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Hate Herbalife!

Friday, March 06, 2009

Nothing irks me more than people who claim to know what they're talking about when in fact aren't even close to having the slightest clue.

I spent the day walking around town today after meeting Jo for lunch and running some errands. I figured I would walk to City Hall since I still had about and hour before the time to meet Mom for Stations of the Cross at the Cathedral. With a 5.6 on my meter and a pretty strong feeling that it was on a downward trend, I bought some chocolate bread from Sun Moulin. Just finished eating it before 2 ladies from Herbalife approached me. They asked if I could spare them 10 minutes to do a survey. So I said yes since I had time on my hands anyway and followed them. This was when the whole fiasco began.

Firstly, I didn't expect them to take me to the office to try and sell me some protein-based product that costs $130 and took half an hour instead of the 10 minutes that they said to complete some 'survey'! Some 'survey' it was! Then, they took my height and weight and some body fat test which apparently told me that my body's metabolism burns fat like a 33 year old. It's ok if it's true, but the way she put it across was as though it's the end of the world and that nothing matters more in this world than your weight. They asked me about the food that I typically ate and apparently, it's not good for you. This is what I told them that I ate.

Breakfast: Bread with some stuff (depending on Mom's mood and what's in the kitchen)

Lunch: Rice with protein and vegetables

Tea: Quaker bars/ bread

Dinner: Rice with stuff that's homecooked

My daily intake of food is about 2000 calories/day, which is normal for an adult. On days that I go to the gym, it's 1700 calories/day. According to those 2 geniuses, 2000 calories/day is too much and 1700 calories is apparently just ok. It's not just ok dammit, it's pretty darn good by my dietician's standards.

What pissed me off even more was when she assumed that my doctor was the type of uncaring doctor that only saw his patients for 15 mins per visit. She said, maybe your doctor only sees you for 15 mins every 3 months, but we're willing to sit with your for hours. Oh please lah! I see Warren for at least 45 minutes to an hour each visit. Plus, I see him once a month or once in 2 months depending on whether I need a consultation. It's one thing to diss my eating habits, but it's another to diss my doctor.

According to her, this product could possibly take me off insulin and I wouldn't have diabetes anymore. I told her right there and then that 'Don't blame me for being skeptical, but if that were true, then there wouldn't be so many people still living with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.'

She went on to ask, are you heavier this year than you were last year? I said, "No, in fact I've lost some weight because of exercise. You know, this thing that's the real remedy for weight loss?" Ok, maybe I didn't say that last bit, but by this time, I was giving them weird expressions and desperately wanting to get out of that stupid place.

To top it all off, they claim that bread and rice aren't complex carbohydrates. Apparently, they're simple carbohydrates. OMG! How incorrigible can they get? Even a Sec 3 Science student can laugh at you for saying that. ARGGGH! I'm so annoyed! You ran into the wrong person to sell your 'miracle protein shake' to. I don't care how it may have worked for you or your other clients, but your ignorance and sheer arrogance just helped you generate a whole lot of negativity about your brand.

I don't care if you've got 28 years of experience in the industry or 60 million customers worldwide or if you lost like 1000 kg. Gosh. Horrible!

Rachel wrote in the pages of her life at 10:45 PM

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