PLEXUS products... What do you think of them?

HollyB1223
HollyB1223 Posts: 41 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
What do you think of Plexus Slim products? Anyone tried adding the stuff to their daily routine? Anyone had success? Failure? Advice?

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  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
    Not sure what those products are, but I find the best way to lose weight and to keep it off is with a lifestyle change, hard work, and dedication.

    Unfortunately there's really no magic product out there that'll help you like a lifestyle change, hard work, and dedication will.
  • stefanieraya
    stefanieraya Posts: 110 Member
    Found this article - http://supplement-geek.com/plexus-slim-review-ingredients-side-effects/
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,432 MFP Moderator
    What are you hoping to achieve with these? Pills are pretty much worthless, especially since no one plans on being on pills for the rest of your life. So you start using it as a crutch now, then it will become very difficult to sustain as you get off the pills.
  • HollyB1223
    HollyB1223 Posts: 41 Member
    Several friends are trying Plexus - two close acquaintances are actually selling it. I want advice.
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome Posts: 2,616 Member
    Advice?
    Save your money.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Several friends are trying Plexus - two close acquaintances are actually selling it. I want advice.

    They're abusing their friendship to peddle MLM crap to you. That's the business model. Buy a food scale and running shoes instead.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    It's a bogus MLM product. Save your money, and the future hatred of your friends and family when you get roped in to selling it.
  • HollyB1223
    HollyB1223 Posts: 41 Member
    Great advice. The link to a review of this product is extremely helpful. I'm glad I didn't spend any money on the stuff yet. Huge dead end!
  • aluethi1
    aluethi1 Posts: 97 Member
    I tried the drink and accelerator a year or so ago. The drink tastes HORRIBLE! I don't understand how there's so many reviews saying it tastes so good when it's so awful. And the accelerator made me sick. I'm not sensitive to caffiene and the pill had me sick to my stomach, ready to toss my cookies and made me really shakey. I couldn't even give it a month because everything about Plexus was so bad!
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I know my formerly pleasant and reasonable Facebook friend has turned into a spamming machine since she started selling it.
  • Muddy_Yogi
    Muddy_Yogi Posts: 1,459 Member
    My advice? Keep your money...invest in fitness equipment..Stay away from any get skinny quick scheme. Seriously...not of these quick fixes work. Most come with horrible side effects.
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    NO
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    I tried the drink and accelerator a year or so ago. The drink tastes HORRIBLE! I don't understand how there's so many reviews saying it tastes so good when it's so awful. And the accelerator made me sick. I'm not sensitive to caffiene and the pill had me sick to my stomach, ready to toss my cookies and made me really shakey. I couldn't even give it a month because everything about Plexus was so bad!

    b/c the reviewers are also the people that sell the product. That's how MLM works- rope everyone in wants to try it in to selling it then everyone's motivated financially to saying how awesome the product is. Most probably don't even use it.
  • 19TaraLynn84
    19TaraLynn84 Posts: 739 Member
    A close friend of mine was selling it. I tried it. The drink is horrible! It made me feel sick and extremely tired. I kept using it because so many people I knew had success with it. I did lose weight, but most likely because I felt too sick to eat much. As soon as I stopped taking it, I gained all the weight back and then some.

    Moral of my story: It's an expensive temporary solution. Save your money and learn to eat less. :)
  • HollyB1223
    HollyB1223 Posts: 41 Member
    Here is a great review, followed by very helpful comments, about the "Accelerator" pill that is being sold with Plexus Slim shake mix. Summary: Um... especially with the updated "formula"... it doesn't work. One comment actually points out that many folks in the main marketing group for the product are not very "slim" themselves. LOL

    http://supplement-geek.com/plexus-slim-accelerator-plus-review-ingredients-side-effects/
  • hedgiie
    hedgiie Posts: 1,226 Member
    Not sure what those products are, but I find the best way to lose weight and to keep it off is with a lifestyle change, hard work, and dedication.

    Unfortunately there's really no magic product out there that'll help you like a lifestyle change, hard work, and dedication will.

    agree, many companies will promote new product promising something that only their product can provide.
  • stefanieraya
    stefanieraya Posts: 110 Member
    When y'all talk about your friends becoming spammers, that is absolutely what gives network marketing the bad rap it has. NOBODY wants to be sold. For example, how would you describe a salesperson? Think of some adjectives...slimy, sleezy, pulling a fast one on you? Why do you think that is?

    If you want to be a surgeon do you skip school and go straight to surgery? No - you GO TO SCHOOL - alot for a surgeon actually. Why do people think that network marketing or MLM is any different? It's not.

    There are a ton of people, like several in this thread, who are sold into buying from their friend by force or persuasion. The way it should go is - we inform, you decide, we support you. Not - buy my product, buy my product even though you don't need or want it.

    The education and professional development is exactly what separates the novices from the professionals. I will never apologize for choosing network marketing as a way to earn a residual income, that is, income that comes in month after month, year after year - growing, walk away, lifetime, willable to your family income = freedom.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,432 MFP Moderator
    When y'all talk about your friends becoming spammers, that is absolutely what gives network marketing the bad rap it has. NOBODY wants to be sold. For example, how would you describe a salesperson? Think of some adjectives...slimy, sleezy, pulling a fast one on you? Why do you think that is?

    If you want to be a surgeon do you skip school and go straight to surgery? No - you GO TO SCHOOL - alot for a surgeon actually. Why do people think that network marketing or MLM is any different? It's not.

    There are a ton of people, like several in this thread, who are sold into buying from their friend by force or persuasion. The way it should go is - we inform, you decide, we support you. Not - buy my product, buy my product even though you don't need or want it.

