I can say the women’s jumpstart Nutrisystem package sold at Walmart (and I assume the men’s) does work. Entering the third day and down 3 lbs.
Cost: 40.00 for the packet for one person and another about 40.00 for the fresh food they want you to get.
Taste, not bad; and if we have one complaint, it’s being positively stuffed with food every two hours.
Cost, about 16.00 a day, figuring 80.00 divided by five.
Taste—pretty good, for diet stuff.
Kitchen necessary—a fridge but not a freezer; plus a microwave.
I definitely have had worse. Typical day: breakfast, a small! muffin; midmorning a quarter cup of salted nuts mixed with dried fruit; lunch, a small bowl of carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and a half cup of lettuce with a tablespoon of ranch dressing, plus some little item like a piece of string cheese; midafternoon, 8 oz of yoghurt plus a quarter cup of fruit; supper, about 8 oz of not-bad beef with veggie soup with a cup of lightly steamed veggie such as broccoli, late snack about 3/4 cup of cheddar popcorn. By the time I’ve eaten all that, I’m about ready to say this is overkill and I don’t WANT to eat much tomorrow—
But then I get up and I’m down a pound.
I think the trick is keeping the metabolism high and working on a lot of raw garden veggies that aren’t easy to digest.
I’m also saying that little salad is right tasty. I can live with this. Price for food is a little high, but there’s no waste, and you end up eating healthier and less, so a few less trips to McDonalds might be easier on the wallet.
We’re going to try another diet to follow up, which uses special-sized containers (you’ve probably seen it on tv) to denote acceptable sized servings. Eat anything you want, but it has to fit.
your “follow-up” diet is what I used, although I didn’t have the special “as seen on TV” containers. I limited myself to one serving, although I determined the serving size. For example, I used the rectangular containers that are about sandwich size, and if it fit in that container, that was one serving. It didn’t matter if it were beef stew, chili, lasagna, or something else. Then, I’d stick them in the freezer. Take one out, microwave it, and eat. If I were still hungry by the time I finished, I’d have to consider how long it took to get the next container heated up, and by then, I’d no longer be hungry.
Now, I need to go back on that diet, because after being 181 pounds 6 months after I started, I’m back up to 200+, and I’m not happy. Plus, it doesn’t make me feel comfortable around the lady I’m courting. Could I possibly have a better reason for losing weight?
How much of the weight you’ve lost is water weight?
Not so much. It’s coupled with drinking 8 glasses of water a day. Plus the coffee I drink.
And since we’re not eating anything that doesn’t move first these days, we have to be losing some real weight.
Yeah, Joe, my thought exactly. I’ve been tracking & charting my weight daily for well over a decade. Rapid shifts come right back. Water’s “easy come, easy go”.
A lot of that diet sounds like you are paying for convenience. Would it be cheaper to buy full sized portions of whatever prepackaged thingies come with the diet, and spend an hour or so each week dividing it up into equivalent sized portions using Baggies or Tupperware? You already have the meal planner and any recipes that came in the original package.
We scramble for time from dawn to dark, and, yes, convenience.
Plus the fact that we were both very active kids and used to be a piled plate was nothing to the body weight we could maintain. But a lot of our work now involves pushing little keys, and though the brain uses a lot of calories, it can’t cope with a pile of pasta well.
So what I’m going to do is cook normally, but serve bitsy, and freeze the leftovers. This is another time-saver.
What Nutrisystem (and it works for us) has you do is cut down on the extravagant carbs and fats, and graze in little teacup-sized amounts every two hours, while the bulk of your meals is raw veggies. This sounds gruesome, but if you figure it as cucumbers, radishes, carrots, and the like, it’s not like eating raw broccoli—not my cuppa. We do a 2-cup salad that’s mostly these veggies and have about a teacup of protein/carb. Then another snack mid-afternoon, and another helping of carb with big salad.
The preplanned container thing just means you envision what you’ve got for the day, and keep it in bounds, strung out as Nutrisystem suggests being the best.
My own sin is, “Well, that doesn’t look like enough for two. Let’s add more.” Then us eating it all. I’m at fault where it comes to portion size, and getting a firm idea what’s allowable will help me not sin for both of us, ergo help Jane.
