Day 9 - Wednesday 7/30/08

Starting Weight: 230

Breakfast - 9:00

• Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree
  Scrambled eggs w/thyme & red pepper flakes
  
• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese slice (on eggs)
  
• Fruit Serving
  1/2 Banana
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Whole wheat bread slice (put eggs and cheese on it)
  

Morning Snack - 11:15

• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Yoplait light apple turnover yogurt
  
• Fruit Serving
  1/2 Banana
  

Lunch - 1:15

• Nutrisystem Lunch Entree
  Tomato corn chowder - more 'stew' consistency than the stew, tasted more like baked beans with a little bit of corn
  
• Salad Serving
  Steamed zucchini w/herbs
  
• Fat Free Dressing
  n/a
  

Afternoon Snack - 3:15

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Nacho chips - still pretty nasty, but bearable
  

Dinner - 7:00

• Nutrisystem Dinner Entree
  Cajun style chicken w/sausage & rice - Not too bad, but rice is a little mushy/weird. Edible though.
  
• Vegetable Serving
  Steamed green beans
  
• Salad or Fruit Serving
  Greens, sprouts, mushrooms
  
• Fat Serving
  Almonds
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Whole wheat bread
  

Dessert - 9:00

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Oatmeal raisin cookie
  

Glasses of Water: 5
Diet Soda: 1
Exercise: none

Day 8 - Tuesday 7/29/08

Starting Weight: 230

Breakfast - 9:45

• Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree
  Frosted crunch cereal - Yes, you read it correctly. Frosted. And yes, this does have some sugar as well as high fructose corn syrup in it. But also lots of soy, wheat and corn. Not very "frosted" tasted, despite all that, but still tasty enough.
  
• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese slice
  
• Fruit Serving
  Grapefruit juice
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Whole wheat bread
  

Morning Snack - 12:00

• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Boca burger
  
• Fruit Serving
  Grapefruit juice
  
  

Lunch

• Nutrisystem Lunch Entree
  Fudge graham bar
  
• Salad Serving
  Green beans w/ garlic powder (not garlic salt)
  
• Fat Free Dressing
  n/a
  

Afternoon Snack

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Honey mustard pretzels
  

Dinner

• Nutrisystem Dinner Entree
  Veggie Fajita
  
• Vegetable Serving
  Tomato (added to fajita)
  
• Salad or Fruit Serving
  Green onion (added to fajita)
  
• Fat Serving
  Olives (added to fajita)
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Extra whole wheat tortilla shell
  

Dessert

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Chocolate peanut butter bar
  

Glasses of Water: 3
Diet Soda: 1
Exercise: none

Day 7 - Monday 7/28/08

Starting Weight: 228

Breakfast - 9:30

• Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree
  Cereal (dry, stupid milk was sour)
  
• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese slice
  
• Fruit Serving
  Grapefruit juice
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Roll
  

Morning Snack - 12:00

• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Slice of ham
  
• Fruit Serving
  Blueberries
  

Lunch - 2:00

• Nutrisystem Lunch Entree
  Fudge graham bar
  
• Salad Serving
  n/a
  
• Fat Free Dressing
  n/a
  

Afternoon Snack - 4:30

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Pretzels
  

Dinner - 6:30

• Nutrisystem Dinner Entree
  Hearty beef stew - Microwave cup, edible, but I wouldn't call it beef stew
  
• Vegetable Serving
  Carrots
  
• Salad or Fruit Serving
  Peach
  
• Fat Serving
  Almonds
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Whole wheat bread
  

Dessert - 9:30

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  BBQ soy chips
  

Glasses of Water: 2
Diet Soda: 2 large glasses
Exercise: none

Day 6 - Sunday 7/27/08

Starting Weight: 233

Breakfast - 12:30

• Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree
  Cranberry-Orange Pastry - Puck shaped the same as the brownie, dense but tastes ok
  
• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese slice
  
• Fruit Serving
  Peach
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Roll
  

Morning Snack - 5:00pm

• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese (on salad below)
  
• Fruit Serving
  Grapefruit juice
  

Lunch - 5:00pm

• Nutrisystem Lunch Entree
  Chocolate peanut butter bar
  
• Salad Serving
  Greens w/ green onion
  
• Fat Free Dressing
  n/a
  

Afternoon Snack - 6:00pm

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Zesty herb snack mix
  

Dinner - 8:15

• Nutrisystem Dinner Entree
  Mac & cheese w/beef cup - another hot water cup things, not bad.
  
