LA Weight Loss

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• November 24th, 2008Suzanne

  LA weight loss is closing down!!!
  Pretty pissed off about it too, seeing my sister uprooted her children to another province for this company and now she’s out of a job with only a couple weeks of notice. Right before christmas.
  They wont even help her so she can move home
  ” too bad kids no christmas this year”
  Assholes.
• November 24th, 2008Robin

  Kimi, I felt compelled to respond to your last sentence,
  “Oh and by the way, when you quit and stop alltogether, bars included… you double and triple the weight back on!”

  I do not agree with that statement at all. I joined LA Weightloss a few times. I do not advocate their business practices or the hard sells. I’m sure they would cringe when I’d walk through the door because I didn’t put up with the bull and they knew it over time. Trust me, they learned from me more than I learned from them later on down the road. We all need that push, that accountability and places like LA provide that, at a cost, of course. But when I refused to return because the turn over of staff and the new crap they’d come out with was pointless to me. And they knew better than try to push that crap on me. I cut the convo real fast. It’s over. I also was on the plan with NO bars and at my insistance! Again, don’t feed me the wad of lies and BS because I’m not your puppet but a well researched consumer. Anyway, I left in March of 2008. In no way did I put weight on but I actually have lost about 15 additional pounds. I will share with you as I did these “sales people” posing as “counselors”, I needed the push and you gave that. Over time, my habits changed. I am now DEPENDENT ON ME! I don’t need your advice, let alone, 3 days a week to weigh me because you know it’s a waste of time because no sale is from this customer. I’m in the door, that about as much as you will get from me. They want you to DEPEND on them and if the only way you are losing weight if by going there, you might want to take a real good look as to what is going on with your reasoning. It only tells me that you will be successful if you enter the doors of centers. Not my idea of success..

  Oh and this packaged food! Ha! One thing I learned along the way is this.. There’s a BIG difference between losing weight and wanting to be healthy. Those who want to be healthy, are conscience of what the food they are putting in their mouth will do inside their body, i.e.. give it nutrients. This packaged, dead food crap, doesn’t quite fit the bill. It’s all just common sense. If you eat a lot of dead food . . . etc.
  Good luck to you.
• November 21st, 2008Lavinia

  I worked at LA Weight Loss in Rhode Island. The Warwick store. I will tell you the honest truth. It was just 4 of us in the store and while the Manager and the Assistant Manager pushed people into buying, the other lady and I wasn’t. I was doing the program also while counseling so when people came to me with their grievenesses I was very sympathic to them. I mean for me it was not just for the money. I felt good helping people lose weight. If I see some of the clients having problems I would ask them what they eat and help them change up their eating and see if that would work. Usually we would change up certain things in their diet because what a good counselor would find is most people was actually eating the same thing over and over and their body was getting use to it. My biggest thing was if anyone was allergic to something because I would not recommend certain things if I know they are allergic to it. As for the bars if from the first moment I met a person and I can feel they will not buy in bulk because they couldn’t afford I wouldn’t push them at all. I would let them buy weekly and when they are on sale give them the option to buy.

  I have been scolded by the Area Manager numerous times because I wasn’t pushy but I put my foot down on her and told her she is a barbie does she even know how it feels to be overweight. We are here to help but to make our clients bankrupt. Could you believe I made my goal every single week and even more and it wasn’t for pushing it was because I help the customers.

  The plan does work and like I tell everyone don’t expect the weight to fly off just like that. It is easier to gain than to loose.

  I left the company since 2004 and don’t regret it at all. They was too pushy but I miss some of my clients. I don’t live in Rhode Island any more what but I do go there on vacation I would call some of them up and give them little hints on what I do to keep my weight down. I try my best to keep active and drink lots of water and I always try to eat on time. That is very important to make sure you eat on time. You would be suprise how not eating on time may alter your weight.
• November 21st, 2008Rhonda

