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Nutrisystem Half Price Deal

Well, we’re back and we’re talking about Nutrisystem diets once again. This time, its about their current special offer of a whopping 50 percent off the price of your first moth of food.

It has been brought up to commemorate the introduction of their latest program: Turbo 10!

This is a promotion aimed at dieters new to this program who need a pretty convincing promise to get them motivated to succeed. Turbo 10 claims to help you to lose at least 10 pounds and 5 inches in your first month!

But how good is the regular offer, despite the promotional big talk?

Well, it’s good if you plan on dieting with one of their regular plans for two or more months. You sign up for auto delivery and you not only get the discount, you also get free shipping. Wait a minute, I hear you say. Don’t you get free shipping anyway? Well, their ads say you do, but you only get it if you sign up for auto delivery and you accept your second month of food. After that you can cancel and there is no problem.

Auto Delivery: Important!

But there is a problem if you only want to try the diet for a single month and no more.

The problem happens because Nutrisystem is a company that runs a business and that business has to turn a profit or they’d soon be going out of business! There is no way they could turn a profit if everyone signed up for just one month and got it at half the retail price and had free shipping thrown in for good measure.

Why is that, you might ask?

Because someone has to pay for that shipping. The truck delivery driver has to be paid, the truck has to use gas, the people who load the meals on the truck have to be paid. And then we get onto the part where the meals do actually cost something to get prepared, and processed.

Then someone has to be paid to package them all up. After all that, their customer support people also have to be paid for helping customers through the diet and help them with any problems. The people who run the company have to get paid. The company has to pay for advertising.

Making Sense of it All

So you see, by taking half the retail price away, you take most of the profit. Then expecting to get free shipping rips into the rest of the profit and turns it into a loss. There’s not much point in running a business at a loss.

So they need you to pay full price for a second month of the diet plan so they can be back in profit. Then everyone gets paid. That’s how it works.

So if you think you can just order one month of food for a half of the price and get it delivered for free, think again.

For more information about this diet program, please also take some time to read my own Nutrisystem Reviews article by clicking that link.

How Convenient are Convenience Diets?

Welcome back and in this post I want to take a look at how convenient the kind of diets are that go by the term “convenience diets”, which are the ones that are delivered to your home, actually are. You will find particular diets provided for anything from weight loss to curing a diet related health issue and nearly all of them can seem like considerable heavy work for most people.

The type of diets connected with weight reducing are perhaps the most difficult to stick to, in many aspects, nevertheless they are not completely tricky to sustain, particularly those exact diets that are actually shipped to your address.

There are, in fact even diet companies to choose from that create, make, wrap up and convey your diet meals straight to your own home so you don’t have to put yourself out with having to get to the stores to buy the food and prepare it all by yourself. Businesses like Jenny Craig, Medifast or Nutrisystem make trying to diet very un-problematic for you.

They are wonderful for folks who lead active lives and in simple terms lack the spare time wanted to reduce the weight they are doubtless gathering by eating an awful diet plan of fast, junk or processed food as it’s all they possess the time to eat!

As the case may be, with these diet food delivery plans that you can now acquire, you could eat meals that you take straight from your freezer, refrigerator or pantry, in your microwave and a few moments later they turn up onto your table. This makes them as expedient as buying a take away from a fast food burger joint but by not having high dose of calories and unhealthy fats, that are in reality healthful to eat.

Before jump with your eyes closed, it is always a good idea to complete a little study on the business and its diet plans in order that you know pretty well what it really is you might be getting out your credit card for before you buy. It’s also well worth checking out the current Nutrisystem discount code or coupon that is usually available to give you a cheaper head start.

To this end, it’s certainly worthwhile getting hold of and reading a well written example of the reviews of Nutrisystem that are presented online that will place in your possession an equitable and candid assessment of the product. In this way you may make a deliberation on whether this particular meal replacement home delivery diet program is suited for you and well adapted to your life-style.

In any case, if you want to lose weight as simply as possible and spare time is something you really don’t have much of, then this is undoubtedly a product that can be a good selection for maintaining the waistline where it should be or even shrink it. Consequently a dieting solution that is delivered direct to your home should unquestionably be something well worth your consideration.

How Good are Diet Food Delivery Plans?

For anyone wanting to lose some weight in a relatively short space of time but who’s fast paced lifestyle doesn’t allow for the time to pursue a regular diet, the convenient alternative of a diet food delivery plan is a very tempting choice. This is a system that takes all the hard work out of dieting and leaves you to enjoy the benefits without having to spend the time and effort to put in the work.

