2006-09-18 15:05:48 · 4 answers · asked by rrrunner 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Absolutely. In fact, it's vital that you supplement their food with plenty of veggies, fruit and some dairy.
My wife and I did the Nutrisystems diet about a year ago. Here's my voluminous opinion about it.
Nutrisystems is a diet based on the glycemic index, which is very good at help controlling your appetite and keeping your blood sugar from bouncing around. Go to their site, they'll tell you all about it.
The basic plan is that they ship you a months worth of prepared entres, snacks and desserts. Then every month after that, they'll automatically ship you (and bill you) for another months worth of food, unless you tell them to delay it or cancel. Cancelling was no problem when we did it.
The price was reasonable and comparable to buying Lean Cuisines or other prepackaged meals at the grocery story. Note, the Nutrisystems meals do not need to be frozen or refrigerated. You can just pull them out of the box and heat them up in the microwave for the most part.
The plan give you 3 meals, 1 snack and 1 dessert every day. If you are a guy, I think you get a second snack. You are expected to supplement your entres with other food that takes little or no time to prepare, so you are eating a balanced diet. This is important. If you don't add salads, fruit, veggies, milk, yogurt, breads, etc. you won't get enough calories and bulk, you'll be hungry all the time, and you'll fail.
The byproduct of this plan is that you really start to learn how to eat healthy. You get comfortable having small entres, accompanied by large quantities of veggies or salad or other healthy foods, which is a great way to eat normally.
Now for the bad part, and bad it is. Most of the food tastes terrible. At least it did for me and the wife. After 2 months, neither of us could do it any more, even though we were having great success with weight loss. I'd say 1/2 of the entres and almost all the desserts had protein powder (or something that tastes like it) added to them. It really made the food less than desirable. Here you are looking forward to a nice brownie or shake for the dessert, and it tastes like protein powder. Ugh!
I'm not sure what their deal is now, but if at all possible, try and get your hands on a few of the entres and desserts first. Try them. If you like them, then I heartily recommend Nutrisystems. If you don't like them, don't do it, because you'll just get sick of it and quit.
If you don't know anyone that has any of the food, maybe try and look on ebay, and see if anyone's selling some leftover food.
2006-09-21 10:26:15 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. And you should have about 4 1/2 cups of veggies/fruits. The veggies without dressing or butter would probably be a good choice seeing that it's lower in calories.
2006-09-18 15:10:20 · answer #2 · answered by fiestyredhead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. By the way, if you want to learn about the REAL benefits of fruits and veggies, request the FREE 15-minute DVD from Support@RealJuicePlus.com Some great info and ya can't beat the price! ;-)
2006-09-18 15:10:50 · answer #3 · answered by puz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
VEGTABLES ARE GREAT BUT IF YOU LIVE IN SAN FRANSISCO PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THE FRUITS
2006-09-18 15:08:00 · answer #4 · answered by charles p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