    The education and professional development is exactly what separates the novices from the professionals. I will never apologize for choosing network marketing as a way to earn a residual income, that is, income that comes in month after month, year after year - growing, walk away, lifetime, willable to your family income = freedom.

    So do you have a PhD or at least a dietitian? The only dietitians I know who are a part of MLM's are a part of Beachbody because you can sell the workouts. But even then, there are very few I have ever met.

    The main issue is there is no unbiased research on any of these products that would suggest any of them are beneficial outside of a calorie deficit. The research on individual ingredients exist but the main issue is, the quantities in these products do NOT come even close to that in the study.

    My biggest is, you dont' have to be educated to sell these products. Anyone can become a distributor.
  • HollyB1223
    HollyB1223 Posts: 41 Member
    I love the reviewer of the Plexus diet products who comments how some of the main promoters are overweight themselves. I watched some of the promo videos, there are some downright heavy people on there.

    Surely by the time they make it to "diamond" status selling a diet product, they themselves should be slim and trim! That is, IF the product actually works to take off pounds as easily as claimed.
  • lmholdren
    lmholdren Posts: 1
    I have been SUPPLEMENTing with Plexus for two months. Things I have noticed; better sleep at night, less moody during menstration periods, no more migraine headaches after a day of working in front of the computer, higher energy level which last thru the day, less cravings for carbs and sweets (including soda), less issues with my digestive system, improved sex drive and I have lost over 20" and 11 pounds dropping me down one pant size. My husband has been on it for a month, not that he needs to loose weight but it has lowered his blood pressure, given him more energy, sleeping thru the night (opposed to waking up at 3am every night), and helped with his moods as well.

    My mother, sister, aunt and co-worker are all using it and have had similar results plus a few more. I am not a ambassador but a believer. I have been watching my diet (with MFP) and exercising and never lost more than 9 pounds and it took me several months to get that far but never a pound more.

    You can not use Plexus and eat like a pig who never gets off the couch. It is a supplement not a diet. It does help more than just your weight. Everyone I know who has taken it loves it and will never give it up. Another note, Plexus will not help you loose weight unless you are overweight. I even know of a person who gave Plexus to their anorexic daughter who was having trouble gaining weight after treatment, she gained the weight she needed.

    No matter what people say I will keep using it even after i am down to my goal weight, besides the weight loss I like the way it makes me feel. Kinda kills off all the crap we as a society accept as healthy food now a days.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    I have been SUPPLEMENTing with Plexus for two months. Things I have noticed; better sleep at night, less moody during menstration periods, no more migraine headaches after a day of working in front of the computer, higher energy level which last thru the day, less cravings for carbs and sweets (including soda), less issues with my digestive system, improved sex drive and I have lost over 20" and 11 pounds dropping me down one pant size. My husband has been on it for a month, not that he needs to loose weight but it has lowered his blood pressure, given him more energy, sleeping thru the night (opposed to waking up at 3am every night), and helped with his moods as well.

    My mother, sister, aunt and co-worker are all using it and have had similar results plus a few more. I am not a ambassador but a believer. I have been watching my diet (with MFP) and exercising and never lost more than 9 pounds and it took me several months to get that far but never a pound more.

    You can not use Plexus and eat like a pig who never gets off the couch. It is a supplement not a diet. It does help more than just your weight. Everyone I know who has taken it loves it and will never give it up. Another note, Plexus will not help you loose weight unless you are overweight. I even know of a person who gave Plexus to their anorexic daughter who was having trouble gaining weight after treatment, she gained the weight she needed.

    No matter what people say I will keep using it even after i am down to my goal weight, besides the weight loss I like the way it makes me feel. Kinda kills off all the crap we as a society accept as healthy food now a days.

    And oddly enough, none of these miracles are recorded in a peer-reviewed journal of medicine!
  • RMSHouston
    RMSHouston Posts: 1
    If anyone tries to sell you Plexus, RUN AWAY! I was told that if I bought a decision pack I would be refunded, due to a Labor Day special. It was $34.95 extra, and you become an ambassador, which means you can sell it if you choose. I received a check a week and a half later, but it was only for the $34.95, not the $134.95 cost of the decision pack, as I was led to believe. But I let it slide, thinking it wouldn't matter if the products worked. I've used them now for a solid month. I've gained four pounds, and my clothes are tighter than they were before. The Accelerator they recommend taking with the drink makes my heart race so fast that it terrifies me, and it slams against my ribs. I have taken chemical stimulants that didn't have that effect on me, and this stuff is supposed to be all natural. So, I call them to get a refund. They say I can't get their 60 money back GUARANTEE, because I am an ambassador - something I didn't want to be in the first place, and only did because I was promised free products, which I didn't get. I should've known better. But now I want to make sure you know better. Don't fall for this scam.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    I have read too many bad reviews on this product not to mention the ingredients and the bad side effects they can have. If you have any health issues or take certain meds it should be avoided as well.They say they are A+ certified and have a good standing with the BBB yet if you go do a search for them on the BBB they have a bad grade.I would avoid any GIMMICKY type weight loss supplements because you really dont need them
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    I was on plexus for 5mths and didn't lose a single pound! $200 a month wasted! Apparently they used to have a good track record, but this was before they changed their ingredients, November 2013. The majority of testimonials you see now are a few or more years old . Their customers are dropping like flies now. Also I am so sick of seeing overweight/obese people spruiking the benefits of plexus..I'm still in a couple plexus facebook.groups and mostly testimonials are about "non scale victories" rather than weight loss.

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