Herbalife

mmybelle5
mmybelle5 Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Anybody doing it or has done this?

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    MissusMoon wrote: »
    Herbalife is an MLM scam that can do far worse than fleece you of your hard earned dollars. It can also cause severe liver damage: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004035/

    You don't need anything special to lose weight. Fill out your profile and keep to your caloric goals. It's free and sustainable.

    This^^ you need to figure how to eat for the rest of your life and not rely on some junk.
  • jlemoore
    jlemoore Posts: 702 Member
    yep! In 1988. If I recall, it was GROSS! And I didn't lose a pound. or I gained back everything after I couldn't afford it anymore.
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    edited June 2016
    Just because you are not paranoid does not mean they are not out to scam you.
    Save THOUSANDS, and go to walmart and buy some protein powder and a multivitamin instead.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    edited June 2016
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10408027/herbalife#latest

    Save your money, it's a worthless multi-level marketing (MLM) scam.
  • cgfernandez329
    cgfernandez329 Posts: 12 Member
    Herbalife has ingredients soy protein (http://www.mercola.com/article/soy/avoid_soy.htm for an article on soy protein), sucralose (aka Splenda), and sugar (3 grams). The Herbalife Formula 1 Healthy Meal Shake has 200 calories per serving, which is not a meal replacement. To be considered a meal replacement, a shake must have between 240 and 300 calories.

    If you are interested in using a meal replacement program whether it is a MLM or not, I am following a nutritional cleansing program that uses undenatured highest grade whey rotein. No unnatural products. Complete nutrition for a meal replacement. 240 calories prepared. Has all 90 Building Blocks your Body needs everyday. 242 Nutrients and ALL ORGANIC ingredients when available! NO SOY, NO GMO's, NO SUCRALOSE, the maltodextrin adds nutritive value to the product and is sourced from organic tapioca. this is radically different than other maltodextrin.

    I am always full and have plenty of energy. I've been using it since January 25th and have lost 40 lbs and almost the same in total inches. I gave it a try because a friend of mine was using it. Her goal was to lose 50 lbs by her 50th birthday, which she did (she started in October with an April deadline). The 30-day money back guarantee and her success are why I tried it. You can also sell it and make money from it. I haven't done that yet, but I haven't been trying.
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    How are you learning portion control drinking shakes?
  • cgfernandez329
    cgfernandez329 Posts: 12 Member
    Another link to an article about soy protein.

    http://www.shape.com/healthy-eating/diet-tips/ask-diet-doctor-last-word-soy-protein-isolate
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    cgfernandez329 wrote: »
    Another link to an article about soy protein.

    http://www.shape.com/healthy-eating/diet-tips/ask-diet-doctor-last-word-soy-protein-isolate

    Shape magazine, click bait.
  • cgfernandez329
    cgfernandez329 Posts: 12 Member
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    How are you learning portion control drinking shakes?

    So, I guess I learn portion control through my dinners. Sometimes I have lunch instead of dinner and a shake for dinner, but I like to have dinner with my son, so that doesn't happen very often. I also eat out. I just make the choices I've known for a long time are the right ones to make because, frankly, the things I used to eat don't appeal to me.
  • canadianvampyregurl
    canadianvampyregurl Posts: 231 Member
    MissusMoon wrote: »
    Herbalife is an MLM scam that can do far worse than fleece you of your hard earned dollars. It can also cause severe liver damage: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004035/

    You don't need anything special to lose weight. Fill out your profile and keep to your caloric goals. It's free and sustainable.

    MissusMoon - you are so very right !!! High five health journey sista !!!
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    cgfernandez329 wrote: »
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    How are you learning portion control drinking shakes?

    So, I guess I learn portion control through my dinners. Sometimes I have lunch instead of dinner and a shake for dinner, but I like to have dinner with my son, so that doesn't happen very often. I also eat out. I just make the choices I've known for a long time are the right ones to make because, frankly, the things I used to eat don't appeal to me.

    So why not eat in a new way instead of wasting money on expensive shakes?
  • cgfernandez329
    cgfernandez329 Posts: 12 Member
    Prevention magazine, Wellness Today, Dr. McDougall, WedMd, University of Maryland Medical Center, and others detail the risk factors of soy protein isolate.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    cgfernandez329 wrote: »
    Prevention magazine, Wellness Today, Dr. McDougall, WedMd, University of Maryland Medical Center, and others detail the risk factors of soy protein isolate.

