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The thing is with Nutri system, that they give you all the foods that you need with the exception of the veggies, fruits, salads etc....

They also give you yummy desserts. So if you like to have candy or sweets at a certain time during the day, you can arrange to have that snack at the time you need it. You dont need to eat the meals at the regular times.

For example if you want to switch the lunch meal with the dinner meal, you can. You can have your afternoon snack at night, and your evening dessert during the day.

They have many yummy snacks, including their chocolates, and their garlic cheese pretzels. They are soooo goood.

I am a junk food junkie myself, but since starting this plan, I have no desire to eat food that is not on the NS plan. I am satisfied with the food that I purchased, and also satisfied with eating the fruits, and veggies too.

Scott

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How soon after ordering does the food arrive?


Also-how often do you "weigh in".... once a week? or once a month??

I know everyone is different...just curious

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They said it would take 6 days to receive the food - I received it in 3.

I usually weigh myself twice a week but count the weight loss from the 7 day intervals. For example, I weigh in monday, Friday, and then Tuesday and calculate my weight on tuesday as one week.
Scott

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Hey guys, glad to hear everyone is doing well..

Marissa - Scott and Jen answered a lot of your questions, but if I can help at all feel free to ask. Dh and I have both been on NutriSystem since the end of September and I've lost 35 pounds, Dh has lost more than 40. I have about 13 more until I reach "goal." I weigh myself 1x a week and log into the N/S website to keep track of myself.. if I weigh myself more often I get too obsessive with the fluctuations in my weight

You don't have a lot to lose Maris, so you probably could do the N/S food Mon-Friday (like the QVC plan) and take weekends off (within reason, eating healthy, portion controlled) and still lose. DH and I now both 'cheat' a bit on the weekends and it has not done any damage at all. I actually made it through the holidays and LOST weight, because no matter how bad I ate on the holidays I went right back to N/S the following day. But for me, in the beginning I was really strict with myself since I had a lot to lose.

Only other drawback with the the QVC plan is that it doesn't allow you to customize the order.. and I'm still a bit leery of the food on Ebay, if its "fresh" or not.. but that is your decision..

The great part about N/S is that they do provide you with one snack a day... either a salty/crunchy snack like soy chips or pretzels, etc or a sweet snack like chocolates, flavored bars, puddings, etc You can have the snack in the afternoon or evening, whatever works. You also get other "add" ons like a yogurt, cheese, fruit as an afternoon 'snack' ..

TRUST ME I am a JUNK FOOD lover! My diet before NutriSystem was junk all the time... I used to prefer not eat meals and eat junk food all daylong...soo bad!

Also as Scott suggested, Dh and I have gone to Appelbees for the WW entrees and they are delicious and also fit well into the plan.. no damage done when I eat out. Its all about trying to make better choices, portion control, etc. I have to say this plan really truly works for me, I don't feel deprived at all !

GOOD LUCK all

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Oops one more thing..

As for the costs.... it really does come out to be "less" for me this way than when DH and I would go food shopping, or we'd eat out all the time.. plus I'd buy breakfast/lunch in the city , etc. It added up!

What DH and I do is "stagger" our shipments by about 3 weeks so right when one order is about done (we share the food from one order), we'll get the next order to replenish the food.. once you order, you can 'refer' your DH to the plan and you will both get discount codes for the referral.. Dh and I will eat the food from one order together.. so in essence we're ony paying the $260ish one time every 3-4 weeks.. not 500-600 at the same time.. it makes it seem like less that way

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Sounds good...

One more question.... I know you say the food is good...but Im such a picky eater...There are very few veg. that I eat.... what I use to do with smart ones, was just eat around the veg. I didnt like...

Can you do this with these meals...???

I think Im gonna join the beg of next month...

Should I do the I only wanna lose 10lbs plan or the other one...

All I wanna do is get to my pre preggo weight (which is less 15lbs) but a little extra never hurt no one

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DH & I started the diet on Monday - I feel like I am constantly eating something every few hours.


