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Looking for a convenient prepackaged meal program to control your hunger and help you loose weight? Nutrisystem could be for you. It's a great system that I continue to use every day, but also more expensive than it lets on. Check out this article for the good and bad about one of the most popular meal programs on the web. | |
| by David Hinkle - 08/11/06 22:51
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I started using Nutrisystem a little over a month ago. I eat out a lot, and I was sick of eating salads and subway all the time. Nutrisystem looked like a good product to try. Billed as a deliciouses and engineered using the glycemic index, I was optimistic about about adding some convenient variety back into my diet. A couple minutes on the web site and $289 later a 28 day supply of NutriSystem for Men food was on it's way.
A few days later the food arrived in three or four large boxes. Each meal was individually packaged and broken out into breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts. The packages are sealed using what NutriSystem describes as "Soft Canning" and do not need refrigeration. I left them sitting on my counter at work as I set about eating my way through them.
The first thing that surprised me was just how good the food was. Very good, as a matter of fact. Each package was made out of strange things like soy this and vegetarian that, but everything tasted great. The portion sizes are small, but the system uses low GI foods that make you feel full and feel full for a long time. (For more information on low GI foods and how they effect your body read: Achieving Our Goal - Eating for Weight Loss )
I was also surprised to discover how low the calories were. About 350 for a dinner, 250 for a lunch and 100-200 for breakfasts and desserts. Substituting NutriSystem for a few meals each day really made it easy to hit my calorie targets week after week. The problem is, NutriSystem is billed as a months worth of food when it clearly is not.
NutriSystem is a months worth of "main dishes". If you follow their little guide book, you're supposed to buy your own vegetables, breads and fruits to serve with each of their meals, and the only thing that separates NutriSystem for Men and NutriSystem for women is how much extra food you're supposed to add to each of the main dishes. This makes NutriSystem much more expensive than it looks, especially for men. My calorie goal is currently about 2000 per day, and NutriSystem only offers about 1000. This means I usually grab at least one meal some place else, but it also means I can have a nice big "Non Diet" meal every day and still hit my calorie goals.
I found myself often eating 4-5 NutriSystem meals in any given day. These multiple, small, low GI meals really made me feel full and satisfied. As a matter of fact, several times I went out for French fries or grabbed a Meatball Marinara sub just to add some extra calories into my diet because I was so low.
Unfortunately, I ran out of food about a week too early. I didn't help that NutriSystem included a lot of foods that are just not high on my priority list to eat. Like cereals. I've never been a big fan of cold breakfasts. They also included about half a dozen to a dozen stove top only meals that I just haven't gotten around to cooking up yet.
That week without NutriSystem was a real struggle for me compared to the previous three and is, as a matter of fact, what convinced me to reorder. Without their food I had a much harder time hitting my calorie targets and found myself to be hungry and overeating on a regular basis.
One of the great things about the Nutrisystem site, however, is that you can log in and customize your order to include only the kind of foods you want. So when my new box arrives next week it'll be full of the kind of things I'm actually going to eat.
All in all, I think NutriSystem is a great program. I don't like how it's website is misleading about the price. I don't like how it makes you think you're going to be receiving 30 days worth of food when you're really going to be receiving 28 days worth of main dishes. I don't like how it makes you think there's a special program for men when it's really nothing more substantial than a separate column in it's guide book. But I do like how good the food is, how convenient it is, and how it uses low GI foods to make me feel full and satisfied all day with very few calories.
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