Herbalife?

ad1234 · 09-08-2012 8:08pm #1

Hi I was considering to go down the herbalife route to try loose weight and was just wondering if anybody had any experiences with it that might help me reach a decision. was also wondering if its expensive. thanks

MadsL · 09-08-2012 8:10pm

It's a MLM scheme - does that not tell you all you need to know.

Save your money and visit a qualified nutritionist or do Weightwatchers.

Pembily · 10-08-2012 4:00pm

I tried it, wasn't very impressed with it. I just craved sugar all the time as it's so sugary.

hellosunshine2 · 27-08-2012 3:23am

I know someone who deals/sells this kind of product or whatever. She always talks me into giving it a try but her convincing did nothing to me. Luckily, I found this so no regret after all.

graigavern · 28-08-2012 10:11pm

ad1234 wrote: »

Hi I was considering to go down the herbalife route to try loose weight and was just wondering if anybody had any experiences with it that might help me reach a decision. was also wondering if its expensive. thanks

Check out the link below on face book for Herbalife Independent Distributors

https://www.facebook.com/healthychoicenutrition?ref=hl

MadsL · 28-08-2012 10:21pm

Would you be one of them?

Cork24 · 28-08-2012 11:44pm

You want true herbs to lose weight ?

Grow your own green weed,

I was helping my one do her project for college she's doing biomed & herbal sci

And what I found on the web on what weed does to the human body my jaw almost hit the ground,

For one it can slow the growth of cancer cells in brain, lung, breast and even in the stomach, in some cases it killed the cells, and gave ppl with cancer their strength to eat food,

Plants with high level of THCV Tetrahydrocannabivarin

Can burn fat the safe way unlike diet bills which can cause a hell of a lot of side effects,

ad1234 · 29-08-2012 8:08am

Cork24 wrote: »

You want true herbs to lose weight ?

Grow your own green weed,

I was helping my one do her project for college she's doing biomed & herbal sci

And what I found on the web on what weed does to the human body my jaw almost hit the ground,

For one it can slow the growth of cancer cells in brain, lung, breast and even in the stomach, in some cases it killed the cells, and gave ppl with cancer their strength to eat food,

Plants with high level of THCV Tetrahydrocannabivarin

Can burn fat the safe way unlike diet bills which can cause a hell of a lot of side effects,

Would you have a link t find any more info on this and where to find them/hw to use ect

tHE vAGGABOND · 29-08-2012 9:28am

Lost 6 stone with herbalife stuff [and plenty of exercise and following sensible guidelines like those you will read here], but I cant speak highly enough about it

MadsL · 30-08-2012 5:55am

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

Lost 6 stone with herbalife stuff [and plenty of exercise and following sensible guidelines like those you will read here], but I cant speak highly enough about it

How much did that cost?

ad1234 · 30-08-2012 11:57am

MadsL wrote: »

How much did that cost?

yeah Id love to knwo too:)

tHE vAGGABOND · 30-08-2012 1:24pm

I lost 6 stone and changed my life from the top down and ground up - so do you think I give a monkeys how much it cost?

How much would a triple heart by-pass in a few years have cost me? Who knows what other obesity related medical issues I wont have now Im so much healthier..

What price can you put on my quality of life now as a active normal person running marathons and doing cool activities, versus a miserable fat person sitting on my arse eating take away food as I was a few years ago...

If your life needs to be changed around and you need a solution, then cost should really not be a factor tbh

[As an aside, I signed up as a reseller early, therefore got 25% discount, sold to a few family, friends at just over cost and helped every single person I sold to loose weight and therefore helped pay for my own stuff - I don't want to do it as a business. A further aside, no one forces you to buy anything or take anything, but I bought into the whole thing and it worked for me...not to say it will for everyone, I had tried many other ways of loosing weight before and none had worked].

ad1234 · 30-08-2012 1:37pm

unfortunatly price does matter these days though

hollypink · 30-08-2012 1:39pm

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

A further aside, no one forces you to buy anything or take anything, but I bought into the whole thing and it worked for me...not to say it will for everyone, I had tried many other ways of loosing weight before and none had worked].

Genuinely interested, why do you feel this worked for you when other ways didn't?

MadsL · 30-08-2012 2:56pm

This...

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

I signed up as a reseller

means we will never know the true cost...

I suspect that "plenty of exercise and following sensible guidelines" was the cause of your weight loss, with Herbalife as the (expensive) placebo.

Noble of you to rope your friends and family into it to support your intake.

For some reason I'm reminded of small time drug dealing to support a habit...

