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Our (Yummy, Guilt-Free) Lunch With Jillian Michaels

We are pumped to share one of our fave stories from Fitness Magazine here on FitSugar!

We are pumped to share one of our fave stories from Fitness Magazine here on FitSugar!

Ever wish you had a personal chef to deliver diet-friendly meals right to your home? Us, too! That’s why we had to catch up with Jillian Michaels at her recent event at the W Residences in Hollywood to get the skinny on her new partnership with Freshology, a food delivery program that brings gourmet, calorie-controlled meals straight to your door.

"I've been wanting to get involved with something like this for a long time, but either the food sucked or it was packed with unhealthy preservatives," says Michaels. "It's not just calories — the quality of the food matters when it comes to health and weight loss, which is why I really clicked with the Freshology's commitment to fresh, clean food."

Teaming up with Freshology’s five-star chef, Michaels used her nutrition principles to create a total weight-loss plan that delivers healthy, wholesome, and delicious food with no preservatives, no hormones, no artificial sweeteners, and no trans fats. On the program, you’ll receive a twice-weekly delivery stocked with daily meals totaling 1,400 to 1,800 calories: breakfast (240 to 475 calories), lunch (230 to 470 calories), dinner (303 to 536 calories), and a dessert. The 28-day rotation ensures you’ll never experience taste bud boredom. And all the food is precooked, chilled, and ready to go, so at the very most, all you have to do is zap it in the microwave. For added "thinspiration," you’ll also get Michaels’s fitness DVDs, texts to keep you motivated, and a copy of her book, Master Your Metabolism.

Keep reading to see if Freshology passed our taste test.

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Gettin' Fresh With Freshology Gold Food Delivery

Preparing healthy food at home is a tried-and-true weight-loss strategy — assuming you have the time, the energy, and an eye for portion control.
The Verdict

Preparing healthy food at home is a tried-and-true weight-loss strategy — assuming you have the time, the energy, and an eye for portion control. A healthy-meal delivery service takes the guesswork out of the equation, but does it taste good?

Curious about how a strict regimen of premade meals could improve my eating habits, I jumped at the chance to try out a week's worth of Jillian Michaels Freshology Gold. This nationwide program delivers shipments twice a week and provides three meals a day, so you don't have to worry about what's for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The new program incorporates many of Jillian's recipes, plus a workout DVD.

Read on to see what I ate and how it tasted, as well as calorie counts and pricing info.

Poll

Would You Eat This Diet?

Recently I was sent a box of meals by Freshology.

Recently I was sent a box of meals by Freshology. Like the Zone, Freshology is a diet delivery program that helps celebrities lose weight and eat healthy. I was given four days worth of packaged meals in containers that resembled airplane food. Although the food was made "fresh," I was disappointed. Iceberg lettuce? Soy chicken? Not the tastiest or most nutritious of ingredients, especially when they were packaged three days earlier. Still, the meal plan could be great for someone who doesn't like or have time to cook. What do you think? Would you want to try Freshology?