Would You Have a Diet Delivered to Your Home?
Here is an interesting question that you might have asked yourself at some point or another concerning one of the more popular ways to lose some weight. There are several diet plans that deliver to your door, such as Nutrisystem, who are probably the best known of them and similar companies that literally hand you your diet on a plate! But would you have a diet delivered to your home? Let’s see why you might, or why you might not.
One of the biggest advantages of this type of diet is its sheer convenience. If you are a busy person who leads a busy lifestyle, then you probably have little time to spare to devote to a regular diet that would need a lot of attention paid to it in order to make it work. With a convenient diet that you store in your freezer once it has been delivered, all you have to do is take out a meal and place it in your microwave for the stipulated time and in a very short space of time you are sitting down to a healthy, nutritious, low calorie meal that you don’t even have to think about. So if this is you, then you might certainly consider trying this kind of diet.
There are drawbacks to convenience diets such as these that people are not always fully aware of. The first one, especially in the case of Nutrisystem or any similar company that provides these diet meals is in the amount of space you need to store them. Some plans provide you with meals that cover four weeks. That’s 28 days with 3 meals per day plus snacks which adds up to a lot of packages to store in your freezer! You need to make sure you have enough room before you even start.
Another drawback is that you are limited to the meals they provide and you are not supposed to go adding things like bread, pasta or potatoes to them to bulk them out and make them more filling. Make no mistake, diet meals that are delivered to your door are small by comparison with what you are doubtlessly used to. Of course, eating large meals is quite likely part of the reason you are overweight in the first place, but it is still a culture shock when you open the packet and see such a small meal on your plate.
But drawbacks aside, people with time on their hands and a need to experiment will not really benefit from this type of diet plan. In this case, you are better off using the services of a good nutritionist or dietitian and having a diet tailored to your specific needs. If, on the other hand you want to lose weight but don’t have the time for more complex diets, these simple, convenient diets are probably just what the doctor ordered!