I will survive

A few days ago, in anticipation of this chapter in my weight loss journey, I had a dream where the food I got from Nutri System was disgusting. Of course, naturally, that has been a fear of mine which caused me to procrastinate in purchasing the food plan for quite sometime.

This past week I was journaling food that I had in my kitchen, prepping for what was to come and did fairly well. In the week, I lost 3.5 pounds. Yay! After months of going up, I dropped a portion of what i had gained. What was different? I don't know to be quite honest... Starved myself a little with the exception of Fat Tuesday, because I wanted to live out the name "Fat." (Naughty word!) I also was making sure I stayed active.

Yesterday I was pretty happy to see that I got the first half of my food, regardless of the fear. The other half comes shipped frozen. They're having some deal through NS right now, so that's what I got. Will I like it? Who knows at that moment. So then when I see this huge box of food, the next question is where to put all this food! I do have a house of four, so obviously kitchen cupboards are filled to the brim for my kiddos. I clean out a drawer that once had basically junk in it. When I open the box of NS foods, I'm laughing my rear end off... Seriously? A turkey hot dog? A hamburger? They don't need to be refrigerated? Scary. I've been reassured they're great and safe. I can live on hope for now.

So today has been my first official day on the Nutri System plan. I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised thus far. NS isn't all that different from Weight Watchers in some sense. Journalling everything we consume is not different, but with NS, there's not really any guessing. I like that. The main meal has taken the guesswork out of it. So the additions, such as your fruit, veggie, carbs, proteins and fats are where the work is, and it's not really work. They give you a little book to see what they have measured out for you. So ease in that. Also, they do encourage cleaner foods, although they have processed foods, the things you add, they prefer fresh. Great! Simple enough since that's what I try to keep in our house.  They want to make sure you're getting the right amount of your Dietary needs, such as what I mentioned previously. Same as Weight Watchers. I have to say I will do a lot of comparing to Weight Watchers because that is all that I've known for the last 6 years.

Back to the food. Scary but curious. This morning, I scoured through the breakfast choices, settled on a blueberry muffin with fruit and a boiled egg. That blueberry muffin, I tossed in the microwave. It was like any other boxed blueberry muffin you'd buy in the bread aisle. Not much flavor, chewy... Thankfully lots of blueberries in it though. I used up my fat this morning by tossing on some butter so I could finish it. Then did about 2 hours of Dancing with the kids on the Wii... by then I was hungry again, I waited to see if it was just mental or physical. An hour later I gave in. Again, I venture to my drawer of food. I pull out the Tuna Salad, in my previous experiences with pre-made tuna salad isn't so great.  It mentions to put it on bread, however I figured there's lots of carbs in this meal plan, so I put it on lettuce, tomatoes, and some cheese. It was really good! So the day was getting better with the food. I was worried I'd be on the Nutri System discussion boards all the time trying to figure out how to doctor up the food, but really didn't see a need today. So that's great! And by the way, you can become a member of Nutri Systems website without buying the food. Cures the curiosity I suppose.


Snack time... not really hungry but I have my orange. Back to playing with my kids. Then the aroma of food comes from the kitchen, my hubby is making dinner. Envious of the chicken nuggets, I rummage through and grab a boxed meal of Chicken Penne Pasta. Scared? You bet? Will I survive? I hope so. I open it, and suddenly I have this flash back of the Gerber toddler meals. Not as scared as I recall feeding my children food very similar to this. I heat up some veggies, toss it into my heated pasta along with more tomatoes. Take a deep breath, then take a bite. It was really good! I was truly surprised yet again. Two out of three foods, not so bad!

The day is done, I even had dessert. I'm not acquainted with desserts, especially on a daily basis. I survived. I feel fine. Actually I feel stuffed. So my next fear is next Friday when I weigh in, is that it won't be a big loss if any... But we shall see!