I was very motivated by the commercials that promised weight loss even after eating hamburgers and pizza. The best part was that you did not have to cook it! Sounds like an amazing diet, am I right? So I ordered a month supply (3 weeks with 1 week free). The price was pretty steep at $289.46, but I figured if this diet plan was really going to work, it was worth it.
A humongous box arrived very quickly. I was extremely excited to look at all the foods and organize them according to meal category. A lot of the pictures looked very appetizing, but I thought most of the packages looked really small for a meal. Also, all of the food was sealed in a way that reminded me of astronaut food.
I started off my first day with two blueberry muffins. They looked pretty good. The good part stops there, however. They honestly tasted like a mixture of carbon paper or cardboard. This was definitely not how the Good Lord intended on food tasting. You think that something that tasted so fake would at least be low in calories and fat. Think again! For those two tiny muffins, there was in the ballpark of 250 calories and 6 grams of fat! I would have rather had a Subway sandwich. At least those are actually real food and taste good.
Some other options for breakfast were cereal, which tasted decent. The only problem was that the packet only contained about a half a cup of cereal. More foods were scrambled eggs that came from powdered dust, as well as some pancake mix, and oatmeal. All things you can buy at your local grocer for a few dollars.
Next came lunch. I was craving some chocolate, so I decided to eat a fudge graham bar. It was definitely a winner over the blueberry muffins I had earlier, but still not that appetizing. In later days of the week, I tried these little cans of noodles and the soup. For one, there was not that much food in them. For two, I was eating food with no flavor that had more calories and fat grams then I thought was possible to squeeze into that little can. You were also supposed to add a salad with your meal. I have never been so happy to eat salad in my life!
Dinner finally rolled around and by now, I am starving! Once again, I was tricked by the luscious pictures and mouth-watering names of the food. My taste buds were very upset as I tried the cheese ravioli. Was cheese supposed to taste like that? I admit, during the week, there was one dinner that rose above the others: Zesty Cajun Style Chicken and Sausage with Wild Rice. It was so spicy that I could not taste the other crap. Some other dinners this program offers are pizza, lasagna, chicken patty melt, and hamburgers.
Finally, after much anticipation, it was time to treat myself to dessert. Sorry, folks, but this is not the changing part of the story. No one lived happily ever after. The chocolate almond biscotti I ate with my coffee tasted like cardboard once again. Even dunking it into my coffee did not cover up the bland flavor.
Do you loose weight on this diet? You might, if you can eat the food for more than a day or two. I could not stay on this diet for more than two days. Since the food is so disgusting (by disgusting, I mean even worse than healthy food), it is very easy to cheat. As far as convenience and customer service goes, I give them two thumbs up. One more complaint against this program is them not refunding my returned food. I wanted to send this crap back, but had waited too long to do so. The only thing this program nourishes is their bank accounts.