    Other than university of Maryland medical center which I have no clue about all of your sources including shape and mercola are not reputable at all. Dr mercola and dr McDougall are quacks and those magazines are full of woo and WebMD isn't much better
  • cgfernandez329
    cgfernandez329 Posts: 12 Member
    "No one needs to buy magic shake products to lose weight. That can be done for free right here eating real food. If you want to learn how to lose safely and maintain that loss, eating proper meals is going to do a much better job than replacing meals."

    I don't disagree with this statement of yours. It is true.

    What I'm doing this time around, at 49, works for me when nothing else was. So while I don't need it, it is helping me reach my goal and feel better than I've felt about myself in decades than logging calories, making wise food choices, exercising, Atkins, Physicians Weight Loss, Weight Watchers, fad diets (cottage cheese and peaches two days on all day long one day off), The Rotation Diet, The 20/30 Plan, Dr. Bruce Lowell's 30% Fat Finder, and all the other things I've tried to lose weight over the course of my lifetime - some because my mother put me on them in the 6th grade; some because I've tried them.
  • cgfernandez329
    cgfernandez329 Posts: 12 Member
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    cgfernandez329 wrote: »
    Prevention magazine, Wellness Today, Dr. McDougall, WedMd, University of Maryland Medical Center, and others detail the risk factors of soy protein isolate.

    Other than university of Maryland medical center which I have no clue about all of your sources including shape and mercola are not reputable at all. Dr mercola and dr McDougall are quacks and those magazines are full of woo and WebMD isn't much better

    I'm not sure if you're all that interested in my "sources" or if you just want to argue. You can accept/reject my sources or, if it is important to you, do your own research on soy protein isolate. Either way, I was just responding to someone who was considering a meal replacement program.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    Generally when giving sources it is better to find reputable ones because on the internet you can find sources for any idea you want. I wouldn't base my knowledge of a product on shape magazine prevention magazine, dr mercola and dr McDougall all make a lot of crazy out there claims.

    Btw cleanses are unnecessary unless you are having a colonoscopy. Your body is very good at cleansing itself and if you are actually in need of a cleanse a hospital on dialysis or transplant waiting list is where you should be not taking some dumb product.
  • cgfernandez329
    cgfernandez329 Posts: 12 Member
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    cgfernandez329 wrote: »
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    How are you learning portion control drinking shakes?

    So, I guess I learn portion control through my dinners. Sometimes I have lunch instead of dinner and a shake for dinner, but I like to have dinner with my son, so that doesn't happen very often. I also eat out. I just make the choices I've known for a long time are the right ones to make because, frankly, the things I used to eat don't appeal to me.

    So why not eat in a new way instead of wasting money on expensive shakes?

    One shake is $3.21, which is not that expensive to me.

    Maybe we should agree to disagree?

    Hope you have a great evening and I wish you continued success in what you've been doing to reach your goal!
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    herbalife is a scam. Please don't fall for MLM baloney. Proper nutrition and calorie counting, along with exercise, will get you the results you are looking for.
  • sueelaineparker
    sueelaineparker Posts: 51 Member
  • sueelaineparker
    sueelaineparker Posts: 51 Member
    Seems like these threads don't support iPhone Emojis. Oh, so what I was trying to get across through the single emoji was that Herbalife isn't worth it, and it's silly that rather than take medical fact on board the OP would rather close them-self off than listen to reason.
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    I drink one or two shakes a day as meal replacement mostly because it's convenient and I usually have little to no appetite during the day. But I wouldn't use Herbalife or any other MLM shake because I get better stats from a powder I buy at Costco for a fraction of the price.
  • JaneSnowe
    JaneSnowe Posts: 1,283 Member
    sueelaineparker wrote: »
    Seems like these threads don't support iPhone Emojis. Oh, so what I was trying to get across through the single emoji was that Herbalife isn't worth it, and it's silly that rather than take medical fact on board the OP would rather close them-self off than listen to reason.

    There's an emoji that conveys all of that?!

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