Advocare pro/cons?
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melltrembley wrote: »htimpaired wrote: »melltrembley wrote: »I may be the only positive person to comment....I love it, its very personal....Yes, you have to still exercise and eat right, but I have found that it gives me that little extra "umph" when I'm working out. The Rehydrate really quenches my thirst, the Spark has replaced my coffee. The 24 Day Challenge is just supposed to help jump start good clean eating. As with any diet or eating regime, if you stop and go back to eating bad food, you will gain weight.
Yes I am a distributor, but only so I can get a discount. If people want to buy it, i think its great, but I do not do it for a profit or a business.
I have tried Herbal life and and Le-vel, they just were't for me...its a very personal journey, so you would have to decide for yourself as we are all different with different wants, needs and taste.
Good Luck with what you choose to help yourself healthy!
So, what is "good clean eating". How does "Rehydrate" work better than....water?!?
How does this provide a "jumpstart". How is this teaching you to change your habits so that you don't "go back to eating bad food", anymore so than MFP teaches people this things?
I do find it interesting that distributors for this, or Shakeology, or any other the other ones, always say "I just do it for the discount".
When I am working out and can't get enough to drink, the Rehydrate for me quenches my thirst, I am still drinking about a gallon of water a day.
Good clean eating is nothing processed, lean protein, veggies, fruit, etc.
Never mentioned that Advocare replaced anything life MFP, for me they are two different methods. People learn different ways, different methods. The original poster asked for opinions, you gave yours, I gave mine.
Good Luck in your journey!
so you say nothing processed but take advocare um, ok sure. where do you find non processed lean protein?7 -
Deciding to purchase Advocare is similar to buying magazine subscriptions from those kids that come to your door and solicit the subscriptions to you to help them go to college. You then pay 72.00 dollars for a magazine subscription you could have gotten directly for 10.00. The only difference is, you aren't helping a kid go to college...
Point is, you can get the exact same ingredients based products on Amazon for 1/10 the cost and you aren't helping a shady MLM company that makes WOO claims.
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Really no pros. It's a program that you buy. Without a calorie deficit, it doesn't work. And a calorie deficit just consists of eating less than you burn. And that's free.mmillion79 wrote: »Thoughts about Advocare? Favorite products...things to be weary of....
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There is no such thing as "bad food" though. It's either nutrient dense of not. Inmates at penitentiaries eat low quality food daily for YEARS, yet don't have obesity issues.................................because they are limited on how MUCH they can eat.melltrembley wrote: »I may be the only positive person to comment....I love it, its very personal....Yes, you have to still exercise and eat right, but I have found that it gives me that little extra "umph" when I'm working out. The Rehydrate really quenches my thirst, the Spark has replaced my coffee. The 24 Day Challenge is just supposed to help jump start good clean eating. As with any diet or eating regime, if you stop and go back to eating bad food, you will gain weight.
Yes I am a distributor, but only so I can get a discount. If people want to buy it, i think its great, but I do not do it for a profit or a business.
I have tried Herbal life and and Le-vel, they just were't for me...its a very personal journey, so you would have to decide for yourself as we are all different with different wants, needs and taste.
Good Luck with what you choose to help yourself healthy!
And as a distributor, you're the actual CUSTOMER. You're not getting a discount......................you're the source of income for your upline who are selling you a moderate quality product at an excessive price when compared to comparable product that can be bought OTC.
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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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melltrembley wrote: »htimpaired wrote: »melltrembley wrote: »I may be the only positive person to comment....I love it, its very personal....Yes, you have to still exercise and eat right, but I have found that it gives me that little extra "umph" when I'm working out. The Rehydrate really quenches my thirst, the Spark has replaced my coffee. The 24 Day Challenge is just supposed to help jump start good clean eating. As with any diet or eating regime, if you stop and go back to eating bad food, you will gain weight.
Yes I am a distributor, but only so I can get a discount. If people want to buy it, i think its great, but I do not do it for a profit or a business.
I have tried Herbal life and and Le-vel, they just were't for me...its a very personal journey, so you would have to decide for yourself as we are all different with different wants, needs and taste.
Good Luck with what you choose to help yourself healthy!
So, what is "good clean eating". How does "Rehydrate" work better than....water?!?
