last year I did a diet I found in 'Body For Life' which was basic portion control, 6 meals/day, and lost 25 pounds by that in three months. I was already pretty ready to make a change. It's been a total of 14 weeks for me, and I'm still dropping by 1-2 pounds every week, and it's been almost effortless so far. I posted some of my thoughts in LJ here at 4 and 8 weeks: I have had great results so far from LCHF (Low Carb Hi Fat, also called the Swedish Diet). I can already tell that it's going to save me a ton of money, though. I guess I'll see what happens over the next six months to a year. The six-meals-and-three-snacks a day diet they had me on taught me better portion control, and bullying me into buying a vegetable steamer has gotten me almost entirely off of mashed potatoes, rice, and noodles. I won't end up putting it all back on, I know that. I imagine the chemistry is daunting, but I do wish I could figure out how they made the low-fat, low-carb beef, chicken, and turkey gravy that so many of NutriSystem's entrees were based on! Yeah, I know: gravy is, almost by definition, nothing but fat and starch, but they have (or at least had) some substitutes that actually worked. Maybe some day American food processing companies like Campbells and Hormel will learn that some of us want low-fat low-carb canned goods and packaged goods. Deserts I mostly found substitutes for, Skinny Cow and Weight Watchers branded, although they're not as good a selection and not quite as filling. Salty snacks in low-carb and portion-appropriate packaging will be impossible, but then, NutriSystem dropped several of those from their menu, too. I should be able to match their price and selection on frozen dinners on South Beach brand without having to order them a month at a time I'll miss the non-frozen dinners, but then, I was going to miss those anyway. Portion-appropriate lunches are going to be problematic to find. Given how much of what I was eating for breakfast, with them, was over-priced Cheerios, I should do fine for breakfasts, although I'll miss their powdered-egg-white dehydrated vegetable omelets. What this is going to do to my weight, I have no idea. 'NutriSystem Success'? More like 'NutriSystem FAIL.' They added almost no new items, except to the frozen foods menu, which I can't afford, and wouldn't have room in my freezer for even if it were cheap. They dropped roughly half of the items I liked. BradhicksThey screwed up my last order in the process of changing over to their new menu.

Nutrasystem relax now