• Vegetable Serving
  Tomato
  
• Salad or Fruit Serving
  Grapefruit juice
  
• Fat Serving
  Peanut butter
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Corn
  

Dessert

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Oatmeal cookie - The cookies are chewy but passable. They taste like cookies.
  

Glasses of Water: 2
Diet Soda: 0
Exercise: none

Some cheating today, went to a wine festival. Probably had 6x 1oz samples of wine over the course of an hour or two. Does wine count as grape juice?

Cheat day 7/26/2008

Starting Weight: 235

We decided to have a cheat day every Saturday. A day where we wouldn't go overboard, but wouldn't really stick with the diet either if we didn't want to.

I didn't log anything I ate this day, but I think I remember most of it.

Breakfast - Yogurt, some other stuff. I think it was two dairy items total and something else. Reasonable meal, but not totally within diet spec.

Lunch - Stopped at a diner while we were out. I got a burger with cheese and bacon and something else. Added a little ketchup and mustard. Ate a few fries with it. Drank unsweetened iced tea.

Dinner - Got a hoagie from Wawa and a diet ginger ale. Hoagie was roast beef with horseradish, lettuce, tomato, onions and a little bit of mayo (yes, that's an option on their ordering screen "a little bit of mayo".. go Wawa!). Topped it all off with some Kozy Shack Key Lime pudding. About 1 cup worth. Not so good (for the diet and also flavor-wise).

I may have had a little Chik-o-Stick bite size thing as well.


Again, trying to be reasonable but not strictly be on the diet either. A pressure relief valve so we can actually eat food we really ENJOY at least once per week.

We'll see how Sunday goes. Supposed to go to a wine festival, but still be on our diets. I'm thinking it's going to be 50/50.

Day 5 - Friday 7/25/08

Starting Weight: 230

Breakfast - 9:30

• Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree
  Chocolate Chip Granola Bar - Pretty good, like the lunch power bars
  
• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese slice
  
• Fruit Serving
  1/2 Banana
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Roll
  

Morning Snack - 12:45

• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Slice of ham
  
• Fruit Serving
  1/2 Banana
  

Lunch - 12:45

• Nutrisystem Lunch Entree
  Pasta parmesan w/broccoli - Not bad, another hot water cup meal. About on par with such things
  
• Salad Serving
  Tomato - Oops.. that's supposed to be a veggie serving, oh well.
  
• Fat Free Dressing
  n/a
  

Afternoon Snack - 3:45

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Fudge brownie - Not bad. Akin to vending machine brownies (but more cake-like and less brick-o-fudge). I'm a little disturbed by the silica gel packs found in some of these items. I'm glad they're there, but it's so tempting to eat them when they're stuck to the bottom of your brownie.
  

Dinner - Fat and low glyc at 7:30, rest at 10:45

• Nutrisystem Dinner Entree
  Chicken Florentine Fettuccine - heat-and-eat deal, 10oz is huge for these meals, pretty good though. Chunks of chicken are tasty.
  
• Vegetable Serving
  Tomato (yes, I eat it like an apple)
  
• Salad or Fruit Serving
  1/2 banana
  
• Fat Serving
  Peanut butter (what can I say, I love peanut butter)
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Whole wheat bread
  

Dessert - 10:45

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Oatmeal Raisin Cookie - Single cookie, but tastes like the real thing. Not home-baked good, but it wouldn't be, coming out of a package.
  

