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Quick Weight Loss Centers
A diet plan catching the eye of celebrities.
BACKGROUND
Quick Weight Loss, founded in Florida, provides individualized weight loss therapy. The program boasts no exercise and you eat the foods you love including the diet program's own line of diet foods and herbal and thermogenic supplements.
Made popular by Rush Limbaugh who in 2009 lost a remarkable amount of weight in a short period of time following a Quick Weight Loss created just for him, this southern Florida company has helped many lose weight.
Currently, the only bricks and mortar Quick Weight Loss Centers are scattered around southern Florida but there is an online program that you can join from anywhere in the country. This home-based program is a six-week program in which you receive support and counseling via email and phone from Quick Weight Loss Center specialists.
Once you have signed up for either program, you work individually with a Quick Weight Loss Center expert in order to create your own customized diet plan.
In general, the Quick Weight Loss plan provides participants a diet that is low-carb and low-calorie (up to 1,500 calories/day). You buy the foods you like to make and supplement with Quick Weight Loss brand's bars, beverages, soups as well as supplement s that are intended to facilitate weight loss.
You can expect to lose three to seven pounds each week while following the Quick Weight Loss Center programs.
PRO
- Doctor clearance shows they are being responsible
- Helped Rush Limbaugh lose 80 pounds in 2009
- Offers an individualized program to weight loss
- One-on-one support provides motivation and accountability
CON
- Weight loss claims may be exaggerated
- Required to buy program's special line of foods increases costs
- Herbal supplements and other stimulants are required
- Supplements may be unsafe and carry side effects
- Bricks and mortar locations are limited to southern Florida
- Low calorie diet plan may lead to rebound weight gain
- Diet program rules are not scientifically founded
DIET and NUTRITION
While all Quick Weight Loss Center diets are custom-designed, there are a few benchmark features that are applied to every participant's diet.
Most diet plans include a low-calorie and low-fat daily eating plan that is comprised of about 1,500 calories a day. In addition, most diet plans begin with an [Atkins] plan of eschewing carbs, including fruit for protein and fat.
(http://www.dietsinreview.com/diets/Atkins_Diet/ "Atkin's Diet")
And while the company remains pretty hush-hush about what their diet looks like, a few secrets slipped through the cracks thanks to Rush's public discussion about his experience with Quick Weight Loss Centers.
There are a host of other food rules that you must abide by while following the program such as eating green peppers but not red bell peppers and not combining two different kinds of proteins in one meal. For instance you can have seven ounces of grilled chicken breast but not three ounces of white fish and four ounces of turkey breast in one meal. In addition, alcohol, sugar, refined flours and fried foods are not allowed.
You can also supplement with Quick Weight Loss Centers proprietary foods which can be purchased online or at one of the Center's Florida locations. Such foods include special puddings, shake mixes, nutrition bars, soups and oatmeal.
In addition, you are also encouraged to take Quick Weight Loss Centers own line of dietary supplements like essential fatty acids, herbs and carb blockers, all of which are supposed to facilitate speedy weight loss.
EXERCISE
You can engage in moderate exercise while following the Quick Weight Loss Center diet but hard-core exercise is not a strong feature of this plan.
Con
Made popular almost overnight by conservative radio-host Rush Limbaugh who lost 80 pounds in just a few months, Quick Weight Loss Centers is a Florida-based customized diet plan that helps you lose weight quickly with its low-calorie, low-carb, and highly structured eating plan. But it is exactly this stringent plan that lands this diet in the category of countless other plans that take off a lot of weight in a short amount of time and then risks gaining it all back once you are no longer on the plan.
But with this rather mysterious diet plan filled with specific eating rules and special supplements that contain hoodia and ephedra-like stimulants, you might want to think twice about spending the money on Quick Weight Loss Center and instead think about incorporating more natural, practical and long-term strategies for successful weight loss.
Common Misspellings
quick weight lose, quick wieght loss plan, quick weight loss paln, qwlc, quik weight loss centers, quick weight loss program, rush limbaugh diet
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cergin, if you are looking for the same supplements at a cheaper cost go to dietdirect.com the bars and shakes and everything else are the same but with a cover name of wonderslim, if you look at the box covers you will see what I mean...you may have to sort through some products that are not in our plan but they are there and it is very easy to navigate there website...they also have weekly sale specials and special shipping rates. Keep up the good work, I am in my 4th month and have lost 50 pounds and the ONLY exercise I do is take the stairs at work!!
