Description: Jenny's delicious cuisine offers satisfying,
nutritious and convenient meals and snacks that take the guesswork out of
calorie counting, portion control and nutritional balance. There are more than
75 menu items which are easy to prepare. Most items can be prepared in less than
5 minutes. The healthy menu is low in fat and cholestrol and high in fiber.
You'll have the flexibility to eat out and combine foods from
your pantry with your Jenny menus.
Reviews
(13):
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 Waste Of
Money
Reviewer: Abdul 03-26-2004
Jenny Craig's program
will
reduce your wallet. You'll be spending a minimum of $70 - $80 a
week
on their food plus additional money for fresh fruits, milk, and
vegetables. If you get suckered into buying their food management tapes and/or
videos you're wallet will starve.
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 What I think of
Jenny Craig
Reviewer: Teresa 03-26-2004
My review can be
reduced to one word: 'Ripoff!'
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Nasty Tasting
Food
Reviewer: Debi 03-26-2004
I did attempt Jenny Craig
& the food was so nasty that I'm one of the
few people who succeeded in
getting their money back!!!
Weight Watchers offers more for the
money. The other thing about Jenny Craig is you're on their food for the
dura-
tion of the program & then when you go back to the real world of
food
it's a downhill slide!
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I like Weight
Watcher better than Jenny Craig
Reviewer:
Hage 03-26-2004
I agree that if you are looking for a group
situation, Weight Watchers is
the best. I think they are far more experienced
and comprehensive in
giving you helpful ideas and dealing with the many
issues involved in
weight loss. I feel they are highly responsible towards
their
participants, and make a great effort to keep up on what is currently
of
importance to people in terms of nutrition and emotional
support.
They, of course, have their own pre-packaged
meals, if you are looking for
help in that area. I also think Weight Watchers
is much more a "what you see is what you get"
type of organization: put
another way, honest. I was put off when I went
to Jenny Craig because they
advertised this great price on TV, but when I
got me in their little
conference room with one of their reps, that person
kept pushing me to spend
and spend and spend for all their tapes, etc.
This may not, of course, be
anyone else's experience -- I speak only from
personal experience.
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Don't join Jenny
Craig!!
Reviewer: Mark 03-23-2004
I hated Jenny Craig...I
ate their food and didn't loose enough...they said that I could loose more per
week. They were full of it.
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Mistake!
Reviewer: Dawn 03-21-2004
I made the
mistake of calling a Jenny Craig office looking for
information - and they
wouldn't tell me anything over the phone.
They made me make an appointment.
After thinking about it, I cancelled
the appointment - and they kept calling
me to reschedule (I was
never home). When I was finally there to take the
call, I told
them I had decided to go back to WW, and the woman told me to
keep
their number in case WW "doesn't work out."
I'd never go
to them just because of how hard-sell they are.
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 Expensive but it
works
Reviewer: Stacey 03-26-2004
I am a Jenny Craig
graduate and I have been able to maintain my
weight for about 2 years. I
actually went on it two times. The first
time I lost about 20 pounds. I was
starting to run out of money so I
had to go off of it. I then went on it a
year later to lost 10 pounds.
I would highly recommend this program to
anyone. The only downfall is
that it's very expensive. The best thing to do
is to join when you can
pay a dollar for every pound that you want to lose.
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 It works for
me.
Reviewer: Jan 03-12-2004
I have been going to Jenny
Craig for about a year now and so far have lost 54lbs.
Yes it is expensive,
I don't deny it, but I was eating out alot so it is
almost a wash. You get
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner and some snacks; my
week costs about $77.00. My
groceries at the store include veggies, milk,
fruit, bread and yogurt.
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 a coworker
experience to tell
Reviewer: Sofaslug 03-26-2004
I've
never done Jenny Craig but I did have a co-worker who went on it.
She spent a
lot of money on their food and never really learned how to
effectively deal
with portion controls. After spending all of that
money and not losing any
weight, she joined Weight Watchers and
had much better luck. She stopped
going to meetings after a while
but she did learn how to manage her weight
eating "real" foods
instead of prepackaged foods.
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It worked for
me.
Reviewer: Guylene 03-26-2004
I was on Jenny Craig for
quite awhile and it did work. I lost about 55lbs in 6
months, with about
22lbs to go to hit my goal. I had to quit for awhile due to
a job and
location change. During this time I realized that I didn't know how
to cook
healthy for myself anymore and gained back about 25-30lbs. I have
decided
that I will not go back to Jenny Craig, cause i can't live on it for the
rest
of my life. I have to learn how to cook healthy for myself cause Jenny
lives
in Canada and isn't too interested in coming here to Colorado to help me
plan
my menus or cook my food. She does have a Jenny Craig cookbook however.
I've
looked through it and it has a full range of foods for better eating.
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Tried it
and...
Reviewer: Unknown 03-12-2004
I tried Jenny
Craig---it is high carb, low fat, low protein, and costs about
$80 per week
(not counting additonal food you have to buy yourself) In spite
of sticking
to it religiously, and running 2 miles per day, l only lost 4 lbs
in a 6 week
period----after I quit the program (in spite of NOT being an
"overeater"----
my cal intake has never been high) I gained the weight back and
then some. I
don't recommend low cal diets----they just make you fat. Try
Dana Thornock's
book "Lean and Free 2000"----it makes a lot of sense.
She advocates more, not
fewer calories (but not from junk food, mind you)
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not an affordable
diet
Reviewer: Ariel 03-26-2004
Jenny Craig I spend over
$100 to sign up. About $85 a week just for their
food. Then I went to the
store and had to buy milk, fruit, veggies, and
bread. Then I had to buy food
for my family. The food is DISGUSTING. There
is no room for treats. You can't
ever eat a meal with your family. I spent
about $600 and lost 7 pounds. I
would not recomend Jenny Craig to anyone.
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RIP OFF AND
1/2
Reviewer: Miki California 01-07-2005
I tried the Jenny
Craig diet about 6 months ago. Aside from the exorbitant sign up fees, the whole
buy your meals every week thing is a REAL budget buster: $88/week for Jenny
Cuisine just wasn't the right plan for me. Worst of all, I followed the plan
to the letter, and did not loose the weight promised. Furthermore, I've heard
many horror stories of people gaining the weight back plus MORE once they go
back to eating regular food.
After the wasted $300+ dollars I spent at
Jenny's my physician recommended the South Beach Diet: she indicated that
their method of weight loss/maintenance is closer to the most healthy regimine
she would recommend for her paitients, plus based on all the reviews I've
read on this site and numerous others, SBD seems to be among the more healthy
and effective diets that is condusive to maintaining healthy eating habits for
life and is not a constant battle of will over what we should eat...so off to
the bookstore I go to pick up SBD.
**This is a great site, by the way**
Reading your posts has helped me to make some key decisions about which diets to
try and the ones to avoid.
I wish you all courage, strong will, and the
perseverance you'll need to achieve your weight loss goals.
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