Exante Diet

gothchiq

urghle. yeah don't use that Exante thing. Stuff like that just makes you miserable, and then you gain it all back afterwards. Skinnytaste is a good place to find real recipes you can make at home so that what you're doing is sustainable (and not gross).

Psychgrrl

I posted this link a week or so ago, when a journalist on one of my fav internet news sites tried one of these pre-packaged diets (not Exante). Her experience was horrifying!

http://bit.ly/1dfQOmm

bpetrosky

booksandchocolate12 wrote: »

Hmm. I use the Skinnytaste recipe for Shepherd's Pie. It comes out looking like this. I must be doing something wrong because it doesn't look like vomit.

That Skinnytaste Shepherd's Pie looks great....I just might have to try it. That Exante stuff looked worse than bachelor chow, I can't believe they can actually foist that stuff on people (at horrifying prices no less, I bet).

I should have taken a photo of my dinner, pan seared chicken breast, asparagus, green beans and mashed potatoes, and just 530 cals. Fits in my cals even before my walk today and I can have a snack later thanks to that. I probably won't because I'm actually quite full.

Seriously, maybe we need a thread of photos of people's day's meals and the cals logged. Put that up against fad diet slop.

booksandchocolate12

I have rarely been steered wrong by skinnytaste!

I get recipes emailed to me. This was one of the more recent ones. Can't wait it try it!

skinnytaste.com/2015/05/watermelon-caprese-with-balsamic-glaze.html#more

bpetrosky

mamapeach910 wrote: »

OP, Let me share my experience with Nutri-System with you.

I did it many, many years ago to lose weight before I got married. Thankfully, I did not pay for the experience (sponsored through my then-fiance's work in return for doing commercial spots).

I did it just fine. The food wasn't great, but it was inconvenient. It was okay for work, but for social situations? I had to just sit there with a cup of coffee or a diet soda while everyone else ate. We'd go out to the club with friends? (husband was a dj and had friends who dj'ed at clubs... we went a lot). I couldn't drink.

I lost weight, but it was slow.

The real problem came when I reached goal. I had NO idea how to translate what I'd learned to real food. For a while, my appetite stayed okay for smaller portions, but I didn't really learn skills to control them. You were just supposed to catch on by eye to food amounts, I think.

Over the following year, because all the guesswork of knowing exactly how much I was eating was taken out of things for me while I was on the plan, it became all too easy to fool myself with increasingly larger portions, and my weight came right back up. With more on top of it.

I really don't think much of pre-packaged meal plans as a result.

This one seems particularly bad because of the dangerously low calorie content.

I tried Nutri-System years ago, around '04 I think. Just an overall waste of money. The meals were just so-so, and very salty because they were packaged for room-temp storage. Some were tasty, but poor substitutes for the real thing (the pizza-ish thing on a weird 2" wafer comes to mind).

End result, I lost a little weight but nowhere near my target, and just felt guilty for not "making it work". The saving grace was I did it on a discount, so my net spending wasn't that different from buying green-box package lunches at the Publix.