I am having some trouble drinking all the water- I am up to about 4 glasses a day.

I was on the plane Monday with the mashers and I added the hot water to the entree and apparently it wasn't hot enough and they never really thickened. I heated them in the oven on the plane and then forced myself to down them.


Other then that I am loving those cranberry breakfast bars-
the peptide choc. with almond was so yummy- had it for lunch yestrday.
The banana muffin was pretty good too.

I am excited to weigh myself on Monday but nervouse because as I said I am constantly eating.

Its been preety easy to follow- that little yellow book fits right into my purse.

ETA- love thier chocolates

Message edited 1/25/2006 9:17:13 AM.

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The thing about this plan that is awesome is that I am never hungry.

This morning, I had my coffee with 2 splendas, and a little skim milk

NS Nutri Cinnomon Squares - Used the milk in the coffee as being like I put the milk in the cereal - ate the cereal dry though.

Then I had 2 egg whites

One Centrum Performance Vitamin

I still have a carb to eat - and a dairy for lunch, that I will eat this morning. I have a whole wheat english muffin, with 5 sprays of ICBINB (I cant Believe its not butter), and a Slice of Cheese.

I have a Peach too

For Lunch I have the NS Black Beans and RICE, love this meal and an Apple instead of the salad.

For Snack, I will have a Yogurt, and an Orange.

Dinner - not sure yet.

The foods I dont like:
Eggs
Lemon Poppy Sead Muffins
Beef and Pasta
Spicy Oriental Noodles

I love the Lasagna
Steak with Risotto
Pot Roast
Beef Stroganoff
Pizza is alright - needs veggies for toppings.

Chocolates
Pretzels with garlic and cheese

Scott

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Posted by skygirl

I was on the plane Monday with the mashers and I added the hot water to the entree and apparently it wasn't hot enough and they never really thickened. I heated them in the oven on the plane and then forced myself to down them.


Other then that I am loving those cranberry breakfast bars-
the peptide choc. with almond was so yummy- had it for lunch yestrday.
The banana muffin was pretty good too.

I am excited to weigh myself on Monday but nervouse because as I said I am constantly eating.

Its been preety easy to follow- that little yellow book fits right into my purse.

ETA- love thier chocolates

Message edited 1/25/2006 5:28:03 PM.

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Hi guys!!! How is everyone doing? sounds like gREAT!!!!!!!
with the food that taste eh like the muffins, be creative, put I cant believe its not butter on them, if you like berries, make a spread with them and put them on the muffins. as for the eggs, I dont mind them, but use lots of veggies in them, peppers, onions, mushrooms or put some low cal cheese on it make an omelette. those mashers- I just cant seem to think of anything with them and they are
So far Im only averaging about a 1lb a week now and thats b/c well I have a HUGE sweet tooth and I fell off the rocker quite a few times( thanks to PMS and AF and those chocolate & ice cream cravings), but Im just glad that Im still losing. I am back on track as of today! LOL. No more cheating, ok here are cheers for us on the NS

and inspiration


Keep it up, we look great and FEEL great!!!!

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmm....The whipped Sweet Potatoes with cheese are yummy
Scott

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Hey everyone----
I am doing ok with this diet but we are eating salad like fiends!!!!!
I found thge yummiest lowfat salad dressing:
. I]Paul Newmans Lowfat Sesame ginger . It's like that asian sesame flavor with some tang and almost a bit spicy-- AWESOME.
DH and I chow down on salads like maniacs.

Had to share- continued sucess to all of you!!!!!!!
ETA- thanks for the encouragement-

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I eat a bag of salad a day
Scott

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I have the cranberries and diced walnuts at the house, that I add. I like the fat free italian and blue cheese dressing.

Last night I had applebees again....It wasnt as good as it was on saturday though.
Scott

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Just got back from Applebees...I had the WW onion soup and the WW Chicken Fiesta...both good, but I felt like I ate too much!

