Is Jenny Craig Good Or Bad For You?

Is Jenny Craig good or bad for you? This is a question that everyone wants answered before starting the Jenny Craig program. Well, Who can blame people for being too cautious for a program that needs an entrance fee to, well, what else but enter. And then you also need to fork out at least $100 for food for only a week. So yeah, I guess people do have the correct motivation to be skeptical before entering Jenny Craig.

Is Jenny Craig good or bad for you? The Good

Based on personal experience and some of my friends’ experiences, the good thing about the program is that it helps you in realizing what type of a person you are and what your real body measurements are. Then the personal counselor will give you the proper tips (at least our counselor was knowledgeable, I have heard horror stories where in the counselor was like reading off a book and knew practically zip about nutrition or health) to help you in your weight loss journey. Then she can guide you through the plan weekly either by her weekly weigh ins and face to face consultations or if you live too far from the center, you guys can have the pep talk over the phone.

The only good thing about this plan is that you need not think about adding calories up when you eat or you need not have to read through the labels of every food item you are about to put in your mouth because everything is prepackaged and served up to you in freeze dried boxes.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry to disappoint but this is the only good that the Jenny Craig system has.

Is Jenny Craig good or bad for you? The Bad

As mentioned, everything is prepackaged in frozen boxes for your meals. Think TV dinners, only smaller and they make TV dinners seem like gourmet meals. It is not that they taste like those diet shakes. They are slightly better than that in the sense that you will be eating “real” foods like potato soup or sandwiches. However, they taste like they have been washed several times then dried and frozen to be packaged.

Is Jenny Craig good or bad for you? The Worst

The price of the entire Jenny Craig system is what gets me. I entered the program for only $20 but then I had forked over $400 for a month’s worth of food supplies. Then, my “health coach” kept on insisting that I sign up for the Gold or Platinum membership which cost about $200 and $300 respectively.

Is Jenny Craig good or bad for you? The Verdict

All in all, it was not a very good experience for me. After losing about $420 (not to mention all the fruits and cottage cheeses I had to eat as snacks which also shaved some dollars off my savings), I only lost 6 pounds and I felt like a lethargic person all the time. I ended up slightly broke, ostracized from family dinners and weak after a month in Jenny Craig. If I only knew about Fat Loss 4 Idiots back then, a program that ACTUALLY make you lose “11 pounds in 9 days,” I wouldn’t have been in that position ever.

Janet Sommers

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Does Jenny Craig Work Well?

Without breaking a sweat, without feeling guilty I can answer this question with a simple no. However, it may be a good idea for me to clarify that in my own experience, I can honestly say that the question “does Jenny Craig work well” merits a huge no as an answer.

Does Jenny Craig work well? The How’s

So how so I know that it does not work well at all? Well, I am one of the many people who have tried and failed at this program. I followed the plan strictly and religiously. I bought everything that my weight counselor told me to buy even if in the deepest corners of my heart I knew she probably knows zip about fitness and health (which we will talk about later). But I still ended up losing half the weight promised and it left me with a red credit card bill nagging me to pay up.

I also know it does not work because on top of that experience, I just became acquainted with someone who used to be a Jenny Craig employee. I wish I had known my Jenny Craig friend before I signed up, but she came to my life 4 months later. And she told me all the horror stories she had as a “personal fitness coach.”

Does Jenny Craig work well?

So what happened in the 5 months I was under the plan? Well, aside from bleeding my wallet dry, I had to follow this diet plan and eat only the prepackaged foods and some fruits. Some items were palatable, like the sandwich (at $6 a pop, they should be) and the muffin. But most of them, like the beef and potato that was all potato and the soups that seemed watered down to me were a hell to eat.

Then I had to eat these meals that came in servings fit only for an ant queen as the serving sizes were so small, after an hour of walking around (I am a supermarket store manager so I walk around lots in a day), I end up craving for food and calories.

Then when I turn to my “personal fitness coach,” she would only end up pitching me to buy more Jenny Craig food items! And later, I found out through my friend who was a former Jenny Craig employee that they did undergo this training abut health and fitness and about motivating the customers to lose weight, but they end up forgetting about it because they are really more geared to selling their items. And to further “motivate” them to sell, they get fired if they do not meet the quota. Truly a terrible “motivation” for someone who is geared to “motivate” us to lose weight and be healthy.

Does Jenny Craig work well? Let’s find out…

If someone answers the question “does Jenny Craig wok well?” with a yes, I would say good for you and enjoy spending $100 a week for the rest of your life and eating rabbit servings forever. Because the only plan that worked for me is the Fat Loss 4 Idiots plan and it made me lose a whopping “11 pounds in 9 days.”

Janet Sommers

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