  Does anyone out their who is honest enough and works for this blood sucking company want to come forward and let people know that LA weightloss in Canada is closing their doors! You have all been told on Nov 3/08 and you were told that 4 weeks later you would shut your doors. (This is inside info) Do you people have a conscience selling people programs right up until the last day your doors will close!!! Any company that puts out that many coupons should tell you they are trying to scrape up every last dime before they go belly up! Consumer beware!!!! I would love for someone in this company to come forward and state the truth! I believe this is the most deceptive dishonest company. I was a client of theirs a few years back and they are only interested in your cold hard $$$$$$$$$$ people wise up thye coudn’t give a rats ass if you lsoe your weight or not. If you don’t they will just try to up sell you if you do they will plaster your pic everywhere so they cn sucker someone else with your photo to come and buy their program. IT’S ALL ABOUT THEM! They do not have your best interest at hear. They are fake and very nice to your face when you initially go in the first two times !st time so they can sell you a consuilt 2 nd time so they can sucker you into buying the bars. After that you are treated like cattle they don’t even know your name they just whip you in and out and hope they can push some more product down your throat each time you go in for a visit 3x per week. I have a friend who works with them and she told me inside info and that is they have to make minimum $25.00 on you each time you go in so that is $75.00 per week over and above what you already spent on the program and those stupid bars, If they don’t they hear it from their corporate office. What kind of bullshit tactics are these. Whats wrong with these spineless robots that work for a blood sucking company like this? Are you people on crack? wake up and smell the coffee is your own personal reputation less important than your masters at your corporate office? The employees are so brainwashed its not even funny all they care about is the almighty $$ but its the Franchise that is run from the top like a bunch of bloodsuckers! I am pissed I have been had and I am trying to keep you all from the same embarassment as me. Now you will be had as well, start the program with with them and they will close their doors in 4 weeks and you will be royally screwed!
  Good luck heads up and take care look for a company that really cares about the clients. Do your research I wish I did!!!! As I said before this is what I heard from an employee can’t get the truth out of these evil people if you life depends on it. No one will talk everyone is tight lipped and very secretive about this I would like someone to come forward and say smething if they have the guts!
• November 19th, 2008Leena

  I worked for LA last year in a MArkham center, I am passionate about nutrition and helping people. That was why I joined this team, I loved giving people advice on healthy living and watch them succeed. That was my number one prode at this work is to see people be happy and be helped in their time of need. But soon I realized that their focus was to sell sell sell everything in sight even if people didn’t need it. My sales were low, I couldn’t convince people to buy their stuff knowing that they could live without it and still succeed. Basically after 3 months of my probation I was fired for not having good sales. The pay was low for the amount of work that was needed to be done, but the other counsellors lived of their commisions for selling these outragious plans and bars, they wouldn’t even let me near one of those counseltations knowing that I wasn’t strong in sales. I was discouraged and as I said laid off because I didn’t have it in me to sell their bars, I was there for helping people. And I guess that wasn’t enough.
• November 15th, 2008charlette

  I recently joined LA Weightloss here in canada and found out 5 days after they took my $800 that they are closing all their centre’s here. I am so pissed off needless to say now discouraged that I only have 5 more weeks before the centre closes. I was told I could try to get my money back but from all that I have read on the net, nobody has gotten anything back. What makes me so mad is that they obviously knew they were closing when they sold me my membership as well as 26 boxes of bars…but it didn’t matter to them…I was just a sale. This sucks, plus I can’t find anymore info about this on the net …just about the USA.
• November 6th, 2008LeAnne

  I’m in Lebanon TN and I joined in Jan and they closed in Feb left oweing me money and they will not respond to me at all. The whole chain that one person owned was taken back over by Corporate and they refuse to respond to me. I have called, I have emailed over and over to no avail. I’m sure I’m not the only customer that was done this way
• November 2nd, 2008Jen

  I really liked LA weight loss. I lost 78lbs with the plan.. I am disappointed they all closed down.. I became pregnant and stopped going but had hoped to resume my weight loss in the spring of 2008. I had also prepaid for weeks in advance. Does anyone know of any other weight loss centers that are similar to the one we expierienced at LA?
• October 22nd, 2008Theresa

  I got sucked into this diet and I did everything to a T and still gained weight or stayed where I was. Any diet that you have to purchase nutrients or anything like that I would stay away from. Do Weight Watchers instead.
• October 21st, 2008casey

  Does anyone know the old LA weighloss take off program…it involved 3 oranges a day for three days…it has been years since I was a member, so I lost everything that they gave me for the plan.

