Group with most cult like following?

B - Beachbody.

The other groups aren't set up like a pyramid scheme.

Aw you left out Intermittent Fasting - aren't we all meant to be engaging in weird frowned upon practices??

amway

LOL at the post

And i'd say B

MFP

ElExGordo

I want to have a cult like following.:smokin:

it's honestly not that fun.

I'd say the HCG people for sure. At least all of the groups you mentioned are effective for most of the people who choose to follow their methodology.

I'm going to go all scientific and sociology on you here...

Cultlike characteristics - American Family Foundation (14 Characteristics)

The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.

The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.

The group is preoccupied with making money.

Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.

Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).

The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).

The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).

The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.

The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).

The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).

The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.

Members' subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group.

Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group.

Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.

I'm going to go all scientific and sociology on you here...

Cultlike characteristics - American Family Foundation (14 Characteristics)

The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.

The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.

The group is preoccupied with making money.

Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.

Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).

The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).

The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).

The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.

The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).

The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).

The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.

Members' subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group.

Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group.

Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.

Using this list I would say that Cross-fit narrowly beats out BB coaches.

I think cross fit is by far the most cult-like.

Beachbody is just about money, paleo and HGC are just more diet fads, clean eating is a general attitude about food that will never die (but the definition will always be evolving).

A) Paleo

Beachbody

C) Crossfit

D) "Clean" eaters

E) All of the above

Well you're groups are a bit off.. You see, paleo is clean eating and CrossFitters eat clean.
Therefore, you really only have:
A) CrossFit and Beachbody.

I am a CrossFitting 90% clean eating soul. (what can i say I like cake sometimes).

I don't think it's a cult though because not every CrossFit is the same, coaches are different. My box refuses to do SDHP but i've seen plenty of other boxes do it. Some boxes don't do snatches while ours does, etc. Meanwhile, Beachbody is the exact same every time, every video, for every person. That's more "cult-like" if you will.

I am saying B but only because I "think" that the reason they come out ahead is because there are many more globally then the others...but this is just from my limited experience from reading these boards..
its close thought!!

Haha gotta say, I'm a Beachbody coach and it's nowhere near a cult.

There are extremists in any activity/sport/religion etc.

A) Paleo

Beachbody

C) Crossfit

D) "Clean" eaters

E) All of the above

Well you're groups are a bit off.. You see, paleo is clean eating and CrossFitters eat clean.
Therefore, you really only have:
A) CrossFit and Beachbody.

I am a CrossFitting 90% clean eating soul. (what can i say I like cake sometimes).

I don't think it's a cult though because not every CrossFit is the same, coaches are different. My box refuses to do SDHP but i've seen plenty of other boxes do it. Some boxes don't do snatches while ours does, etc. Meanwhile, Beachbody is the exact same every time, every video, for every person. That's more "cult-like" if you will.

You must not have done any Beachbody programs, considering there are like 10 different ones I can name right off the top of my head that are very different. Turbo Jam is nowhere near the same as P90X, as an example. And even in Turbo Jam, each DVD is completely different.