Herbalife - good or bad??

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A friend of mine sells it and has been on it for quite some time. She loves it and she lost a lot of weight! My dad was thinking about trying it. I am not sure if it is good or bad. I hear it is all natural stuff but for some reason I am thinking there is a catch. Hope you find your answers!

The only person I know that try this is my mom and after she lost allot of weight she got off of it and when she started eating normal food again she gain all the weight back =(

I done it for a few months! I was losing inches but not pounds. The shakes are really hard to stick to as you cannot eat and then when you come off the shakes your gonna put the weight back on. The vitamins and tabs you take are really good for eveyday life as they really do the job their meant to but you can buy tablets like these in health food shops without paying a fortune to Herbalife for them.

To be completely fair, I don't really know if I would classify Herbalife as a "fad diet". It is a relatively safe and healthy way to lose weight. And it has been around for 20+ years. It is just a bit expensive and there really is no valid exit strategy because you never really learn how to eat normal food in the proper amounts on a daily basis.

there really is no valid exit strategy because you never really learn how to eat normal food in the proper amounts on a daily basis.

Bingo.

Unless you enjoy feeding the diet industry your hard earned money, learn to eat right now instead of down the road when you are sick of forking over your money to Herbalife.

Well I take herbalife an I love it. I have tried every diet under the sun. I am weight obsessed. Yeah healthy eat is all well and good but it's hard to stick to and it hard to prepare and its more expensive then herbalife by a long shot. I never feel hungry on it and even at night when it comes to having tea I ain't hungry but I always have a healthy meal. It's got great nutrition in it which stops u craving all those fatty foods. It's cheaper for me then day to day eating plus when I am left to my own I choose the incorrect foods. Ok for all you that say healthy eating I the best option that's fine for u but I get stuck with it don't have the time to run around supermarket and prepare all these healthy dishes and buying salads load of fish and meat all the time is mega expensive. For my herbalife is great affordable and gives me confidence and loads of energy. If it don't work for you fair enough. But I was on it 2 years ago and I lost 2.5 stone stopped and only put half a stone back on. I only stopped as I was moving about and could get the supplies. When off it I felt the burn. It's healthy and keeps me happy

I agree...so easy, much cheaper and all you really need in the beginning is shake and tea. Hope this works for you. Marne

I used Herbalife recently and I really liked it. The only problem is is that it can be pricey, We had a distributor in the area and instead of paying for product you paid either $5 per day and you got the tea with aloe and the shake and she made it all for you. I also hesrd another rumor that where they make this product they found salmonella in it so you definately have to be careful. I drank the tea and the shake once a day usually for breakfast...but depending you can have two shakes a day and a sensible dinner. I hope you found all of the information you were looking for!!

I use bodybyvi and have done good with it but not sure about herbalife. I know they are similar style shakes.

i DID IT ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO AND IT DID NOTHING FOR ME.. MY FRIEND IS ON IT NOW AND ITS DOING NOTHING FOR HER...I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU BUT GOOD LUCK

I am confused as to how everyone finds so many issues with it. It accounts for approximately 400 of your daily calories. If you stop it, replace the Herbalife with something healthy and you should be good. The point of Herbalife (for me) was to help me start making healthier choices in what I ate. If you don't eat healthy and don't exercise, you will get fat (unless your one of the blessed skinny ones that can eat anything and not gain a pound). Don't blame the changing of ones eating habits from healthy to not healthy on Herbalife.

Herbalife is a tool to help you eat healther. Some people don't have the discipline to do this on their own. And even with those who do have the discipline this is an easy way to get a healthy and all-natural meal. I think we can all agree that sometimes, especially in the busyness of life, it is helpful to take a quick shake and not have to think about planning the meals. I also think it depends on the person you are working with. In the group I work with, our objective is to help people become healthy. I know that with my success and with Herbalife, I can help teach people how to eat healthier. If that is without Herbalife great, but otherwise I'll use Herbalife as a tool to help others.

It's basically just caffeine, isn't it? From what I've heard. I've heard nothing positive about it.

I was on it, and essentially it works by making two meals of your day less than 300 cals each, gives you diuretics and vitamins to feel up and energized. Then, they say the last meal you can eat what ever you'd like. So most people eat whatever they want. Even at that point your still probably eating less than 1800 cals a day, and if you do exercise on top of that, the deficit is even greater. So you drop weight quickly on it. When you go back to your normal eating patterns, normal eating that you don't really learn on this diet, because every pitch I've heard has spun the daily meal as "You can have cheesesteaks! Or pizza!", you will gain all of it back and then some. Simply because your not restricting your calories for two to three meals out of the day.

When I was on it, the additional supplements that are sold with the plans made me jittery, irritable, on edge, and disrupted my sleep patterns. The shakes weren't filling enough for me, and while I did lose like 10lbs in 2 days, when I decided to stop the program I gained 17lbs.

Your mileage may vary. I know quite a few people who are on Herbalife, love it so much, and it really works for them. For me, it wasn't the best choice.

I use Herbalife, and I really like it. For one, I was given over 70 different recipes that I can make at home if I don't go to the shop. On top of that, I have been experimenting, and I made some recepis of my own. I think this is very helpful knowing that I do not have to have the SAME THING over and over because of time constraints or whatever. And the recipes can change with the seasons: pumpkin pie, orange dreamsickle, egg nog, apple pie, peach cobbler, fried ice cream, turtle cheesecake, Irish creme latte, shamrock, heath bar, root beer float, lemon streusel cake, pineapple upside down cake, almond joy, Reese's peanut butter cups, German chocolate cake, banana split, strawberry daiquiri, candy cane, peanut butter & jelly, grape tootsie pop, Eskimo Joe, and on and on.

I know during my busy time at work, I am a grazer. I have done this for decades. And now that I had the work from three people moved to me just last month, it is even more stressful. When you don't have time to go to the bathroom two weeks every month, you can't deal with stressful eating--at least, I can't at this time. But now I have something I can depend on AND help me. I add enough ice to my shakes to make 5 shakes (approx 2 - 2 1/2 cups in each shake), and it does not taste watered down. I use water instead of milk in my shakes, and my breakfast/lunch averages between 200-250 each. I take them in my cooler along with my water. After every other shake, I drink a bottle of water, so I can drink about half my water before I leave work. Sometimes after working a 10-11 hr day, I am just truly exhausted. And I admit I get lazy when I get home. My husband is trying to gain 20 pounds--doctor's orders. So sometimes we have meals that help him, and sometimes we have meals that helped me. (He lost the weight when I first started my weigh-loss journey.) I do exercise, but sometimes I go back to work since the work MUST be done. And I am extremely hungry when I get home. And there are times when I still go to buffets for special occasions. But I know that Herbalife has helped me in my journey so far.

Yes, I think it can be pricey; HOWEVER, it is helping ME!! I think people gain weight for different reasons and should lose weight in different ways. I don't consider this a fad or a short-cut. I know sooooo many people who have lost weight with it. Yes, I became a distributor because I believe in it, but I don't have time to give parties; so maybe I shouldn't really consider myself a distributor.