We just took the carpet to the area where we’re going to, with a rental truck, pick it up and take it somewhere. Jane’s out trimming the roses before they take off. And I’ll pick up the clippings. Sounds as if the ‘green can’ for garbage pickup is going to be in play from now until fall. I’m scared to open it. The city had all of us who lost fridge-i-dation during the 8 day power out last year to toss our bad food into the green can…and I can’t remember if they picked it up.
You may want to go out armed with a can of Febreze and a gas mask!
I picked up a bottle of wine based on a description at Costco. I was expecting something like a muscat or sweeter dessert wine to have in cordial glasses, but what I got was more like a run-of-the-mill red. Certainly nothing like what I wanted. I’m going to decant it into an ice cube tray and freeze it for cooking; I have a recipe for lamb stew that calls for a cup of red wine, but no lamb right now.
It’s pretty daunting.
Happy International Women’s Day everybody!
I like “wimmun”; one in particular, can I say “unfortunately”. 🙁
I’m courting one, myself….I’m not sure if she’s interested….although we do have a coffee date set up for Thursday morning. She’s got 4 kids……sweetest kids I’ve ever met……all of ’em just turned 12 on Sunday..yep, quadruplets.
my coffee date was 3-1/2 hours long…..lots of conversation. We’ll see how things work out….
THat seems promising. 🙂
I felt like I was in a job interview. 🙂 and I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what it entails. Are you the right man for the job? Can you be a good parent to my children? Can you be a good husband to me? And I did ask her for her perspective on a lot of the things she’d asked me about, too.
It’s very early in what is still a tenuous relationship. The fact that she was agreeable to going out again is promising, but I am not rushing.
Asked her (and the kids) out for dinner, but she’s got other things going on tonight and tomorrow, and I have dance lessons on Thursday evening. Looks like maybe Friday, then.
So, I gathered my courage again, and asked her one more time for her telephone number. She gave it to me, laughing as I fumbled with my darned cell phone trying to get it entered in…..it was funny, though, and I laughed right along with her….I asked her the best time of day to call, because I know there are things she is probably doing in the evening with the kids and doesn’t need to be interrupted. She let me know the times she prefers…..
Progress….
That’s promising. Sense of humor goes a long way.
no longer promising….when I asked her out to dinner this afternoon, she got a really scared look on her face and told me that she was sorry but she had been seeing someone else off and on for several years. Well, not much I could do, except say, “I see. I misunderstood.” Probably my own fault, anyway, but I had been attracted to her last year, not just in the past couple of weeks….I should have known better.
D:
Well, we have once again been skunked by weather for observing a solar eclipse. It started about half an hour ago, right when a small cold front rolled in from the north, bringing clouds and rain. DH is undoubtedly out in the yard, shaking a fist at the sky.
Murphy has plans for you that don’t include seeing this eclipse. (I’ve wanted to see some of the passing comets, and had cloudy weather for them. I think the last one I got a good view of was Hyakutake…)
On the genealogical-software front: RootsMagic has just issued an update that allows direct imports from FTM. (This beats trying to export from FTM, which gives me errors of who-knows-what kind.)
and I’ve sent in a bug report already: it loses place names and people names with diacritical marks. As in they aren’t there at all.
FTM’s new owner, whose name I can’t recall, is at least soliciting opinions from current users and being told ‘stability, stability, stability’ and ‘we can wait for an update…’ Nobody but the novices (imho) is interested in reckless change for convenience…
Software MacKiev; headquarters in the Boston area and programmers in Kiev. Free upgrade if you’re using FTM2014, otherwise it’s gong to cost money.
Boston and Kiev. The world’s sure a different place than it used to be. — Much in favor of good relations getting better.
I’ve just realized it’s dimly possible I may have inherited an old 3.5in Mac floppy or so with ancient (90’s era) Mac Family Tree Maker data files on it, my mom’s laborious compilation of data for both sides of the family. I have no idea if it’s still readable, and need to check the printouts for same. I *think* I can get a Mac-compatible floppy drive for my now-old iMac, circa 2012. It may be a while before I see to it, but once I do, I may ask about getting the files upgraded to something current.
I am currently in Australia, (Ho, ho, ho, ha,ha, ha, and a couple of la di dahs), awaiting the birth of my first ever Grandie, son of my youngest daughter.
Do let us know when the Grand event occurs and another being comes into the world!
The Youngster From Down Under? Very good! Wish I could see Australia some day. Unlikely, alas. Very fine people.
Best Wishes for a healthy baby and mama…and a papa who makes it through fine!
My, my, my—and wishing everybody the very best!