Ingredients and Mechanism of Action

Nutrisystem offers over 100 different food choices, and you can choose either a favorite food option or customize your own meal plan. All of them, they stress, contain no MSG. But offering no diet pills, they have to assume that you will only eat one of their meals per meal, which provide the right caloric intake. And they have to assume that your system will burn that set amount of calories efficiently.

Overall Impression of Nutrisystem:

Nutrisystem provides an extremely expensive choice. In college, I was able to buy all my groceries by sticking to cheaper fruits and vegetables and buying a 10 pound bag of rice once a month, all inside of $50. And I’m pretty sure that was probably about as nutrient dense or more so than the foods Nutrisystem provides. My biggest problem with this program is what happens when you stop. By this I mean, what happens when you want to go out to eat, when you stop ordering their pre-made food packets, when you actually have to maintain the weight loss. You get the gist I’m sure.