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Can you cancel your order? Sounds like it's not the plan for you and your schedule.

If you go ahead and follow the 21 day fix, be sure to have a plan in place for days 22 onwards.

Eat less for longer than 21 days. That way you don't have to spend money on a gimmick.

it's not a quick gimmick. the title would have you believe it is - the 21 days refers to the length of a cycle of going through the exercises. it includes exercise CDs of 30 minutes length that you do every day in a given succession. i'm sure you'll agree, working out for 30 minutes a day helps you get your calorie burn.

the containers it comes with is a structured diet plan that won't work for everyone, but they work well for other people, and there's nothing wrong with that.

i'm sure everyone on MFP has a food scale, and there's nothing wrong with wanting more guidance than that.

that said, if you are having cold feet and are not sure you want to give it a shot, by all means cancel it and find what works for you! good luck!

Is that the one with the weird containers? Honestly, you're on MFP - its free, just weigh your food and log your calories - make sure you have a deficit between what you eat and burn

i am not a beachbody coach.

it's a tool. useful to some, not to others. weight watchers is a tool too. works for some, not for others. they too give you guidelines on how to eat and encourage you to get exercise.

if something helps me make sure i get as many vegetables as i need, that's a tool. if something helps me get the right amount, not too much, starch, that's a tool. and if i choose to run a certain DVD for a workout, that's a tool too. the fact that it's manufactured by a certain company doesn't matter. how you use the tools matters.

if it doesn't work for you, that's ok. weight watchers didn't work for me. that's not to say weight watchers is a gimmick, it means it wasn't right for me. some people like a visual aid to guide them, that's all. my friend julie, it works for her. nothing wrong with that. she's having excellent results, and it's a diet plan she believes she can continue for the long haul. a gimmick is trying to solve all your problems in 21 days. using a 21 day cycle of different activities and using measuring tools is not.

you would not be saying this to me if i did 1/2 hour of cardio or weights every day, switching it up so i had different workouts that, over the cycle, worked my whole body. so why say it about the workout dvds? i've been using MFP for a while now measuring what i eat and recording it. why then is it a gimmick when you use an additional tool for it?

So I have a friend that is interested in various diet plans and the practicality of them. So she tries them out of curiosity. She claims this one is very easy to follow and one of the most dummy proof systems out there. After explaining everything to me, I feel its way too much work for basically a over glorified portion control plan.

So that just shows yet again what one person thinks is awesome, another sees as completely useless.

I purchased the program. It will work if you measure your food but it is just a guide. I like the work out videos because they are effective.. but every program must be implemented and followed to work. I downloaded the 21 day fix app. You can use it to make the program easier to follow. You don't actually have to measure it all out once you figure out the portion control.

My husband and I just started it on Monday. We have 2 small children, live on a family farm, have after school activities and I work full time. So far, I have been able to fit it in just fine. If you eat fairly healthy already, you can probably just make sure to use the containers for portion control/measuring. If not, the guide suggests all the foods you can eat. It honestly isn't really bad at all. Actually, I've really been enjoying it - it's a nice feeling knowing I'm doing something healthy for myself. Something I did on Sunday before we started was prep all of our lunches and breakfast for the week. Grilled some chicken breasts, cooked some quinoa, pre-bagged our fruits/veggies, hard boiled some eggs. We made an assembly line putting everything together in Gladware containers for each day. Now we can just grab the stuff for ourselves on the way out the door each morning. Nothing much has changed for the kids - they pretty much are eating the same stuff we are with some small modifications. I might make them some mac n cheese instead of forcing them to eat our brown rice or quinoa, etc.

Workout time has been a little more of a sacrifice. We have been doing that after the kids go to bed. It is only 30 minutes, so I'm telling myself that I need to make the time for it and quit making excuses. If I really want to make a change, some sacrifice is going to be necessary. Of course, this has made it a little hard to have time to fold all the laundry and the other chores I do after they go to bed. I just have to come to grips with the fact that I can't do it all!

I bet you'd be able to do it!! Maybe you should try it out for a week or two, give it your all, and see what you think! You should have 30 days to return it, so in the event you don't like it after a week or two, ship it back!

You can have pizza on 21 day fix... you just account for it - just like you do with anything else. Wait until you get the package and review the materials. :-)

I poo poo'd the heck out of this system for a long long time. Then, for some reason it suddenly appealed to me. I do not use the containers, I just set up my MFP numbers to reflect the macro balance recommended and continued to weigh and measure as before. I just figured the containers would get lost in space at this house, and they would've been gone. First round, lost 7.5 inches. I think the workouts are great and effective and I enjoy Autumn as an instructor. They are doable with my time constraints.
For those who find the containers to be a gimmick, I just say, do what helps you to learn and let other people do what helps them. I don't need the containers, others find them useful. YMMV.

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You weigh with containers instead of a scale....I would be packing so much into those containers, just cramming in like 6 servings while happily pretending it is one. I need to weigh...the scale does not lie.

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flyingtanuki wrote: »

mdemann3 wrote: »

TwinMamaTrish... you said it best... 21 day fix just makes sure your eating out of all the food groups .... not just to watch the calories consumed. Can't be a bad thing to eat a mix of all the food groups.

^^^^ OMG so this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I put carbohydrates in the carbohydrate Tupperware, protein in the protein Tupperware, and crap in the crap Tupperware. And as if by MAGIC the Tupperware makes sure I am eating out of all the carbohydrate, protein and crap food groups!!! How does it do that??? Its MAGIC! I could never create a meal from carbohydrate, protein and crap without the cheesy overpriced Tupperware in the 21 day fix!!!

Its fricken brilliant I tell ya! Its AMAZING! You gotta get it RIGHT away! Otherwise, how else would you know whether you are getting carbohydrate, protein and crap in your meal, right???

ETA: I am not affiliated with Beach Body in any way and I am not being compensated for my clearly unbiased views!!!

I really shouldn't laugh, but your responses are comedy gold.