Being busy is no excuse to be forced to eat poorly, at least not with The Fresh Diet!  You can just take your cooler bag with you, which holds all you need for your long day.

I took a day off this weekend from The Fresh Diet, partly because I had company in town, and knew I would have to take them somewhere for lunch and/or dinner, and wasn’t up for the torment of being called a party pooper, and I partly took a day off to try and stretch my delivery days a day longer! My trial month is quickly coming to a close and I’m getting sad, and a bit worried that I’m just not ready for it to end.

It is definitely very difficult for me, to try to eat as well as I do on the Fresh Diet without having that wonderful Green cooler on hand.  Needless to say, I was relieved when I got my delivery the next day, I felt back on track!

ALC with The Fresh Diet Cooler Bag

The Fresh Diet has proved to be the perfect solution for eating healthy. I’m just far too busy in life to worry about what to make to keep my body up and running. It actually keeps me on a schedule of remembering  to eat. I love having discovered The Fresh Diet and having it in my life.

Here is my menu for Wednesday with pictures.  Enjoy!

Breakfast:

Cajun Style Egg White Omelet with Bell Pepper, Onion, Turkey Sausage & Roasted Roma Tomato

• Lunch:

Roasted Turkey Breast Whole Wheat Wrap with Fresh Guacamole and Spring Mix Lettuce

• Hors D’Oeuvre:


Grilled Shrimp Skewer with Fresh Mango Salsa

Dinner:

Grilled Tofu with Orange Tea Leaf Sauce with Steamed Asparagus and Lemon Parsley Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Dessert:

Sugar-Free Butterscotch Pecan Brownie

~Until Next Time!

Eat Well. XO
ALC

Please note – TasteOdyssey.com is not affiliated with the company in any way – I won a contest to try it out for 30 days and I am journaling my experience.

Tags: Dieting, Healthy Eating, The Fresh Diet

Just because you are on a diet doesn’t mean you can’t continue to eat amazing meals. The key to your success is portion size, portion size, portion size!

I thought I had a pretty good idea of what 1200 calories looked like, until I started The Fresh Diet.

Everything is portioned out perfectly for me.  I was very surprised at how much less food there is at each meal, then I thought it would be.  We are in the land of the Super-Sized everything, so it has been quite an eye opener to see just how much food my body needs a day to work properly and lose, or maintain weight.

Today with my menu, I’m adding pictures of each dish, so you can see what an average daily menu looks like on The Fresh Diet.  After a while, it will be a cinch for me to use the eyeball method if I am unable to eat my Fresh Diet meals that day.

• Breakfast: Hawaiian Pineapple Stuffed Whole Wheat French Toast with Strawberries and Blueberry Cottage Cheese

• Lunch: Turkey Souvlaki on Whole Wheat Pita with Minted Yogurt Sauce, & Celery Sticks

• Hors D’Oeuvre: Chicken Skewer with Tequila Lime Glaze

• Dinner: Grilled Chicken Breast with Citrus Chipotle Sauce with Spaghetti Squash in Fresh Basil Pesto and Sauteed Baby Bok-Choy

• Dessert: Sugar-Free Chocolate Cupcake with Mocha-Hazelnut Cream Cheese Frosting

As you can see each portion is about the size of a hand or two-fists, and really your body doesn’t need much more. Each meal I ate today was just enough for me to feel satisfied, not to mention VERY delicious. So, the moral of today’s post is DON’T BE FOOLED by portion sizes that restaurants serve, that is TOO much foood for one person to eat! If you must eat out, share your meal with a friend, or eat ONLY the amount you should eat using the “EYEBALL METHOD” and pack up the rest for lunch the next day.

Once you get in the routine of controlling your portion sizes you will be well on your way, to a healthier, fitter you!