  Thanks
• October 21st, 2008Deborah

  Went to weigh today and center closed. Was told all centers are closing. How do we get products we have already paid for, or get refunded?
• October 13th, 2008Lisa

  I did the LA Weight Loss program about 3 years ago and it really worked for me. I stopped doing it once I got into a relationship and have found I have gained all the weight back that I lost. To my dismay, when I try to find a center to start up again, there are none!! Does anyone have the COMPLETE diet plan for LA Weight Loss? I mean, the food diary, the list of what you can eat at specific restaurants, the carb-lovers things (I remember there were carb-meals like pancakes and such that you could replace a protein with like twice a week, even pizza?) I’ve been trying to find all this information to do the diet again on my own. Any help??
• October 1st, 2008Simone

  I too was pressured into buying more membership time (1/2 price deal, etc). Now they are closing their local branch and am entitled to 9 more months – they assume and expect me to travel 40 min. to the next branch in a different city. I’ve been calling our head office (5 times), as well as faxing and have been unsuccessful. No one answers the phone or responds back. This has left me very frustrated and out money I could apply towards fresh food and/or a gym.
• September 24th, 2008Kimi

  I did LA weightloss after my mother did it and was highly successful. Her friends joined as well. we all lost tons of weight over that first year. I alone lost 37 pounds in the first 22 weeks. The first 3 days were horrid (1999 the diet had a 3 day strict diet – no drink to accompany though) I had severe headaches eating basically lean protein and greens & 1 tbs of fat and WATER. It was a good flush though and it got me down a good amount the first week. like 7, 9 or 11 pounds I think.

  Anyway… the bars… oh my god! what a hard sell… big time push on that… the only way to save is to spend hundreds of dollars at a time. So, we would all pool our money and split it (my mom, her friends & I) – but most places dont allow it. At the time the same counselors were there all year… the following year the counselors were quitting every month so there were new people all the time who knew NOTHING. Personalized service went out the door!!!!!!!

  We started using Pria bars instead of LA bars because they were cheaper and you could buy at the store with coupons… still worked really well for the diet, but the counselors were really mad and would scold us LOUDLY in front of all the customers repeatedly.

  finally I found out I had egg allergies and that was was the beginning of the end. I asked every counsler to help me with breakfast plans and they were mean to me about it. “well, either eat oatmeal or chicken or steak… it’s not my job to teach you to eat!!!!!!!!!” I got that from a few counselors. I then became lactose intolerant and at the tiem it was hard to find lowfat soy replacements so there I was unable to eat most dairy and my morning lean protein was gone (eggs) and I had horrible counselors and huge LA weightloss bills.

  By the end of that next year – we all quit for good… it was way too $$$$$$$$… and they were nasty there.

  Oh and by the way, when you quit and stop alltogether, bars included… you double and triple the weight back on!

  AVOID THIS COMPANY ALL TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• September 9th, 2008Kristi

  The corporate HQ for LA Weight Loss in Horsham PA is in deep financial trouble and will be closing soon. Don’t expect to get any refunds, especially after they file bankruptcy as Pure Weight Loss did last year.
• September 2nd, 2008Renee

  LA weight loss literally stole my money. I did lose 25 pounds but the store closed abruptly. They told me to start doing it online. Then that faded away. Then they told me to get the rest of my bars from some far away city. It was a hassle to get that because they ended up telling me they didnt owe me anymore bars. After being pissed off, i figured that i had been had with all the bars, pills, and other crap. The only info that I still use to this day is the actual information on the diet. It was informative to know that drinking 10oz of H20 a day with certain servings of protein, starches and vegetables. That has been pretty sucessful.
• August 26th, 2008kathleen

  I wish I would have done some research on this LAWeight Loss Center before I went there to sign up and pay upfront. About half way thru the program they suddenly closed up. I’ve been trying to get in touch by phone and E-mail with the company to get my money back. I’m having no luck with that. I intend to tell as many people as I can about the experience I had with this LAWeight Loss Center. Anyone who reads this needs to spread the word. Stay away from LAWeight Loss Centers.
• August 19th, 2008Linda

  I really liked the program, they sold me the information I need to get myself going. I now need to drop about 5 more pounds but have lost the fast start diet that went with the 2 day fast start juice. If any one has it, please help me get started on the 5 pounds.
• August 18th, 2008Deborah Ring

  I went for one week to a centre here in Canada. The same tactics are used. As if most of us have not already bought our share of weight loss “lites” anyways. I did not like the atmosphere and lost my money too as they said they had already prepared my 52 week program and I returned everything they gave me plus I had only 2 weight loss visits with a “counsellor” who appeared to know less about nutrition than I who happens to be a diabetic and she was putting me into serious harm. I could not get an actual person to speak with in head office, only a voice mail machine that would promise to answer my message in 48 hours but never ever did. I finally just wrote the whole amount off, not that I could afford to!
• August 7th, 2008Shylea

