I recently received an email from someone who wanted to start the nutrisystem diet early next week. However, on Friday of the same week, it was the beginning of a weekend where one of her best friends was getting married and she knew that she would not be able to strictly follow the diet during the few days that she attended to her bridal duties. . Still, she didn’t want to let this event stop her from starting her weight loss goals. I wanted to know if it was possible to skip a day on nutrisystem (since ketosis is involved) or if this would ruin everything. He wondered if it would be better to wait until after the wedding to start. I guess the central question here is can you sometimes skip a day on the nutrisystem and still be successful? I will address this issue in the next article.

Taking an occasional day off on the Nutrisystem diet: First, it’s important to understand that there are actually two mechanisms at play with this diet. Not only will you lose some weight by eating fewer calories, but the goal is also to get your body into ketosis, where it burns fat, since you don’t have as many carbs available for fuel. Diet foods are designed to have lower amounts of sugars and carbohydrates. So, you’re really not going to have to think much about this equation. As long as you don’t cheat, this process should work on its own.

And, as long as you stay in ketosis, both processes will work together and you should lose weight at a pretty decent rate. Of course, if you take a day off and eat carbs with wild abandon, then your body will have those to burn instead of fat and will take full advantage of this. But, that doesn’t really mean all is lost. As long as you get back on course relatively quickly, it’ll only take a couple of days to get you back into fat burning mode and you’ll immediately start eating fewer calories when you start back on the plan.

The company also takes this into account. They even have a program called nutrisystem flex that allows you to take two days off a week. Of course, you shouldn’t arbitrarily eat junk food or large amounts of calories, fat, or carbohydrates on these days off and then expect to get the results you want. The foods you cheat with are much more important than whether or not you cheat. It’s much better to eat a hamburger than a slice of cake. You’re betting on eating sweet fries,

If you’re going to take a day off, use some common sense the day you do it. There’s nothing to say that the woman who sent the email could have made reasonably sensible decisions on her weekend off. No one expected her to whip up her nutrisystem meals while everyone else ate at a restaurant, but nothing said she couldn’t order fajitas instead of a big bowl of pasta. She can join in on the fun without having to make the worst menu choices.

I felt strongly that this person should go ahead with their plans. This diet has some leeway. Almost everyone cheats from time to time and I include myself in that sentence. The real key is not to let a day or two derail the whole plan. Because sometimes one day blends into the next so that you connect the dots a week later and realize you never really went back on the diet. What really counts is that, generally speaking, you’re consuming fewer calories and carbs overall, so you can go into ketosis repeatedly. If a few days derails you, it will really only take a few more days for you to get back on track and fat burning mode.