Chicken breast in my purse

So, I have had the opportunity to stay a day on nutrisystem. It wasn’t entirely successful. Let me see… After the macaroni and cheese I had for lunch (just add hot water to this paper cup and watch the dried macaroni gain a life), I was doing ok. It wasn’t exactly a great lunch or even close, but it was what it was. A diet plan that i commited to follow. I had the snack. By 5 pm I picked up my kids from daycare. I was hungry but determined to stick to the plan.

I had promised my kids that I would take them to the Superstore to exchange the shoes I had bought them the day before. So we went. We spent a while looking and I was starving by that time. Still I was determined to wait until I got home to get the proper nutrisystem dinner. Having finally picked out the shoes, and gotten the kids home, I was ready to pick out my dinner for the evening. I don’t know if it was starvation or more than that, but I remember that i just had to go home and eat. I was getting very frustrated.

Oh what exciting, delicious and nutritious meal would it be? I ruled out the chicken and the burger, cause I didn’t have buns handy (you need to add those).  I settled on a pizza. It looked so satisfying on the picture and… well.. you can’t go wrong with pizza.

Ok to say that I was dissappointed, would be a huge understatement. It was a crust packaged in a plastic wrapper. The crust resembled not quite a cracker, not really crust. About 4 by 6 inches of very thin thin crust like it was almost a cracker. Then there was the second packet which was the size of those refreshment wipes you get on the plane and that contained the red sauce artificially flavoured in attempt for it to taste like pizza sauce. And then there was a tiny package containing the shredded cheese. Well, I believe you could call it cheese. I think it deserved the name cheese more than the crust deserved to be called crust in this case.

For a fe moments there I considered returning the whole program. Based on what I read I could still get a refund minus the shipping charges and what I already ate. The pizza just was a poor excuse for pizza and a poor excuse for a dinner entre and almost a poor excuse for food. Still, i’m desparate to lose weight so I kept with it.

I ate the pizza at around 7 and didn’t feel like desert. At 9 I put the kids to bed and was really not up to desert. I felt really full and kind of bloated even though I stuck to the plan and didn’t overeat all day. Though I had planned to do some work work, i just climbed into bed to watch “So you think you can dance”. I felt cold and turned off the air. Then I got a second blanket. I was still cold. Though i was tired, I couldn’t sleep. I felt kind of nauseated. I realized that I had a fever. By about 1 am I felt so bad, that I made myself throw up. (sorry). After a while I fell asleep.

The next morning, I still felt pretty bad. Head pounding and felt like the force of gravity had trippled overnight. I wrote to work that I was going to be off and spent the day in bed recovering my strength.

So I was perplexed. Here I started a new program and on the first day I get so ill. On the other hand, even if my stomach did react adversly to some ingredients, would I have a fever? It seems that every couple of years I get stricken with this flue that makes me puke and lasts no more than 24 hours. Is it a virus? Is it food poisoning, no idea.

I don’t really believe that its the Nutrisystem that’s at fault for me getting sick. Still, I have to say that for me this food, perhaps is not the right option. And another program bites the dust.

I think that I’m going to steal the plan though and substitute the foods from nutrisystem with my own. Today on the way home from sauble beach, we compared the price of nutrysystem for a day with foods we felt were similar from the supermarket. It turned out that we could have the same and even better food for half the cost or at least 2/3 the cost of nutrisystem.

More importantly, I know that I’m not the pickiest eater. But even to me a chicken breast that could be carried in your purse indefinitely doesn’t sound good. And if a dehydrated burger is better than your Mom’s cooking then perhaps you should try eating out a little.