Jenny Craig?

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I tried Jenny Craig about 7 years ago under similar circumstances as you. I wasn't overweight, but had put on a few pounds and wanted to shed them.

I found that the weekly cost for the food you have to buy was wayyyyy too expensive after awhile - it actually came out to be more than I normally spent on groceries for a week! Also, at the time I had a job where I had to eat out regularly with customers, etc. and when I asked my JC "counselor" for her suggestions on what to do in these situations (since I wouldn't be able to eat the designated pre-packaged JC meal) she suggested that I take the frozen JC meal to the restaurant and ask them to heat it up for me!! Ahhhh....no!! Not gonna do that!!

About a year later I went to a few introductory Weight Watchers meetings, got the information for their Points program, and did that program on my own. I like the WW Points program because you can really eat whatever you want, you just have to be accountable to a certain point range and stay within it. I never felt deprived, and I would even plan for McDonalds, etc. once in awhile and it didn't stop my progress. I also started exercising again (running) and ended up losing a bunch of weight, looked great, and kept it off for years!!

My point is - I'm sure you can design a program that works for you better than Jenny Craig. You know yourself, and their one-size-fits-all strategy might not work for you.

Unfortunately, I returned to school to finish an undergraduate degree and the stress and crazy student schedule threw me off track, and I stopped exercising regularly and got into the habit of eating too much convenience food. So I've gained some weight back, but that's my fault. So it's back to the gym and the points plan!!