Beachbody's 21 Day Fix- Don't count calories?!

So you have to crumble your bread and waffles and cut up your meat and veggies to fit into the containers? That sounds restrictive of the kinds of meals you can make. I would rather have a beautiful broiled fish, stuffed whole peppers... etc

If it's just meant as a comparison without actually needing to measure things in them wouldn't the good old "deck of cards, dice, ping pong ball..." method be cheaper and easier to compare?

Measuring, to me, offers more freedom and less hassle as it's accurate and only takes a few seconds.

Because some of us are deficient with understanding the size of a deck of card or a ping pong ball. To me it looks like a small book and a baseball LOL! You know, the old "different strokes for different folks". Whatever works for YOU, I support!!

So you have to crumble your bread and waffles and cut up your meat and veggies to fit into the containers? That sounds restrictive of the kinds of meals you can make. I would rather have a beautiful broiled fish, stuffed whole peppers... etc

If it's just meant as a comparison without actually needing to measure things in them wouldn't the good old "deck of cards, dice, ping pong ball..." method be cheaper and easier to compare?

Measuring, to me, offers more freedom and less hassle as it's accurate and only takes a few seconds.

THe bread goes of course in the yellow container and instead of crumbling it she says 1 slice is 1 container.
as for the fish you 1 red is APPROX 4 oz but on some meats its 6 oz and the veggies youd measure before.
Its not really that hard
I love it since I never ever learned portion control and this teaches Fast and well and I love the quick workouts that are still really basic and Good.

According to what I have found (and PLEASE correct me if I am wrong), the 21Day Fix figures your caloric intake like so:
Multiply your base weight x 11, then add 400 calories ("fix calorie burn"), which will give you your "caloric need", and from that, subtract 750 calories, which will give you your "target calories".

Well, if you weigh 250 pounds to begin, this gives you a daily caloric intake "need" of 2400 calories? How can one lose weight on that many calories??

So, how are you supposed to cook on this? Do I shove the ingredients for my pasta/chicken/salad/sandwich into the little boxes and then make it? What if I'm cooking with friends and family?

Am I supposed to shove Aunt Edna aside at the stove, steal the jambalaya ingredients, and start cramming them into my rainbow boxes with wild abandon?

ALL the info about the 21 day fix diet part of the program is easily found online by google in various blogs, pinterest and reviews etc.. There really isn't much to the diet program so it's inevitable that all pertinent details about it have been leaked out online.
The exercise you could probably sub with any other workout that challenges you and is the same length of time.
Thinking of trying it tomorrow, for free. I hate calorie counting so maybe this is an alternative.

So, how are you supposed to cook on this? Do I shove the ingredients for my pasta/chicken/salad/sandwich into the little boxes and then make it? What if I'm cooking with friends and family?

Am I supposed to shove Aunt Edna aside at the stove, steal the jambalaya ingredients, and start cramming them into my rainbow boxes with wild abandon?

I get a lot of my cooking recipes on pinterest or on the groups facebook page. There are a lot of blogs that have recipes and what approximate containers are for that recipe. Its not exact I will agree with that, but I think not being 100% perfectly precise is why it works for me. I had an eating disorder for a long time...and for YEARS everything had to be exact. I had to know every.single.calorie that went into my body. I tend to not succeed very well weighing/precisely measuring my food on MFP because it reminds me of that mindset and I tend to end up eating more crap trying to "rebel." Knowing "about" the portion size is mentally much easier for me to grasp and as a PP said, it clicks with me.

I could very easily use free youtube videos and MFP and not pay a cent...but I love the group that I am in on facebook where we share recipes and ideas and encourage each other, and I actually like the workouts. I'm usually staring at the clock waiting for the workout to be over, but these ones actually don't bore me and I get excited to do them the next day.

Shakeology on the other hand....I probably won't be re-buying. Probably. I got a recipe for an amazing "pumpkin pie" shake with the chocolate that is oh so good...but for much cheaper I will make with my own. I find the vanilla flavor to personally be nasty. If I re-bought it would be for the strawberry...which is actually pretty good, and there aren't an abundance of that flavor around my area.

What happens on the 22nd day?

And this^^ is really the only problem I have with it. By calling it a 21 day FIX, it implies that by doing it for 21 days you will magically lose ALL the weight you need to and therefore can stop following it and yet you will never gain anything back. Then what happens on the 22nd day. I don't have a problem with the workout or the eating plan. But don't call it a 21 day FIX. Because there is no such thing. And I agree that spending 60 bucks is completely unnecessary and not worth the money. You can achieve the same results on your own... But if those little containers and a workout DVD is something that works for you... More power to you.