Does Nutrisystem Work?

There are dozens of well publicized diet plans from those companies that specialize in convenient diet food delivery services that make life that much easier for dieters to lose weight with.

One of these is Nutrisystem and they have been in existence for over four decades and have become one of the most popular of all the convenience diet makers. So does Nutrisystem work and if it does, how well does it work and does it work for every person who tries it?

Lots of Questions

does nutrisystem workWell, that's a bunch of questions all rolled into one, but we can break them up and answer as best we can using the information that is available from the many reviews of Nutrisystem that are available to be found online.

Incidentally, the particular review in that link is probably one of the best around, being brutally honest and packed full of real customer write-ins with their own stories, the good and the bad are all there.

But back to the question of the workability of the Nutrisystem diets. Many people find that the ability to customize your own diet menu is one of the best features of their plans that are geared up for women (men have their own separate plans).

The meals are quite small and if you've been used to eating large meals you may find this to be a problem re-adjusting to eating less. But eat less you must if you truly wish to lose weight!

Busy Moms and Busy Pops

All that aside, this breed of diet is aimed squarely at busy moms and pops, career men and women and those who simply do not have any free time to devote to working on a conventional type of diet hat involves shopping, food preparation and cooking. If you do have time and already do that, then this kind of diet is probably not right for you.

For starters, when you are used to eating home cooked meals, anything that comes out of a box is going to taste like, well, like it came out of a box!

This is apparently a big downfall of the whole convenience diet idea, although not so much of the Nutrisystem product itself. It is just not possible to recreate home cooked meals and then package them up to be delivered in bulk to customers who will have them in storage for up to a month before they get around to eating them.

The company does its best with what they have, which as far as packaged meals go is pretty good quality.

Are You Prepared for This?

If you are aware of this shortcoming and are prepared to put up with pre-packaged meals that taste and feel like pre-packaged meals, then you can work with this kind of diet for sure. The sheer convenience is a great attraction because it allows you to waste almost zero time on preparing and serving up fair quality diet meals that are low in calories, high in nutritional value and will help you to lose weight of you stick to the diet.

That last sentence should sum it all up really, as to the original question of whether the program works or not. Of course it will help you to lose weight if you stick to the diet without cheating, so in that sense, yes, Nutrisystem does work.

But if you find you don't like the food, or you find it not filling enough or any other negative side to the diet, then chances are you are not going to have the best experience with it. Or you could end up joining the small minority of disgruntled customers who were similarly unprepared for what was to come and then gave up in disgust because the quality was not up to their high expectations.

So if you really want to give this kind of diet a try, do so by all means but do so with your eyes wide open to the shortcomings of a diet based on pre-cooked and packaged meals. Then you will not be disappointed and your Nutrisystem diet will work for you in helping you with your weight loss plans, as long as you put in the effort to make it work for you.