Isagenix- YAY or NAY?

shemama1

Please don't answer this if you are selling the stuff. I am looking for unbiased answers.
I've been using the shakes for about a month, and seeing decent but not great results. I'm thinking of doing the cleanse. BUT the only info I can find out there in the WWW is so biased. I've also read that they (isagenix) finds and deletes any negative comments they can. So there isn't a lot of info out there. The only people I know who use it, also sell it, so of course they seem to me to have "canned" answers for everything. I want real answers. What's the deal with this stuff? Is it safe? Will you gain back as soon as you start eating again? The reason I like it, is because right now, it's a no brainer for me. I don't have to think about any meals except a snack and dinner. But it's a pricey no brainer.

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gothchiq

NAY. These things are a ripoff. Multilevel marketing products exist only to take your money. It doesn't work for anyone. There are people on here who can explain to you how to make smoothies with protein powder and such at home. Cleanses are also a ripoff. You lose water weight which comes back immediately afterwards. Anything that is not a sustainable way to eat/live day to day will not give you lasting results, and Isagenix definitely falls into that category.

jennifershoo

NAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY

KrunchyMama

Nay, I tried it and gained back all the weight and then some.

I've had better results with MFP, my daily calorie allowance is 1280. My 'golden' daily diet is eggs + greens + tea for breakfast, a green smoothie for lunch, and protein + veg + small serving of potato or rice for dinner. And not eating back my exercise calories. Obviously real life throws in diet variations, but that's the basic outline of what is working for me.

auddii

MrM27 wrote: »

Nay

Real food - Yay

This. Set a reasonable goal in MFP, aim to hit your goal, and eat foods that allow you to hit that goal, feel full, and give you enough energy. And have patience (probably the hardest part about losing weight).

Christine_72

gothchiq wrote: »

NAY. These things are a ripoff. Multilevel marketing products exist only to take your money. It doesn't work for anyone. There are people on here who can explain to you how to make smoothies with protein powder and such at home. Cleanses are also a ripoff. You lose water weight which comes back immediately afterwards. Anything that is not a sustainable way to eat/live day to day will not give you lasting results, and Isagenix definitely falls into that category.

Agreed!

And a NAY from me

Azexas

They are a pyramid market scheme. Save your money and eat real food.

ninerbuff

There so many companies out there that sell crap that doesn't apply to actual science, physiology or even how weight loss is actually attained.
There is NO PROGRAM that will state that it works WITHOUT adherence to a good diet and exercise plan. And really it's the diet and exercise plan that's the actual cause of the weight loss. So the question should be: then why in the heck am I paying for this extra stuff?

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nicole_c_yuen

I've done the Isagenix cleanse, and while I did lose weight, some of the pounds came back when I started eating real food again. The results don't stay.

SandyBVTN

NAY. They taste disgusting and are an MLM scam. The way they work for weight loss is that they are an extremely low calorie diet. The weight almost always comes back, and quickly.

tiptoethruthetulips

Lot of negative info via the web...google 'isagenix scam', a few of the first links are isagenix pages refuting the scam tag, but dig through the returned searches you will find plenty of negative reviews.

I have a friend who uses isagenix, thankfully she hasn't attempted to flog it off to her friends and family. She has had good results, and while she had lost weight, that is not the reason she commenced using it.

sijomial

Nay - what will they teach you about how to maintain your weight when/if you get to goal?

jpaulie

don;t know what it is but NAY

Christine_72

jpaulie wrote: »

don;t know what it is but NAY

Lol

prattiger65

Nay for me

shemama1

thanks everyone...my niece sells it, and has my whole family on it. I feel like every question I ask her has a "canned" response. They are all on board and trying to sell now too. The group that she is in, has a fb page, but when you ask questions that aren't necessarily positive or they can't spin it that way, they delete it. I will try to look up isagenix scam.

SandyBVTN

shemama1 wrote: »

thanks everyone...my niece sells it, and has my whole family on it. I feel like every question I ask her has a "canned" response. They are all on board and trying to sell now too. The group that she is in, has a fb page, but when you ask questions that aren't necessarily positive or they can't spin it that way, they delete it. I will try to look up isagenix scam.

Oh man:( I've had similar issues with family members and isagenix. What I found in the end was just to completely steer away from it in conversation and not engage. Do what you need to do to meet your goals and you'll see in the end who has a smaller waistline and bigger bank account. It's sad, really.

FatFreeFrolicking

Typical MLM scam. These companies don't give a rats behind about their consumers. They don't care whether a person experiences poor side effects from the products. All they care about is $$$.

Save your money and buy real food.

ketorach

I like food too much to just have shakes. :-)

shemama1

SandyBVTN wrote: »

shemama1 wrote: »

thanks everyone...my niece sells it, and has my whole family on it. I feel like every question I ask her has a "canned" response. They are all on board and trying to sell now too. The group that she is in, has a fb page, but when you ask questions that aren't necessarily positive or they can't spin it that way, they delete it. I will try to look up isagenix scam.

Oh man:( I've had similar issues with family members and isagenix. What I found in the end was just to completely steer away from it in conversation and not engage. Do what you need to do to meet your goals and you'll see in the end who has a smaller waistline and bigger bank account. It's sad, really.

