Herbalife users?
lilmiss_sunshine29
Posts: 136 Member
Anyone here use Herbalife?
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Nope, rather frowned upon around these parts, considering it is essentially a scam.11
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Scam4
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You generally won't find much support for MLM programs because they tend to push a lot of shakes/pills and don't really give you a good strategy for long term sustained weight loss. And they are very overpriced/overhyped.6
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Just eat less calories and lose weight.1
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I use Herbalife for the past 8 months. I enjoy it, it makes it easy for breakfast and dinner. They do give meal plans with real food.0
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Dont waste your money.2
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Apparently I have to be nicer when a sales person shows up in one of these woo threads. So I guess I better not say what I am thinking....
EDIT - Above comment is not directed to the OP. Save your money. The diet industry is full of garbage since the simple truth doesn't sell books and potions.5 -
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never used it. my local sales person was selling it for 15 pounds for 3 days worth . what a rip off.0
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HorribleLife? No thanks.1
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annacole94 wrote: »
I just watched the whole thing and that was seriously awesome! And as someone who's been a part of 3 MLM gimmicks in my lifetime, it's sooo true
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Shawshankcan wrote: »Nope, rather frowned upon around these parts, considering it is essentially a scam.
Not to mention that they just had a judgement against them for $200 million. They were found guilty of fraud
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So why not just eat the meal plans with real food?jaquita2000 wrote: »I use Herbalife for the past 8 months. I enjoy it, it makes it easy for breakfast and dinner. They do give meal plans with real food.
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Meal planning is easy and there are TONS AND TONS AND TONS AND TONS of resources available for free online to do it. They even create grocery lists and such so all you have to do is a little cooking.
Here is the MFP Health Eating Intro0 -
My mother bought some and gave it to me. Meh ... I make my own smooths with vegetables, fruits & protein powder. Only takes a few minutes and much better for you3
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Meal planning is easy and there are TONS AND TONS AND TONS AND TONS of resources available for free online to do it. They even create grocery lists and such so all you have to do is a little cooking.
Here is the MFP Health Eating Intro
thank you.
my very simple question was whether or not someone used Herblife.0 -
Gimsteinn1 wrote: »In one of my many searches of a quick fix to my obesity I encountered a herbalife life coach.
That coach had no idea how to excersice but yet she felt like she could teach people to move and taught them incorrect form.
She knew nothing about nutrition.. Told us to eat couscous cause it was gluten free (for those who don't know it's definitely not gluten free) and to stay away from fruit cause of the carbs. I didn't drink caffeine at the time and she tried to convince me that the herbalife tea had no stimulating ingredients, not even caffeine..
And when she saw my son, who was 4 months old at the time, and told me I should replace some of his milk with herbalife formula 1 cause she thought he was far (he was lol but he was breastfed and a baby) walked out of there and never looked back.
So my point here is... Á lifestyle coach is not qualified to help you or trained to give you advice. They know *kitten* about nutrition and some of them don't even know what's in the product they're trying to sell you.
Everyone can become a lifestyle coach for herbalife, they just have to buy the license and go out there and sell the product. No qualification needed or anything.
Just eat clean healthy food and you're good. And if you wanna add strength training, get someone who knows what they're doing to teach you the correct form.My mother bought some and gave it to me. Meh ... I make my own smooths with vegetables, fruits & protein powder. Only takes a few minutes and much better for you
curious - how does the protein you add differ to a Herbalife product that does the same or similar job?0 -
lilmiss_sunshine29 wrote: »Gimsteinn1 wrote: »In one of my many searches of a quick fix to my obesity I encountered a herbalife life coach.
That coach had no idea how to excersice but yet she felt like she could teach people to move and taught them incorrect form.
She knew nothing about nutrition.. Told us to eat couscous cause it was gluten free (for those who don't know it's definitely not gluten free) and to stay away from fruit cause of the carbs. I didn't drink caffeine at the time and she tried to convince me that the herbalife tea had no stimulating ingredients, not even caffeine..
And when she saw my son, who was 4 months old at the time, and told me I should replace some of his milk with herbalife formula 1 cause she thought he was far (he was lol but he was breastfed and a baby) walked out of there and never looked back.
So my point here is... Á lifestyle coach is not qualified to help you or trained to give you advice. They know *kitten* about nutrition and some of them don't even know what's in the product they're trying to sell you.
Everyone can become a lifestyle coach for herbalife, they just have to buy the license and go out there and sell the product. No qualification needed or anything.
Just eat clean healthy food and you're good. And if you wanna add strength training, get someone who knows what they're doing to teach you the correct form.My mother bought some and gave it to me. Meh ... I make my own smooths with vegetables, fruits & protein powder. Only takes a few minutes and much better for you
curious - how does the protein you add differ to a Herbalife product that does the same or similar job?
