Jenny Craig Weight Loss Centres

Jenny Craig is a big fat liar! Part 1
I have waited 4 years to write this review– as it was an undercover operation by yours truly!
My experiment was this… Could I lose the weight if I followed their program and work for them at the same time with integrity?
My best friend and I went out to try to land a job there…
When I went to my first interview I think what sold them on hiring me was my statement–
«My integrity is worth more to me than anything I could gain from losing it.»
They assured me they were not like those companies that for example get customers to sign up for home food delivery and after they sign on the dotted line only then are they pushed into buying an overpriced freezer because they «will need it». So was that company a «food service» or an «appliance company».?
Is jenny Craig a weight loss service or a frozen dinner supplier? Hmmm
I had such hopes during my two weeks of new hire class room training… Even though my stomach curled at how step ford wife’s fake friendly the program directors were.
Ekkkk– anytime a student asked any question a perfectly rehearsed response always began with, «I’m glad you asked that question.»
After my first class I went to the person I would graduate to becoming– a jenny Craig weight loss consultant to sign up and start my weight loss journey.
How exciting it was for me to think I was on the same program as kirstie Alley… and what’s her name, Joy or something from «The View».
Their pictures were plastered all over the center and smiling down on me in the consultant’s office as my counselor worked me emotionally– the same kind of counseling I was being trained to do.
«How will you feel once you lose the weight?»
«What will be different for you?»
«What has been the hardest obstacle for you to lose this weight?»
And then came my up close and personal «accountability question»…
«What is your commitment level on a scale of 1 — 5, 5 being the most committed?»
«How often do you eat out?»
Finally… the money factor questions.
«How much do you spend a week eating out?»
«How much a week do you spend on food?»
And then the all convincing calculating… math…numbers…tactic!
«Well, Tanya– based on what you told me you’re currently spending X amount of money a week. If you join our program it will only cost you „about“ $ 10.00 a day.» That includes breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack.“
So… I got inducted into the Jenny Craig cult! I was a card carrying J.C. member!
What they did not mention in my 1^st session until after I signed up…
1. I still had to buy food that was on my menu outside of jenny Craig at the grocery store.
2. That they were a «food service» company and in order for me to continue my membership I HAD to purchase their food weekly.
3. The individual counseling was limited to only 15 minutes once a week and that included the whole 15 minutes of my counselor preparing my menu for that week and offering me support tools for an additional purchase to «help keep me focused».
Now don’t get me wrong here… I still wanted to work for them because I wanted to do something with my life that would be gratifying to me.
Helping women to achieve their weight loss goals was first and foremost on my mind. NOT the $ 8.00 an hour and 3% food commission I would make off keeping them on the program.
What happened next was that I was not only a client I was also a weight loss consultant seeing clients in Canton on a daily bases, while my best friend would be a program director in the Ann Arbor center.
And that my friend is where part 2 to this undercover operation continues…
I.e.: the questionable marketing practices, disclosing hidden costs, including the physical and emotional costs to the clients, and the corporate vengeance towards their employees.
to be continued…