Jenny's £50 Bargain

Do you want my honest opinion, Jenny? Well obviously you don't but I'm going to give it here anyway:

I would say that you are full of absolute crap. For context, the £50 Jenny is alluding to is the £50 joining fee it costs to become a distributor of Juice Plus. Distributors market this as buying your own "business" that can grow into making, as Jenny has claimed in a previous advert, as much as a six figure sum within two years of joining. She then posts to success stories of a number of distributors for proof of the scheme's success.

Here's the problem: Juice Plus is already wholly saturated by distributors.

I don't have figures to hand but already the market is saturated with numerous distributors. In my city alone I have no doubt that Jenny is competing with her own friends in trying to sell products to the same catchment area of people. So before you even think about making big money you have to consider who on earth you have left to sell to.

To compensate, JP incentivises distributors by giving them bonuses for each new distributor they sign up. So, Jenny stands to make a bit of money for every new person she signs up to the company; I assume she would also get a slice of each profit each of her down lines make. So rather than try to limit the number of distributors in her area, Jenny is encouraged to sign up even more. So, instead of competing against ten distributors, for instance, she'll be competing with 11, 12, 13 and so on - and that's without taking into account all the other new distributors being signed up by competitors!

This means that for each distributor signed up to the company, that's one less customer to sell to and one more competitor to compete with.

Jenny wants you to think that signing up for JP for a meager sum of £50 will lead to riches, but doesn't actually explain this business model - and now you can see why. It is an awful model to work with. It will get to the stage where new distributors will have nobody left to sell to. And what does that remind you of? Of course - a pyramid scheme.

Tell us, Jenny: other than your complete failure to lose weight thanks to these miracle products, can you tell us how much money you have actually made since joining back in May? Spare people the smoke and mirrors of fast cars and big houses and show us the balance sheet - YOUR balance sheet.

Funnily enough, I don't think she ever will.

Separating Fact from Reality...

Another cut 'n' paste job from Jenny. Let's start with "myths" which seem to have been made out of thin air:

"We don't eat... WRONG"; "We just drink juice all day"

Who has ever claimed that people who take JP don't eat and just drink juice?

"JP is just another shakes diet"

I agree, that's a myth. It's also a capsules and gummies scheme.

"You pile all the weight back on as soon as you stop"

First of all that's pretty disingenuous; it makes people assume off the bat that taking JP products make you lose weight. That is not the case. You will only lose weight if you eat less food that you currently take in, whether or not you use JP.

"The capsules are slimming tablets"

See my previous post. Jenny outright implied in the advert that JP capsules are slimming tablets.

"It's really bad for you"

Not the issue. The point of contention is that JP products are not the wonderful miracle products you claim they are.

"It hasn't got as much protein as whey protein"

How can you even make this claim when you don't tell us the specific whey protein product you are comparing JP to? Is it the brand of protein powder I use? You have no idea.

"They are vitamins"

The JP capsules are indeed multi-vitamins. Very piss poor multi-vitamins.

And now, the "facts". Oh goodie:

"✅ We eat lots of gorgeous food, it is not a starvation plan and recipes are provided for shakes, meals and snacks"

You can find any good recipe on the internet. JP is not needed to find recipes.

"✅ The shakes are not fruit juice, they contain the essence of 17 portions of fruit and veg in high nutritional powder form but are chocolate or vanilla flavour"

Here are the ingredients for the chocolate shake. I see barely any fruit in the ingredients nor can I even find a fruit-flavoured shake - only chocolate and vanilla.

"✅ JP is not just a diet, we have lots of products for the whole family which have very versatile uses, but they all boost your daily nutritional intake with massive benefits to your body"

They are mediocre multi-vitamins. I get 20 more vitamins in my cheap ass tablets than people get in JP products.

"✅ JP teaches you how to eat and live healthily with a clean eating plan, it is a change of lifestyle and very sustainable"

JP doesn't, the distributors do. Obese distributors like Jenny who know nothing about health and fitness.

"✅ The capsules contain the essence of 30 portions of fruit, veg and berries and they again massively boost your system through good nutrition, resulting in many benefits to the body"

We have already established that this is bunk. JP capsules have four - 4 - vitamins, that's it.

"✅ Erm... How can consuming more fruit and vegetables be bad for you???"

It isn't. That's why people, you know, should eat more fruit and vegetables. Not your overpriced substitute, but real, proper food.

"✅ JP is a whole food plant based supplement which is bioavailable it goes straight into your blood stream and is used efficiently by the body, unlike whey proteins."

I am not even going to pretend I can address this. I would gladly love to see a source for this from any distributor.

"If you want to feel amazing, get healthy and lose weight in the process...

Yal no what to doooooo "

Precisely: eat better, eat less and hit the gym - NOT consult copy-n-paste crap from distributors who know nothing about health and fitness.

Jenny's latest Facebook page number is at 507. Eight more people need to leave the group to each the sub-500 number. I reckon it'll be past that stage by Easter.

Yeah. Really.

Jenny seriously wants you to believe that this lady lost weight by doing nothing but taking premium capsules every morning. In other words, to lose weight, all you need to do is take those capsules and BOOM, you become thin.

Of course, the red flags are:

1) JP themselves do not market their products as weight loss aids. These claims are made up out of thin air by the distributors.

2) Jenny does not explain the content of the capsules and how this works. As already discovered, these capsules contain four vitamins. That's it. I take multi-vitamins with 24 vitamins so by Jenny's logic alone I stand to lose weight by just taking them.

3) No statistics are given for this woman. No weight, no information about her diet, no information about her lifestyle.

4) Without the above information the likelihood of this claim being true is simply non-existent. It is impossible to lose weight if you do not change your diet; if this lady continued to eat the same diet as she had in the first photo then she would stay the exact same weight. This is called calories-in-calories-out (CICO). A magic pill that allows you to lose weight and continue to eat the same diet defies the laws of physics.

5) That lady isn't Jenny.

Jenny is quick to use before and after photos of random strangers but is yet to show us anything from her own weight loss journey. She has been selling these products since May 2015, 9 months ago. That is more than enough time to see a substantial change in your weight, yet funnily enough, in Jenny's recent pictures she is still as obese as ever. So, why is that? How can JP products work so amazingly for some people, but not for others?

Hint: maybe it's because there's more to this lady's weight loss story than taking a second rate multi-vitamin every morning.

Latest Facebook tally: 509. It's still dropping.