Nutrisystem Week 1 Review

Start Date: 9/4/2007
Start Weight: 165.5 pounds
Week 1 Weight: 162.5 pounds
Pounds lost: 3

Breakfasts:
Typical Meal: NS cereal, 4 oz milk with half a banana. Then I eat the remaining dairy/protein of Yogurt around 10 am.
Thoughts: I do think I’m eating too much dairy with this meal, so I’m going to switch to eating more protein (1 boiled egg) for this week. Today I had my NS cereal & milk w/ 1 boiled egg and am saving my banana for 10 am.
Overall Rating: **** out of 5 stars

Lunches:
Typical Meal: NS meal that has to have water added, a protein or dairy, 1 cup of cucumbers or $1 salad from Wendy’s, light dressing
Thoughts: Had to play around with the adding boiling water thing, but once this was figured out, it’s been good. Most containers tell you to add hot water, stir, cover container for 8-10 minutes, and eat. I’m finding adding hot water, stir, cover for 5 minutes, stir, put in microwave for 30 seconds, eat is the best way to go. Depending on the lunch, it depends on if I add a cheese or a slice of lunch meat. The Black Bean Tortilla Soup is GLORIOUS with some light sour cream added.
Overall Rating: Once you figure out the REAL way to cook it, I’d give these a full ***** stars for ease of bringing to work and taste.

Snacks:
Typical Meal: Piece of fruit and dairy or protein.
Thoughts: If I eat dairy at lunch, I eat protein for snack and vice versa
Overall Rating: Easy and normal healthy snack

Dinners:
Typical Meal: Microwaveable container, 2 vegetable servings, a piece of fruit or salad, and a fat serving
Thoughts: Having trouble eating all of this food, slightly easier to eat if I mix veggies with the meal, like putting mushrooms and spinach on the pizza, rather than eating it WITH the pizza. May be a mental thing, I don’t know.
Overall Rating: *** out of 5; only because it is so much food

Desserts:
Typical Meal:Variety of prepackaged items, favorites are Biscotti, Chocolate Cookie and Chocolate Cake. Not really a fan of the carmel chocoalte crispy bars.
Thoughts: These are fun at the end of the day. I’ve been saving the dinner fat serving to use a TSP of nut butters on my cake or cookie. Nice change of pace from past “diet” sweet treats that are labor intensive (ahem, Black bean brownie!)
Overall Rating: **** out of 5, knocked down a point because anything with Carmel flavoring tastes really fake!