Herbalife - good or bad??

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  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    My mom SCAMMED many people for many years. Easy to do.
  • Onhowtobelovely
    Onhowtobelovely Posts: 11 Member
    Then what happens when you go off it? Find a way of life you can maintain for life, not just as long as you are on a certain program.
  • Wicked_Seraph
    Wicked_Seraph Posts: 388 Member
    kirstynelee wrote: »
    I've been doing Herbalife for over a year now, and for people saying its just shakes and you never eat, that's balls! You eat 5 times a day (including 2 shakes) so never feel hungry !!
    Personal, i have a lot more energy, my skin is clearer and hair is healthier as the shakes and healthy eating is providing me with all the right vitamins and minerals that i need !
    I had stopped using it for a while and even eating crap now and again i still didn't put the weight back on!! To the people who say they come off it and put weight back on - YOUR OBVIOUSLY GOING TO PUT WEIGHT ON IF YOU GO BACK TO YOUR BAD EATING HABBITS! If you come off it you just carry on eating healthy and replace your shakes for a healthy alternative !
    Hope this helps.
    #herbalifeisthebest

    Jesus, yet another zombie bringing this post back from the dead two years later. It's like clockwork!

    I'm waiting for another post from an Herbalife zombie for this thread to crop in June 2018. I'm calling it right now.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited June 2016
    It's neither good or bad...it's just a tool...not a tool I'd use, but that doesn't make it either good or bad...
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    Wow- this is from 2012.
    Oh the desperation from the MLM marketers.
  • CarolKennedyDiamond
    CarolKennedyDiamond Posts: 2 Member
    My sister and I tried it years ago, no loss in weight but I lost about $200 til I learned it wasn't really helping, just eating less and moving more seems to work... My Brother in Law affectionately called it "Scam a Life"
  • MissusMoon
    MissusMoon Posts: 1,900 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    It's neither good or bad...it's just a tool...not a tool I'd use, but that doesn't make it either good or bad...

    Liver damage isn't bad? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004035/
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    It appears the report button is broken.
  • tryett
    tryett Posts: 530 Member
    TR0berts wrote: »
    It appears the report button is broken.

    Mine wasn't.
  • amandacreates91
    amandacreates91 Posts: 18 Member
    If you read the disclaimer on their photos it all say results included changes in diet and exercise.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    MissusMoon wrote: »
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    It's neither good or bad...it's just a tool...not a tool I'd use, but that doesn't make it either good or bad...

    Liver damage isn't bad? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004035/

    Even the study suggest that it's vary rare. And all patients recovered from it. On top of that, 3 people doesn't mean it can be extrapolated to the greater population, nor does it mean that you won' t find these same effects with other supplements (e.g. - pre workouts, bcaa, other protein shakes). It also doesn't take into consideration any changes to the formulas in the past 6 years.

    I am not sure that you knew this, but many supplement tested high for heavy metals around the 2010 time frame, including many of peoples favorite protein shakes.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    TR0berts wrote: »
    It appears the report button is broken.

    It wasn't. I cleaned up the ones actually selling. But expressing an opinion, even in an old thread isn't a violation. And in case anyone is curious to what the advertising policy actually states, see below:


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    b) Requests or solicitations for donations are also not allowed. This includes requesting contributions to “pooled fund” competitions, requests for votes in any venue (online contests, etc.), and even requests for charitable contributions. As you can imagine, we have a lot of people who would like to raise money for worthy causes through the site. As much as we'd like to support these causes, if we were to allow requests for donations, the forums would quickly become full of such requests which would take away from the main purpose of the forums - to support one another.

    c) Posts or messages to members promoting websites that compete with MyFitnessPal are also prohibited.

  • erwingeminie20
    erwingeminie20 Posts: 26 Member
    If you trying to loose weight. You can try watching "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" in Youtube. See if you can do that. But if you just trying to be healthy just try to do a veggie juice instead.
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    edited June 2016
    And now the thread has gone full potato.

    That video is just a commercial.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    erwingeminie20 wrote: »
    If you trying to loose weight. You can try watching "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" in Youtube. See if you can do that. But if you just trying to be healthy just try to do a veggie juice instead.

    It's supid information with no real science but hey the have pretty good juicers for sale. JK
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    RGv2 wrote: »
    And now the thread has gone full potato.

    Can you eat potatoes with Herbalife?
  • Wetcoaster
    Wetcoaster Posts: 1,788 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    It's neither good or bad...it's just a tool...not a tool I'd use, but that doesn't make it either good or bad...

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  • RogerShehata
    RogerShehata Posts: 3 Member
    edited July 2016
    Anyone who calls any MLM a scam is obviously misinformed or uneducated! E.g. Herbalife is a company that has been around for over 36 years in 94 countries and has helped over 100 million clients right around the world. Now common sense would tell you if it was a scam it wouldn't have lasted this long and keep opening in more countries and by the way turning over more than US$7.8Billion per annum.

    [Edited by MFP Mods]
  • Wetcoaster
    Wetcoaster Posts: 1,788 Member
    RogerShehata wrote: »
    Anyone who calls any MLM a scam is obviously misinformed or uneducated! E.g. Herbalife is a company that has been around for over 36 years in 94 countries and has helped over 100 million clients right around the world. Now common sense would tell you if it was a scam it wouldn't have lasted this long and keep opening in more countries and by the way turning over more than US$7.8Billion per annum.

    [Edited by MFP Mods]

    99% of people in mlm lose money.

    Herbalife is a sub par product at an inflated price.

    But I am uneducated when it comes to nutrition...what do I know.
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    RogerShehata wrote: »
    Anyone who calls any MLM a scam is obviously misinformed or uneducated! E.g. Herbalife is a company that has been around for over 36 years in 94 countries and has helped over 100 million clients right around the world. Now common sense would tell you if it was a scam it wouldn't have lasted this long and keep opening in more countries and by the way turning over more than US$7.8Billion per annum.

    [Edited by MFP Mods]

    The fact that it's been around a long time and has made a lot of money shouldn't be your main defense that it isn't a scam.

    Focus on proving that the herbalz actually do something more than a placebo, and that the shakes aren't just overpriced slim-fast level meal replacements.
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    edited July 2016
    Read the first paragraph. It's a pyramid scheme.
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/100331139
    Doesn't make a lot of money. Stock has not moved in 5 years.
    https://www.google.com/search?q=herbalife+stock&oq=herbalife+stock+&aqs=chrome..69i57.5609j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
    And, my mom used to sell it. She spent more than she earned - common. Oh, the years she wasted away. People used to hide in stores when they saw her coming.
  • 3314jorge
    3314jorge Posts: 5 Member
    I tried it a while back and it did work to some degree, but the person I got it from was really pushy so I switched where I was getting from and the orher person was also pushy. Maybe that's a sales tactic the teach. But never again.
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