The Fresh Diet Thinks For You

or “How I Unknowingly Went On a Diet”

(Fresh Diet promo code at the end)

Last week I had a rare miracle happen to me. Every morning around 6:15, I would open my front door and there, waiting for me in a cute insulated bag, was an entire day’s worth of delicious meals prepared just for me. All I had to do was heat them up and enjoy.

Let’s take a moment to savor that concept.

Yes, it’s true. I tried The Fresh Diet for exactly one week. I agree to be a guinea pig for the service before I actually knew what it was – a week’s worth of free food? Yes please! – so when I went to the website to start entering in my preferences, I realized that the “Diet” part of “The Fresh Diet” means that you choose a calorie maximum for the day. To make this experiment worth writing about, I chose a max of 1800 calories, which you can be darn sure I exceed on a regular basis in my normal life.

And how bad can it be when the food looks like this:

Here is how the Fresh Diet works: you log on to their website and go through an entertaining process of clicking on the little pictures of all the foods you DON’T like. You select a calorie level. Then you click on the calendar squares one at a time and select your meals for each day from the choices they present. If you select a meal that has an ingredient you don’t like, the system will tell you. If you choose too many carb-heavy meals, it will tell you that, too. If you just can’t imagine eating any of those choices, leave your selection blank and the Fresh Diet elves will choose one for you.

Your bag magically shows up at your front door. You eat all the food inside it and put the bag back outside before you go to sleep. The next day, it is magically full again.

Sigh.

This service is perfect for someone like me who wants to kickstart a healthier and lower-calorie diet while also feeding a hungry family with two kids in it who will eat nothing besides hot dogs. I cannot lose weight eating hot dogs. But with this meal delivery service I did not have to worry about what I would eat. Outsourcing my own food was an awesome idea.

I made all my choices and when I had a question, I called a real person who is not an elf and she was very helpful in showing me what to do. Since my diet was to start in about a week, all I had to do was sit back and wait for my Fresh Diet bag to arrive on the first day. Oh, and also enjoy my own private Fat Tuesday, eating and drinking everything I wanted since I knew I would soon be limited.

Stay tuned to find out how I dealt with not being able to snack, and to see how much weight I lost. Oh, the drama!

PROMO CODE:  Receive 3 days free with the purchase of a 31 day plan at $29.99 per day.  Just enter semommar29 when you sign up at The Fresh Diet.

This post is sponsored by The Fresh Diet. I also received a week’s supply of The Fresh Diet food to facilitate this review. All opinions are my own.