This week I started the 21 Day Fix program through Beachbody. I first heard about this program earlier this year through my friend Jess who is a Beachbody coach.
The whole purpose of the 21 Day Fix is portion control which is definitely an area I struggle with.
With the program you are given different colored containers and are allotted a certain amount of each container per day based on your calorie level. The containers are as follows:
- Green: Vegetables
- Purple: Fruit
- Red: Proteins
- Yellow: Carbohydrates
- Blue: Healthy Fats and Cheeses
- Orange: Seeds and Dressings
- Teaspoons: Oils and Nut Butters
To figure out your calorie level do the following:
- Current weight (lbs) x 11 = baseline
- Baseline + 400 (fix calorie burn) = caloric need
- Caloric need – 750 (calorie deficit) = target calories
Based on your target calories, here is how many containers of each color you will eat each day:
The containers may seem small at first glance, but once you get to planning your meals, it is surprisingly a lot of food!
Here is what one day of eating has looked like for me:
{Breakfast}
Chocolate Vegan Shakeology – Shakeology is a superfood packed protein powder. One scoop counts as one red container. I blended mine with water, ice, and 2 tsp of peanut butter.
{Morning Snack}
Greek Yogurt with Blueberries, Raspberries, and Chia Seeds
{Lunch}
Salad with Spinach, Tomatoes, Carrots, Chickpeas, Peas, and Shredded Cheddar with Apple Cider Vinaigrette.
Cottage Cheese and Strawberries
{Afternoon Snack}
Half of a Honeycrisp Apple
{Dinner}
Quinoa with Sweet Potato, Bell Pepper, Onion, and Carrots and a Dr. Praeger’s Veggie Burger.
In addition to the eating plan, the 21 Day Fix also comes with 6 DVD workouts:
- Total Body Cardio Fix
- Upper Fix
- Lower Fix
- Pilates Fix
- Cardio Fix
- Yoga Fix
I’m excited to continue with this program and plan to blog about my progress. Once the challenge is over, I will post my results as well we before and after pictures.
Have any of you tried the 21 Day Fix? How did you like it?
Linking up with Jenn for What I Ate Wednesday.
Are you sure that calculation is correct? I plugged my weight into the formula, and it said that I should only eat 981 calories a day…which is about 800 calories less than I try to eat a day, haha. Plus, nobody should eat that little anyway! So I just wanted to make sure the formula was right 🙂
Hi Susie – I just checked and that calculation is correct! The program does say not to eat less than 1200 calories so if your number is lower to round up to 1200. But I agree with you, 981 calories would be WAY too little to eat each day and definitely not healthy!
Paige
Are you still doing this? I ordered a beach body program for Chris. Bodybeast. Hilarious…anyway wondered how it was going. What about Shakeology? Do you like that?
Hey Emily! Thanks for stopping by! 🙂 I am still doing 21 day fix (on my 3rd week) and I really like it! It’s actually a lot of food and I don’t even eat all the containers that I am allotted each day. I have been drinking the vegan chocolate shakeology everyday. The taste is really good but I don’t know how much I really love it. It only keeps me full for about an hour and I haven’t noticed any difference in how I feel after drinking it. It’s pretty expensive, so I’m not sure I will repurchase once I run out.