Congratulations on your weightloss. Not so much on pimping this overpriced stuff to your family.

tHE vAGGABOND · 30-08-2012 3:10pm

Think what you like - Im clearly a terrible person for selling this stuff to my family at cost and helping 3 or 4 of them loose weight...

Im going to go now and head to confession and beg for forgiveness..

MadsL · 30-08-2012 3:17pm

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

Think what you like - Im clearly a terrible person for selling this stuff to my family at cost and helping 3 or 4 of them loose weight...

Im going to go now and head to confession and beg for forgiveness..

How did you pay for your own stuff by selling at cost?

tHE vAGGABOND · 30-08-2012 3:53pm

Im not going to take part in this pointless argument any more as Im sure we both have better things to do..

If money is all you care about, no formal company plan is for you as they all cost money and all want you to buy their stuff and all have other services/products they want to sell, as they are running a business.

My point is that you need to take a long term view about it, and think of your health beyond current cashflow.

If that is not possible for you, for any reason, read the nutrition 101 sticky and get out and about and do 4 or 5 sessions of strenuous exercise several times a week!

ad1234 · 30-08-2012 4:02pm

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

Im not going to take part in this pointless argument any more as Im sure we both have better things to do..

If money is all you care about, no formal company plan is for you as they all cost money and all want you to buy their stuff and all have other services/products they want to sell, as they are running a business.

My point is that you need to take a long term view about it, and think of your health beyond current cashflow.

If that is not possible for you, for any reason, read the nutrition 101 sticky and get out and about and do 4 or 5 sessions of strenuous exercise several times a week!

Money isnt all I care about but I do also have a family to feed not only myself! and as for getting exercise, I have 3 children under 5, I get more than enough! any other time spare around them i sleep as its all i can manage! you have just solely turned me against this route of weight loss, its clear your running a get them hooked and abuse those seeking help route for financhial gain! I thought this type of route might help as I bearly get a chance to snack during the day which cant help the situation but if the company runs on secrecy and tactics like that then im not interested. if its not right to say how much a weeks worth of supplies cost then that doesnt say much for the company!

tHE vAGGABOND · 30-08-2012 4:13pm

Listen, lets both take a breath...

To be honest, Im just not about sharing my own personal info and my familys personal info on a public message board - when many people here know me or know them or have met me or them - and they would not like folks to read about their private stuff on the internet.....

I wanted to offer a few words of help and advice to you and you have taken it up wrong, sorry about that.

If you really think I was out to scam - search my posts on boards [going back to before it was called boards.ie but sat on a private server in UCG] - and see how many times I have brought it up - as somone doing it as a business would have done.

End of the day, do what feels right to you - dont place too much stock to anything you read on the internet

hollypink · 30-08-2012 4:41pm

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

I wanted to offer a few words of help and advice to you and you have taken it up wrong, sorry about that.

But you haven't answered the poster's question about how much it cost and you haven't even given any indication of what is good about it. All you've done is say in the vaguest way possible that cost shouldn't matter and that you couldn't speak highly enough of it as it helped you lose a lot of weight. I am a bit puzzled by the lack of specific information I have to say.

Orla K · 30-08-2012 4:53pm

Herbalife drinks are full of sugar, it's not healthy. People would be better off spending the money on a good trainer who will help with nutrition.

I am pie · 30-08-2012 4:57pm

Don't trust anything on the internet where a reseller can't tell you how much it costs and specifically how it works.

Go to a gym. Get a diet plan for a personal trainer and change your life for good without recourse to this snake oil nonsense.

Orla K · 30-08-2012 5:06pm

I am pie wrote: »

Don't trust anything on the internet where a reseller can't tell you how much it costs and specifically how it works.

Go to a gym. Get a diet plan for a personal trainer and change your life for good without recourse to this snake oil nonsense.

Strange thing about snake oil is it might actually be good for you! It's high in Omega 3 so it seems to be very like fish oil.

tHE vAGGABOND · 30-08-2012 5:18pm

First, Im at work, pardon me for not having exact prices and costs of what I consumed 2 years ago to hand here at my desk :eek:

What is cost here btw - Herbalife sell literally hundreds of products, I used some and not others. At different stages of my own journey I changed, used some things and not others.

At an educated guess, the breakfast solution [where most folks start] will cost you something in the ball park of €50 a month - that would be a protein shake, a really nice herbal tea I still drink, and aloe drink. That may seem like a lot, but its less than the price of a coffee a few times a week [which I used to have anyway].

Some things they sell are mad expensive, like the new sport range, but other things are brilliant in my opinion.

