Does Nutrisystem Work?

Welcome back to this info blog on the ins and outs of the many popular TV advertised weight loss diet food delivery systems. In this post I want to look at a commonly enough asked question of the leader in this field, which is "does Nutrisystem work?"

Well, that's a pretty broad question and one that has a series of answers depending upon the way in which this diet plan is used. For starters, and from a completely logical and nutritionist standpoint, the answer can only be "Yes."

This is because the food that makes up the Nutrisystem diet, the size of the portions, their calorie count and constituents are designed to provide the maximum amount of nutritional value to an average sized person while simultaneously providing only enough calories to maintain a healthy weight. That means that if a person who is overweight and goes on this diet plan and sticks to it rigidly, they must lose weight. No ifs or buts about it.

So why are there even any complaints from people who claim that is does not work?

To put it simply, if a diet food delivery plan like that provided by Nutrisystem did not cause you to lose weight, being brutally honest here, you cheated. Yes you did!

When you thought no one was looking, you sneaked some high calorie snacks and ate them, in the belief that "Oh, one little snack won't hurt."

But one little snack that you may think is perfectly innocent can contain more calories than a whole Nutrisystem meal and will be enough to push you well and truly over your daily calorie count, which totally negates the calorie controlled nature of the diet and leads to weight gain, not weight loss.

Do that on more than one occasion and you've effectively canceled out any benefit from the diet and likely caused yourself to even gain some weight as a result. But so many of the people who failed will swear blind that they didn't cheat. Unfortunately, there is one maxim about a person's body weight that holds true no matter what anyone may claim:

If you consume fewer calories than your body burns, you will lose weight.

On the flip side, if you consume more calories than your body burns you will gain weight. This is an absolute truth and nothing can alter this fact. No glandular abnormalities, or bodily disorders can possibly make a person gain weight if there are no spare calories for that weight to be manufactured from. Its all down to the laws of mass. Mass cannot increase unless it is added to.

So if you are a very overweight person, the law states that you got that way because you consumed more calories than your body could burn. Now its no good trying to maintain that you have a very low metabolic rate. If that's the case, then you need to exercise more to increase it but you still will only gain weight by eating (and drinking) more than you should.

So back to the original question, "Does the Nutrisystem diet system work?" It works if you don't cheat on your diet or slip into your old eating habits. By that I mean it works if you don't cheat - really!

Nutrisystem Meals

Welcome back where in this post I want to take a look at the value of the Nutrisystem meals themselves. Now any diet is only as good as the food that goes into it, so how good is the food that comprises the Nutrisystem diet? Let's take a closer look and see what we can find.

Well, according to the blurb, the Nutrisystem diet meals are meant to be low calorie, low GI, that glycemic index if you didn't know like you've been living under a rock for the last couple years, highly nutritious and balanced such as the ratio between carbs, proteins and fats. Well, that's what you need if you're going to lose weight and do it while keeping up a healthy body. Ok, lets take a random look at one of their daily menus to see what we have.

Breakfast comes to you in the form of rich, dense and filled with chips of semi-sweet chocolate that you can add some light yogurt to if you want to make a nice, light breakfast. Now that might not sound like an alternative to the massive plate of fried eggs and bacon with hash browns and pancakes that you;re used to , but remember you are trying to lose weight, so you got to get used to eating less, right?

Lunch is a beef vegetable soup which is a combination of beef and veggies that are said to be bursting with flavor and to which you may add a green salad.

Dinner is macaroni cheese comprising tender macaroni noodles swimming in a creamy cheddar sauce to which you may add some cooked broccoli. Sounds ok so far!

Dessert is a portion of crunchy, crisp and slightly salty pretzels, which they label as a great craving buster!

Your snack for the day, to have whenever you feel like you need it is light yogurt with fresh blueberries.

Now that's a day's menu that we have taken at random from the Nutrisystem meals they provide. If you check out the website, it comes with images and they actually look pretty nice! So that is what you can look forward to on at least one day and the rest of the diet food delivery meals are different and similarly appetizing.

What they most certainly are not... is big and overly filling, so you have to be prepared for that. Hey, you're on a freakin' diet remember? Sheesh, of course its gonna be less than what you're used to. That's how you lose weight, of course!

Are Nutrisystem Reviews Really Honest?

Welcome back, where I want to look at Nutrisystem reviews and how effective or even truthful they really are. That's because I hear of plenty people who are always asking, "Are Nutrisystem reviews really honest?" That's a pretty interesting question that gets you thinking on several aspects of the program and to whether it is as good as everyone says it is or if there are underlying factors that might be contrary to the popular belief.

Well, in one sense, the many reviews that are published on a multitude of websites out there in cyber space are generally no more than mere sales pitches designed to get visitors to click their links to buy the product without really giving any use value in the form of information. After all, a real review ought to provide the visitor with at least the rudiments of whether a product is good or bad and the reasons why they believe so.

People read product reviews because they want to research information about the product they are interested in buying or a service they are interested in signing up for. If the review is honest and unbiased, providing all the pros and cons of the product or service in an easy to read and understand manner, then they have done their job and the reader feels they have a better understanding of what they may be going into and can make an informed decision based on what they'd learned from the review.

But if all they get is a sales pitch expounding the virtues of the product or service without providing any background or information about any downside it may have, then the reader comes away feeling cheated and let down. Even worse if they fell for the sales pitch and headed straight for the product website, in this case the Nutrisystem diet program, and bought the product. Then they later found that it was not right for them as the review didn't inform them of its weaknesses and where it may not work for certain people.

So my beef here is most of the Nutrisystem reviews out there that are cheating their readers into signing up for the diet food delivery service without first being made aware that it does have its weaknesses for certain people and that it is not a cure all weight loss solution for everyone. There are a few that are honest and unbiased and those are in the minority, although you can read one of the better ones here: weightlossgo.com/lose-weight/nutrisystem-reviews, although you'll still see some ads for the diet program at least you'll get enough balanced information to make an informed decision for yourself.

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