Eating Clean

Does anyone else here who is maintaining try to eat as  clean as humanly possible? For example today I am eating:

Stoneyfield organic strawberry yogurt mixed with a banana and Kashi Go Lean Crunch

An apple w.  pb

Chocolate Silk Soymilk & a Powerbar protien plus (no time to eat lunch between classes today, but the power bar has 300 calories in it)

A banana& a serving of triscuits before the gym

Cous Cous& baby carrots for dinner

I go to the gym for 2 hours everyday and have 2 dance classes this afternoon. I try to avoid HFCS, transfats and processed junk. Does this sound good? Should I change anything? If it helps, I'm 5'2 1/2" and maintaing a weight between 105-110 lbs.

Looking at your day, the only suggestion that I have would be to increase your protein. It will help keep you full longer and is beneficial for your body.

I also try and eat clean. I buy very little processed food.

Today I'm planning: B: cottage cheese (1% MF), soy butter, blueberries

S: Home-made muffin (sweetended w apple sauce rather than white sugar)

L: whitefish, corn nibblets (cut straight off the cob), green beans, baby bel cheese

S: Almonds, carrots, celery

D: Minetrone soup, grilled chicken breast, cooked mixed veggies (from a local farmer)

S: Plain unsweetened yogurt (2% MF) nuts.

Outside of snacks, I try and make sure that 1/3 to 1/2 of my cals at each meal are from protein,

Not maintaining yet, but I do eat clean about 90% of the time.
Eating clean for me means choosing foods that are fresh and local (within 100 miles of my area).
Choosing packaged foods with less then 3-5 ingredients.
Making my own whole grain bread, no preservatives, only last three days.

I am very lucky because my area is surrounded by farms that grow almost everything.  Even the wine around here is local.

Looks good except lots of sugar (albeit some of it's natural sugars).

...sweetened yogurt, sweetened cereal (I think just the GoLean, not the GoLean Crunch has less sugar), banana, apple, chocolate soy milk, protein bar, even carrots are relatively high in sugar.

I also agree with the above reply about eating more protein.  Other than that, looks good :)

'Clean' to me means foods that are as close to their natural state as possible.  And if a food is ready-to-eat it shouldn't contain more than five ingredients.  So I would say that soya milk, power bars and triscuits (?) would not fall in that definition

I'd suggest preparing a more substantial lunch to take with you.... Sandwiches don't take more than a minute to eat and if you buy good quality breads and pair them with interesting fillings you can quickly put together something nutritious and tasty.  Add extras such as nuts and raisins, boiled eggs, fresh fruit...

Cous-cous and baby-carrots need some kind of protein to go with them... Meat, fish, eggs, nuts, beans, lentils, tofu... take your pick

Finally... make sure you're getting enough total energy (calories)  It's difficult to tot them up from that list but if you're going to a gym for 2 hours a day plus other things as well then you probably need 2300-2500 cals a day to be properly nourished.

Id log to check the protein too 

 Have you checked out Eat CLean Diet - Tosca Reno 

It has some great info and recipes and links to her books - but she doesnt advocate counting calories 

An awesome looking woman and so very positive and giving...

I agree with other posts - its the processing that sux

good luck with it all 

 

I agree with gi-jane, you are eating a lot of food I would consider processed: kashi go-lean crunch, power bars, triscuits, chocolate soy milk. She is also right that it looks like you are under-eating - you need to bump those calories up.

I would think you would do a little better on less processed food and more fats and protein, but it's up to you. It looks like you have a very sweet tooth (I count 4 apart from the fruit, and 5 if the pb is sweetened) - that's o.k, but if you are getting energy spikes and lows, you might want to think about replacing some of that sugar with something else.

Couscous and carrots is a very incomplete dinner - you need some protein and fats in there also. Remember, fats are necessary for health, so don't restrict them unnecessarily; most people need around 20-30% of their daily calories to come from fat to be healthy.