To not want to hear about Juice + ever again ( lighthearted)

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One of my friends is taking Juice plus and told me about it. I told her that I am not interested (as I'm sceptical) as I am focused on trying to actually eat more fruit and vegetables.

Since then she has been contantly putting things of Facebook about this and has sent me messages on Facebook and text messages.

Aibu to want her to STFU about Juice plus as I have told her I'm not interested

I don't mind/care if other people take it and think its fab, but I just want them to stop evangelizing about it to me!

60 in each bottle.

Sounds like a con to me.

Read this before you take out your wallet.

How much fruit and veg would you be able to buy for £80, tootsweet? Not reasonable in the slightest, no. And eating whole fruit and veg is much better for you anyway.

I'm on it. It's actually really really good. The shakes are nothing special, I mean its a sure thing that if you eat 1100 calories a day instead of your usual 2000 then the weight is going to come off. It's the tablets that I think are really worth it. I've been on them 4 months now barring 3 weeks leading up to Christmas when I ran out, and I can honestly say my skin is better, I have loads more energy and I recently shook off a cold in 3 days that had laid my entire family low for 2 weeks.
When I wasn't taking them over Christmas I really noticed how fatigued I was, I just feel better on them. I was v sceptical as I only actually signed up to support my friend who is selling it, but I was very pleasantly surprised.
But I agree the constant barrage of Facebook updates is a tad wearing.

I know aliama but I just don't eat fruit, not too bad on the veg front.
I will try harder to eat more fruit and save £80, was just looking for a quick fix

See now twattyzombie is convincing me, I'm a pyramid sellers dream!

And yes I know that I could get shed loads of fruit and veg for the same money, but not 3 months worth, and as a single mother of 3 kids one of whom turned 1 last week I don't have loads of free time to be cooking mega healthy stuff at lunch, I'm lucky if I have time to grab a sandwich.

I take these multi vits. Struggling to see how juice plus can be any better
www.naturesplus.com/sourceoflife/products/productDetail.php?id=30714

Yanbu.

It is a con to get money from gulliable people.

Their advertising is full of pictures of people with abs that this diet will not achieve.

Healthy eating and exercise is not difficult and certainly does not require pills and expensive shakes.

it is nothing more than a pyramid scheme and one that has been investigated by various consumer agencies and found to contain massively varying ammounts, nothing like what they claim.

The people advertising it know jack about health. They are merely other suckers who have been roped in the do the work for the company who real the profits. You also have to pay to work for them!

Stay away. Buy sone sodding apples and get exercising.

Just a couple of points, pyramid schemes are illegal, they operate by those at the bottom doing the work and those at the top doing nothing.

Juice Plus works by the fact 60% of your monthly target can be met by your downline, but you have to do your own 40%.

I have never felt better in my life, lost 24lbs in 7 weeks and have energy and focus, my teenager also does shakes and has lost 12lbs.

For just a second think about the fact that some of us actually want to help others feel as good as we do, Juice Plus is a natural product containing 25 varieties of fruit and vegetables, it isn't a 'supplement' it is to 'bridge the gap' between what we do eat and what we should.

I joined up as I thought it would be great motivation to lose weight in a group and I specifically focus on shakes to promote weight loss, I have a lovely group and offer support and help at all times.

The commission I have made so far has been used to make welcome packs (including blenders for shakes and printed menus and booklets).

Not everyone in this world is trying to make you buy a 'fad' this product has been around for 20 years. And I promote healthy eating and excersize.

Just my 2 pence worth but it really annoys me that you are tarring us all with the same brush! I have a further 5 stone to lose but I am doing it with my clients, we are a team !!!!!

Do you know what a pyramid scheme is?

Do you know they are illegal?

Do you know who NSA are? If so, do you think they would promote such a scheme?

Questions people who judge don't know.

Buy apples that supermarkets spray with chemicals. Lets see how many phytonutrients are left in them by the time you eat it!

A pyramid scheme? Obviously you have never looked into multi level marketing.

Most people don't even get 5 a day (5 chemically sprayed fruit and veg) let alone raw, full of phytonutrients 27 a day, will just repeat that 27 a day! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that people taking 27 raw, whole plant based nutrition a day massively feel the benefits, from more energy to a huge reduction in the dangerous build up of antioxidants and free radicals.

