Food Delivered

Well, my food (an entire months worth!) was delivered today.

I felt like a little kid on Christmas morning, so many new and exciting things!

Because Dean has also decided to do this with me, I thought a good way to organize all this food was to set up the table in such a manner that half of the table would contain my food and supplies, and the other half of the table will contain his supplies. Well, there is so much food, I don't think that is a much of a possibility. For a dinner table we have a card table.

Well anyway, I talked to the health coach that I was assigned to, I am still trying to change to a local, LDS woman.  When I spoke with the assigned health coach,  I asked her about drinking options for my diabetic husband, she said to have him drink coffee or tea. I told her by no means were any of those options for us. Her reply: "Then this is going to be extra hard for ya'll". Yeah, I really want someone with my faith and values.

So, my reviews thus far on the food and supplies is as follows:
The photos of the foods look decadent (yeah, I know it's a selling mechanism), I have not yet tried any foods though.

I was disappointed with the following items:
The first thing I pulled out of the boxes was some round canister, that looks just like those cups doctors make you pee in. I still have no idea what those are for.

The free blender bottle.  I already have a blender bottle (I purchased one at whole foods, and it holds 20 plus ounces) The one that they sent is half the size of the one I have. I am sure there is a purpose for this, I am just not sure what it is. In fact, there was no instruction for any of the random non-food items. Namely, a miniature blender bottle, the round thingamajig, and a mug.

I saw meals planned out day by day on the website, and I expected to receive the same list in the mail. Nope. I have to do all the guess work of what I need to eat and when. The only guidelines I received was to eat every two to three hours. I think I am going to go with every two and half hours.

I was disappointed with my assigned health coach. She couldn't answer specific questions.  She refused to understand what I was saying. She couldn't understand cultural differences.
And some of the food (I only looked intently at a couple before I had to dash back to school) doesn't come with any instructions. One of the foods is a cereal, and I wonder if I am supposed to eat the cereal plain like a nursery aged kid, or add milk, if so, how much.

I asked the health coach about my concern with eating at work. Her response was don't eat at work, and I told her I had to because of respect and cultural awareness. My idea was to not eat one of the medi fast meals earlier in the day, thus I save calories, and go ahead and eat at work, and then when I get home from work, take Lucky (my dog) for an extra long walk. This made perfect sense to me, but dumbfounded the coach lady.  This situation should be changing soon, but no telling when, and I really don't want to wait to get started until the situation changes.

I am not sure when I am going to start this. The debate is either tomorrow, or Monday, which would be after Dean receives his food.

Regardless of everything. I am ecstatic for my transformation. 

I have decided that determination will determine my success.

Photos of everything will be posted at a later time. Once I figure out how to do that with the new really annoying windows.