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Another diet show for our entertainment!

The only entertainment I got from it was laughing at the prices the show came up with for some of the diets. I must have laughed off a stone.

The cheapest, the juice diet, was claimed to be £300 per month for five drinks a day - £2 per drink!!! I did the juice diet for a couple of weeks and the drinks cost pennies - about £3 per day.

Didn't watch, not interested in 'off the shelf' diets...

The 5:2 diet was one and the show claimed that it cost about £450 per month to do - one person.

I didn't watch that but my neighbour is a Forever Living pusher and regularly posts on Facebook that she's going on a diet and is going to use the Clean 9 system. I've just looked it up and 9 days worth of the overpriced junk costs £108.95.
But hey, she loses pounds and inches. Basically you drink aloe vera and pop pills for 9 days.
Then when she returns to normal eating and drinking she loads it all back on again, and then the cycle begins again a few months later.

More money than sense, some people.

Jo - it speaks volumes if she's a 'Forever Living' pusher and yet is always going on a diet.

If only people realised. Eat well, eat healthy. Yes have chocolate, cake. Whatever takes your fancy. Just not all day every day.

And exercise.

It's not rocket science.

£108.95 for overpriced junk? Grrrrr

How can the 5:2 cost anything, you should spend less than usual as you're eating less food!

I've been doing it nearly 3 or is it 4 years, and definitely spend less on shopping than I did before - and intend it going down even more this year

Workingman wrote:The 5:2 diet was one and the show claimed that it cost about £450 per month to do - one person.

What were they doing?

Writing down their shopping list in gold?

Ally wrote:Jo - it speaks volumes if she's a 'Forever Living' pusher and yet is always going on a diet.

If only people realised. Eat well, eat healthy. Yes have chocolate, cake. Whatever takes your fancy. Just not all day every day.

And exercise.

It's not rocket science.

£108.95 for overpriced junk? Grrrrr

That is exactly the conversation that John and I have every time she posts on Facebook about her 'diet'!

Diflower wrote:How can the 5:2 cost anything, you should spend less than usual as you're eating less food!

I've been doing it nearly 3 or is it 4 years, and definitely spend less on shopping than I did before - and intend it going down even more this year

Precisely! Di, some of the costs of these 'diets' were outrageous. If the aim of the show was to stop people dieting then it hit the mark.

Jo, I had never heard of Forever Living, so went for a look. It's a pyramid scheme pushing chemical laden garbage as food - and it all looks so short term because nobody could live it for more than a few weeks, at best. Talk about a con!

It's more than that Frank. It's food, it's make up, it's a freakin' miracle cure-all and selling it can make you rich beyond your wildest dreams for just 5 minutes work each day.

Apparently