The Serotonin Plus Weight Loss Blog: Prepackaged Meals

It is pretty compelling to see on tv commercials well known celebrities/sports figures touting their new, slimmed-down bodies attributed to a prepackaged meal program, most notable Nutrisystems.  The commercial shows pizza, chocolate cake and assorted other choices that appear to make losing weight seem effortless as you eat the foods you want.  I have no doubt that people lose weight with caloric-controlled prepackaged meals, but what is the long term success when the program “ends”?  As we have discussed previously, losing weight is not a “diet”, but rather, a life-style change.  Spending money on a prepackaged meal program will not provide you a long term solution.