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My DH wants to do Isagenix (MLM weight loss program)...
Anyone heard of it. Its a Multi level marketing weight loss program basically. http://www.isagenix.com/
His good friend/coworker and his wife does it and he's lost weight with it and his wife does the marketing hard core and the way that the program is set up you can make good money apparently because theres months where she makes 20k and apparently she made 10k just last week. She quit her fulltime 80k per year job to do this full time and makes well over 100k per year doing it. So his friend is literally only working to get 100k in the bank and then he's quiting.
At first my husband thought he was nuts. I mean your basically paying 350 bucks for a shakes and bars and stuff. But I think between being really sick of being overweight and being really sick of hearing how his friends wife made 10k in a week... he has given it a second thought and now he really wants to do it.
Personally i hate the idea. I hate crash diets and all those fad diet programs. They arent healthy. He says its different and its not like that. and he says its better then what he's doing now. Well that doesn't take much. So just go on a diet! - "i'm not motivated enough, i need something thats gonna kick me in the butt". But still he lost like 20lbs in 3 months before our wedding and he's since gained all of it back. he CAN do it IF he actually put his mind to it. But then i think if this is what he needs for him to get serious then its worth it. I mean we found out he had high cholesterol a year ago from our life insurance and he's done nothing and after years of me bugging him to see a doctor he made an appointment all by himself so he could get all his "before" numbers. I mean the shake has got to be better then a pepsi.
Plus he's really interested in the marketing side of it... saying if he can just make enough to pay for it then we aren't out any money. But what if he can make more... we could pay off all our debt in a year and i could stay home. Darn man really knows how to sell something to a new mom. Wait he probably should do sales. I mean the man could probably sell binoculars to a blind guy. lol But 350 bucks! I mean okay with all the money he spends on food that would probably pay for atleast half of it... if not more. But i still don't think its healthy and i have a really hard time believing we'd make any money from it. I mean we are barely breaking even as it is but thats exactly why he wants to do it because he is sick of always being broke.
Thoughts - is he crazy or is it worth a try and im just being negative?
Re: My DH wants to do Isagenix (MLM weight loss program)...
Another part of any diet fad is, that the demand for the product will go away. A few years back the huge crazy was Body by Vi, I saw signs all over the place for it. Now you don't hear anything about it unless you happen to still be buying the product. Then Shakeology, again super popular and I do know people that use it, but basically they now just make enough to cover their own expense. Depending on the product, once people get to their ideal weight they stop buying it, or if they have to cut expenses, that can be the easiest thing to cut. So while the money is great, I don't think it's something you can count on long term and on a regular basis.
If your husband really wants to lose weight, try to find something you can do together to make positive life changes and a life style that you can teach your baby.
Another classic lie of MLMs (especially of the weight loss variety) is that they have some secret ingredient from a far off place that was just discovered by *insert semi-famous dr here* and the results are unbelievable. The thing is, if a weight loss product really worked that well, a company wouldn't have to resort to peddling via untrained sales people. They would get that product on the shelves of every drugstore and walmart in the country.
A final note, if you're fb friends with this superstar sales person, go to her page. I'm sure that 99% of her posts are about some current sale (sign on now as an independent peddler and you can earn a 10k bonus in 30 days!), what level she is on (just hit triple ruby! so blessed to work for such a great company!), and bogus before/after pics. Your entire social life, if you want to actually make money on an MLM, has to become the MLM. Every friend you have is a potential customer or downliner. Many people will just avoid being around you so they don't have to say no to another party invitation.
The product isn't that great to begin with...sure if you drink your meals for a week you will lose weight but after you stop the shakes, you will start to gain it back.
I believe the best way to loose weight is traditional exercise and a healthy diet. It's all about keeping down the calories and eating the right types of food.
I just have to join some of the other PPs in saying, regardless of the program, I have NEVER understood the attraction of "meal replacement" shakes and why anyone would use them for any length of time.
I've also seen meal replacement "cookies" and "bars". It is also personally more abhorrent to me than to most because I am a "savory" eater. Every once in awhile a sweet tasting food/drink is nice, but sweet is my least favorite taste. And all that replacement stuff is sweet tasting. Double, double Blech!!!
I feel like I am part a super-rare breed...anti-chocoholic, lol.
In fact, here's another suggestion to send along for your DH. Before he orders, require him to do a much cheaper "Slim Fast" type of diet for a week. A shake for breakfast, shake for lunch, and a sensible dinner. Or, even healthier, he can make his own smoothies/shakes of fruits, vegetables, and yogurt. When he is passing out from both hunger and food boredom by Day Two, point out again the craziness of spending $300/month on a diet he will be miserable on and probably won't be able to do anyway.
Also, ask him to write a conservative business plan for you. It should include the following reports: Marketing plan with outlined steps, projected sales-->projected costs-->projected income,etc.. I also side-eye the co-worker's wife's claims. I mean, how better to sell someone a business opp. that tell them how much money you make.
I always laugh whenever I see some claim about this person or that person selling $10 million worth of products on Amazon or E-bay. Well, sure, I can easily do the same thing if I bought $40 million dollars worth of brand new IPhones and sold them for 1/4 of their value. Who cares about gross sales figures? It's almost irrelevant. What matters is net profit.
And maybe they do mean she profits $100K/year, but that would be an important question to ask...but its still right back to is it even true.
And there IS something "off" about the really gung-ho MLM people. Some of them turn into these rabid, cult-like personas of their former selves.