The Jenny Craig diet was begun by Genevieve Guidroz, an American weight-loss guru. The Jenny Craig company began in Australia, began offering its diet program in America in 1985, and was purchased by Nestlé in 2006. Today the company has over 550 weight-loss centers in the United States and other countries. Read on for more information.
The Jenny Craig diet is billed as the biggest weight management system in the world. It has a simple formula for weight loss -- good nutrition and basic activities It's a well-known formula for weight loss and healthy living used throughout the fitness world. The Jenny Craig diet doesn't only seek to help people lose weight, it seeks to establish a long term lifestyle for healthy living. In this sense it's much more than a fad diet.
The Jenny Craig diet has had a number of celebrity spokespeople. One of the most famous was Kristie Alley, former star of Cheers, who also appeared in some Star Trek movies. People were amazed at how fat Kristie had become when she first appeared as the spokesperson in 2005. She weighed in at 200 pounds and had been featured in a documentary called Fat Actress. In November of 2006 Kristie claimed the Jenny Craig diet had helped her lose 75 pounds, but she didn't appear any slimmer.
There is also personal counseling as part of the Jenny Craig diet. Jenny Craig trains the counselors who have no outside certifications as nutritionists or health professionals. The Jenny Craig diet works in the following manner. People join and then choose a plan based on prepackaged food. The selection is large – over 75 frozen and dry foods to which people add things like store bought vegetables and dairy. When people have been in the program for some time they begin creating their own meal plans. Eventually the Jenny Craig foods are cut back to less than half the meals.
WebMD ran a study on the Jenny Craig diet. The conclusion was that the provided food is of high quality, and that the diet can help people lose weight fairly quickly. So give the Jenny Craig diet a try.
