Nutrisystem, Inc.

Yeah.

To focus even more on the food noise, you come from a history of Nutrisystem way back when.

Jenny Craig, Ideal Protein.

You've been in this field.

the amazing and brilliant Deborah guard was the first person who said that to me in a way that I was, it really, really clicked that like, you know, people are being told, Oh, whole foods, slow foods, you know, blah, blah, locally sourced, whatever the thing is.

But then fat people are told, join Nutrisystem and get your food frozen in baggies and microwave it.

And for you, this is healthy.

And so whatever people think that nutritious, healthy, by whatever definition they're using food is, that is not what fat people are told.

The next very important thing about a ketogenic diet is that it is not a semi-starvation diet.

So diet companies like Weight Watchers or the American Heart Association's DASH diet, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, I could just go on and on naming these companies and organizations who have their own diet.

These are semi-starvation diets.

You are supposed to eat fewer calories than you burn.

you would be hangry all the time.

And you would then, that weight loss that you were experiencing, it is 100% contingent on your motivation and willpower.

So just how long can you starve yourself? Well, that's exactly how long the Weight Watchers diet or the Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem or DASH diet, Mediterranean diet, Flexitarian diet, that's exactly how long All those diets are gonna work.

It's just how much willpower and stamina and self-control do you have? And so it becomes quickly obvious to anybody who's thinking about this rationally that no weight loss plan that has as its heart semi-starvation, that's not gonna work forever by definition, because no mammal, including a human, including you, can starve yourself forever.

And I read all sorts of diet books and then I joined Weight Watchers.

I don't know how many times I joined Nutrisystem.

And finally, a few years ago, I came across intermittent fasting.

And so a couple of years ago, I joined a six-month program called with a coach and I learned a lot, but I was still struggling with the fasting.

still don't really.

And I knew Terry Bradshaw as the guy from Nutrisystem.

That's when

they told me who it was.

I was like, oh, it's the Nutrisystem guy.

No idea going into that who he was going to be as a human.

And I don't think I've met... a more boisterous lover of life human being.

Moe stayed at home to raise her kids until they were all in school.

Then she rejoined the workforce and worked at People's Department Store in Virginia, Nutrisystem in Fort Wayne, then PBI on the landing on Columbia Street.

When Denny had an opportunity to work in England, they hopped the pond and lived for three years in a converted paddock house in the countryside of Warminster.

Moe and Denny had been married 62 years.

Because what's being identified is the same ingredients in junk food, okay? AKA ultra-processed ingredients.

All right, next on the list, number four, Nutrisystem, okay? Claims to be diabetic-friendly, so it must be good.

Let's see what the ingredients are.

Well, we got milk, protein concentrate, corn syrup, sugar, polydextrose that keeps coming up, maltodextrin on the glycemic index, table sugar is about 65, maltodextrin can go up to 185.

For people who already have a complicated relationship with food, that combination can be very harmful.

Next program that I'm going to talk about is Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem.

Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem operate on a very similar model, prepackaged portion controlled meals that take the decision-making out of the eating, and it's easy.

It's in the fridge.

You just have to grab and eat.

And from a short-term outcomes perspective, they actually perform reasonably well in research.

A twenty fifteen systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, one of the most comprehensive analysis of commercial programs ever conducted, found that Jenny Craig participants lost significantly more weight than control groups at twelve months.

Nutrisystem showed similar short-term results.