So how good are these diet food delivery plans and what are the real benefits they can provide for you? Let’s take a look and see…

There are several well known weight loss companies that base their business on the system whereby they produce all your diet meals, package them all up and then deliver a set amount to your home. Probably the best known of these is Nutrisystem, who have been in the business since the 1970s and have a pretty good, well proven track record.

If you want to learn more about the product mentioned in this article, there is a pretty good review here. It will give you some more information on the company and its products to help you in deciding if its the right diet for you. Or you could just keep reading here to learn more without leaving the page.

Basically, they stay in business because they provide a product that works for the vast majority of people who use it. Of the ones who don’t lose weight by using one of their diet plans, it has to be said that a large proportion of them probably cheated in some way. I know that sounds a little harsh and I’m sure there are genuine cases where the diet failed people, but they are in the minority.

Aside from that, with a long track record of a huge number of successes, it can be fairly well seen that the convenience diet as provided by the likes of Nutrisystem and its half price deal promotions that appear from time to time has got a lot going for it. Of course, its biggest advantage is in the sheer convenience of being able to just grab a meal, unpack it, put it in the microwave and in a minute or two be sitting down to a pretty decent meal that is ready prepared with nutritious ingredients, is low in calories and more often than not actually tastes pretty good too!

There is no need for complicated calculations in a calorie chart or diary to keep track of, because all of that is already done for you. All you need to do is only eat the three meals and two snacks that you get for each day you are on the diet. It really is that simple!

So from a simplicity angle, you can say that diet food delivery meal plans are pretty good in that they save you a lot of time and effort, while providing you with the perfect vehicle to maintain your diet. They are the essence of the convenience diet for busy people who need that convenience. As long as you don’t cheat by snacking in between meals you will lose weight. That’s a pretty good system and it works as long as you stick with it.

White Bread is Bad Bread

There are so many foods that we habitually eat day in and day out that are not good for us. Yet we continue eating them without any regard for what they might be doing to our bodies. Take white bread as an example. This is a staple for millions of people around the world, yet it is actually really bad for us!

The “bad” part about it stems initially from its composition, being mainly the high Glycemic refined white flour and because of the link between bread and obesity. The problem is in the way in which the body deals with sugar and how fast its processed into glucose for energy.

High GI Carbs

High Glycemic Index (GI) carbohydrates cause the body’s digestive process to rapidly release the sugars and convert them to glucose, which is then flooded into the bloodstream. Because that glucose is not rapidly used up by the muscles thanks to the fact that most people that eat white bread are not about to embark on an intense aerobic workout soon afterwards, but more likely to sit still and let it digest, the body releases large amounts of insulin which has the job of removing the unused glucose from the blood.

That unused glucose gets processed into brown fat, some of it visceral which is stored for later use. You can see how a person who eats a lot of white bread and does little exercise can gain weight steadily over time!

Not Just Bread

Actually, it’s not just white bread that causes this problem, although it is a big contributor because of it popularity as a daily staple in sandwiches, rolls and buns etc. Any product that is made from refined white flour will have similar properties. Products such as cakes, cookies and biscuits, pastries and other confectionery as well as pasta and noodles all contain a large proportion of refined white flour.

As well as the obvious offenders, there are also many processed ready meals that are “bulked out” with white flour to improve their texture and increase their weight (read more profit for the manufacturer). And if you eat a lot of these items each day, you will compound the problem.

The Solution

The simple solution if you do have a weight problem brought about by eating too much of the kind of products that are laden with this flour is to find alternative things to eat. Instead of white bread, you can switch to whole grain breads which are lower on the Glycemic scale. They will still release sugars into your body, but it happens more slowly. Plus you get more nutrients and fiber from whole grains than you get from the sterile processed flour that has almost no food value apart from bulk.

If you must have pasta, you can buy pasta made from whole grain flour (brown pasta) which tastes similar and some say it tastes better than its bland a cardboard-like white cousin! You can even get rice pasta, which is an interesting change to experience. Well worth it in my opinion.

Alternatives to sweet desserts are to ditch them altogether in favor of fresh fruit. That’s not always so easy to do, but nothing is impossible if you really want to make a difference to your weight and also to your health.

The bottom line is to make sure you are selective about what you eat and stick to things that are healthy. Bread is not very healthy and in fact you really can live without it if you try!