Nutrisystem or Eat Clean Diet??? Who has best success?

jknoell

A friend of mine did Nutrisystem and she gave me some of her food items when she had enough of the same thing all the time. They are pretty tasty, but you are right about the preservatives and sodium!

I agree with what others have posted - everything in moderation. But I have to brag a bit about clean eating and what it can do to help your bloated feeling.

I did a clean eating diet for awhile (I got lazy and off track, so I'm slowly getting back into it) and I never felt better! I had problems with indigestion when I ate bad, so I tried clean eating, using tips and recipes I found on www.100daysofrealfood.com. The indigesting and bloated feeling disappeared! Her basic rules were the following: don't buy packaged products that have more than 5 ingredients; don't buy items that have ingredients you wouldn't cook with at home; make as much as you can from scratch; opt for whole grains, whole wheat, not white, processed items; etc. Following that, I lost weight (a good side effect of a clean diet) and I felt so much lighter because I wasn't bloated with sodium and junk that my body couldn't process.

I would suggest that you choose what you can handle - if you like Nutrisystem because it doesn't take any time to prepare and you don't have to think about what you are going to eat, go for it (but I'm not sure it is sustainable long term - it wasn't for my friend). But if you have the time to cook and would like to try clean eating, do it! You can still eat chocolate and desserts - in moderation, of course - but they can still be made "cleanly" (desserts like cobbler, cookies, etc). I think you'd get a lot more out of eating clean than Nutrisystem.

KittieLea

Why spend money on either "diet"? Why not just use some common sense and buy whole, natural foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, and lean meats and avoid all of that processed, pre-packaged stuff?
Gee, it's almost too easy...

KBellaQueen

I eat pretty clean (80-20 split). It keeps me sane, keeps me on a budget, and keeps me at my recommended calorie count.

I pre-cook a bunch of stuff on Sundays (about two hours of work) and then package it up for the week. In the mornings, I simply grab and go!

This is awesome advice. I had become so discouraged as to how I could manage cooking healthy every night with my schedule and a very busy one year old. Cooking my meals for the week seems very workable. Thanks for sharing that! There is hope for me!

KBellaQueen

Diets don't work, as soon as you come off you gain it back. *my experience * But I have read a few different ones, which helped me to learn how to read labels correctly and begin a lifestyle of healthy eating. I need to get back on track, but the books I had we're super restrictive in the beginning of most (eg. South Beach-no fruit first two weeks.....I love fruit, k?). So I did order the Eat Clean Diet book, not really for the diet itself, but to help get on track and to get clean recipes. That's my best bet. If I smell sugar or even look at a cookie, I can feel the weight piling on. Lol.

mzjessicaxo

The best success for weight loss = maintaining a calorie deficit.

I eat all foods in moderation.

Same here.

Me too

BOLO4Hagatha

For many of you that are slamming the Eat Clean Diet simply because "diet" is in the title, clearly you have not read the books. One of the frist things the author says is that this is not a fad diet but a lifestyle. Diet first and foremoset means "food and drink regularly provided and consumed." When someone says diet it doesn't necerraliry mean cutting things out to lose weight. Her whole idea is to eat clean (if you can't pronounce/read something don't even buy it, put it back on the shelf) and never have to count calories ever again.

MelJolly

Well, at Walmart they have a 5 day box (5 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 5 dinners and 5 desserts) for $47. I do add in some extras like fruits and veggies and the occasional cottage cheese or oatmeal for snacks but it's much cheaper this way to order from Nutrisystem directly.

There is a coupon at this link that you can print out as often as needed, valid through September of this year. I plan to go between the two box options for variety, and make sure that I add a wide variety of the extras it calls for. I am just beginning this, so I am not pushing this. I just wanted to offer the coupon up to anyone interested.

http://www.nutrisystem.com/jsps_hmr/landingpages/generic_lp.jsp?page=walmartd

ninerbuff

ANY PROGRAM works if you follow it..........................................including a program of eating a moderate calorie deficit consistently.

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