I personally have only seen The View once (only because I'm not home when it's on - so I don't really know if I like it or not)... but, I sure see her Jenny Craig commercials about every 10 minutes!! ("I lost 23 pounds in 11 weeks!!!") THEY get on my nerves.
When I was a teenager, my Mom hauled me off to Nutri-System. It was quite an experience... VERY expensive, odd tasting food, etc. I think I lost about 30 pounds or so and then I gained it right back. Now, I don't know enough about Jenny Craig to be able to compare it to Nutri-System... but, Nutri-System has permanently left a bad taste in my mouth (no pun intended
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Nutri-System's whole "presentation" made you feel like they really cared about helping people lose weight. When I went in for my initial consultation I was greeted by a lady wearing a long white jacket (like a doctor would wear)... she shared all kind of medical statistics and made this big pitch about how safe and great their program is, how great it would be for me... how all the staff, including herself, followed the program and had lost large amounts of weight on it. She said they all had medical backgrounds and that the whole staff were trained professionals... let's see.. there was supposedly a real doctor to perform a physical on my before I begain... a real nurse to weigh me each week... and a real psychologist to lead behavioral modification type classes each week.
Of course, this was all just a farce - as many sales pitches are. I took a part-time job there that summer while I was out of school. Once behind the scenes, I was amazed (remember, I'm a naive teen here!) to learn that the lady in the white lab coat had NO medical background of any kind. A headhunter had grabbed her for this job, her background was in sales. She had NEVER been on the diet herself. When I asked her about it she said "Oh, I just say that to get people to sign a contract. I wouldn't feed that stuff to my dog". She would make fun of people behind their backs and talk about their measurements, etc. The "real" psychologist was a college student. The "real" nurse really was real though... an LPN if I remember correctly. Who knows about the doctor...
Anyway, I guess the point of my story is that many people will say ANYTHING to get you to buy something.... especially when it's gonna put a lot of cash in THEIR pocket.