User Review #3 by dee on June 28th, 2007 at 12:31 PM CDT

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Okay, I am finally posting about this because It is so irritating to me. I am a 37 year old 5'4" mother of 4. 10 years ago after the birth of my last child I weighed 220 lbs. I lost 80lb through diet and tons of exercise and was 140 lb. I am now 145 lb and wear a size 8. I don't exercise as much a before, so am not quite as toned as I would like, but there is no way that Ms Ally and I weigh the same with her being over 3 inches taller than I. And I have seen myself in video and photos and it doesn't make you look that much bigger. Every woman probably lies about weight at some point, but Ms Ally is being paid to promote a diet and lying about where she started and how far she has come is a huge misrepresentation. It's destructive to those who have worked very hard to lose weight and feel good about themselves to see her claiming to be a certain weight and then still looking quite overweight on t.v. I give her a ton of credit for getting up and doing something about it, but why not tell the truth, what does she have to lose? The pictures don't lie, and I am not stupid enough to believe her claims. What happen when a young 5'7", 145 lb girl (this is a perfectly healthy weight for this height) see's these pictures and believes herself to look like that??? Very irresponsible Kirstey! You chose to go public with your weight loss, please at least be honest about the numbers!

Okay, I am finally posting about this because It is so irritating to me. I am a 37 year old 5'4" mother of 4. 10 years ago after the birth of my last child I weighed 220 lbs. I lost 80lb through diet and tons of exercise and was 140 lb. I am now 145 lb and wear a size 8. I don't exercise as much a before, so am not quite as toned as I would like, but there is no way that Ms Ally and I weigh the same with her being over 3 inches taller than I. And I have seen myself in video and photos and it doesn't make you look that much bigger. Every woman probably lies about weight at some point, but Ms Ally is being paid to promote a diet and lying about where she started and how far she has come is a huge misrepresentation. It's destructive to those who have worked very hard to lose weight and feel good about themselves to see her claiming to be a certain weight and then still looking quite overweight on t.v. I give her a ton of credit for getting up and doing something about it, but why not tell the truth, what does she have to lose? The pictures don't lie, and I am not stupid enough to believe her claims. What happen when a young 5'7", 145 lb girl (this is a perfectly healthy weight for this height) see's these pictures and believes herself to look like that??? Very irresponsible Kirstey! You chose to go public with your weight loss, please at least be honest about the numbers!

User Review #2 by Jane Phillips on June 20th, 2007 at 1:08 PM CDT

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I went to my JC center in rural Massachusetts with the intention of joining, I had my hopes up, very optimistic and positive, they put me with one person to explain the whole procedure who was very nice and informative so I decided to join. After signing the papers, they scheduled me to meet with a skinny 18 year old girl every week who was going to coach me on the diet, what experience do you have to help me I asked politely, ( isin't it my right to know?) she was very offended and put out that I could ask such a question, and got the manager from the back who came over and tried to strong arm me into shutting up and just buying the products I'd been told I need) good thing I still had my credit card in my hand which by the way she thought I was putting back in my bag, not getting out before she gave me the major attitude. I was very sad, my balloon was deflated. I thought I was going to be another Kirstie Alley story, I guess I'm lucky I saw their true colors. They didn't care about helping me achieve my goals at all, it was very apparent they cared only about my credit card.

I went to my JC center in rural Massachusetts with the intention of joining, I had my hopes up, very optimistic and positive, they put me with one person to explain the whole procedure who was very nice and informative so I decided to join. After signing the papers, they scheduled me to meet with a skinny 18 year old girl every week who was going to coach me on the diet, what experience do you have to help me I asked politely, ( isin't it my right to know?) she was very offended and put out that I could ask such a question, and got the manager from the back who came over and tried to strong arm me into shutting up and just buying the products I'd been told I need) good thing I still had my credit card in my hand which by the way she thought I was putting back in my bag, not getting out before she gave me the major attitude. I was very sad, my balloon was deflated. I thought I was going to be another Kirstie Alley story, I guess I'm lucky I saw their true colors. They didn't care about helping me achieve my goals at all, it was very apparent they cared only about my credit card.

User Review #1 by Skeptic on June 2nd, 2007 at 1:46 PM CDT

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No way was that woman 220 pounds. I would be surprised if she wasn't in the 280 range. She is a big-boned, tall woman and she was very, very heavy. Too bad they don't have a diet to lose irritating obnoxious personalities. Listening to her shriek from the TV was more than a turnoff. Wonder how many customers Jenny Craig lost because of her.

No way was that woman 220 pounds. I would be surprised if she wasn't in the 280 range. She is a big-boned, tall woman and she was very, very heavy. Too bad they don't have a diet to lose irritating obnoxious personalities. Listening to her shriek from the TV was more than a turnoff. Wonder how many customers Jenny Craig lost because of her.