Sureslim: Is it a scam, a fad diet in disguise or does it work?
Submitted by Drew on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 04:30
Alarm bells begin to ring when you hear the terms "blood test", "correct your metabolism" and "800 dollars just to start". These are not my terms, but terms that I pulled from the Sureslim website and diet review websites.
To add insult to injury, they suggest vibrating your way to greater weight loss using a shaking plate machine that costs more than 2000 dollars to purchase.
Although I have not spent much time reviewing the company, my clients asked me to take a quick peak at their practices. After just a few paragraphs from their website and the reviews I've found online it is clear that this is a fad diet program that is not likely based on results but based on being different from product based programs such as herbal magic and herbal one in Canada.
Plus they use attractive advertising that says "It's not you, it's your metabolism." Clearly this statement is misleading and flat out wrong. I rarely have time to review fad diet programs but this is one that I am sure will come and go. No blood test in the world detects metabolic efficiency abnormalities let alone a blood test by pop up fad diet programs lacking endocrinologists or other metabolic experts. Any weight loss that takes place at these places is due to cutting back calories severely.
If this is all you need for weight loss, please find an alternative way to monitor your calorie intake or consider a stint behind bars!
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Good information. I agree it
Good information. I agree it looks like a fad or yo-yo diet.
Anyone else tried it?
My thoughts
I know of others who had exactly the same program. In fact no-one I knew had a different one. We never got a copy of our blood tests results. I could not cope with the seeds. the main things seem to be to drink 2 litres of water per day. Have three meals per day with 5 hours between meals and no snacks between. Eat healthy food and not too much. If you stick to their plan you will lose weight, but as soon as you relax you will put on weight rather quickly. Also very hard when you have a family to feed if they do not like the food.
Sureslim is a surescam.
Very good at taking your
Very good at taking your money and the diet works well, but they don't have any interest in after payment support. There seems to be no formula and the staff are more interested in the $800 fee than selling the $10 ingredients.
ouch
It is such a rip off. I never understood why it was so expensive in the first place, but at the time i was desperate to get the weight off. It was so restrictive, you had to stick to a very limited amount of foods, and you also had to weigh everything! I wasn't allowed any carbs at all, which i think is just bad for you. you need to have energy. The consultant i had for weigh ins wasnt helpful at all. I didnt stick to my diet 100% because it was so hard, and i was completely honest with her about it, but she never tried to help me in anyway. she was just like 'well stick to it this week then'. I was very sick because i wasnt getting the right nutrients, even with supplements, and also became very depressed. it was too hard to stick to, i could never eat out with friends because it was too hard to find anything that fit the requirements. i was even doing excercise while on the program, but was very unmotivated to do very much.
The only way someone would be able to stick to the extremely restrictive diet is if they had the discipline of a soldier! DO NOT GO ON THIS PROGRAM. Instead put the money towards joining a gym or getting a personal trainer. They can also help you with figuring out and teaching you proper nutrition, or can at least refer you to someone who can help you with it.
Agreed!!!
Scam of a diet with a facade of a scientific and personalised approach to dieting. The whole thing is basically this, and you can keep your $900! people. The blood test isn't anything fancy, as you are lead to believe.. some far away gp might glance at it, but you actually don't need a doctor to explain your blood results. Pathology are great in that results are automatically highlighted if they are unusual (high or low). So you can go to your doctor and request an FBE and U&E for $50. They tell you to eat 3 meals a day, 5 hours apart. Do not mix your protiens. Do not take milk in your coffee. Do not drink more than 60ml of full fat milk a day. No skinny milk because it has too much sugar. You are to have at least 2tbs linseed meal, 2tbs pumpkin seeds, 1tbs sesame seeds, 1tbs sunflower seeds a day.. you must measure your vegetable and protein portions. THey increase from 125 to 140 from lunch to dinner. You cannot eat carrots, potato, pumpkin, grapes, watermelon, bananas etc you can eat as much celery, lettuce and cucumber as you wish HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THANKS!!! oh yeah, and only two slices of dark rye bread a day. Piss off. Diet of deprivation is bound to lose the kg's, but you can only take so much of it. I've been on it for 3 months. In the first month, i felt the pressure to lose over 1kg a week. so i basically starved to each weigh in. Once i snapped out of it and changed my number so they couldn't call me (it was too late for me to get any of my money back!) i felt less pressure. It's my lesson this lifetime. I'm saving you a $900 loss. Follow what i have told you and you are not missing a thing for my money. They weigh yuo once a week and expect you to lose mountains of weight and then a kg a week. If you tell them you are not losing as fast, they ask you if you are sticking to your diet. (mmmmm celery, obviously not!) You don't need this crap and the extra pressure. Sureslim take your money and leave you with a whole lot of head scratching to do. If it was as straightforward as self deprivation, we would all be slim.. but unfortunately, humans only want what they cannot have. one of my most stupid moments going on this program. I went on it because a collegue said they lost 20kg's on it. Either you want to lose weight, or you don't.. i say. No one can force you to do it any faster that you physically can. Sureslim asked me not to exercise on this program... i am now working out, eating healthy meals where i am not depriving myself.. I'm watching my calorie intake and making use of slimming shakes or soups as i need them, without a contract. I could kick myself for still having $600 to pay for my big mistake.
