Month: February 2022

Okay, I’m still skeptical, but I REALLY like the Nutrisystem method. We got our 2 weeks of food – both a shelf-stable shipment & a frozen food shipment (luckily, we have a large freezer in the garage!) but once we counted things out, we found that it was really 10 days of food (14 snacks), rather then the expected 14. I guess 14 would be another add-on, and really, we’re supposed to be making our own health meals for two days, so that’s fine. Since tomorrow is a Monday, and the start of our program, we’ll just use the weekend as our “cheat days” and eat as best we can.

I weighed myself this morning and I tipped the scales at 245(!)

A cool thing about the plan is that you can set up your tracking on their NuMi App. The Meal Plan for Week 1 is different than subsequent weeks, and consists of 1,000 Calories a day to “reboot” our bodies.

Yikes, I am wondering how I won’t be hungry all the time. Maybe 3 meals + snacks in between won’t be enough. For one of the snacks, we purchased their add-on Nutrisystem Shake. I’m glad the shake is considered snack and not a meal.

My goal it to get down to 215 lbs, so let’s see how long it takes to shed 30 lbs.

My wife and I have been talking about subscribing to a meal service for a while so we could have a better variety of meals, hopefully prepared healthier than we could. Once I started investigating, I realized that what we really needed was some kind of regimented-but-not-regimented diet plan. We looked at 3, but one stood out with the greatest variety of food that WE could choose – Nutrisystem.

I’m massively skeptical about this, but starting tomorrow, we’re on Nutrisystem. Rather than signing up for separate plans, we signed up for the “Partner Plan”. The Basic plan doesn’t allow you to choose your food, so we went with the “Uniquely Yours” plan.

The Partner Plans are billed & shipped every 2 weeks, while the other plans are 4-weeks, so I thought this would be the way to go in case we wanted to cancel or adjust things quickly. The pricing is a bit wonky, with them always running some kind of % off specials, and there’s always something you can add -on. Our first 2 week shipment cost $382.20.

I’m cautiously optimistic about this. Strict diet plans are never permanent, but the more I read about Nutrisystem, the more I started to think it was worth a shot. If all goes well, we’ll start the plan on Monday.