I just finished watching Market Place – Canada’s Investigative Consumer Show – Herbal Magic: Magic in a bottle? I was quite intruqued with it’s controversial content on whether The Herbal Magic Weight Loss Diet Plan works or not.
“With increasing North American obesity rates and many Canadians making New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, it’s a regular smorgasbord of waistlines for diet companies to tap into.
One such company is Canada’s Herbal Magic. Erica Johnson puts the company to the test and raises questions about its supplements, how they’re sold, and what evidence there is to back up some of its claims.
Johnson speaks with the company about the qualifications of its “personal health coaches”, its food plan and the products. She also speaks with experts about what evidence exists behind some of Herbal Magic’s pricey products.”
Market Place
Herbal Magic’s weight loss program is designed to do what it says, which is a guaranteed weight loss of a minimum of two pounds a week. But, you can lose that weight regardless of whether you join Herbal Magic or not.
Herbal Magic’s Weight Loss Diet Pills
With Herbal Magic’s program you take the 2 – WM-2000′s and 1 Chromagic 3 times daily half an hour before each meal. The WM 2000′s cost you 54.00 before tax, and last you one week, and the Chromagic cost 25.00 and last you thirty days. But according to Marketplace, Herbal Magic is changing their supplements because the claim about WM-2000′s is not what their cracked up to be.
Whenever anyone starts a low carbohydrate diet plan, and lower their daily calorie intake, they will lose pounds and inches. I know this to be true because I worked for one of Canada’s leading Weight Loss Centre and know how the program works, and why it works. It works only if you are dedicated and motivated to get the weight off.
Does The Plan Work – Will I Lose The Weight
The HM Diet Plan must be followed precisely for it to work. For a woman with 60 pounds or more to lose her diet plan consists of a required amount of protein, starches, fruits, veggies, dairy, and fats daily. The same goes for women with 60 pounds or more to lose and all men, they follow a slightly different diet plan, but the same foods, just more portions.
Once you get through the weight loss part of the of Herbal Magic’s Diet, you move on to phase two which is called Stabilization. Stabilization is when you have reached your ideal weight, and your body is trained to sustain more food portions without putting the weight back on. While you are in Stabilization you are still required to take the WM-2000′s.
Phase three of their weight loss program is Maintenance; When in maintenance you are required to take another product which is call Platinum 2000′s.
Your program is a year long program with one on one coaching and support with a health coach who will go through your food journal with you. It is all your own store bought foods, your own cooking, you just follow the portion control diet. Your coach will go over the foods you have eaten, and find out which foods are working best for you.
So, if you have 40 pounds to lose when you join Herbal Magic, you take that 40 pounds and divide it by two(the guaranteed minimum two lbs. per week weight loss) it breaks down to 20 weeks of weight loss to reach your goal. 20 weeks of weight loss means 20 bottles of WM-2000′s which amounts to 1080.00 before taxes, and that doesn’t include the 25.00 a month for the Chromagic, and the Platinum 2000′s you are required to take to finish off your year long program.
The Herbal Magic Program does work, but only if you follow the program to a “T”, through the weight loss, 6 weeks of stabilization and maintenance phase’s of the diet. The majority of weight loss clients lose the weight, reach their weight loss goal and go their merry little way, and feel they don’t need to finish the program’s next two phases and that’s where they go wrong.
Marketplace did not really give Herbal Magic a fair chance by only interviewing clients with a negative outcome.
Herbal Magic is like any other diet centre, if you don’t follow the program, you will not lose the weight. It is very hard to follow a diet regimen day in and day out. Weight loss is dedication to yourself to do it!
Yes their “weight loss pills” are very expensive, and you can buy weight loss pills with pretty much the same in ingredients, in fact even better quality at a fraction of the price and triple the amount in the bottle online. Any low carb diet plan and restricted calorie diets are hard to follow when you feel like you are starving to death all the time, and pills used as an appetite suppressants, I think is necessary to get the unhealthy weight off.
As with any diet plan people want to get the weight off, feel better about themselves, health reasons and make healthy lifestyle changes.
Yes Herbal Magic’s employee’s work is based on salary plus commission just like most other sales jobs. The more you sell the bigger the pay check. I truly believe some franchise’s work in a different manner than others. With any job that your position requires you to up sell, that is what you do or you won’t have a job.
I have seen hundred’s of people walk away from their weight loss program looking and feeling like a million dollars from losing the pounds and inches, and I have also seen the disappointed ones that constantly failed at following their diets, and become an inactive client who gave up because they couldn’t stay away from all the take out food, fast foods, salt intake and sugars.
They showed other products on Marketplace that personal coaches are supposed to up sell, and they are like anything else in any other health food stores, certain things work for some people and not for others.
My recommendation is, if you are skeptical about Herbal magic, don’t join. If you know someone that has done the program ask them what they thought about it, and get them to be honest with you in whether they truly followed the program or not. Maybe they didn’t follow it accurately and they want to blame their failure on someone other than themselves. But like I said some things work for some and not for others, Dr. Oz has his diet plan and I imagine people fail with it too.
Herbal Magic president Fraser Clarke says “each of our products contains ingredients that have clinical studies to support any claims that we make about those,” Marketplace asked Natural Standard in Boston — a leading research institute that assesses the science on the safety and efficacy of natural health products — to examine the ingredients and the claims. It determined, when it comes to the mandatory supplements, there was insufficient evidence to make claims for weight loss.
Herbal Magic told marketplace it’s phasing out those supplements we put under the microscope. New formulations will hit store shelves by fall.
Watch the full segment on Market Place Herbal Magic: Magic in a bottle?
