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1. on March 3, 2010 at 11:10 pm | Reply rochelle

   hi i admire you so much good luck

   
   
2. on March 3, 2010 at 11:12 pm | Reply rochelle

   i dont know if this is going thru carnie but i too need to lose weight and you are inspiring me so much

   
   
3. on March 7, 2010 at 8:38 pm | Reply Laurie

   Sounds to me like the reason you don’t want to cook for yourself is because you have some kind of endorsement deal going on with Fresh Diet. Wrong reason to NOT follow Dr. Oz and his advice. You are your biggest obstacle. You have experts like Dr. Oz at your disposal and you think you know better than he does. What regular people like me would do for guidance from Dr. Oz and you just blow it off…like nothing. Disappointing. Good luck. You need it.

   
   
   • on March 8, 2010 at 1:33 am | Reply Jim Gilbert

     Yes, Carnie Wilson is our spokesperson. She chose our diet after trying other meal delivery programs that were in her own words, “bland” and “tasteless”. Once she was our customer, we offered her the spokesperson role.

     99% of our customers are non-celebrities by the way.

     You should try us. The food is great, the customer service excellent and our customers love us including and especially in this context, Carnie!

     Jim

     
     
     • on March 8, 2010 at 12:30 pm Laurie

       Why wouldn’t Carnie love you? She gets all the perks of being your “spokesperson.” Would she love you that much if she weren’t? I doubt it.

       I am not interested in trying your food. I can cook and despite my very busy life and schedule I FIND the time to make my own food. Fortunately, I don’t have a weight problem but if I did and I had Dr. Oz on my team….I would choose his advice over a crummy spokesperson position. Priorities, priorities, priorities.

       
       
     • on March 8, 2010 at 1:49 pm Jim Gilbert

       Laurie, you sound like an intelligent person. Since you know how to cook, and you know a lot about nutrition (frankly after some basics the rest is common sense correct), what is Dr Oz going to do for you? Keep you honest? You can go to a meeting for that.

       As I said, Carnie found us, before we ever offered her any role. You can tell she is an honest person. Go back to Dr. Oz’s website and re-watch as her reaction to his telling her our diet is like being in jail. I doubt her response – even by the most cynical viewer – can be judged as canned, or faked, or paid for.

       
       
4. on March 8, 2010 at 1:46 pm | Reply MM

   Hey there.

   I have to know – how does the food get to you locally? Are you national? It’s a very intriguing concept.

   
   
   • on March 8, 2010 at 1:54 pm | Reply Jim Gilbert

     Hi Melting Mama. Nice website by the way! We hand deliver to your home every day so it is fresh. We’re not national. We serve:

     South Florida
     SW Florida
     Chicago area
     LA Area
     Orange County, CA
     San Diego Area
     NY
     CT
     Boston
     Philly
     Baltimore
     Washington DC area

     And more to come. If you have any questions email me at jimg@thefreshdiet.com. You should blog about us sometime. Let’s discuss,

     
     
     • on March 8, 2010 at 5:07 pm MM

       Ah – I did not realize it was as widespread. Interesting. I would like to know more about the program.

       
       
5. on March 8, 2010 at 3:00 pm | Reply Robert

   Laurie, using your logic, Dr. Oz is on national television, if his show wasn’t enhanced for dramatic effect no one would watch it. I’m sure Carnie has taken Dr. Oz’s advice (unpolluted by his producers) and left the drama for tv.

   
   
   • on March 8, 2010 at 5:52 pm | Reply Laurie

     Andddd…you know all of this how, Robert?

     I have more important things to do than to go back and forth with people who claim to know how Carnie makes the decisions she does. I also don’t have time to listen to Fresh Diet blog moderators whose sole priority is to capitalize on their business through the questionable choices a celebrity makes. I don’t know Carnie or Dr. Oz but I do know that I appreciate the information Dr. Oz provides to people who cannot afford the things that Carnie can. I would not say his show is dramatic. Carnie is dramatic and I don’t care to watch the Dr. Oz show when people like Carnie come on crying for help yet only accepts the advice based on how she wants to filter it. To me it looks like being a spokeperson for this company is more important than changing the things she claims she wants to change. She is not a role model and I wish people wouldn’t praise her for that. I commend her for overcoming the obstacles that she has in her life but they aren’t any different than all the other millions of people in the world. I do not wish upon her bad things but I do hope Dr. Oz drops her. I’m sure Mr. Gilbert would be a better choice to help her. lol….

     
     
6. on March 10, 2010 at 3:43 pm | Reply Kathryn

   I don’t understand what even motivates someone like Laurie to read this blog much less post. I am a new non-celebrity customer of The Fresh Diet. I am paying them (a lot–the one downside) for this service not vice versa, and I can attest that it is awesome. BTW, I can cook VERY well and know a ton about nutrition. Which is exactly why I decided to give TFD a shot when I needed some help with stress, overeating, and related modern girl issues.

   I have no idea who Dr. Oz is and only vaugely knew who Carnie Wilson was before reading the TFD blogs. So, I could give a rat’s tail about whether either one of them supports TFD. I know from experience that when I can follow the 40-30-30 concept I have more luck controlling my weight and am overall much healthier–but I could never plan, shop for, and make meals with the taste, variety, and regularity of TFD delivery with the other demands on my time. I am grateful that I can afford (barely) this service.

   It is expensive though–no matter what they say about eating out. I live in a high-cost-of-living, major metro area packed with foodies and hipsters (the kind of area TFD serves, basically) and I could certainly eat out every day–qualitiy food at real restaurants not McDonalds–for way cheaper than $45 dollars a day. I have used some other diet delivery services that were cheaper, too. Regardless, I can rationalize the expense when I offset “normal” food cost and consider the other benefits at the same time, but it does have to be a very good expereince all around. My experience so far with the food and the customer service at TFD had been unbeatable.

   I like the Carnie diet buddy idea, but haven’t found the acutual page. I wish there was a members only blog and/or message board from the TFD site for diet tips, support, etc.

   
   
   • on March 10, 2010 at 5:02 pm | Reply Jim Gilbert

     Thanks Karhryn. Here is the link to the Carnie Wilson offer: http://blog.thefreshdiet.com/2010/03/08/diet-like-a-celebrity-enter-the-carnie-wilson-challenge-contest/

     
     
7. on March 10, 2010 at 6:23 pm | Reply Kathryn

   Thanks Jim. I saw this. I guess I was looking for something else. But while we’re on the subject, is that offer good for existing customers?

   
   
   • on March 10, 2010 at 6:28 pm | Reply Jim Gilbert

     Kathryn, email laurie@thefreshdiet.com, she will get you hooked up. Tell her I said to give you the Carnie2 special.

     Thanks for your comments.

     Jim
     jimg@thefreshdiet.com

     
     
8. on July 2, 2010 at 5:46 pm | Reply Fresh Diet Friday – The Adventure Begins | "Deal"icious Mom

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