Glasses of Water: 4
Diet Soda: 0
Exercise: none

Day 4 - Thursday 7/24/08

Starting Weight: 230

Breakfast - 9:45

• Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree
  Apple Strudel Scone - Wow, a lot sweeter than I expected. Pretty good. About as dry as scones tend to be, so don't be too surprised.
  
• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese slice
  
• Fruit Serving
  Grapefruit juice
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Roll
  

Morning Snack - 11:45

• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Yoplait light yogurt - blueberry
  
• Fruit Serving
  Strawberries
  

Lunch - 2:00

• Nutrisystem Lunch Entree
  Chocolate Raspberry Bar - These 'energy bar' things they give are pretty sweet, this one is no exception. Tastes pretty good.
  
• Salad Serving
  n/a
  
• Fat Free Dressing
  n/a
  

Afternoon Snack - 4:00

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Honey mustard pretzels
  

Dinner - 6:30

• Nutrisystem Dinner Entree
  Vegetable Fajita - Freeze dried goodness. The chunks of fake meat weren't too bad. Put them on a Mission brand whole wheat wrap. Added green onion, jalapenos and spices.
  
• Vegetable Serving
  Tomato (added to the fajita)
  
• Salad or Fruit Serving
  Green onion (added to the fajita)
  
• Fat Serving
  Olives (added to the fajita)
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Corn
  

Dessert - 11:00

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Pretzels - Regular, not honey mustard. These definitely don't follow your normal lye glazed pretzel recipe. These are more like weird thick crackers. They taste ok, but they're not really "pretzels", outside of the shape.
  

Glasses of Water: 2
Diet Soda: 1.5
Exercise: none

Day 3 - Wednesday 7/23/08

Starting Weight: 236

Breakfast - 10:00

• Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree
  Low fat granola cereal w/milk
  
• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese slice
  
• Fruit Serving
  Grapefruit juice
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Roll
  

Morning Snack - 12:15

• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Yoplait yogurt
  
• Fruit Serving
  Grapefruit juice
  

Lunch - 3:00

• Nutrisystem Lunch Entree
  Fettuccine Alfredo - Not bad, your basic "just add hot water" cup meal.
  
• Salad Serving
  Spinach, radishes, green onions
  
• Fat Free Dressing
  n/a
  

Afternoon Snack - 5:30

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Honey Mustard Pretzel Sticks - Pretty good. Like most of these items, you can tell it's "diet" by the lack of tasty tasty fat in it, but still good.
  

Dinner - 7:30

• Nutrisystem Dinner Entree
  Meatloaf - A heat-and-eat non freeze dried affair this time. The meat sponge was ok, but the sauce was really flavorful.
  
• Vegetable Serving
  Carrots
  
• Salad or Fruit Serving
  Greens
  
• Fat Serving
  Peanut butter
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Whole wheat bread
  

Dessert - 10:45

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Honey mustard pretzels
  

Glasses of Water: 5
Diet Soda: 0
Exercise: none

Day 2 - Tuesday 7/22/08

Starting Weight: 232

Breakfast - 9:45

• Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree
  Scrambled Eggs & Sausage - Powered eggs, yum! Kind of scary, but actually not as bad tasting as they sound. Could use some sprucing up. I recommend adding some herbs like thyme or rosemary or something to the powdered mix before heating, so it'll be evening distributed throughout the eggs. You could also add hot peppers, green onions, or anything else from your "unlimited" list to add flavor. Too much may make the eggs not cook right, though. Maybe limit pre-cooking additions to herbs and small stuff.
  
• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese slice
  
• Fruit Serving
  Strawberries
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Roll
  

Morning Snack - 11:45

• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Yoplait Light Thick & Creamy Peach
  
• Fruit Serving
  Blueberries
  

Lunch - 2:30

• Nutrisystem Lunch Entree
  Black Beans & Rice - Not bad.. I should have stirred it a little more because I got some still freeze dried bits in the middle. Haven't made the same mistake twice, so it was probably just me, not the food or directions.
  