How does this provide a "jumpstart". How is this teaching you to change your habits so that you don't "go back to eating bad food", anymore so than MFP teaches people this things?
I do find it interesting that distributors for this, or Shakeology, or any other the other ones, always say "I just do it for the discount".
When I am working out and can't get enough to drink, the Rehydrate for me quenches my thirst, I am still drinking about a gallon of water a day.
Good clean eating is nothing processed, lean protein, veggies, fruit, etc.
Never mentioned that Advocare replaced anything life MFP, for me they are two different methods. People learn different ways, different methods. The original poster asked for opinions, you gave yours, I gave mine.
Good Luck in your journey!
Nothing processed? You mean except for the Rehydrate, spark, and other Advocare products. Or am I missing something.5 -
melltrembley wrote: »It's worth noting that the only positive comment so far has come from a distributor. Just sayin'......
FYI...I have been buying it for 5 years and do not have a down line, "distributor" per say=40% for myself. Sorry you had a bad experience. I am very glad you have had success without help.
5 years? Sheesh.0 -
These scams that "help" as part of a diet and exercise program have always reminded me of the story of the magic soup stone. The one I linked below has several, all slightly different than the one I remember from childhood, but the point is the same.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type1548.html
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Simple to me. I wanted a little extra motivation to get me going. I buy enough for the cleanse, do the cleanse and get back to my normal "free" Mfp life. Once in awhile I need the kick in the butt. I have lost 100 lbs, gained 20 back, lost it gained 40 and so on. I do what I want to do the way I want and it works for me until I fall off the wagon. The I switch it up. Bottom line is...be active, eat less and as clean as possible. You can lose weight and be healthy.1
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In others words, you haven't got it figured out yet.Simple to me. I wanted a little extra motivation to get me going. I buy enough for the cleanse, do the cleanse and get back to my normal "free" Mfp life. Once in awhile I need the kick in the butt. I have lost 100 lbs, gained 20 back, lost it gained 40 and so on. I do what I want to do the way I want and it works for me until I fall off the wagon. The I switch it up. Bottom line is...be active, eat less and as clean as possible. You can lose weight and be healthy.
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IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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But I have...the only explanation I need to give is because I want to use it twice a year. I like what I do and it works for me. I don't need them. My summers consist of camping and beer, why? Because that's what I enjoy. So I do it once in the middle of summer and once in middle of winter, because I choose to. I have been as much as 305 and as low as 170, I prefer to be at a healthy 185. I worked out and ate healthy, took nothin. Changed habits, because I wanted to.2
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It's a MLM scam, the products are overpriced and poor quality, and the people who sell it are usually incredibly aggressive, pushy and spammy.mmillion79 wrote: »Thoughts about Advocare?
You'll spend a lot of money on worthless products which won't do anything that a caloric deficit can't do. You'll be spammed to death by salespeople (I refuse to call them "coaches", just like Beachbody scammers) and pushed to become a distributor yourself so you're in their downline and making money for them.mmillion79 wrote: »...things to be weary of....
It's not worth it. There's no upside to it.
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I have someone on my FB that has been using it for a year and....well....there seems to be no difference in her before/after pics.1
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Alluminati wrote: »I have someone on my FB that has been using it for a year and....well....there seems to be no difference in her before/after pics.
Some of the MLM distributors go on weight loss forums and steal people's before/after photos, then post them to their slimy FB sales pages saying stuff like "Look at the results my friend got from using Advocare/Snakeoilogy/ItWorks/Body by Vi/etc., it really works!!!1!". Because they know people really get zero results from those products that they wouldn't have gotten through a calorie deficit anyway.4 -
Alluminati wrote: »I have someone on my FB that has been using it for a year and....well....there seems to be no difference in her before/after pics.
Some of the MLM distributors go on weight loss forums and steal people's before/after photos, then post them to their slimy FB sales pages saying stuff like "Look at the results my friend got from using Advocare/Snakeoilogy/ItWorks/Body by Vi/etc., it really works!!!1!". Because they know people really get zero results from those products that they wouldn't have gotten through a calorie deficit anyway.
Yup. It's even happened a few times where before/after pics were stolen from MFP users and attached to a product. They don't care about the accuracy or efficacy, just sales.2
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