If you want to know more about THE FRESH DIET follow them HERE on their Fresh Diet Facebook page, and be the first to hear about all the contests they have for free weeks, and months of The Fresh Diet.  You have nothing to lose but weight! That bathing suit is calling your name 😉

~Till next time,

XO

ALC

Please note – TasteOdyssey.com is not affiliated with the company in any way – I won a contest to try it out for 30 days and I am journaling my experience.

Tags: Aimee Lynn Chadwick diet, calorie counting, healthy meals, low calorie meals, meal delivery service, portion control, the eyeball method, The Fresh Diet, whole food diet

Today, I not only want to share my menu from the Fresh Diet for the day, to get you just as excited about this diet as I am, but also to share some of the changes I have noticed with myself since I have been on it.  For starters, there was a period of time (a rather LONG period) that I suffered from Acid Reflux.  I have noticed that in the short week of being on The Fresh Diet, I haven’t needed to run to the refrigerator and grab the Mylanta.

Another thing I used to suffer with, stemmed from eating or drinking dairy products.  Let’s just say they didn’t sit well with me, as I am Lactose Intolerant.  I haven’t had any problems with my stomach in the week of being on it either.

I also have noticed my cravings for such “vices” as salt, caffeine, alcohol and sweets have dwindled immensely, if not vanished all together.  I haven’t even had the urge or a need to “relax” at the end of the night with a glass of vino;  I feel completely satisfied with just having a hot cup of caffeine-free tea.

At the Fresh Diet website, they explain in the FAQ section other benefits for people with High Cholestoral, and Diabetes, and how this system really helps balance out insulin levels, with amazing results.  Here is an excerpt:

“The Fresh Diet creates balanced meals that steer clear of cholesterol-hardening carbohydrates thereby helping you lose weight and decrease unhealthy cholesterol levels.  The Fresh Diet is the only program that targets the correction of insulin levels. People that suffer from Type I diabetes also find The Fresh Diet program beneficial. We encourage you to consult with your doctor to see if this program is suitable for you.”

With all that said, here is my menu for Tuesday (it most certainly is a menu fit for a queen!)

• Breakfast: Ruby SwissChard, Oyster Mushroom and Mozzerella Egg Bake with Fresh Pear.
• Lunch: Seared Tofu Wrap with Alfalfa Sprouts, Snow Peas, Watercress, Baby Lettuce, and Soy Dressing
• Hors D’Oeuvre: Apple Pistachio Muffin
• Dinner:Roasted Pork Loin with Pineapple Mango Chutney with Carrot and Rutabaga Mash and Roasted Fennel
• Dessert: Mango Vanilla Pudding

Can’t wait to try it all!

I’ll let you know how it tastes – or – if you are curious go on their site and try it out yourself!

THE FRESH DIET

Happy and Healthy Dieting!

~ALC

Please note – TasteOdyssey.com is not affiliated with the company in any way – I won a contest to try it out for 30 days and I am journaling my experience.

Tags: Aimee Lynn Chadwick diet, calorie counting, health benefits, healthy meals, low calorie meals, meal delivery service, The Fresh Diet, whole food diet

Monday, Monday.

A day some of us dread.  Being on the The Fresh Diet, I woke up bright and early with breakdast already made!

On the menu today is:

• Breakfast: Fresh Fruit Salad with Apple, Blueberry, Kiwi, Papaya, Watermelon, and apricot yogurt.  It was a very full serving of fruit salad. (I could barely finish it! my favorite part was the apricot yogurt.
• Lunch: Santa Fe Style Wrap with pepper-jack cheese, Tomato, Avacado, Corn, Black Beans and Baby Lettuce.  (I thought this would be a small wrap, but it was fairly large, and definitely filling)
• Hors D’Oeuvre:(first snack of the day): Grilled Turkey Pastrami with oregano Broccoli Mash. (this snack portion is small, but delicious, and JUST enough to satisfy any hunger)
• Dinner: Spicy Chickpea Patty with Cilantro Lime and Green Chillies, with Curried Cauliflower mash and grilled Asparagus. (The patty is a standard size, and extremely satisfying)
• Don’t forget Dessert! : Sugar-Free minted cheesecake Bar with Chocolate Drizzle

(I haven’t tried the cheesecake bar yet, I’m not usually a fan of anything cheesecake, but they seem to get rave reviews on it, so I figured I’d be daring and give it a try.)