• Salad Serving
  n/a
  
• Fat Free Dressing
  n/a
  

Afternoon Snack

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  n/a
  

Dinner

• Nutrisystem Dinner Entree
  Thin Crust Pizza - Another fairly tasty item. The crust isn't exactly gourmet and the cheese is a little scary, but the tomato sauce was pretty good and really helped the rest of it. I recommend cooking in the oven for that crispy crust.
  
• Vegetable Serving
  Carrots
  
• Salad or Fruit Serving
  Greens
  
• Fat Serving
  Peanut butter
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Whole wheat bread
  

Dessert

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  BBQ Soy Chip - The same wafer vehicle as the Nacho chips, but with a different powder on them. The chip itself tastes like a soy chip. Nothing to really write home about. The BBQ dust makes these a bit more enjoyable than the nacho ones. That is, I don't think I'll force myself to eat any more nacho flavored ones, but the BBQ are good enough for a snack.
  

Glasses of Water: 4
Diet Soda: 1
Exercise: None

Day 1 - Monday 7/21/08

Starting Weight: 238

Breakfast - 9:00

• Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree
  Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal - Pretty tasty. Almost the same as any other instant oatmeal
  
• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Cheese slice
  
• Fruit Serving
  n/a
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Roll
  

Morning Snack - 11:45

• Dairy or Protein Serving
  Stonyfield Chocolate Underground Fat Free Yogurt
  
• Fruit Serving
  Fruit Juice (some little juice box thing)
  

Lunch - 2:15

• Nutrisystem Lunch Entree
  Fudge Graham Bar - Pretty good, if you like protein bars. Tastes sweeter than your average protein bar, though.
  
• Salad Serving
  Mixed greens
  
• Fat Free Dressing
  n/a
  

Afternoon Snack - 4:15

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Nacho Crisps - Nasty, seriously. Puffed soy wafers with yellow dust, not so tasty.
  

Dinner - 7:00

• Nutrisystem Dinner Entree
  Beef Patty - Ok, this one looks scary. It's literally a freeze dried beef puck in a small plastic tray that you add boiling water to. Surprisingly, it's actually tasty. It has a good grilled taste to it that makes the freeze drying forgivable.
  
• Vegetable Serving
  Carrots
  
• Salad or Fruit Serving
  Greens
  
• Fat Serving
  Peanut butter
  
• Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving
  Slice of whole wheat bread
  

Dessert

• Nutrisystem Dessert Entree
  Zesty Herb Snack Mix - Kind of like a Chex Mix type thing, but with herbs. I found it a little odd, but definitely more edible than the nacho crisps.

Glasses of Water: 4
Diet Soda: 1
Exercise: None

Recommendations & Hacks

Updated: 7/30/08

I'm going to try to keep this post updated with recommendations on how to modify, enhance or otherwise make palatable some of the things on the Nutrisystem diet. I'm also going to use it to record the basic of what each food type is calorie and nutritional content-wise, in case anyone totally can't stand (or afford) what Nutrisystem sends and wants to find a basic analog in the real food world without totally throwing their diet out of whack.

Nutrisystem Supplied Food

Breakfast Entrees

• Scrambled Eggs & Sausage - Powered eggs, yum! Can't really taste the sausage. Kind of scary, but actually not as bad tasting as they sound. Could use some sprucing up. I recommend adding some herbs like thyme or rosemary or something to the powdered mix before heating, so it'll be evening distributed throughout the eggs. You could also add hot peppers, green onions, or anything else from your "unlimited" list to add flavor. Too much may make the eggs not cook right, though. Maybe limit pre-cooking additions to herbs and small stuff.
• Scrambled Eggs part 2 - If you're a man and get a "low glycemic" item, try putting your eggs on a slice of bread and using cheese as your dairy.
• Scrambled Eggs part 3 - DO NOT OVER MICROWAVE THEM! Remember eating jello and finding chunks that were harder than the surrounding jello? Over-microwaving these eggs produces disturbingly hard chunks just like the jello. Not very appetizing.
  
