Happy With the Results - But Stay Away From The Beef Dishes

by Jen
(New York)

I tried Nutrisystem about a year ago. I wanted to lose weight fast for summer (bathing suit season!) I went with Nutrisystem because it was one of the cheapest diets on the market and everything was done for me - food all delivered and ready to go. I just wanted to lose the weight and get it done.

I got the 2 weeks of free food because I did their auto-ship deal so that was a pretty good value too.

I lost 3 lbs the first week, 4 lbs the second week and about 2-3 pounds over the next couple of months (I did cheat a few times however so not sure what kind of results I would have gotten if I hadn't done that).

Overall, I was happy to see the weight coming off. However be warned that some of the food can taste questionable so you have to really know what you like and order that. I really liked the pizzas, lasagnas and mac and cheese but couldn't stomach the beef dishes - they tasted a bit off to me. Maybe it was just my taste buds, but still.

The desserts were pretty good too - I liked the brownies, chocolate peanut butter bars and the mint chocolate cookies. It was nice to have a 'treat' every day and get my chocolate fix.

So basically Nutrisystem was a decent diet for me - it did the job and I lost the weight I wanted. The food is not the best - but for what you're paying you can't really fault them.

If you want to pay a bit more you can probably get better diet meals like through eDiets (which I haven't tried) but since I was on a budget, I was pretty happy with what i got.