Nutrisystem

I'm sure you can. Just find entries that are for Nutrisystem foods or enter them yourself. But why would you? The deficit is built in to the meals/foods they send you. My dad did it. He was not successful on it because he didn't like the food. He said that most of it tasted not so good. I tried one of the ravioli dishes and I imagine that's what cardboard covered in tomato sauce would taste like. If you haven't signed up already, just save your money and prepare your own food.

Say you do go with the program and lose the weight, what then? Are you going to have them send you overpriced, not so tasty food to you for the rest of your life? If not, do you think you'll spontaneously form habits that will keep you from gaining the weight back? The system teaches you nothing, just lets people eat mindlessly. Then when the program is over, that mindlessness continues and the weight comes right back. It's a great business model since the return customers will be near 100%,

Learn to eat properly now and be successful in the future.

I tried Nutrisystem a few years ago. I didn't lose any weight on it. Some of the food, like the tuna salad was awesome, but a lot of the breakfast foods and the desserts tasted like butt. And you drop like $200 on their food and are suppose to supplement their food with fruits and veggies. That's a lot of money for one person just for a month of food. At least it was for me.

I would seriously gag trying to swallow some of the meals.

I've tried and hated it! The food was "tolerable" but after about 4 days I had THE WORST belly pains and the gas? Oh goodness... So not worth the money.

It was way too expensive.

1. Very expensive. I feel like even lean cuisine is probably cheaper.
2. Kinda gross food. I found a bunch of Nutrisystem snacks at Ollie's once (red flag). They were lasagnas in little trays. It was like a frozen food except it was stored at room temp and doesn't require refrigeration? What kind of lasagna (with cheese) doesn't require refrigeration.. tasted okay, not great.
3. You may not learn portion control. Many people have a hard time replicating the plan because you don't have to be mindful to follow it. Microwave the food, throw on a cup of veggies, boom, dinner. What happens when you have to make dinner yourself? Can you make an 800 (or whatever) calorie dinner on your own?

I tried some years ago, and agree with the above posters.....the food was disgusting.
None of it needs to be refrigerated, what does that tell you?

Also, some of the portions were so small, it was a joke. (I recall pouring a cereal portion into a cup instead of a bowl, because at the least it covered the bottom of the cup).

Seriously, if you don't want to cook for yourself or need portion control coaching, the frozen WW and Lean Cuisine meals in the supermarket taste much better.

In the end though, you have to eat your own cooking, so why not invest instead in a scale and measuring cups?
Eat the way you intend to the rest of your life.

I'm currently on Nutrisystem and have had success. I buy the Costco giftcards for 60 dollars worth 100. So I basically get a month and half of food for 179 dollars, this is breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. If you were to tally up a grocery bill, i'm pretty sure you would pay more than that. I did Nutrisystem MANY years ago and the food was disgusting. I honestly didn't want to try it again but I was informed by my sister that it had improved. It did improve. Plus you have the choices of buying what you like online. I started with the Walmart one week version to see if i could tolerate it. At the end of the day, it's not a Japanese Steak house but it depends on your motivation. I would say the food is decent and better than lean cuisine and weight watchers now. I honestly can't stand those either.

Nutrisystem and programs like Jenny Craig are meant to help you portion control. You are suppose to slowly incorporate your own meals once you get closer to your goal weight. I use MFP with Nutrisystem because I track my calories for my weight range and goals.

Goodluck on whatever you decide to do!

No have not and I will never try it

I did it a few years ago to help me lose weight with my first child. I did the 5 days on/2 days off. Like everyone else, the food was awful. I did it primarily to help me with portion control and get use to eating smaller portions but with those two days off, everything tasted so much better even it was generic spaghetti sauce and noodles. Even the smell of some of those item. I remember turkey tettrazzini being one of the worst.

It was also expensive because you buy the food but you still need to add in vegetables and fruit.

I did lose a great deal of weight that i was able to keep off. I also exercise a lot too. at the end of the day, it helped me with portion control but the food itself was not sustainable. I'd rather try one of the other home food delivery services that seemed to have exploded in the past few years than do nutrisystem.

I can't imagine spending money on food that tastes that bad. A teacher at my school was on it. Just looking at her food made me want to take my food to another table. For a lot less money, you can lay in a store of individual containers with screw on lids, make up a bunch of tasty recipes, portion everything out and refrigerate or freeze it.

I have at least 10 recipes I do this with and only cook about every other Sunday afternoon. I look forward to everything i eat. And I'm not spending that much money.

Did you end up doing NS?

I'm currently on Nutrisystem and have had success. I buy the Costco giftcards for 60 dollars worth 100. So I basically get a month and half of food for 179 dollars, this is breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. If you were to tally up a grocery bill, i'm pretty sure you would pay more than that.

I'll have to respectfully disagree with this comment. My grocery bill is about $400 a month for a family of 4 and a dog--and that is including cleaning supplies, paper goods, toiletries, and other non-edible items. So I am pretty sure the food only groceries for one person is much much lower than 179 a month. Although, if you rely on take out and eating out and other convenience meals, than yes you might be saving money using that plan.

I would suggest trying one of those 5 day trial boxes from Walmart. They cost around 40.00. See what you think.

The clean eaters will attack, but I have had some success (I say "some" because I just started six weeks ago) doing my own version of Nutrisystem, but much cheaper. I buy Lean Cuisines, Weight Watchers Smart Ones, and Healthy Choice. Obviously, pre-packaged entrees are an option for those who don't like or have time to cook. I like the portion control and not having to guess on calories.