24hr advocare challenge
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ManiacalLaugh wrote: »If you order through someone who is out to help people get healthy you will have fantastic results! Best of luck!
I highly doubt someone who pumps gullible people full of energy drinks and unregulated supplements (that have been found to be laxatives) for the purposes of personal profit is out to "help people get healthy."
Do some research before you post a comment like this. There have been studies done on all products and those some have been reformulated to be even more effective.
You would also learn that there are no "energy drinks".
Thank you for posting your opinion but that's all that it is.
Please cite one study that shows a causal relationship between Advocare products and weight loss.0 -
ceoverturf wrote: »PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »Packerjohn wrote: »Our son went to school with a kid whose parents were Advocare Distributors. They had some event for the kids and my son wanted to go so I went. The kids played football and the parents got the pitch.
Funny thing, the couple who were the distributors were the heaviest ones there.
Let's play "Would you rather..."
Would you rather go on a "free vacation" where you had to sit through a timeshare pitch - OR - go to a party where the hosts are MLM distributors?
Can I just gouge my eyes out and set my hair on fire instead?
Please do.
Are you hangry?0 -
brianpperkins wrote: »ManiacalLaugh wrote: »If you order through someone who is out to help people get healthy you will have fantastic results! Best of luck!
I highly doubt someone who pumps gullible people full of energy drinks and unregulated supplements (that have been found to be laxatives) for the purposes of personal profit is out to "help people get healthy."
Do some research before you post a comment like this. There have been studies done on all products and those some have been reformulated to be even more effective.
You would also learn that there are no "energy drinks".
Thank you for posting your opinion but that's all that it is.
Please cite one study that shows a causal relationship between Advocare products and weight loss.
This. Studies, or it didn't happen.....0 -
brianpperkins wrote: »Why are you creating so many threads about the same topic?
This! Maybe a promoter. Pills and starving equal gimmicks and a waste of money. Epic fail. Some people will fall for anything. Its still CICO.0 -
Any cleanse, let alone a ten day cleanse, sounds like torture to me. I suspect it is a VLCD. Also some of their products list really high levels of micro nutrients. Some at levels that can cause severe reactions (Niacin). Others that your body will reject into your urine. You are likely to literally flush about $200.00 down the toilet. 42% of the people who purchased it on Amazon, gave it the poorest rating possible.0
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I suppose I just don't understand why people would WANT to spend money on this...0
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ManiacalLaugh wrote: »If you order through someone who is out to help people get healthy you will have fantastic results! Best of luck!
I highly doubt someone who pumps gullible people full of energy drinks and unregulated supplements (that have been found to be laxatives) for the purposes of personal profit is out to "help people get healthy."
Do some research before you post a comment like this.
Nah bro, nah.0 -
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brianpperkins wrote: »
Some people are not like that, some people need to learn for themselves.
Hence we have the multibillion dollar diet industry that fails to deliver on promises yet never runs out of customers.
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brianpperkins wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »
Some people are not like that, some people need to learn for themselves.
Hence we have the multibillion dollar diet industry that fails to deliver on promises yet never runs out of customers.
yep. this.0 -
ManiacalLaugh wrote: »If you order through someone who is out to help people get healthy you will have fantastic results! Best of luck!
I highly doubt someone who pumps gullible people full of energy drinks and unregulated supplements (that have been found to be laxatives) for the purposes of personal profit is out to "help people get healthy."
Do some research before you post a comment like this. There have been studies done on all products and those some have been reformulated to be even more effective.
You would also learn that there are no "energy drinks".
Thank you for posting your opinion but that's all that it is.
Congrats. You've found the (overpriced) "proven" cure for obesity (proven by what studies? who knows?). I'll just keep curing my own obesity for free.
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I absolutely love Advocare. Just like anything else, each person will have their own opinions about it. I failed to lose weight on Weight Watchers, Atkins, Jenny Craig, Fast Metabolism Diet, 21 day fix and many more. In my first 24 day challenge, I lost 23" total and am down 22# in two months. I have certain products I live by and others I don't waste my time or money on because for me they just don't work right now. If you order through someone who is out to help people get healthy you will have fantastic results! Best of luck!
Congratulations on your weight loss. However, experience has taught me that any diet pill will work if you (not you personally, in general
) eat at a calorie deficit, and no diet will work if you don't eat at a calorie deficit. In other words, it's not the diet pill that causes weight loss, but the calorie deficit, and that can only be created through eating less calories than you burn.
As for Advocare, they are a scam and 100% not necessary to weight loss.0 -
Most of the studies you see about diet supplements are done by the company who manufacture the product. After doing some research, all of the positive "studies" and articles I read about Advocare are from Advocare themselves. There are no "published" studies at all!
When looking at research there are several questions you should ask to see if the study is valid at all. One of those questions is: can the conclusions fit other scientific evidence? In this case yes, it has been scientifically proven that eating at a calorie deficit will cause weight loss. Also related to this question: Were there other possible explanations for the conclusions of the study? Again, yes, a calorie deficit!
A second question: Have the findings been checked by other experts? Nope, I could not find one peer review study that supported the research done by the Advocare people. The only rebuttals I found were by people who sell Advocare! The team of Dr's who are on the Advocare advisory panel do not specialize in nutrition at all, and some of them have written studies which go against the premise of Advocare such as one Urologist on the panel.
Add to that the fact that numerous, peer reviewed studies have shown that " the effectiveness of detox diets have never shown anything to support the claims made by the proponents. Normally functioning kidneys and liver readily remove toxins from the body. Some detox diets can even be dangerous."
A far as there being no "energy drinks" with Advocare -
I do believe is says energy drink right on the label?
Some of the reviews I read online also said things like - "glorified laxative", "any company using MLM techniques is unethical", and "no evidence to support such findings".
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Most of the studies you see about diet supplements are done by the company who manufacture the product. After doing some research, all of the positive "studies" and articles I read about Advocare are from Advocare themselves. There are no "published" studies at all!
When looking at research there are several questions you should ask to see if the study is valid at all. One of those questions is: can the conclusions fit other scientific evidence? In this case yes, it has been scientifically proven that eating at a calorie deficit will cause weight loss. Also related to this question: Were there other possible explanations for the conclusions of the study? Again, yes, a calorie deficit!
A second question: Have the findings been checked by other experts? Nope, I could not find one peer review study that supported the research done by the Advocare people. The only rebuttals I found were by people who sell Advocare! The team of Dr's who are on the Advocare advisory panel do not specialize in nutrition at all, and some of them have written studies which go against the premise of Advocare such as one Urologist on the panel.
Add to that the fact that numerous, peer reviewed studies have shown that " the effectiveness of detox diets have never shown anything to support the claims made by the proponents. Normally functioning kidneys and liver readily remove toxins from the body. Some detox diets can even be dangerous."
A far as there being no "energy drinks" with Advocare -
I do believe is says energy drink right on the label?
Some of the reviews I read online also said things like - "glorified laxative", "any company using MLM techniques is unethical", and "no evidence to support such findings".
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