Why did it work for me:
For the first time in my life, I had breakfast with their F1 shake product, and was full until lunch and did not snack.
I used their healthy[ish] snack bars, so was able to have stuff when I craved food, and due to the nature of my work, its not as easy as having pre-prepared food or fruit handy any the time.
I used a couple of their supplemental product, like their fish oil product and multi-vit - yes there are better ones out there, I know that now, but going down my road for the first time, it was great to get started and getting myself turned around.

If you are really interested, go and speak to an actual person about it. There are folks running classes and offering help and advice all over the country. If you don't like what they say, leave and dont buy anything or waste your time. I don't sell anything and Im not involved with them in any way, so clearly should not have bothered mentioning it - as by saying I took it once its been assumed Im some kind of spokesman.

sky is the limit · 30-08-2012 5:45pm

Orla K wrote: »

Strange thing about snake oil is it might actually be good for you! It's high in Omega 3 so it seems to be very like fish oil.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

MadsL · 30-08-2012 7:28pm

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

If money is all you care about,

Err. All I asked was how much did that cost you. As it is a MLM scheme I assume they are expensive.

Is there any advantage to herbalife beyond protein shakes which you can buy in any chemist/health food store/supermarket?

Your €50 a month seems on the low side if afaik the shakes are about €4 each.

Especially given:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbalife#Criticism

The specialists of the German Society of Food (German Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung) concluded that the use of Herbalife products alone does not solve weight problems.URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbalife#cite_note-61"]62[/URL[citation needed] In independent studies made by the German magazine Konsument (Zeitschrift Ökotest 11/2003), the products of Herbalife were found to be among the most expensive "healthy eating" products.URL="http://www.konsument.at/cs/Satellite?pagename=Konsument/MagazinArtikel/Detail&cid=18035"]63[/URL

In November 2011, the Commercial Court in Brussels, Belgium ruled that Herbalife was an illegal pyramid scheme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbalife#cite_note-63

mejulie805 · 03-09-2012 12:48pm

OK. Im on Herbalife about 5 weeks now I think. The starter pack was €100 and I got my shake, fibre tablets, multivitamin tablets, herbal tea and the flask for the shake. The shake lasted 3 weeks, and I bought a new one for €35. Totally worth it, cos I would have spent more on breakfast and lunch anyway. I had absolutely terrible eating habits so regardless of what people say, it does help. It's given me better habits and I've actually lost my sugar cravings (I am craving eggs a lot!).

Ive gone from a big 12 to a small 10- as in size 10 jeans are too big, and the 8 doesnt fit quite yet. I drink the shake with orange juice and water, and have about 4 cups of tea a day. I'm staying on it until I absolutely cant do it anymore, but I dont think it will be in the next month at least!

So in total Ive lost 4 1/2 inches around my waist, gone from a 36DD to a 34D and I actually feel great- all the fibre tablets are helping my IBD and I have way more energy than I had before. I also do Zumba about 2-3 times a week (one class and the rest at home)

And before you ask, I don't sell, or am connected to anyone who sell. I just got it off a distributor and got on with it.

If you want a kick start to a big diet change, I would do it! At the very least it will give you structure

ad1234 · 03-09-2012 5:55pm

mejulie805 wrote: »

OK. Im on Herbalife about 5 weeks now I think. The starter pack was €100 and I got my shake, fibre tablets, multivitamin tablets, herbal tea and the flask for the shake. The shake lasted 3 weeks, and I bought a new one for €35. Totally worth it, cos I would have spent more on breakfast and lunch anyway. I had absolutely terrible eating habits so regardless of what people say, it does help. It's given me better habits and I've actually lost my sugar cravings (I am craving eggs a lot!).

Ive gone from a big 12 to a small 10- as in size 10 jeans are too big, and the 8 doesnt fit quite yet. I drink the shake with orange juice and water, and have about 4 cups of tea a day. I'm staying on it until I absolutely cant do it anymore, but I dont think it will be in the next month at least!

So in total Ive lost 4 1/2 inches around my waist, gone from a 36DD to a 34D and I actually feel great- all the fibre tablets are helping my IBD and I have way more energy than I had before. I also do Zumba about 2-3 times a week (one class and the rest at home)

And before you ask, I don't sell, or am connected to anyone who sell. I just got it off a distributor and got on with it.

If you want a kick start to a big diet change, I would do it! At the very least it will give you structure

Brill thanks! helps loads x

miseannmarie · 27-01-2014 11:56pm

Just curious are you suppose to take protein in your morning Shake or is it just the meal replacement shake

MadsL · 28-01-2014 1:41am

miseannmarie wrote: »

Just curious are you suppose to take protein in your morning Shake or is it just the meal replacement shake

Have you considered other less expensive non-scam non-pyramid scheme types of weightloss ?

Basically you are getting protein/meal replacement shakes at vastly inflated prices.

Herbalife?

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