Nutrisystem Review
What You Should Know
Nutrisystem is a diet plan that offers pre-packaged foods to lose weight. There are programs for men, women, older men, and older women. There are also specific programs for diabetics and vegetarian dieters. Nutrisystem has been endorsed by many celebrities. The latest celebrity to endorse the Nutrisystem program is Marie Osmond. Marie Osmond claims that she lost forty pounds by using the program. Nutrisystem is based on good, nutritious foods in the correct portion sizes. No diet supplements are involved.
List of Ingredients
Nutrisystem is not based on diet pills or nutritional supplements. The program consists of specific pre-packaged food including pizza, pasta, desserts, pancakes, cereal, muffins, scrambled eggs, chicken noodle soup, chicken salad, beef tacos, chicken parmesan, and many more appetizing foods.
Product Features
When you purchase the Nutrisystem Advanced diet plan you get twenty-eight days of food, a daily meal planner, free weight loss counseling, free membership to the Nutrisystem website, and free online tools to help you educate yourself about losing weight.
Advantages
- Nutrisystem offers two weeks free as a promotion to new customers.
- Nutrisystem offers a diet program for a variety of people including people with diabetes and those who do not eat meat.
- When you purchase the 28 day Nutrisystem program, you get a free exercise DVD.
Disadvantages
- Nutrisystem is somewhat expensive to maintain for a long period of time and may be too big of a financial commitment for the average consumer.
- The portion sizes on the Nutrisystem program are small and may be difficult for a new dieter to adapt to.
- Although pre-packaged foods are convenient, they are not as appetizing as fresh foods.
- The men’s Nutrisystem program has heartier meals and larger portions than the women’s program (presumably based on different calorie requirements for the different genders.)
Conclusion
Nutrisystem should be commended for posting so many success stories on its official website as this is a great way to boost a dieter’s confidence and encourage them to join the program. When a new dieter can see progress that others have made on a diet program, it gives them hope that they can possibly achieve the same results. Nutrisystem claims to be affordable however the program can become too expensive to maintain over a long term period past the initial twenty-eight days of the program. It seems a bit unfair that the men’s Nutrisystem plan offers heartier meals and larger portion sizes than those in the women’s Nutrisystem meal plan. The small portion sizes in the women’s plan seem difficult to adapt to for women who are used to eating more but who want to lose weight. Since all of the foods are pre-packaged, it appears you can not eat any other foods except Nutrisystem foods while on the diet, which is difficult to maintain because you can not bring pre-packaged foods into a restaurant when you want to go out to dinner with friends or family. Overall, Nutrisystem is probably a good program because it encourages healthy food choices but dieters may become too reliant on the pre-packaged food and not know how to adapt to real food when they are finished with the program or when situations where one is not dinning at home arise.