I know you are right! I just feel really sad that my own niece is giving me a sales pitch. I know she truly believes in what she is selling, but I feel bad that she wasn't honest with me up front. When I told her I wanted to try the shakes, she set me up as one of her "associates", which until it was said and done, I didn't even realize she had me as a person trying to sell it. I have so much weight to lose, and thought she was really interested in helping me.

SandyBVTN

shemama1 wrote: »

SandyBVTN wrote: »

shemama1 wrote: »

thanks everyone...my niece sells it, and has my whole family on it. I feel like every question I ask her has a "canned" response. They are all on board and trying to sell now too. The group that she is in, has a fb page, but when you ask questions that aren't necessarily positive or they can't spin it that way, they delete it. I will try to look up isagenix scam.

Oh man:( I've had similar issues with family members and isagenix. What I found in the end was just to completely steer away from it in conversation and not engage. Do what you need to do to meet your goals and you'll see in the end who has a smaller waistline and bigger bank account. It's sad, really.

I know you are right! I just feel really sad that my own niece is giving me a sales pitch. I know she truly believes in what she is selling, but I feel bad that she wasn't honest with me up front. When I told her I wanted to try the shakes, she set me up as one of her "associates", which until it was said and done, I didn't even realize she had me as a person trying to sell it. I have so much weight to lose, and thought she was really interested in helping me.

(Sorry - I'm not sure exactly how to quote only your last statement)

It is sad - I know. I have a close family member that spent years working in that system and truly believed that she was helping people and was going to make a nice amount of money doing so. She worked extremely hard, put a lot of questionable product into her body, and her weight was always up and down. We had to fend off advice and sales pitches all the time to take the product as well as sell it, since the amazing "detoxing" was so important for health and vitality, and there was "so much" potential money to be made.

There is another way to lose weight that is to maintain a calorie deficit, find loads of information and support here, and keep plugging away at it. I've given up for different reasons on every weight loss initiative I've had, and I'm making sure I'm sticking with this.

alie020480

I'm currently using isagenix and definitely not trying to sell it. I started just over a month ago, for me personally I'm finding eating/drinking the products as well as eating real food in balanced proportions along with using MFP has been so helpful. I've tried other plans, including weight watchers, and found those to be much harder to follow. In my opinion, if I make a lifestyle change and then change it back, I know I will go back to how I was before (regain weight, feel sluggish, and drink a lot of coffee to feel awake). I'm a busy mom with a 2.5 year old and work full time, so there have been days where I've eaten total crap food out of convenience, now if I keep a supply of isagenix products at my office, I can use those as my go to snacks (and not fries, chips, candy and ice cream).

azulvioleta6

FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »

Typical MLM scam. These companies don't give a rats behind about their consumers. They don't care whether a person experiences poor side effects from the products. All they care about is $$$.

Save your money and buy real food.

Agreed.

You might want to seek out recent threads about the ridiculousness of cleanses--any and all of them.

alifish

Well I may get hounded here but yay and nay.
My partner and I both did it for a month and yes it did help me shed some kgs I am really struggling with.
My partner shed heaps (i hated him lol).
I am not against it nor am I for it, it's not realistically a long term thing food or money wise.
It did help me get on the right path though and I must admit I felt great on it.
In the end I went to the doctor regarding my weight as a lot of my mum's side had underactive thyroids so blood tests for me and she has put me on the 15mg Duromine to give me a helping hand which I started on Tuesday.
(That's when I started my fitness pal too).
If you have done it for a month and it's helped that's good but no I agree probably not long term manageable. ...and it costs.

jenilla1

If you're not going to keep using it forever, there's a fairly good chance your weight loss won't be sustainable, unless you have a strong plan for phasing it out.

There's no way I'd do it. Not only do I consider it a waste of money, but I'm also a fan of making permanent lifestyle changes, rather than trying to take shortcuts with yo-yo fad dieting.

I've only tried to lose weight once, and it was here on MFP - through daily logging and a calorie deficit. I'm coming up on my 4 year anniversary maintaining at goal weight next month! I only wanted to do this once, and do it right, so I avoided any fad diet "products" and restrictive plans, and just made the simple, straightforward changes MFP suggests.

Good luck, OP!

kellylynrobitaille

Great thread. Thank you for sharing experiences on this. I don't know much about it but am hearing great results of in on my Fb page. I was giving it some thought.... Not anymore

Mr_Knight

1cdickson wrote: »

Works absolutely great for me.]

Three posts into MFP.

Putting this one down as a plant.

Holla4mom

Nay.

It was really popular at our church for a while and some people lost a lot of weight very quickly. It was quite expensive and people were losing a lot of muscle mass, so they were looking a little sickly. No one stuck with it long term and when they started to eat regular food, they gained the weight back and more, with the exception of one friend who started eating regular food and lifting heavy.

Can you lose weight with it? Yes definitely, because if you replace meals with expensive shakes, you will lose weight. I actually used the liquid cleanses several times and it could have been in my mind but I did feel better when I did it right before my cycle, but now I wouldn't go back to going a whole day just drinking a concentrated fruit/veggie juice.

Eat regular food, at a slight deficit and do some strength training (heavy lifting, progressive body weight, etc) and you'll have great results.

tracie_minus100

People want a quick fix, and these companies exploit that. People who use it and/or sell it will swear up and down that it's great, it works, etc...but there are healthier ways to lose weight that allow you to actually eat your food and not cost you a fortune.

Hornsby

Nay for the people who know what they are talking about.
Yay for the gullible folks of the world.