Now for those of you out there, this is NOT cheap nor is it as easy as they make it out to be and for any diet to work it shouldn't be...you do have to be disciplined and LISTEN to your counselor, you will have your frustrating moments just like any thing else worth it in life...I personally feel that it is worth every penny I have spent, my self confidence is up and I have more energy than ever! I am so glad I found this program! Thanks Tiny!!
Hello. I am on QWL and I has been 28 days. I have lost 17 lbs so far. I am really excited. I am looking for the supplements at a cheaper rate, so if anyone can tell me where, and what they are...Let me know. I really like the program. I feel amazing, and I am looking better. I like the plan because it taught me how to eat, and I like to make my foods, and know what is in them. If you are tired of eating the same thing you are not putting enough variety in your diet. I know people who have went on this diet and have lost the weight and kept it off. I feel that if you do it then you can always go back if you gain weight. I usually have high cholesterol so I am getting that checked this month, if it is in good shape now, I will be thankful, because I dont want to take cholesterol pills anymore, and it will prove that it is what I ate before.
You go by the Comprehensive Food List portion sizes, based on the weights listed or the amounts ie, 1/2 cup. Then you follow the number of proteins per day (2), vegetable (4), fruit (3) etc. Make sense?
I just started the 3 day plan, but don't know about the rest. When you say 2 proteins, do you go by size, or weight? Also the same with the 4 vegetables and fruit?
I work in a clinical research company where are business is to make sure we meet enrollment goals for the Pharmaceutical companies by enrolling the patients they need to make sure their medications are out in the market. With that being said, there are no miracle pills or for that matter pills that don't have side effects. What I have done is pretty much followed the qwlc diet without the excess need to take all these pills except the vitamins and fish oil pills which are the only medications on the market that I do trust! People there is not miracle carb blocker or Hoodia to speed up your metabolism you have to put effort and time in your diet and you will see the results! I have dropped 20 lbs since starting the diet 2 months ago and have not spent any money on the pills the only things I do suggest are their recommended snacks because they are lower in calories than the products in the supermarket. Considering the economy I don't think that we need to be spending extra money on products that you can find at diet direct for a much better price.
great!
This program really worked for me and since I was replacing foods I would have purchased with healthier foods and their supplements I have determined that the overall cost is not great--especially for the results achieved. I would highly recommend this program to anyone willing to commit to it. I reached my goal of 32 pounds lost in 13 weeks.
Do carb blockers / cheaters really work?
If I have a low appetite anyway, should I still use Hoodia?
Besides EFA, shakes and bars, what supplements are recommended?
Hi Kelly,
They block ppl from listing their email address here for some reason. I posted aready, the 3 day detox with the food list for that and also the comprehensive food list you will go by after the 3 days. Just scroll down a bit and you will find it, cut and paste it. For the nutrinal supplements, go to directdirect.com. You can get the multivitamin, the EFA, the card blocker, the hoodia, the protein bars and the pudding shake mixes. The vitamin boost drink you can get at Walgreens I know for sure, it is called Slimquick and it will be were the diet supplements are. After you do the 3 day detox which is all raw greens, protein and 1 orange per day, and lots of water, you will begin the regular diet phase. Make sure you have a good scale, mine has body fat info on it too and trust me it is great to see the numbers going down but even better when you can see the amount of actual fat weight you are losing. By decreasing the amount of carbs, fat and salt you eat, your body goes after the fat stored to produce energy and that is the key here. Lose fat!!
So here is what you will follow after the 3 days:
> You should eat the following each day from your Comprehensive Food List:
> 2 Proteins
> 4 Vegetables
> 3 Fruits
> 2 Starches
> 1 Fat
> 2 Supplements (1 protein bar and 1 pudding/shake powder)
> 1/4 tsp of Mortons Lite Salt
> 80 oz of H2O
> In addition breakfast each morning should be:
> 3/4 cup shredded wheat or all bran cereal
> 8 oz of skim milk
> 1 egg or egg beater
2 Gold (hoodia) a day 1 at breakfast 1 at lunch
2 Quick boost (slimquick vitamin drinks) any time a day (before 7:00 p.m.)
2 EFA’s at each meal 6 a day (the EFA from diet direct you only need 4 per day)
1 carb blocker 20 min prior to Break, lunch, and dinner
1 multi vit at breakfast (the multi vitamin from diet direct you’ll need 2 a day)
If all this comes through, I will then give you item #'s of stuff I purchased through dietdirect based on comparing the ingredients to the stuff they puch on you from their website. :) Good luck, I am down 10lbs at the end of the 3rd week, with 5.6 of them being fat.
