I signed up with a personal coach a couple of months ago. It wasn't cheap, in the region of £150 a month, but I really wanted to try something different to shift some weight. The service I got was friendly and encouraging, but I came to realise that I was getting the same feedback everyweek, and wasn't making much on-paper progess (2.5kg in 6 weeks).
Before the next payment came out at the end of this month I decided that I couldn't afford to lay out that amount of money for another month and only be getting essentially the same things repeated to me, and let the trainer know, saying I'd rather spend my expendable income on doing some in person fitness classes where I would be guranteed to be pushed rather than having interuptions form offspring in my living room while I'm tyring to do squats.
The trainer immediately locked me out of the app, even though I was 5 days away from paymet recurence and 10 days from the two month anniversary of me actually starting the plan. They sent me a message essentially saying 'It's not just about exercise it's about food / maybe the timing isn't right / maybe you just can't be bothered' . And then they posted on their socials about people who give up when the going gets tough.
I'm not really bothered about the socials and the message. I know that I have motivation and that I will lose some weight and I appreciate the help that they gave me to get started. But I did pay for that help, quite a substanital amount, and I feel like I've been a bit shafted...