So for a fraction of the price, you can get higher quality protein powders: https://labdoor.com/rankings/protein
And yes, there are a lot worse protein powders out there, there are also a lot higher quality.4 -
Basically what @psuLemon said. Herbalife is a subpar product because of it's subpar ingredients, yet they charge an ultra premium price for it. Doesn't make sense...
Besides that, I can't see how anyone would think that a real fruit smoothie with whole ingredients and a quality protein powder doesn't sound like something more appealing to eat than a powdered drink that costs much more.1 -
Basically what @psuLemon said. Herbalife is a subpar product because of it's subpar ingredients, yet they charge an ultra premium price for it. Doesn't make sense...
Besides that, I can't see how anyone would think that a real fruit smoothie with whole ingredients and a quality protein powder doesn't sound like something more appealing to eat than a powdered drink that costs much more.
One thing I did find interesting, Herbalife actually makes one of the highest quality meal replacement shakes: https://labdoor.com/rankings/meal-replacements1 -
Gimsteinn1 wrote: »
And when she saw my son, who was 4 months old at the time, and told me I should replace some of his milk with herbalife formula 1 cause she thought he was far (he was lol but he was breastfed and a baby) walked out of there and never looked back.
That is... I don't even have the words! Grossly ignorant, for starters. What a maroon.4 -
Basically what @psuLemon said. Herbalife is a subpar product because of it's subpar ingredients, yet they charge an ultra premium price for it. Doesn't make sense...
Besides that, I can't see how anyone would think that a real fruit smoothie with whole ingredients and a quality protein powder doesn't sound like something more appealing to eat than a powdered drink that costs much more.
One thing I did find interesting, Herbalife actually makes one of the highest quality meal replacement shakes: https://labdoor.com/rankings/meal-replacements
Well, I'll be damned...
but still not as "quality" as making your own.1 -
Basically what @psuLemon said. Herbalife is a subpar product because of it's subpar ingredients, yet they charge an ultra premium price for it. Doesn't make sense...
Besides that, I can't see how anyone would think that a real fruit smoothie with whole ingredients and a quality protein powder doesn't sound like something more appealing to eat than a powdered drink that costs much more.
One thing I did find interesting, Herbalife actually makes one of the highest quality meal replacement shakes: https://labdoor.com/rankings/meal-replacements
Well, I'll be damned...
but still not as "quality" as making your own.
Trust me, i was as shocked as you were. But yea, I rather make my own. Quest and www.theproteinchef.co have some really good smoothie recipes.0 -
Basically what @psuLemon said. Herbalife is a subpar product because of it's subpar ingredients, yet they charge an ultra premium price for it. Doesn't make sense...
Besides that, I can't see how anyone would think that a real fruit smoothie with whole ingredients and a quality protein powder doesn't sound like something more appealing to eat than a powdered drink that costs much more.
One thing I did find interesting, Herbalife actually makes one of the highest quality meal replacement shakes: https://labdoor.com/rankings/meal-replacements
Well, I'll be damned...
but still not as "quality" as making your own.
Even with that you still have to consider the whole pyramid scheme. Just mention Herbalife in any thread on any board and watch the 'one post wonders' show up trying to sell praising it. And if any of your friends start selling it be prepared to listen to their sales pitch non stop.3 -
lilmiss_sunshine29 wrote: »Gimsteinn1 wrote: »In one of my many searches of a quick fix to my obesity I encountered a herbalife life coach.
That coach had no idea how to excersice but yet she felt like she could teach people to move and taught them incorrect form.
She knew nothing about nutrition.. Told us to eat couscous cause it was gluten free (for those who don't know it's definitely not gluten free) and to stay away from fruit cause of the carbs. I didn't drink caffeine at the time and she tried to convince me that the herbalife tea had no stimulating ingredients, not even caffeine..
And when she saw my son, who was 4 months old at the time, and told me I should replace some of his milk with herbalife formula 1 cause she thought he was far (he was lol but he was breastfed and a baby) walked out of there and never looked back.
So my point here is... Á lifestyle coach is not qualified to help you or trained to give you advice. They know *kitten* about nutrition and some of them don't even know what's in the product they're trying to sell you.
Everyone can become a lifestyle coach for herbalife, they just have to buy the license and go out there and sell the product. No qualification needed or anything.
Just eat clean healthy food and you're good. And if you wanna add strength training, get someone who knows what they're doing to teach you the correct form.My mother bought some and gave it to me. Meh ... I make my own smooths with vegetables, fruits & protein powder. Only takes a few minutes and much better for you
curious - how does the protein you add differ to a Herbalife product that does the same or similar job?
So for a fraction of the price, you can get higher quality protein powders: https://labdoor.com/rankings/protein
And yes, there are a lot worse protein powders out there, there are also a lot higher quality.
Makes sense. Thank you0
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