Beware! The LA Weight Loss Centers in Memphis and Germantown, TN are rip-offs! They lure you in with a small fee like $5 per week or $199 for all the weight you want to lose. I was stupid enough to fall for it, but I want to help others in Memphis and surrounding areas so that they do not.
Once you go to the LA Weight Loss Center, they enroll you and then on your return visit tell you that you owe another $700 for products. This happened to me and the Area Manager for Memphis "Kelly" refused to refund my money. The advertising they run on the Today Show is very mis-leading. The staff told me they had a dietician on site. Upon my next visit, they told me the dietician is actually located in Pennsylvania.
The staff at LA Weight Loss in Germantown is very unprofessional. On many visits to the center I have heard Mia, Ellen or Jamie (counselors at the center) use profanity. Several times I have seen staff members smoking and they are supposed to be working in a "health" field. I have also been told by the counselors that if they do not "sell" enough bars and vitamins, they will get fired. Many have told me that they are not trained in nutrition, but how to sell LA Weight Loss products. I do not know if this is the case nationwide or just in Memphis and Germantown, TN LA Weight Loss.
Every visit I had to the center between late 2006 and early 2007 had a different staff member working. Most of the staff is heavy themselves. A member of their staff told me the owner in Birmingham is greedy and all about money and not the health of the clients. They went as far to say that many of the products actually slow your weight loss down so that you will be on the program for a longer period of time. How healthy, huh?
My weight-loss has not been good with the program after paying a lot of money. One counselor told me that most people do not reach their goal with LA Weight Loss that most just quit the program discouraged. It's all about getting the clients money, honey.
The expose on 20/20 got me thinking and I am very dissappointed that I ever enrolled. Everything on these boards is true about LA Weight Loss—including the centers in Memphis and Germantown, TN.
Make sure you investigate before signing on the dotted line! (and giving them your credit card number!)
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