Adventures in clean eating

This quote is a great way to describe my decision to start eating clean.  I've always wanted to cut the crap out of my diet but I never had guidelines to hold myself to.  Now I've figured out the "rules" I'm going to follow 80-90% of the time:

• Eat whole foods with lots of fruit & vegetables
• Avoid refined sugar or artificial sweetener
• Eat 5-6 small meals a day
• Eliminate processed foods or foods with ingredients I can't pronounce

It's actually pretty simple when you think about it.  Implementing it, however, would surely be harder than I expected, right?  Actually, it's been a pretty easy transition.  I've eaten clean for 1 week and it hasn't been too hard.  I feel proud of the healthy decisions I make every day and I'm starting to feel better physically too.  

The biggest factor to my success is that I only follow the "rules" for 80-90% of my meals.  So if I eat 5 meals a day, 1 of them can be un-clean.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not eating a whole pizza for that one meal!  I still stick to healthy-ish decisions but I'm not limiting myself as much as the rest of the day.

I know there's a whole community of people out there who are eating clean.  If you are currently eating clean or thinking about it for the future, post a comment and we'll get a conversation started.  I'd love to hear about other people's thoughts and experiences!