
    37. The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead
    38. Favor the kinds of oils and grains that have traditionally been stone‐ground
    39. Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself
    40. Be the kind of person who takes supplements – then skip the supplements
    41. Eat more lie the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
    42. Regard nontraditional foods with skepticism
    43. Have a glass of wine with dinner
    44. Pay more, eat less
    45. Eat less
    46. Stop eating before you’re full
    47. Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored
    48. Consult your gut
    49. Eat slowly
    50. The banquet is in the first bite
    51. Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it
    52. Buy smaller plates and glasses
    53. Serve a proper portion and don’t go back for seconds
    54. Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like pauper
    55. Eat meals
    56. Limit your snacks to unprocessed plant foods
    57. Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does
    58. Do all your eating at a table
    59. Try not to eat alone
    60. Treat treats as treats
    61. Leave something on your plate
    62. Plant a vegetable garden if you have space, a window box if you don’t
    63. Cook
    64. Break the rules once in a while
  • thank you so much for this sundove!