First Look: Our Meal Movement Experiment

It’s no secret that eating supportive healthy foods in the right amount at the right time is essential to weight management, health and performance.

It’s also no secret being consistent with the above can be really, really hard. Most of live a lifestyle that makes preparing “3 squares” a day challenging at the least, and at times practically impossible.

Believe it or not, Nancy and I are no different from you. Two training facilities, 10 training sessions a day, 3 kids at home, a business to run – it can get pretty busy around here. We are not immune to the temptation to go through the drive thru, and no matter how “healthy” the menu, that’s usually just not a good choice.

Nancy is fantastic at getting organized in the kitchen, having good choices on hand, and she cooks a lot of meals. But there are days it just isn’t going to happen. The hardest time for us is dinner on training days. Nancy is coaching a class at 4:00pm, and I am watching the kids until it’s time for me to drive to Concord to coach the 5:30pm. Believe it or not I actually do cook evening meal once in awhile, but usually I am finishing up paperwork and spending some time reading to the kids or playing with them.

So when our friend and fellow coach Jason Yun told us about “The Meal Movement”, we were ready to listen. Especially when he told us that fitness professionals were an integral part of designing the program.

 

What is “The Meal Movement”?

What if I told you there was a way to get the “PP” part of PPW (Protein, Produce and Water) in an easy to prepare, great tasting, and relatively inexpensive way?

That you could literally have at your fingertips 100’s of different combinations of great tasting PPW meals that you could prepare and eat in as little as 5 minutes?

I didn’t believe it either, because when it comes down to it, most food from the “big boys” of weight loss (you know who they are JC, WW, NS) are full of artificial ingredients, heavy on the starches, and taste, well – sorta nasty.

But I trust Jason, so when it told us the food was 98% unprocessed and tasted great, we suspended the skepticism and placed an order. It took about 10 minutes, and we got to choose from 15 different types of breakfasts, 22 vegetables,  28 lunch/dinner entrees, and 10 different snacks. For our first order we ordered everything on the entire menu so we could get a good idea of what we liked.

Check Out The Complete Menu Here

Three days later the food arrived via FEDEX, packed inside a styrofoam cooler in dry ice. Out of the cooler and into the freezer it went.

 

Taste Test

No time like the present, so for dinner that night we had our first “Meal Movement” meal. Nancy chose the Caliente Spicy Chicken with Normandy Vegetables, and I had the Monterey Jack Chicken Sticks with the Caribbean Veggies.  In your package you also get a “Sweet Garlic Vegetable Sauce” which I really like.  You can either prepare the meals in a conventional oven or microwave them. Being marginally impatient, I chose to “nukem”. The pictures in this post are all foods we prepared and ate – they taste as good as they look!

In our little dinner party of two, the verdict was unanimous – the Meal Movement food was really good! The vegetables were crisp, the protein was seasoned nicely, it was enough food – what more can you ask for?

First Impression – The Meal Movement is a winner!

Nothing since has changed my mind. Everything we have tried to date has been good if not excellent. Chalk it up to different tastes, I am not a huge fan of the shaved chicken for instance, and I like the mixed vegetable blends better than the individual veggies, but the good news is I don’t have to order anything I don’t want. There is such a wide variety of choices I can’t see many people not finding a bunch of choices they really, really like.

 

How To Use “The Meal Movement”

There are two primary ways I suggest the Meal Movement food can be integrated into your nutrition program.

The first I’ll call “The Total Package”. This is for the person who is really struggling getting a handle on what to eat, how much to eat, and when to eat it. My recommendation is to order 28 days of food – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks – and just eat!

A couple things will happen. You will begin to see the effects of eating PPW, without having to think about food preparation. Your body will feel better because you are actually eating real food, every meal, every day. You will begin to understand portion control – once your plate is empty, you are done!

The second strategy is the one Nancy and I have been using.  I’ll call it the “Life is Crazy Package”, and it consists of always having some Meal Movement food in our freezer. I am writing this note on a Tuesday, and it’s now 3:45pm. Nancy is headed out to the gym, the kids need attention, and I have about an hour before I head off. Before I go, I am going to head to the freezer, grab a protein and a bag of veggies, heat them up and get to eating. It just works!

 

Next Steps

Click Here to take a look at the Meal Movement website.   Explore and discover for yourself all the different combinations and choices you have with The Meal Movement.

Ask us questions. We will be glad to sit down and put together a menu with you, then help you place the order or place it for you.

In the near future we will do a “Meal Movement” workshop where you can get your questions answered and you can try the food out for yourself.

Look at this as another tool in your toolbox. Learning to eat a supportive “diet” is challenging, but actually applying that knowledge can be even harder. We believe that integrating the Meal Movement into your busy lifestyle is just one more way to make your life easier and get you closer to your goals.

Make It Happen!

Coach Dean