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On a WW email list today someone said they talked to a Jenny consultant and they were told that food was $10 a day. I thought it was much higher than that. Were they giving her a special rate or something?
When I did the comparison shopping a month or so back, I found it very difficult to get pricing from them. After having to give my life history and dreams to the call center staff, I finally pulled the following info from them. If you did the frozen stuff, by the time you add in shipping and membership fee, it came out to around $155 a week.
-Kathy
I did Jenny Direct in June for 6 weeks and the grand total.......a little over $1,000! I chose mostly frozen foods which made it more expensive and the shipping really added to the cost. I lost weight and enjoyed the food but could not endure the expense!
I joined the 20lbs for $20 program last Friday & have already decided not to go again. The reasons are:
1. Cost- $200 got me the 4wks (for $20), a pedometer & 1 weeks worth of food- from what I figured it would be a minimum of $150 a week for food for just me & that's 3x more than what I usually spend!
2. They hype that you can 'choose your own food'- they highly discouraged me from doing this- not to say all centers are the same, but if I'm paying that much money for food in the first place, I'd darn well better be eating food I want, not what's forced on me!
I'm going to join WW instead, I've decided.
I've been on Jenny for a year and a half. I love the food and look at the cost I'm not spending on lunch during the week. I spend about 75 a week but that's not a full menu. If you choose the full menu, it's around 125 a week. Since I'm past half-way, I get to have some MOMO. It works!
Jenny Craig food to me is a rip-off, of course if you like it and it works for you go for it!
But the thing that works about it is PORTION CONTROL. Luckily anybody who has a knife and a set of measuring cups can do the same thing to anything they already eat. Cut your sandwich in half -- instant Jenny meal!
Measure your cereal.....It's Jenny'd! That really IS the extent of the "magic," it's all measured out.
I was actually shocked when I started using measuring cups for cereal....the oversized cereal bowls in my house held 2 to 3 cups, twice/triple the serving size on the box.
Tip from the "Mediteranian Diet" book -- use salad plates for your main course, use small cereal bowls for cereal, soup and salad....and voila! Instant (free!) portion control!
The other thing they don't mention is you have to pay for all the fresh fruit, veggies, dairy -- so if they say $125 a week it's more like $200.
Jenny Craig food to me is a rip-off, of course if you like it and it works for you go for it!
But the thing that works about it is PORTION CONTROL. Luckily anybody who has a knife and a set of measuring cups can do the same thing to anything they already eat. Cut your sandwich in half -- instant Jenny meal!
Measure your cereal.....It's Jenny'd! That really IS the extent of the "magic," it's all measured out.
I was actually shocked when I started using measuring cups for cereal....the oversized cereal bowls in my house held 2 to 3 cups, twice/triple the serving size on the box.
Tip from the "Mediteranian Diet" book -- use salad plates for your main course, use small cereal bowls for cereal, soup and salad....and voila! Instant (free!) portion control!
The other thing they don't mention is you have to pay for all the fresh fruit, veggies, dairy -- so if they say $125 a week it's more like $200.
This is funny but you make a great point. I guess everyone has to decide if having someone else do the portion control is worth the cost.
Is Jenny really this much?
