NutriSystem Diet Week 3 Update
August 28, 2006
It’s been three weeks now on the NutriSystem diet and things continue to go well. I lost another 2 lbs this week. That makes a total of 15 lbs for the first three weeks. I must say, its better than I had hoped for.
So the diet is coming along pretty much the best I could have hoped for. I expected a big loss (8 lbs) the first week and then a smaller, but still significant loss (5 lbs) the second week. After that, hopefully, I would settle in to a 2 – 3 lb per week loss until I hit my goal. I seem to be falling in line with that with the 2 lbs last week. Hopefully, the trend continues.
I am now confident in my ability to execute this diet. I am still quite interested in the food and am still feeling quite satisfied during the day from the quantity of food. The variety is more than enough to keep it from getting stale. Actually, the variety is probably larger than if I was cooking everything myself.
The best part is that I have had an occasional “cheat” and it hasnt affected my results. My cheats have been sensible selections, just larger portions. They are usually related to eating out as opposed to the prepared meals. I ate out once for Sean’s birthday and then on Friday at work, we had lunch brought in to work. Again, I ate a low fat and relatively low glycemic index, but probably more food than if I ate the NutriSystem stuff. Why? No clue, but the message is clear. Dont eat out. I am not a big “eat out” guy anyway, so hopefully those impacts should be minimized.
Another thing I have done as part of the diet, at least for the start, is to cut out alcohol. Its been over three weeks since my last alcoholic drink. That will most likely end tonight as its our annual Quail Wine Tasting event in Tucson tonight. Quail is a local distributor that we deal with for our wine purchases. Tonight is the night were they preview their new selections for the upcoming year. They bring in the wine makers from the vineyards for tasting to introduce the wines. The event is not open to the public. I could just taste and spit all the wines, but to be honest, the probability of that is pretty slim. So, I will probably have 3 or 4 glasses of wine after all is said and done. I guess I will have to make that my dessert for the night 
I will have another NutriSystem diet update next Monday…
NutriSystem Diet Week 2 Update
August 21, 2006
Week 2 is in the books for the NutriSystem Diet that I have begun. This week was just a bit harder since we had a family outing at Benihana’s Teppinyaki Restaurant to celebrate Sean’s birthday. I believe that I made very good choices for dinner but I am also sure that I ate more than would be allowed on the diet plan. I had chicken and vegetables with a salad and some stir fried rice. Both of the chicken and rice were in larger quantities than allowed and had some amount of oil in them as they were sauted on the big show grill.
I still have to frown at my Mother for my childhood eating habits. It is almost impossible for me not to clean my plate. I still hear rather loud memories of “Clean your plate! There are starving kids in China!”. As if me eating or not eating everything on my plate would have any effect on that situation. One would think, as an adult, I could get past that, but for some odd reason its still ingrained in my mind and is a very strong habit now.
Anyways, ignoring the slight quantity cheat at Benihana’s, I did quite well this second week of the diet. I dropped another 5 pounds. This is a total weight loss of 13 pounds in two weeks. That actually exceeeds my expectations. I still find this to be a quite agreeable diet plan. I dont find myself hungry except when it is meal time which is okay. I dont have any urge to snack and really am not craving any specific food. I think this is due to the long time low carb dieting I was doing where I basically didnt eat a lot of food types. Now, they are “allowed” again, so the new variety is very pleasing. Hopefully, I can still say that a few more weeks into it.
Suzanne is struggling a bit more on the NutriSystem diet than I am. She feels hungry more than I do. She is also eating more than I am as she builds herself some pretty big salads. Of course, for the most part, since I have known her, she has always eaten more than I do. She had a few cheats this week besides the Benihana’s dinner. Still, she hed level and didnt gain or lose any weight. She is trying to drop less weight (10 – 15 lbs) than I before the Celebrity Mercury cruise to Mexico in November.
Back next week with another NutriSystem diet update 
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