Hi everyone-
I have just reached a all time high weight and something has to give. I am reading your reviews and trying to piece together you plan but it is kind of difficult. I really need to loose 25 pounds and need to get started ASAP....if I have to look at myself in christmas pictures I might just be ill. Would anyone be willing to shoot me an email about their plan and how to get these supplements you are talking about at the best price. It all sounds good. I see people posting who are loosing 7 pounds in 2 weeks and so on and I am very anxious to give this a try! I live in the midwest so I dont have access to the company but it sounds like its high presure sales and pretty expensive so I would like to do it the way you guys are. Please email me and put "Kelly here's the weight loss plan" in the subject box. Then hopefully I can spot it in my junk filter. Thank you Thank you Thank you to anyone who is willing to help me!
I liked the weight loss part of it. I lost 37 lbs then 15 shy of my weight loss goal stuck on. I did go to the dentist and they said i had no cavities or any plaque. it is a very healthy diet and i felt great on it. however once the diet phase is over, you enter a maintenance phase and by that time i was burned out on eating the same all the time. i also had to eat seperate from my family. i got really burned out. then i gaine a lot of my weight back. trying to get back on it with no support is very hard. i got the lifetime "MAINTENANCE" but that does not help me in the diet phase. I have to pay for that all over again. when i try to get on it again, the only thing i can suggest to help others in the supplements --they have great 100 calorie packs out there. that can be used. i still lost some weight when i was doing the diet again and using the that as the supplements. mainly its all about self control, cutting back and making right choices and getting out there and doing exercise each day of some form.
FRS Energy is the same as well as SlimQuick which is any drug store looke them up....we use Slimquick energy drink Packets and the FRS Energy Powder packets. My email is the post below..if you have any more questions I am 40 lbs down....
Hi Joedirt, so after 8 weeks how are the 3 of you doing on the program? I am in my second week and down 7.5 lbs (4.1 of which is body fat according to my scale). I am doing the program at home and by way of supplementsI only take a multivitamin and and 2 "hoodia" pills, both of which I got from dietdirect after matching the ingredients. The only thing I bought from the rep was the Quick Boost drinks and I like them, but where can you get them cheaper? I looked on diet direct but did not find anything similar. I posted the 3 day detox program and food list for all who have asked for it. That is the only thing to date I have received from my online rep.
Is there more written material that I don't have that could make a bigger difference for me? Would love to know. Thanks
Been on for over 8 Weeks now...and I have some info to share
Quick boost 30.00 - is the same a FRS Energy...and costs between 15.00 and 20.00
dietdirect sells the supplement for much cheaper the crispy 15 is what we eat..the Wondeslim are the same as what they sell in the clinic
nashuanutrition and iherb
3 of us are on the program and the cost of the supplements and Quick boost would run me 180.00 a week if I bought from the clinic...using these websites I am spending 105.00 a week instead...We did NOT put anything on a Credit Card and only paid for the Diet/starter pack...and then bought a few supplements to appease our Sales rep...we have never bought anything from them further ...we are doing well...
This could have cost me well over 4,000 dollars....riperjoe over at yahoo dot com is how I can be reached. I would like to hear more from the ex Employees...
I just wanted to comment on what Dee said about how they are trained to make the clients feel bad about themselves in order to sell products. I just joined a few days ago with my Mom. I want to lose 15 pounds, but I am definitely not considered overweight/fat. My BMI is 24.3, which is still in the healthy range. But the counselor that we met with kept referring to me as overweight. She asked how long I felt that I was overweight, even though I told her I did not consider my weight to be a health issue. When my mom was filling out the questionnaire and it asks who in your family is over weight my mom left it blank. The woman said, well your daughter is overweight! I went in knowing that I was going to join the program but that woman kept trying to beat me down! Honestly! I weighed the same or less than most of the people that worked there! So beware when you go in. It is set up to make you feel depressed (from the mirror by the scale to the unflattering mirror in the office. The diet may work but they definitely seem to do whatever they can to get you to buy more
I just wanted to comment on what Dee said about how they are trained to make the clients feel bad about themselves in order to sell products. I just joined a few days ago with my Mom. I want to lose 15 pounds, but I am definitely not considered overweight/fat. My BMI is 24.3, which is still in the healthy range. But the counselor that we met with kept referring to me as overweight. She asked how long I felt that I was overweight, even though I told her I did not consider my weight to be a health issue. When my mom was filling out the questionnaire and it asks who in your family is over weight my mom left it blank. The woman said, well your daughter is overweight! I went in knowing that I was going to join the program but that woman kept trying to beat me down! Honestly! I weighed the same or less than most of the people that worked there! So beware when you go in. It is set up to make you feel depressed (from the mirror by the scale to the unflattering mirror in the office. The diet may work but they definitely seem to do whatever they can to get you to buy more
Mia Dolce Bella, I am interested in the 3 day detox and the diet for QWLC can you please send it to me also. I am not sure of how to contact you via email to make the request
Here is the 3 day starting detox diet.