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For Sundays breakfast, I made
NS Pancakes
I mixed in half a chopped up banana

Made the pancakes

Took the other half of chopped up banana, 1 splenda packet, and a 2 teaspoons of lite syrup. Mixed it together

Sprayed the pan with Pam

Cooked the bananas, syrup and splenda

Put on top of the Pancakes
yummmy

Scott

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Scott, sounds like you are doing well!!!!

Ok so it has been a week for most of you - have you weighed in? How much have you lost so far and remember inches count too!!!!! So if you only lost lb. wise less than 5 dont worry, b/c Im sure your clothes are looser!!!!

Dont forget your water and to exercise too!!!!!

Good Luck Gang!!!!!!

For me- bad bad Janice! I havent lost a thing in the last week but serves me right- I cheated all week and I said I wasnt going too. So this morning I got my butt in the gym, had my N/S going to have lunch in about 10 minutes and go to jazzercise tonight to kick me back up. It is soooo hard when I cook for DH - he is not on n/s that I want some of what I cooked too, but I cant!!!!!!! not yet, I have not reached my goal and no where near it- good things come to those who wait- ahahhaahha self support here and for anyone else too that needs it---



1234, work that body--

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Week 1, weighed in this morning...

lost 3.5lbs!!

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I am on week 2. I weigh in tomorrow morning

For week one, I lost 4.6lbs

This weekend I went out to dinner friday and saturday, and lunch saturday, but I did well

Friday I had fish for dinner - grilled with veggies and a salad

Saturday for lunch went to Applebees and had a grilled chicken sandwich, with low fat cheese and lettuce and tomato, and onion on a whole wheat bun. I also had Pineapple - yummm and a salad

Saturday for dinner we went to the outback, and I had grilled Salmon, salad, veggies, and a sweat potato dry.
Scott

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You guys are doing AWESOME!!!!!!!! GReat jobs with the wieght loss!!!!!!

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I just saw this from CNN.com


NutriSystem lures men with pizza, sex

Monday, January 30, 2006; Posted: 2:02 p.m. EST (19:02 GMT)
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Nate Griffin, a former Army sergeant, watches what he eats. He's even tried juice diets to shed pounds. But ask him if he'd join a group to talk about weight loss and he cringes.

"To talk about a diet means you're really weak in a certain area," said Griffin, a personal trainer in a Philadelphia suburb. "It's like saying 'I need this group to help me beat that."'

A new advertising campaign is taking a different approach, focusing instead on sports metaphors, confidence and -- sometimes -- sex.

"Since NutriSystem, my sex life is excellent," a male dieter says in one testimonial that claims a loss of 62 pounds.

The new campaign by NutriSystem Inc. was designed to appeal to men who want to lose weight but who don't like groups, counting calories or laborious food preparations. After many focus groups, the Horsham, Pennsylvania-based company realized guys required a different approach.

The company dangles this lure: They can eat pizza, burgers and pasta. NutriSystem's portion-controlled meals are microwavable. There are no group meetings and they can diet at home, privately.

"Seventy million people are on a diet -- 20 million are men," said Djordje "George" Jankovic, NutriSystem's president and chief operating officer. "It's a huge market."

Founded in 1972, NutriSystem operated mainly as weight-loss centers offering packaged meals. After a bankruptcy in 1993 and management and ownership changes, a new team put the company on its own diet, closing centers and moving into direct sales to consumers, with updated packaging, improved food and aggressive marketing.

Its new pitch is to offer free support for customers who pay for the food, and it is planning to target seniors soon, too, by offering foods infused with more vitamins as well as gingko biloba and green tea.

NutriSystem still faces an uphill battle for market share, though. It wasn't named by dieters in an October survey by NPD Group, a market research firm, because other programs or eating plans had more participants.

A report last year on diet programs by Consumer Reports, which didn't include NutriSystem, gave Weight Watchers the highest marks. This month, EDiets.com Inc. kicked off a premium food delivery service called FreshCuisine. And Jenny Craig Inc. began its own meal delivery service last year.

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E - diets is about $22 a day - that is ridiculous -
Nice article - NPD group lol - Thats who I work for
Scott