Who says you have to starve on a Diet??

You don’t with The Fresh Diet!

Please note – TasteOdyssey.com is not affiliated with the company in any way – I won a contest to try it out for 30 days and I am journaling my experience.

Tags: Aimee Lynn Chadwick diet, calorie counting, healthy meals, low calorie meals, meal delivery service, The Fresh Diet, whole food diet

In this special series, guest blogger Aimee Lynn journals her experience with The Fresh Diet – a daily menu of healthy meals designed to fit a caloric target delivered right to your door. I hope you enjoy it! – Keram

Believe me when I say I’ve tried every weight loss fad out there; excessive workouts, restricting calories, daily powder shakes, magical snake oil pills and vitamins, and none of those things really left me feeling healthy, satisfied, and alive.  The fact is, I love food! All I needed was a way to manage how much I ate, and what it was that I consumed.  Which led me to discovering “THE FRESH DIET”.

Immediately I was intrigued by the idea that with The Fresh Diet you actually EAT 3 gourmet, fresh made meals a day PLUS 2 snacks. Training your body to be a mean, lean, fat burning machine!  I decided to start a workout program called P90 to coincide with my one month trial of The Fresh Diet. What better place to share my adventure than here at Taste Odyssey with you guys!

So, for the next few weeks I’ll be logging what delicious meals I get delivered fresh to my door everyday, and how they are benefiting my progress.  My starting goal is to lose the pesky 15 pounds I’ve had lurking on my once stickly figure that I gained after I threw in the towel of beating my body up with stupid alternatives to eating healthy.

The Fresh Diet Cooler Bag

It’s been one week since I started, and I’m not only already down 6 pounds, but I feel so awake, and healthy, and alive! There really is a difference when you are losing weight the RIGHT way, and I guarantee The Fresh Diet can help anyone with that.

I was so excited the first night to hear a knock at my door with a friendly face delivering my very first awesome green cooler of my food for the next day.  I had no idea when picking my menu online for the week, that the food would taste as good as the description of it!  Sure, the portions are very small, but you start to realize that eating 5 times a day, your body really doesn’t need much more.

There are different plans for everyone…you choose what your caloric daily intake should be based on weight, gender, and goals. With the premium plan, you can choose your meals, snacks, and sides from four different options for each meal.

If you have medical issues, or allergies, or just plain don’t like certain foods, there are even options for that!

The best part is, you don’t have to worry anymore about shopping for food, being tempted in the market by the low prices of junk food, and you get a Cordon Bleu Chef hand making amazing meals for you every day!

Today I woke up to having a Canadian bacon, and bell pepper omelette for breakfast, A turkey salad with arugula and artichoke for lunch, a small portion of celery sticks with about 2 tbs. of tuna for a snack, and veggie meat balls, with quinoa, and broccoli for dinner! After dinner, I did a workout and was feeling a bit hungry, so I got to eat my final snack of the day which was the most delicious chocolate chip oatmeal cookie I’ve ever tasted.  A tiny much-deserved indulgment for a hard work out.

Sticking to this diet, you don’t have to worry about anything really, just that you keep on a good schedule and eat the last snack at least an hour or 2 before bedtime, and you will have started your body on the right track of burning calories and feeling great!

I’ll keep updating here daily on what meals I get and my progress.

So far, The Fresh Diet gets an A+ in my book.

Until next time…..

xo

ALC

Learn more about the Fresh Diet at www.thefreshdiet.com

Tags: Aimee Lynn Chadwick diet, calorie counting, healthy meals, low calorie meals, meal delivery service, The Fresh Diet, whole food diet