  BUYER BEWARE!! I joined Bozeman LA Wt Loss Center in Feb. 2008. It closed in June 2008. I had friends doing well and losing wt with the Bozeman store program so I felt encouraged. My friend later apologized and said her last 3 months on the program were hell and she could only imagine how difficult it was for a new person. No manager – no product on the shelf – untrained counselors – conflicting weight loss advise. I constantly heard “we’re sorry, we are without a manager”. It was TOTALLY frustrating. It is hard enough to lose weight, but I felt like I was being ripped off. Then when I got notice a week before the center closed I know my feelings were real. But if you tell LA that they get incredibly defensive. Before joining Bozeman, I had heard several LA store closing horror stories, but the Bozeman store seemed so secure and the counselors were so positive about store growth and programs. DON’T believe them!! From my own unfortunate experience – I know the blogs written about stores closing, no prior notice, no refunds, no delivery of pre-paid product are TRUE! LA is a mess to work with and a hassle to track down. Save yourself the headache. I’m sure the wt. success stories are true — I saw it work for a few of my friends — however the program only seems to be as good as the manager. It is too hard to sort out which is a good store and which is the bad. It would be different if the company had a policy that says “Oh, you encounter a bad manager or store — we will make it right”, but they don’t stand behind their product. Do yourself a favor and go else where !! On a happy note — I lost 6 lbs during 3 rocky months with LA and I have lost 11 pounds in 6 weeks without them!!! I believe your wallet has the best chance of thinning while on the LA program. They really push that you buy their product even though they advertise they don’t (but Jenny Craig does).
• August 2nd, 2008karina

  I did the diet a year ago but like Tina was unable to go to the center and loss all my money. I also knowrest that every time I would go they would keep pushing me to buy the bars.
• August 2nd, 2008Erica

  I actually worked at a center for almost a year and I can tell you that their number one goal is SALES, SALES, SALES! They hire people who haven’t a clue about nutrition, give them a white lab coat and coach them to get all members to buy something at each and every visit, which is 2 to 3 times a week. Otherwise a member is “noncompliant.” I worked with two “counselors” who both had eating disorders, but could sell so the owners let them stay. This diet is a huge scam and the center I was at was reported to our state Attorney General’s office on several occasions. I could not stay there because the owners simply did not care about the people who joined; just the size of their wallet. Beware!
• July 22nd, 2008Karen

  I am currently in my 3rd week of LA Weight Loss. I have lost 3.4 pounds strictly by changing my diet by their guidelines. I have not been exercising. It’s not going as fast as I’d like, but I know it’s up to me to get moving and I’ll bet the pounds will melt off. When I’m all done and 50 pounds lighter, I will give ME the credit and not LA weight Loss. I am the one deciding what to put in my mouth, I just want someone to hold me accountable for it. ME ME ME, that’s who I’ll have to thank. I can thank LA for the debt of $1600.
• July 15th, 2008Tina

  I did this diet a few years ago and got sucked into paying for all those dam protein bars! Blah!!! I landed up, giving up, because i couldn’t get to the center 2-3 times a week as they wanted. My advice is Weight Watchers…yes it’s a slow process, but it gets the job done. Thanks for letting me vent!
• July 13th, 2008Julie

  Any One Know if and when LA WEIGHT LOSS or Pure Weight Loss Centers will return? Invested Hundreds of dollars in to bulkk purchases and program and then door shut and no onw returned, been months and months. LA Area
• June 9th, 2008clariece

  I have gone through several diet programs, including Weight Watchers and have finally found a program that I can work with. L.A. Weight Loss is incredible. My counselor is great and I’m eating good food – not drinking it – as so many other plans require. It is a well balanced food plan and there is not an over abundance of proteins as Samantha would think. The counselors are just regular people who have completed the program. Just like Weight Watchers meeting leaders are lifetime members who have lost their weight and kept it off. If you’re looking for a nutristionist then ask your doctor for a referral. The counselors are just good support – don’t look to them for more than that. They will give you suggestions on where to improve based on a what your particular plan requires.
• June 2nd, 2008Issabella

  LOST A LOT OF WEIGHT ON THIS DIET FILL REALLY GREAT LOOK FAB EVERYBODY SAYS SO GOT LOADS MORE ENERGY NOW FEEL I COULD BE ON THE WAY TO BEING ABLE TO RUN A MARATHON. THANKS FOR A WONDERFUL WEB SITE.
• May 31st, 2008samantha

  too many protiens not good 4 most organs
• May 23rd, 2008cortney

  you need to have nutition bars on here instead of all of this starches and ect…..
• May 21st, 2008Diane

  sounds fairlybalanced

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