Hey don't take my word for it, judge it before you have even tried it and claim the 30 'GOLD STANDARD' clinical studies are all bollocks as well.

Miss out on the goodness and eat your chemicals instead, just don't moan at the juice plus people who are feeling tons better!

Lots of peddlers on my FB too. They seem utterly brainwashed.

I'm sorry but a couple of shakes and a handful of food a day is NOT healthy.

So it's basically Slim Fast meets Jehovah Witnesses?

I would quite happily take 27 veg/fruit a day but it would be too expensive and I'm bloody lazy.

Where can I buy some without joining some shit scheme? I have no desire to sell it. I have no desire to respond to emails.

I just want to BUY some.

no law against flogging useless crap to the stupid. Just tell them you aren't that daft and wish them luck.

be careful though - telling people that if they put weight on after a diet, that means it didn't work, will get you vicious abuse on here. People really don't like being told the obvious.

Do you know who NSA are? If so, do you think they would promote such a scheme?

I didn't know so I looked them up. They're 'a privately owned marketing company based in Collierville, Tennessee, best known for selling a line of water and air filters, and then the nutritional supplement Juice Plus, via multi-level marketing.' (wiki page)

They would probably promote anything that made them money. Another term for 'multi-level marketing' is 'pyramid scheme'.

Oh my god yanbu! A girl I really get on with is now employed by juice plus.
Her fb, Instagram, and whatsapp names all have "juice plus" in them.
She constantly posts about it and the most annoying thing is the "before and after" photos that have been stolen from people who have lost weight by eating real food and exercising!

I've ended up blocking someone on fb who wouldn't stop going on about it.

She tried to get me involved because she knows I'm disabled, with a rare, hard to diagnose and hard to treat neurological problem. Since Christmas she's tried to sell it to me, even trying to get on to a support group page I frequent. Apparantly it's "proven" that it will "cure" nerve problems. That I should "give it a go" and saying my doctors "know nothing about supplementing or nutrition". Funny that part of my treatment regime is B12, zinc and high-dose vitD, eh?

I'm choosing to trust the doctors who are world class (I'm very lucky) in my problem. I eat healthily, and despite often not being able to move around much, have lost weight. A fantastic IV treatment got me walking again.

The last straw was 2 weeks ago when I was just home from hospital with a broken leg (did I mention my balance was affected :D) and she wanted to sell it to me to help my held-together-with-meccano-and-plaster leg. I (politely) declined again and I got a pretty vicious message saying that it was my own fault that my leg was broken and my "children suffering" because if I'd been on bloody Juice+ I wouldn't have my disability and wouldn't have fallen and I should have listened to her like everybody else had . I blocked her!

Now I've read this I'm wondering if I can complain to anyone in the company (but as it seems to be pyramid selling I'd think not).

(Apologies: clearly I missed the "lighthearted" bit of the thread title!)

Do you know who NSA are? No, I don't really. But looks like a company, selling stuff. Is there anything special about them meaning they definitely would not exaggerate about the benefits of their products?

The clue that this is not a sensible diet is I can't do it while breastfeeding. A friend of mine started doing this the same time I started SW. She started selling it a week later. 6 months later, she's lost a stone, I've lost 2 1/2. She's lovely though, if it suits her that's great, but I do get a bit bored of her going on about it.

Someone else I know who does this was ranting about 'processed crap' that people eat. Except the shakes/supplants look just like processed crap to me.

"it isn't a 'supplement' it is to 'bridge the gap' between what we do eat and what we should"

THAT IS WHAT A SUPPLEMENT IS, YOU BUFFOON

Funny how these threads always "happen" to get bumped by some buffoon selling the stuff. OK it's not exactly a zombie but it's definitely past its sell by date

Love all of the scary pseudoscience about "chemical sprayed fruit" too. I had a juice plus rep once tell me that microwaves render food nutritionally void because they shake all of the molecules about so much that your body doesn't recognise that it's actual food.

Total. Utter. Bollocks.

27 fruit and veg is a red herring. There is only so much your body can process a day, the rest will just get wee-ed out. £80 to piss down the drain, why?

microwaves render food nutritionally void? So I could microwave a chocolate pudding, eat it and my body will think I have eaten nothing? Well that's just great news!