• General recommendation on milk for cereal - See note in Dairy section about "Skim Deluxe"
  

Lunch Entrees

• So far, nothing to report. They've all been energy bars so far. Pretty flavorful and nothing you can really do to doctor them.
  

Dinner Entrees

• Any of the pizza entrees - I recommend cooking them in the oven for the crispy crust. The crust and cheese are "subpar" even for cheap pizza, but the sauce is ok. Again, think about adding things from your "unlimited" list or combining your veggie or salad servings with this to spruce it up a bit. Not to mention herbs! Oregano, red pepper flakes, etc.
• Vegetable Fajita - I'm a fan of Mission brand tortillas. Some tortillas are dry and kind of nasty, but these are pretty good. I recommend using their whole wheat tortilla shell for this dinner. Thing is, this dinner won't fit on a single 10" tortilla, so I just put it in a bowel with some jalapenos, green onions, some chili powder and tumeric and some other random spices and sorta scooped with the tortilla. I also added some tomato from my "vegetable serving" and olives from my "fat serving" and corn from my "low glycemic carb serving"
  

Dessert Entrees

• Nacho Crisps - Nasty, seriously. Puffed soy wafers with yellow dust, not so tasty.I don't think there's any fixing/hacking these to make them taste better..unless you put real cheese on them.
  

Free Range Food

Dairy or Protein Serving

• Stonyfield Chocolate Underground Fat Free Yogurt
• Yoplait Light Thick & Creamy Yogurt
• Safeway has something called "Skim Deluxe". It's skim milk, but it doesn't have that weird purple hue that regular skim milk has and actually has some body to it. Definitely nicer to drink straight than regular skim milk.
• There are many varieties of soy burgers out on the market right now. Boca and Morningstar maing some pretty good stuff. I don't remember being too fond of the Gardenburger brand, but I don't remember. One thing to be concious of, some of these contain cheese or other things to boost the flavor. Be aware that "protein serving" should be predominantly protein, so don't go overboard with the less healthy soy burgers. Watch for hidden fats and such.
  

Fruit Serving

• Some companies make little micro juice boxes for kids. They tend to be in the 4oz size the is your "serving" of fruit according to Nutrisystem. Most of these juice boxes should also have no additional sugar and be generally healthy.
• Like most of the free range items, don't forget that you don't necessarily have to eat/drink it in the normal fashion. You can freeze fruit juices or add your favorite fruit juice to some diet ginger ale, or favorite diet lemon-lime soft drink.
• Does wine count as "grape juice"? If so, your 4oz serving of fruit juice could be a 4oz glass (standard serving) of wine. Since you're supposed to keep alcohol to a minimum and you're only allowed three fruit servings during the day, this is semi-self regulating. Maybe keep it to one glass of wine per day as your fruit serving, to try to stay within boundaries better. And no dessert wines!
  

Low Glycemic Carbohydrate Serving (Men's plan)

• Pepperidge Farm 15-Grain Bread - In the search for edible whole wheat breads, I found this one. They have a 9-grain, 12-grain and the 15-grain bread. I can't remember, but I think the other two aren't whole wheat. This one is. Lots of good little nuts and other chunks (that may make this not Nutrisystem-appropriate, actually). It's damn good bread for whole wheat.
  

Vegetable Serving

• Tomatoes - has these great little tomato mixes at our local Safeway. They come with normal red tomatos, but also yellow and these weird dark green ones that are really flavorful.
• Tomatoes part 2 - Look for heirloom tomatoes if you can find them. They tend to be really ugly looking, but really flavorful.
  

Salad or Fruit Serving

• has a mixed greens with herbs plastic box at the local Safeway that's very good even without dressing.
• In general, don't forget your "unlimited" items, especially since they tend to be veggies anyway. I love adding radishes and green onions to my salads.
  

Fat Serving

• Safeway has these little plastic square containers of nuts. They have odd little mix names. Most of them are salted (which is a no-no for the fat serving on the diet), but I found one that isn't. I think it's called Sequoia or something. You'll have to pick around the dried cranberries, though.. unless you can count that toward one of your other items for that meal.

