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Jenny Craig is not so much a diet, but a franchised weight loss center with packaged food. Jenny Craig weight loss clinics can be found all over the world.
The Jenny Craig Process
Weight loss with Jenny Craig typically involves a visit to one of their weight loss centers and chatting with a counselor (sales person?). Jenny Craig are often running special sales deals, and will generally place you on one of those. You must then buy the appropriate packaged foods from Jenny Craig, and turn up for weekly weigh ins.
After the initial deal has run its course (typically 2-3 months), you are required to sign up to continuous membership (2 different levels - US$199 or US$299), or leave the program.
A Costly Exercise
The initial consultation at the weight loss center will establish a daily calorie level. The foods you must by will fit into this calorie level. The food costs on Jenny Craig will certainly mount up - and can surely only be sustainable for a short period of time.
This is not to say that the nutrition content of the foods will not suit some people. However understanding nutrition and how our own body reacts to it is essential to gaining control over weight.
See Also
www.jennycraig.com - Official Homepage of Jenny Craig.
I lost 5 pounds in the first week. After eating the food that was very tasty I might add. I began to suffer from excessive gas. I found the counselors to be uninteresting. They just want call you and tell you what the next step is and to read your literature for the next phone call.
I was on this diet and questioned the high sodium content—up to 4 grams a day, of the food that was on the plan. The “counselor” got very defensive and said she had to call the nutrition center to get an answer for me. I also found out that the center was supposed to give me an information sheet to show my doctor to get an ok to go on the diet. I was never given the sheet. The conselors are not very knowledgeable and are just glorified sales people. And, besides the sodium content, the food has a lot of refined simple sugars in it–nothing about the glycemic index. I am insulin resistant which most overweight people are —so their food does not help that problem. And my doctor said the program adds the extra sodium and sugar so you won’t be hungry. Save your money–it is a very expensive way to lose maybe one lb. a week.