Congrats Gizzmo!

Andria, the food, from my fuzzy memory, is tuned into your body requirements (through blood tests). A meal might be something like 40g of feta cheese and xgrams of vegetables (which could be carrot, celery et al). I think you are allowed a couple of crackers a day - so maybe two rivitas a day and a couple of pieces of fruit (which are limited to certain types of fruit). I found the first few days hard with food cravings, and just missing having food in my mouth IFYKWIM - I'm a comfort eater.

You do need to have a good set of digital scales to weigh things, but like the girls have said the weight falls off you, and I highly recommend that you need to committ 100% to the program for the duration of the plan and also go through the refeeding plan. As soon as you stop the program, you stack the weight back on - so its definitely a life change program more than just a diet program.

Depending on how your diet is at the moment, you may want to consider doing something free such as calorie king to get yourself into the swing of healthy eating, then when you save the $$, head for a plan.