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Post by fullmahina on Apr 29, 2023 15:35:30 GMT
It looks like Jenny Craig might be biting the dust. I've used JC a few times in the past and actually did quite well with it (don't we all do well when we stick with whatever program we are on...?). The last time I used it was at least eight years ago or so and I found that that food choices and quality had diminished quite a bit. I always did the a la carte option after the first time on JC as so many of the choices were either terribly skimpy or unpalatable. But when I found the items that I thought were really good I stuck to them and JC worked for me. The cost of their food items became more than I wanted to pay as time went by and frankly, there are so many good choices right in the supermarket now that I tossed JC by the wayside. Too little bang for the buck. JC has been bought and sold quite a few times over the years and eventually was owned by a series of private equity firms. Their purpose is to buy companies, trim them down for the sake of profits, show profitable activity, then sell them to the highest bidder. You can imagine what this did to the quality of the Jenny Craig experience, both in food items and their much-touted personal counseling. The last time I took a peek at their site the prices of the food items were simply insane and there were really no discounts available (unlike NutriSystem which often has 50% off sales which make many items cheaper than supermarket diet meals). The story: bestlifeonline.com/jenny-craig-centers-closing-news/ |
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Post by finreporter on Apr 29, 2023 17:51:09 GMT
I saw that headline on a gym TV yesterday and was surprised because I didn’t even know they were still around! I had assumed they folded several years ago.
You are correct about the private equity firms. I think of them as house flippers. They often do not significantly improve the businesses they bought to flip or if they do it’s marginal, they penny pinch in ways that bring the term “a penny saved a pound foolish” to mind, and bring employee morale down because they start doing mass layoffs and cut bonuses for those that survive the layoffs. I was fortunate to not be victim of the layoffs (I found another job instead with my current employer) but at my last company one of my employees who was with the company 14 years was laid off a few weeks ago in favor of transferring her job duties over to a Canadian employee who made half her salary. They give supremely high salaries and bonuses and stock options to higher level management and work employees to the bone on smaller salaries and no bonuses so that can keep payroll costs down where they choose. It’s awful. I feel bad for the JC employees.
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Post by Laura M on Apr 29, 2023 18:57:26 GMT
For a very long time I've followed this blogger No Thanks To Cake . She did WW at one time but eventually ended up with Jenny Craig. She can take one of those Jenny Craig meals and make it into a masterpiece!! I just could never afford Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem. |
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Post by fullmahina on Apr 29, 2023 20:04:23 GMT
For a very long time I've followed this blogger No ThanksTo Cake . She did WW at one time but eventually ended up with Jenny Craig. She can take one of those Jenny Craig meals and make it into a masterpiece!! She also had an ongoing thread on the JC forums and she was very creative. I went to look at the forums today and they have been shut down, closed in February. The last time I checked those forums some topics were still very active with a few daily-type threads that had been going for years with many oldtimers still there---this was probably about five months ago. All the forums are gone and there is now a notice that directs you to a Facebook page. On the FB page you are warned about mentioning other weight loss programs or substitutes for JC foods, lol. I had more than a few posts removed for doing those things in the old JC forums. A lot of posts were about "subs," mainly because so many of the JC foods (especially snacks and breakfast items) were identifiable as foods available more cheaply in the supermarket. People (me included) were posting big lists of cheaper subs that were exactly the same as or extremely close to, nutritionally, the expensive JC food items. We all happily exchanged our "finds" for years but as time went by and supervision of the forums got tighter those types of posts were removed pretty quickly. It was fun while it lasted. |
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Post by Jennifer on Apr 29, 2023 23:56:50 GMT
I'm so curious now! What is the name of the jenny Craig Facebook page ?
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Post by Laura M on May 3, 2023 21:03:31 GMT
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Post by bbbearsmom on May 3, 2023 23:15:06 GMT
Laura M, Thanks for sharing the article.
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Post by Laura M on May 4, 2023 16:53:24 GMT
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Post by lani on May 4, 2023 17:19:30 GMT
Don't know how relevant this is, but I used Jenny Craig in the mid-90s. I lost quite a bit of weight very rapidly, then was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. One doctor opined that the rapid weight loss stressed my body enough to trigger the UC (which I would have had to have been at risk for developing in the first place).
The meals were fine and the people friendly and helpful at JC.
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Post by ginnpr on May 4, 2023 17:49:03 GMT
Just wondering if this might be a sign for the future of WW. Just heard that Noom is on some sort of break.
Looking as if some of these weight loss programs could be gone with the weight loss pills.
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Post by bbbearsmom on May 4, 2023 18:16:05 GMT
ginnpr, There will be room for weight loss apps and programs that includes behavior modification because it is needed to do this successfully. Not everyone can afford the meds and the jury is still out on people maintaining the weight loss once they lose the weight. People have to change to do this and having a drug doing the work for you doesn't give you the skills to lose weight and keep it off. It will be interesting to see how this goes five - ten years out when one, the meds are generic, and plus they have a better idea of how they work overtime.
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Post by DotRen on May 7, 2023 11:31:29 GMT
I just read an article that said JC has been in the red for a while, and that people want the "guarantee" of weight loss that the new "miracle" medications promise.
I mean, I get it, but taking a "magic pill/shot" won't fix all the issues many of us have with our bad relationships with food, you know?
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Post by bbbearsmom on May 7, 2023 16:48:45 GMT
I mean, I get it, but taking a "magic pill/shot" won't fix all the issues many of us have with our bad relationships with food, you know? I agree. I'm proud of the work I did to get here and understand the work I need to do to stay where I am. This way I feel more in charge. |
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Post by lani on May 7, 2023 16:56:51 GMT
jury is still out on people maintaining the weight loss once they lose the weight. My understanding is the verdict is in and a lifelong maintenance dose will be needed. |
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Post by bbbearsmom on May 7, 2023 23:27:33 GMT
My understanding is the verdict is in and a lifelong maintenance dose will be needed. Perfect lead into a quote from a Wall Street Journal article from yesterday. The two doctors mentioned are a medical director of obesity medicine for a medical group in Connecticut and an obesity-medicine expert from NYU Langone Health. "Both doctors emphasized that it is possible to be weaned off the medications while avoiding a rebound, but it requires a lifelong commitment to lifestyle and dietary modifications." In other words, at some point, you have to do the work to control your weight if you don't want to take the medication for the rest of your life. The article also said that there would have to be"a 40% reduction in the overall cost of the medications for the costs of the medication not to eclipse the benefits to the US healthcare system of lower obesity levels." |
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