So I've done maybe 5 or 6 of these so feel I am a fairly good insight. I kept doing them as the connection with others made it good. There were some challenges I really felt like I bonded with the others.
But in my opinion there is an element of toxic positivity. The challenge I was on some people had mentioned some very difficult life events that happened during the challenge and the next months pre challenge statements that you had to agree to was explicit about not moaning/complaining about stuff and only being proactive. Which sometimes things are just really rubbish and that's life. I'm not sure if the change in signal up agreement was related to that person's sad life event but made me wonder.
I felt the "nutrition" aspects didn't help me in any way. There are actually properly qualified people online elsewhere who can do that. And some advice seems at odds with that's safely reccomended eg amounts of water that are safe in a day. I worry about people chugging water to meet an arbitrary goal when taking on huge amounts of water in a short space of time can be dangerous for the body. Especially given a recent tragic news story about a lady drinking too much water.
The good is it's nice to have a check in space and link up with others. However I would say a thread on here probably has that aspect too. And in the comparison that big threads on here can move fast and you lose the pace then the same is true for the whatsapp groups.
I found the daily challenge messages often not relevant to my life and sometimes if was having a very very busy day then the pressure to complete them in the group meant me just typing anything so I didn't get called out for not "showing up".
The girls who are leading the group are nice but their job is really to copy and paste stuff they are told to. Some of them are more engaging than others. You very much see what they are allowed to share. They have to stay on brand I think.
I won't be signing up to anymore. I always went into them feeling excited and motivated and then the challenge would fizzle out and most people can't keep up with the chit chat. The levels etc confuse me too. I'm wondering if there has been some negative feedback as there is a lot of talk about improving the challenges and adding a 2nd leader to each group. So to be fair to her maybe she is trying to address people's negative experiences.
It would feel a bit disheartening at times if you did a big post and shared some photos of things you had really worked on that day and the response is 2 people "thumbs up react"on whatsapp to it. But the reality is it moves so fast its v hard for people to keep up. I think the groups have too many people for whatsapp to work.
I'm glad I tried them cos I met some nice people and I like some of the messages eg not cutting out things like choc and just making it more of a balance. But I'm not sure it is worth the money.
Sorry that's long but wanted to give a fair and honest opinion. It's taken me a while to form that opinion fully as the 1st few challenges I felt I wasn't good enough for not being able to keep up with it all. I now realise I'm actually doing amazingly at managing my health,weight,fitness while working full time and dealing with many life challenges and events.