It is no secret that singer Carnie Wilson has had a very public struggle with her weight.
She even underwent gastric bypass surgery 1999 but gained some of the weight back.
Earlier this year became spokesperson for The Fresh Diet, but they recently fired her for not losing weight and cheating on the plan by eating cheesecake.
The Fresh Diet is a diet delivery company that delivers a days worth of gourmet, portion controlled meals and snacks to your door fresh daily. A plan for a women averages around 1200 to 1300 Calories per day.
According to The Fresh Diet, Carnie Wilson (as a side business) was making and selling cheesecakes and instead of losing weight on their plan, she actually gained weight. She did lose 19 pounds on The Fresh Diet before starting her cheesecake company but then gained it all back and more.
Do diet companies place too high of expectations on celebrities and set them up for failure? I wonder if The Fresh Diet kicks customers out of their program if they fall off the wagon or if they help them regain their focus?
Maybe The Fresh Diet could have handled this differently? What do you think? Participate in the poll and comments below.
Source: Blogging With the Stars
Was it right for The Fresh Diet to fire Carnie Wilson?
Yes No View results Celebrities diet delivery Diet Marketing 15 Comments Spectra on 30 Nov 2010While I do think some of those diet companies are a little bit restrictive (especially all of them that require you to purchase food from them and eat only what they tell you to), if they hire a spokesperson to follow the plan, I think the spokesperson SHOULD be following the plan and not be starting a cheesecake company and gaining the weight back. It portrays the company in a bad light and they don't want that, so I think it's fair for them to hire/fire whoever they want.
Reply jessialba7 on 30 Nov 2010u r right
Reply O. on 30 Nov 2010You have a point. Would this company kick a customer out? I read on AOL that a woman wasn't allowed to work for Weight Watchers because of her BMI. It didn't matter that she went from a dress size 24 to 12 on THEIR diet.
I will say that I am a big fan of diet meal delivery companies or companies that can provide most of your food.
Reply Berzerker on 30 Nov 2010Serves her right; I can't feel sympathy for her when I and so many people I know struggle to find work, and it sounds like everything was perfectly set up for her, yet she threw it all away.
Reply Duane on 1 Dec 2010I'm not a fan of any of these diets, just money grabs as far as I'm concerned, but she was the face of the company and it was her job to represent them well. She did not so they turfed her. Good for them.
Customers though? No way! Do you really think they care if a regular customer loses weight? What makes them any different from the others? As long as the money keeps rolling in and people are gullible enough to keep paying. Weight loss shouldn't cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Reply Spectra on 1 Dec 2010Yeah, I'm fairly sure most meal-delivery companies actually RELY on their customers being non-compliant with the diet. That way, they keep getting people's money because the people don't think the diet is failing; they figure THEY are failing because they cheat by eating ice cream or cheesecake that isn't on the plan.
Reply O. on 1 Dec 2010As someone who has dealt with emotional eating for over a decade....
I started Jenny Craig meal delivery two months before what ended up being the most trying time of my life... my mom's cancer battle...
And I came out of it 28 pounds lighter.
Without good tasting and convenient meal deliver to take care of most of my food for me...given my history... I would have gained 28 pounds this year.
Reply Duane on 2 Dec 2010Sorry about your mom, I've lost people to cancer too.
Delivered meals or not, it still came down to you. As an emotional eater myself, I know it doesn't matter if you have good foods in your home or delivered to you, you still have to make the choice to eat them and nothing else. Granted, having the meals delivered made it easier for you as far as less preparation goes (I'm sure time was a factor), but you still had to decide to eat them instead of stopping by a fast food place or chowing down on candy bars or chips.
Whether people use a store bought diet or do it themselves, what it comes down to is the person. No diet can make you stick to it. You have to make you stick to it. Glad to hear you had success though! Good stuff!
Thanks, she is alive and doing ok so far.
I think people are getting "meal replacement" and "meal delivery" mixed up.
Yes I would call meal replacements a gimmick because they have you consuming special shakes or bars all day long instead of real food.
Meal delivery is more like having a combination of your own personal nutritionist and chef.
It is for the most part real food. Some plans do have a shake or a bar as an option. But it is real food specially portioned or engineered for weight loss. The dieter doesn't have to cook or figure out menu plans or measure.
I was in no mood to deal with all that planning and often couldn't as I was running off to hospitals and nursing homes all the time.
When the dieter is on their own thats another story. My advice would be to pay attention to the portions they are giving you because that is what things will look like when you make your own food.
Reply Duane on 3 Dec 2010No confusion between meal replacement and meal delivery. I think you misunderstood me.
You can have your meals delivered and they're a nice portion size and whatnot, but its up to the person to eat that and only that. That's where its up to the person to make the decision about what they eat. You can eat your delivered meal but who's stopping you from snacking on something else later? Or from stopping by a fast food restaurant?
What I'm saying is that in the end, it comes down to the person themself. They either stick with their store bought diet (Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, etc.) and follow it religiously or they do it themselves. It isn't hard to eat better at home or less for that matter. After all, you have to do it eventually don't you? Whether you originally use a diet plan or created your own, at some point its up to you to maintain your weight loss. I don't see why people would pay hundreds and thousands of dollars on a store bought diet unless they have lots of disposable income and have bought into the illusion of these diet plans, which sadly so many have.
Reply Ann on 1 Dec 2010Obviously it's ridiculous to compare this to them kicking out a customer who doesn't lose weight. They can't make the customer follow the program, but they were PAYING her to do it, and she didn't. Which means they can stop paying her. I'm sure they would still welcome her as a customer, but they shouldn't have to pay her for a service she isn't performing.
Reply Cate Jones on 1 Dec 2010When committing to a diet company, you have to commit to the plan for a proper expectation to be set. It makes absolutely no sense for anyone to gain weight on a program that has them publicly representing a weight loss program.
Reply NEMO on 1 Dec 2010They contracted with her to do a job - the job was to follow the program and lose weight....she failed to do her job, thus was fired. What's the problem?
A paying customer - the company won't kick out of a program for non-compliance, the customer is paying, it's their dime and if they don't follow the program, their loss of their money for not following the program - but as long as they're paying, I don't see why the company would kick them out...you're not comparing apples to apples.
Reply Dennis Blair Fort Collins Personal Trainer on 4 Dec 2010What? Ugh. Just another "diet" company trying to gain traction in a crowded market.
Reply Mizzj on 7 Dec 2010Carnie Wilson made a commitment to this company and should have stuck to it. This was a career boost but at the same time she should have took it as an incenative to help her loose and/or maintain her weight.
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