I got a notification email on Wednesday that my Nutrisystem package had shipped and was to arrive yesterday! Hooray!
Alas, I was stuck at work and, worried about my frozen foods melting (despite my chat with support that assured me frozen meals would be package in Styrofoam with dry ice), asked my amazing husband to get home as soon as he could to put things in the freezer.
But when I got home, I was distraught to find that things were missing and there were things I didn’t order. Plenty of literature was included, but nothing telling me what I needed to know. Luckily my liberal arts education gave me the critical thinking skills to figure it out.
Week One is what they call “Turbo TakeOff” and the foods I so carefully chose are for weeks 2, 3, and 4. Chuck had carefully laid everything out on the counter for me, separated by meal type and put the items he felt should be frozen in the freezer. Nutrisystem also kindly color codes the labels by breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack.
So I took an inventory. The packing slip didn’t include everything that arrived, and not everything on it looked even remotely familiar to what I’d ordered. So, I concluded that the items on the packing slip were for the Turbo TakeOff week. I separated out these Turbo TakeOff meals (although nowhere in my literature or the website told me I was correct) and marked off which of my custom menu for the remainder of the month had arrived on the order confirmation I’d printed off. Very curious that not all of my frozen items arrived. Well, further research on the NutriSystem website told me that the items Chuck put in the freezer did not actually need to be frozen. Hooray! This means that only my frozen items are missing and must be coming later.
The only hiccup I can see at this point is that I’m missing a Turbo TakeOff Chicken Noodle Soup lunch and have an extra Chili with Beans dinner. A quick and easy online chat with a NutriSystem counselor assures me that this substitute will not derail the program. The OCD in me is a bit skeptical, but I will soldier on.
Further inspection of my Gmail account (which I can’t access from my work computer, so it’s frequently neglected) indicated that another package had shipped and is scheduled to arrive today. Logging into my NutriSystem account, it now shows two options: “Track Package” and “Track Frozen Package.” So I was correct. Thank you Scripps College for giving me these critical thinking skills.
I take you through all this not because I feel you, my friends and family, need to know every single step of my crazy thought process, but in case I experience major success and one of you decides to try NutriSystem, I want you to know that you’re not alone in the lack of guidance and information from the company.
Even though I have everything I need to start my Week One (minus a Chicken Noodle Soup), today is still not Day One. But to be honest, before I got home yesterday and discovered all this, I had already decided today would not be Day One. Now, whether these are just excuses or components of a legit strategy, I can’t tell. I’m not that self-aware. But here they are:
1. Who starts anything on a Friday?
2. My sister will be in town on Saturday and it would be a bummer to eat out of a box while she eats something delicious. Plus wouldn't that be rude as a hostess?
3. Chuck and I had planned a sushi date for Saturday night before I knew this stuff would be arriving.
And so my friends, few of you that even have this blog address yet, I commit to you that I will start on Sunday, October 1, 2017. Seems like a good day right? Beginning of a week and beginning of a month. And plenty of time to mentally prepare. I can do this you guys.
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 185lbs
Gender: Female
Short term goal: 150lbs
Longer term goal: 130lbs
Weight Loss So Far: 0lbs (but that’s okay, because I haven’t started yet)
Alas, I was stuck at work and, worried about my frozen foods melting (despite my chat with support that assured me frozen meals would be package in Styrofoam with dry ice), asked my amazing husband to get home as soon as he could to put things in the freezer.
But when I got home, I was distraught to find that things were missing and there were things I didn’t order. Plenty of literature was included, but nothing telling me what I needed to know. Luckily my liberal arts education gave me the critical thinking skills to figure it out.
Week One is what they call “Turbo TakeOff” and the foods I so carefully chose are for weeks 2, 3, and 4. Chuck had carefully laid everything out on the counter for me, separated by meal type and put the items he felt should be frozen in the freezer. Nutrisystem also kindly color codes the labels by breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack.
So I took an inventory. The packing slip didn’t include everything that arrived, and not everything on it looked even remotely familiar to what I’d ordered. So, I concluded that the items on the packing slip were for the Turbo TakeOff week. I separated out these Turbo TakeOff meals (although nowhere in my literature or the website told me I was correct) and marked off which of my custom menu for the remainder of the month had arrived on the order confirmation I’d printed off. Very curious that not all of my frozen items arrived. Well, further research on the NutriSystem website told me that the items Chuck put in the freezer did not actually need to be frozen. Hooray! This means that only my frozen items are missing and must be coming later.
The only hiccup I can see at this point is that I’m missing a Turbo TakeOff Chicken Noodle Soup lunch and have an extra Chili with Beans dinner. A quick and easy online chat with a NutriSystem counselor assures me that this substitute will not derail the program. The OCD in me is a bit skeptical, but I will soldier on.
Further inspection of my Gmail account (which I can’t access from my work computer, so it’s frequently neglected) indicated that another package had shipped and is scheduled to arrive today. Logging into my NutriSystem account, it now shows two options: “Track Package” and “Track Frozen Package.” So I was correct. Thank you Scripps College for giving me these critical thinking skills.
I take you through all this not because I feel you, my friends and family, need to know every single step of my crazy thought process, but in case I experience major success and one of you decides to try NutriSystem, I want you to know that you’re not alone in the lack of guidance and information from the company.
Even though I have everything I need to start my Week One (minus a Chicken Noodle Soup), today is still not Day One. But to be honest, before I got home yesterday and discovered all this, I had already decided today would not be Day One. Now, whether these are just excuses or components of a legit strategy, I can’t tell. I’m not that self-aware. But here they are:
1. Who starts anything on a Friday?
2. My sister will be in town on Saturday and it would be a bummer to eat out of a box while she eats something delicious. Plus wouldn't that be rude as a hostess?
3. Chuck and I had planned a sushi date for Saturday night before I knew this stuff would be arriving.
And so my friends, few of you that even have this blog address yet, I commit to you that I will start on Sunday, October 1, 2017. Seems like a good day right? Beginning of a week and beginning of a month. And plenty of time to mentally prepare. I can do this you guys.
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 185lbs
Gender: Female
Short term goal: 150lbs
Longer term goal: 130lbs
Weight Loss So Far: 0lbs (but that’s okay, because I haven’t started yet)
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