
Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group
Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.

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I have been thinking about doing something like Nurtisystem or something where they give you the food to eat and plan your meals. That is the one thing that is hard for me. If I had someone telling me what to eat and when to eat it, I would do better, but how would I do that when I have to feed my son also. He is seven and needs to eat. First, does anyone know of other programs like that? And does anyone have suggestions of how a single parent would do something like this and still feed their child?
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I also think the nutritionist is a good idea, but if not, by some books on fast meals. If you add more fruits to your diet as well, you won't have to cook as much because most people don't cook their fruits. Canned foods (vegetables) can be made in the microwave although I'm not sure how healthy that is..
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As for your son--sandwiches, really fast and healthy. My mom has triplets so pre-making sandwiches is really useful. If you have a babysitter you can ask him/her to make extra sandwiches if they don't mind (ours didn't). Uhm... Oh, these nutri-grain bars, easy mac, pretzels, raviolis (in the water for like 10mins and they're done, you don't have to watch them or anything), If you have a trader joe's (or just any place that sells mostly organic foods) you can go in their and get snack food like chips and whatnot.
Or if you really don't mind you could pay for him to have the same food you're getting.
Anyway I hope this helps, and good luck :]
You really learn from it and then incorporate it into cooking after you decide to stop the program. If you have any questions you can email me. I highly recommend it! It helped with post-pregnancy weight after my 1st daughter, now I'm doing Weight Watchers since I can't afford the Nutrisystem.