Well after one week on Nutrisystem I have to say I have mixed feelings. I didn’t think I was losing much weight, and really did not appreciate or enjoy having to prepare nearly all my meals and spend most of the day in the kitchen preparing all this food.

They make it sound like they will provide all your food - that you will not have to do any preparation. Actually, you’re preparing food all day long. And you also have to supplement Nutrisystem with lots of vegetables, fruit, bread and nonfat milk.

The food is really mixed - about half of it is pretty decent. Some of it is just tasteless and about half is genuinely bad. Their instant eggs and snack bars are completely inedible. I wouldn’t even give them to my dog! But a few of the entrées are actually pretty good. If I’d had prior experience with Nutrisystem, I would definitely have handpicked my food shipment.

The bottom line is that after six days of this I was fully prepared to box everything up and send it back. Frankly, I’d rather go back on Atkins again. It was a good deal more agreeable to me, was a lot less fuss and only cost about half as much.

But I made a deal to myself that if I lost a substantial amount of weight — which I didn’t think was going to happen — then I would tough it out for a least another week. Well as of this morning, I weighed myself and apparently have lost about 5 pounds. So, miserable as I am, I will continue for another week.

Now see, don’t you feel much more uplifted now? That’s what we do here at Merchantprince. Maybe I should post a Cool News article or something later today to cheer us all up.

So if finish this thing, do I get a hot grandma of my own?