Water

• Water can get kind of boring. I prefer Dasani or Smart Water for their slight mineral taste, which makes it much tastier than regular 'flat' water to me.
• Metromint has a great line of mint and fruit flavored waters. The mint ones are literally just water and mint oil. They even have a Chocolate Mint version (my girlfriend thinks it's made using the "chocolate mint" plant, which has a faint, but not overpowering chocolate flavor). You could probably do the same yourself at home with tap water and some mint essence. We've found Metromint products at Whole Foods, Harry & David and at a nice little local market called David's Natural Market in Gambrills, MD.
  

Tea

• Lots of little tea shops are popping up in this area. Many have online stores you can order from. If you get a good tea, many times you don't need to add sugar. My favorite is Jasmine Tea, which is a scented green tea. It does have caffeine, but the jasmine gives it a nice smell and flavor.
• Celestial Seasonings has many herb teas that taste sweet but contain no calories. Their Wild Berry Zinger tastes like fruit punch.

Coffee

• This might be a tough one for some people. Not everyone likes their coffee black. I'll have to investigate this more.
  

Diet Drinks

• Walmart and I assume, Sam's Club, has "Sam's Choice Clear American" flavored waters. So far, the Key Lime is pretty good. Tastes nothing like proper "key lime" but is vaguely Sprite flavored.
• I've found that Diet Dr Pepper and Diet Slice taste most like their non-diet counterparts.
• Add Diet A&W Root Beer to the list of acceptable diet drinks for people who don't like diet drinks. You can barely taste the artificial sweetener.
  

Alcohol

• You're supposed to limit the amount of alcohol you drink, but if you want a drink, Amstel Light tastes like a real beer and there are many new "light" beers that have more body than light beers of old.

General Tips/Combinations

• If you don't like the taste of something, but are still willing to eat it, try to eat it before you eat other things that may cancel out the flavor. For instance, the eggs aren't too tasty to me, so I might save my fruit or something with real flavor for after I eat the eggs.
• Eggs (breakfast entree) w/ cheese (dairy) on a slide of whole wheat bread (low glycemic)
• Lettuce wraps - Take butterhead/bibb lettuce or iceberg, anything with a firm leaf, and stuff it with other items from your meal, like soy crumbles or a cut up soy burger as your protein serving, or any entree that would normally be put on bread, tortilla or a roll.
  

The box arrives

I'll try to get some photos to post here, but a few little things before we get into the food.

First, be aware that Nutrisystem gives you a 'discount' on shipping and such with your first order, but if you don't make a second order, you have to pay back that discounted amount. It comes out to be around $50 or so. Better than another $300 for the next month, but don't be surprised if you quit and you get nailed for an extra $50 for not ordering a second month.

Second, the meals they send are NOT "complete". At least not complete by their diet plan. A typical meal involves both packaged Nutrisystem food as well as other fresh food you add to it. This includes veggies, fruits and/or fruit juice, whole wheat bread products. Some items say "serve with whole wheat roll". I'm going to assume that roll + Nutrisystem meat is separate from the "low glycemic" addition that men get in their diet plan.

So anyway.. the box came today, but we're going away for the weekend so the diet starts on Monday. The box was like 80lbs worth of freeze dried and wet packaged food and snack bars and stuff. Everything is color coded.

One of the first things I see is a beef patty that's obviously freeze dried. YAY! ASTRONAUT BURGERS!! I joke about eating it without adding water. I'm not sure how healthy that may be, so I think I'll avoid that option. We'll see.

Anyway, more later once I get my notes together. (I'm posting this on 7/22, just back-dating it so everything stays in order)

The diet begins..

Starting on the Nutrisystem Advanced (men's edition) and it looks like it's going to be a real interesting experiment.

The object of this blog is going to be a combination of reviewing the food, discussing the in's and outs of the diet as well as possibly coming up with some creative ways to 'hack' both the Nutrisystem food as well as the fresh foods they have you eat along with it. Maybe even some creative recipes if we get creative.