Ever since I quit playing sports in college, I have put on weight easily. My breaking point came a few weeks ago when I was playing some one on one basketball with my boys. I have always been able to be active and run around with them, but all of a sudden, I was done.
I had gone through a couple of games, and the third tie breaker game was on. I went to shoot my basket, and I landed with no breath, chest pains, and went to sit down. My boys called an ambulance, they thought I might be having a heart attack. Thank God I wasn’t!
But I was having some real pain. The doctors said it was from being too heavy, and that a man my size shouldn’t be jumping around like a teenager. He suggested that I lose between 45 and 60 pounds, and begin a light workout routine.
Well, the same night, I saw an ad on TV for Nutrisystem. But this ad was different than any other I had ever seen for this program. Usually the ads feature pretty young girls, or attractive women. This one actually had men who had lost weight with Nutrisystem as the main attraction. Not only were they men, some of them were even older than me, and had been heavier than I am when they started the program.
This gave me the ambition that I needed to take charge and do something for myself. I decided to lose the extra weight, and become healthier by finding a program that will help me. After seeing my doctor, and making sure that Nutrisystem is ok for me to do with my health problems (I am diabetic), I placed my order. The first package arrived on Monday, so now I have been on the fifth day of following the Nutrisystem program.
My insulin levels have been good, and I feel much better than I was feeling. I haven’t had any chest pains since I started the plan, and my boys are keeping on top of me, making sure I follow it to a ‘t’.
My wife has even joined me with following Nutrisystem. With the choices of foods, the plans for men and women each meeting their specific needs, and my option of following a diabetic meal plan, I think we are both on our way to being healthier, and enjoying all that life has to offer.
I have noticed that my wife seems to spend some time on the forums at the Nutrisystem website. I haven’t checked them out yet myself, but maybe I will. After all, I want to keep up with her.
The meals we get to eat from Nutrisystem are delicious, filling, and leave us both feeling satisfied. My wife even gets to have her chocolate craving satisfied, something that I thought was not allowed with dieting. That is one thing we are both very happy about, her because she can eat chocolate, and me because she won’t be complaining to me about not being able to eat her chocolate.
Nutrisystem is doing good for us so far.
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