3 DAY PROGRAM
The purpose of this short 3 Day Program is to assist your body in reaching the optimum chemical balance so that when your dietary program begins, you will lose weight in the fastest, safest and most enjoyable way possible. Reducing carbohydrates signals the body to switch to burning storage fat as the body's major source of energy. This immediate change to rapid fat metabolism promotes quick weight loss, improves energy and minimizes hunger.
During this first phase of your program, you must consume the following:
• Unlimited proteins (meat, poultry, fish and shellfish)
• Unlimited green raw salad vegetables, except peas
• One-half (½) orange in the A.M. and one-half (½) Orange in the P.M.
• Ten (10) eight oz. glasses of water per day
• One-fourth (¼) to one-half (½) tsp. Morton Lite Salt
• Two (2) eggs per day or a substitute such as Egg Beaters for Breakfast, if desired
NOTE: During this phase the following are not permitted: fruit juices, cooked vegetables, bread, milk, or cheese, deli meats, peas, pasta, pork, and condiments such as mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup. Additional foods will be introduced in the next phase of your program.
Modifications
NOTE: Use oil and vinegar or Kraft Fat—Free Italian dressing on your salads.
Seasonings —any natural seasonings may be used to enhance the flavor of your food such as garlic or onion powder, as long as they do not contain any additional salt or sugar.
FOOD SELECTIONS
Proteins—Unlimited Meat: Steak, hamburger, roast, veal, lamb, chicken, turkey, fish, shrimp, lobster and scallops. (Chicken and turkey can be cooked with skin, but absolutely no batters or breading; fish or shellfish can be broiled or basted with butter, oil or margarine).
Vegetables—Unlimited Lettuce, endive, cabbage, spinach, peppers, celery, cucumbers, broccoli, green onions, sprouts, etc.
Eggs—Two daily or Egg Beaters
Morton Lite Salt- ¼- ½t. sprinkled over food
Water- 10 8 oz. glasses
Limited Selections—in addition to the water:
Coffee - Two (2) regular; four (4) decaffeinated
Tea - Two (2) regular; four (4) decaffeinated
Diet Soda - Two (2) 12 oz. cans of clear diet soda (no colas)
Rev. 10/1/07 QFL 0006
Shopping List
Vegetables
Lettuce
Celery
Cucumbers
Parsley
Green Cabbage
Broccoli
Spinach
Zucchini
Green Onions
Scallions
Chives
String Beans
Watercress
Endive
Escarole
Chard
Beet Greens
Bean Sprouts
Alfalfa Sprouts
Green Peppers
All raw greens (no peas)
Beverages
Distilled Water
Perrier Water
Sodium-Free Club Soda
Diet Soda (Clear)
Herbal Tea
Decaffeinated Coffee
Coffee
Meat
Beef
Veal
Liver
Lamb
Turkey
Chicken
All fish
Salmon
Shrimp
Lobster
Crab
Scallops
Canned Tuna
Canned Salmon
Eggs
Seasonings
Any spices which do not contain salt or sugar
Mortons Lite Salt
Apple Cider Vinegar
Tarragon Vinegar
Juice of one fresh lemon
Walden Farms Lo-Cal Italian
Kraft Fat-Free Italian
MiaDolceBelia,
Could you please send me a copy of the plan ( diet and detox) or if anyone else has a copy, could you please send it. I would like to see if it is a diet that I could actually stick to. I went into a center and I
cannot afford to drop that kind of money on something that I can't complete. The sales rep could not even give me an example but she enforced two supplements a day! the boxes are really expensive. I would need a tad bit more info before I pay them.
Hi Marladi, not sure if they are going to blank out my email but here it is: . Would love to chat with you during this process, I have at least 35 lbs to go. I am finding it a lttle hard to eat all the protein, I don't eat fish/seafood so I am very limited in choices, chicken and turkey and red meat 2x a week are my choices. Did you buy all the supplements they recommend? I bought the Hoodia and the multi vitamin only at dietdirect. I also bought some of the protein bars and shakes as well. My only problem so far is the lack of taste....I am a salter, salt on everything!! That was the first thing to go, had to swith to the Lite salt and can only use like 1/2 tsp a day.
