Two of my friends mentioned a box diet(škatulková dieta). However, neither of them had any experience with it. I was kind of curious and went on to investigate what it is. I believe I've picked one site on random, read through what it is about, how much it costs, did some calculations on my own, and then decided to spearhead the experience.

I've picked http://www.jezkovykrabicky.cz/ for this test, although it's possible(I'm sure) there are other providers/operators.

Box diet is a food for a whole day divided into 5 meals. It promises, or used to promise, to deliver weight loss 3-4kg in one month. This isn't the main goal of this test, though. Menu is balanced, different for men and women, and rather unsurprisingly almost every meal has vegetables as a side dish. If you have allergies or don't eat fish, there is a space for adjustments.

You can either order delivery or pickup food by yourself at one of the pickup points. You get a thermo bag with meals. There is a cooling medium inside the bag to keep the food … cool. Meals are sealed in plastic containers. I guess this could be issue for “go green” people. You're supposed to return thermo bag and cooling medium the other day in exchange for a new delivery. No, it's not a gift or included in price! Be good! :)

There is no delivery over the weekend. However, I believe you could place two or three orders for Friday. You're supposed to eat the food within 48 hours. Personally, I'm going to keep my modest diet over the weekend.

I do recommend at least some kind of exercise if you want to shed some weight. Go for a walk at least. 30 to 90 minutes a day will do.

I hope this is going to be set of articles with some conclusion in the end. Therefore, let's set some baseline about test subject. That's me.

• 85kg with 21.9% of body fat(estimated)
• I do sit around all day(office job)
• I do exercise(Freeletics) on regular basis
• I do eat one Protein bar(60g) per day
• I do drink coffee which affects digestion and what not
• I have one Coffee Latte per day on average
• Weightloss isn't an ultimate goal of this test. Quality and sufficiency of the food is.
• I'll try to stay away from sweets and Chinese takeaway

And another set of less admirable facts:

• I usually, or used to, go for sweets
• I like fish, but I don't like bones(= don't eat fish very often)
• I don't seek out vegetables on my own
• I don't mind to eat a “mountain” of food like a Chinese takeaway
• I don't like mushrooms and eggplant which is going to be issue with box diet

Finally something about the food itself. Day#1 started with unknown amount of muesli, because I get up early and pickup is from 07:10AM which is too late for me. We've kicked off with bean salad with corn and I like beans very much. Bonus points right there. Beware, though, that beans can be lethal to your coworkers! Salad was followed by pieces of rabbit(I had no idea it's rabbit) with buckwheat. Again, yummy. Cucumber in the afternoon and chicken with potatoes for dinner. I had some soy milk for late supper, because there are 4 hours between dinner and sleep which is too much to go without any food.

Now, let's settle some things. First of all, microwave is sort of a must have which I don't have. Therefore, frying pan to the rescue. It sucks, but it's better than to eat cold food all day every day.

Next, is it really enough? Yes and no. It really is hard to tell, to be honest. I believe it rather is psychological thing. If you're used to mountains of food, then it's not going to be enough psychologically. Also, your stomach is probably big from all that food you've been stuffing yourself with. My advice is to cut little pieces of food and chew and chew and chew … like you're supposed to do anyway! In other words, if you commence you're usual “attack” on food, then you will definitely walk away hungry. I'm also a bit biased here, because I eat protein at some point of the day and I do exercise. Both things affect hunger(digestion) in positive and negative way.

And what about food quality? No complaints, really. None. It was delicious. Pictures of all meals from Day#1 are at http://imgur.com/a/AOIxA in their respective order.