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Nutrisystem – Day One

So today it starts – the new big diet plan and program, using NutriSystem. I received the delivery of my 28-day supply of NutriSystem food – - the whole 40lbs box of it! I proceeded to separate them into meals and have them lined in boxes along the wall in my office – - Box 1: breakfast, Box 2: Lunch, Box 3: dinner, Box 4: Desserts/Snacks.

Ok – so why doesn’t NutriSystem take the initiative and separate them out in to separate boxes FOR YOU? I mean, don’t they know we’re stressed ENOUGH just starting a new program?

Ah well.

One of my biggest obstacles with dieting, and this is going to sound odd, but it’s remembering to actually EAT. I’m a big one for skipping meals completely. This program has me eating 5 times a day – - so I opened my Outlook program.. opened the calendar and set alarms for myself “Eat Breakfast, Dufus!”… “Time for lunch, Dork!” – - that type of thing. Since I work from home and spend 80% of my time at my computer anyways, I figured having the pop up alarm/reminders set will help me out a great deal. I set alarms for water reminders, too – because I’ll forget my water intake completely if I’m not knocked over the head with it on a regular basis.

So, I’m organized. Then I weighed myself. Doesn’t it seem like it should make complete sense that just the simple task of ORGANIZING the diet plan should AT LEAST drop a few pounds, eh?

No such luck. But I started with their lunch and had the cream of broccoli soup, 1/2 c. nonfat cottage cheese and a lettuce, tomatoe and cucumber salad with NF ranch. I liked their soup, too! And I’m a picky eater, man!

I’m already on my 6th 8oz bottle of water today. I think day one is going pretty good

Ahh well – - here’s to a skinnier me!