MASSIVE WASTE OF MONEY!!!! TWO THUMBS DOWN!!! please do not throw away your money like i did. It's an absolute scam!!!
Plus they use attractive
Plus they use attractive advertising that says <a href=http://ebs-software.net>"It's not you, it's your metabolism."</a>
RUNNNN for the HILLS
I worked for sureslim and was forced to do the program. Yes first week i lost about 5lbs (water) and my boss lied to the clients and told them i lost 8lbs my first week.. Few weeks went by and i started feeling aweful, my hair started falling out in clumps ( BALD SPOTS) thankfully i found a dermatologist that helped me with injections to get it growing again. I went to my doctor who ran blood work, i was low on everything. He also calculated what i was taking in for calories and not suprising my intake was ONLY 800 calories a day and i weighed 200lbs. Any doctor will tell you that is NOT healthy at all, no wonder you lose at the start, your starving yourself.
STAY AWAY from this program..
I'm doing Sureslim and have
I'm doing Sureslim and have lost 20lbs in little over 2 months. I feel great and have no problem sticking to the 5 hours between meals. I have cheated and had more bread than I ought to or had chips...when I do, I realize just how awful my body feels with that garbage floating through it.
This is about resetting ones metabolism and learning about what your body really needs to sustain itself in a healthy manner.
Clearly, the people complaining here thought they could just write a cheque and the weight would magically disappear. The $800 fee covers one year of support...and if you weren't getting the support you needed then you should have requested a different consultant.
What kind of scam is this!
I can't believe what I have read on this.
I was always heavy, o.k. lets say it fat!
I can't believe someone would put themselves through this, Wow!
It works until you stop.
I won't call Sureslim a scam, it helped me lose 94 pounds in about 9 months. I stuck to it everyday. My doctor appoved the diet and was excited when I was losing and I managed to get off of my blood pressure meds. I also never exercised due to my arthritis. The staff was very nice but I didn't find them very helpful when I did start to slip, they basically said just try to do better next week. And boy did I slip! I gained 75 pounds back. Is that Sureslims fault? No, it's mine. If I didn't have self-sabotage issues I would not be fat. I don't expect them to be able to solve my problems. Losing the weight was easy keeping it off..not so much. It's not the food and today I get that. I'm back on, using it as my template and learning that it is me alone that will find what works for me. Hell we all know calorie, carbs, protien counts etc. etc we know what we need to be eating. Sureslim should only be part of the solution. I do agree that the plan is a pain when cooking for a family and eating out consists basically of eating salad.
As of 12 January 2009, the
As of 12 January 2009, the SureSlim Australian franchise organisation has not had a Franchisor overseeing the SureSlim franchise operations within Australia. Petro Tulloch and Calvin Tulloch currently act as caretakers under SureSlim Holdings Pty Ltd as authorised by SureSlim International Limited of which Petro Tulloch and Calvin Tulloch are 100% shareholders.
The registered ASIC address for SureSlim Holdings Pty Ltd is 66A Cabbage Tree Road, Bayview, being the same for SureSlim Recipes Pty Ltd of which Petro Tulloch and Calvin Tulloch are Directors and shareholder. The Bayview address was the residential address for Petro Tulloch and Calvin Tulloch up until August 2008 when they relocated to a beach front property at Kiama. Yet, lodged ASIC reports for SureSlim Holdings and SureSlim Recipes state that the registered address is Bayview which conflicts with correspondence by Geoff Adams as noted below.
On the 12 January 2009, SureSlim Australian franchisees received a letter from the then SureSlim Franchisor SureSlim 2006, Director Geoff Adams who use to be the New Zealand Franchisor.
SureSlim Holdings Pty ltd is acting as the provider of SureSlim programs to distributors being SureSlim franchisees and they are only providing limited services to franchisees at a royalty fee of 10% opposed to the previous royalty fee of approximately 27%.
For further comment about the ongoing closure of SureSlim Australian franchise clinics contact the current SureSlim Australian caretaker SureSlim Holdings Pty Ltd directors, Petro Tulloch and Calvin Tulloch. For further information visit: http://sureslies.wordpress.com
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