- Starting My Healthpointe Journey
- Silly Season Waistline Troubles
- Motivation to Try Healthpointe
- What is Healthpointe?
- Healthpointe Skepticism
Starting My Healthpointe Journey
Today is day 1 of the 3 day 'prep phase.' This phase isn't officially part of the 6-week program but it is there to help me get into the mindset and routine of the program. During this phase I do not have to restrict my eating in any particular way but should not binge eat either. I will need to start taking some supplements, namely my "daily" supplement and fish oil supplements and will also need to start doing 10,000 steps a day.
Silly Season Waistline Troubles
I've just come back to Sydney from a short stay in Melbourne and I did have a bit of a feast in Melbourne sampling a few delicious treats from a Lobster Benedict at the Hardware Societe cafe to delicious a Mango and Coconut semifreddo from Brunetti's at Lygon Street. Throw in amazing pizza and pasta from Cafe Corretto, midnight pot stickers from the Crown casino, a big bowl of Vietnamese pho, a giant apple and cream turnover and I would have thought some damage was to be done to my waistline. And this after the crazy period of Christmas and New Year's where feasting is typically part of the celebrations.
Motivation to Try Healthpointe
My weight has stayed relatively stable at 76 kilograms before and after the silly season and Melbourne feasting. Which is to say I'm still a fat ass. I am considered overweight and borderline obese for my height and considering I have ballooned from 68 kilograms in June 2015 to what I am today, I have been rather unhappy with how my weight has progressed. This is the driving reason for me trying out Healhtpointe. I heard about Healthpointe from a friend a few months ago and decided to make a leap and try the program late December (to start early Jan). It is not a cheap program but I have heard that it is one of the cheaper 'weight-loss' program, although Healthpointe insists that it is not a weight-loss program, rather it is a 'healthy-eating re-education program' and 'metabolism kick-start' program. Regardless of what it see's itself as, weight-loss is a major benefit of the program and the program itself has a 4-week 'weight-loss' period.
What is Healthpointe?
Healthpointe is a 6-week program that aims to help people get educated about how to eat healthy in a way that kick-starts and increases their overall metabolism. It claims to be a simple system that is easy to follow and that users of the program will not only lose weight but will manage to keep the weight off for years to come. Healthpointe insists that it is not a diet or a weight-loss program although weight-loss is a major benefit of the program. It bill's itself more as a re-education program about healthy eating. The program itself is based mainly on eating real food, providing guidelines about meal quantities and eating suggestions. By the end of the program the user will have a good grip of what portion sizes of proteins, carbs and fats is healthy to ingest on a daily basis thereby enabling them to make better eating choices going forwards. During the program there are supplements involved which must be taken and a 10,000 steps a day mandate.
Healthpointe claims to target only the fat stores in the body for weight loss leaving muscle mass untouched. This means that people with little fat on their body may not see much weight loss. What they may see is some of their measurements changing, for example a slimming waistline. Indeed at the start of the Healthpointe program the user will take their measurements, not just weight but diameters too. Why would someone who is not overweight do this program? Well one of the claims is that since Healthpointe is not a 'weight-loss' or 'diet' program but rather a healthy eating re-education program, Healthpointe can help with overall wellness of a person. What that means is that the program can help with things such as cholesterol levels, increased energy levels and overall increased general health.
While Healthpointe is part of the Amway business it was actually created by the Lindora institute before it was bought by Amway. It is claimed that Amway bought Healthpointe because of how well the program works and wanted the program to be exclusively available to Amway members. Amway also invested heavily in obtaining the supplements business that Healthpointe required so as to maintain exclusivity to the supplements as well.
Healthpointe comes with a 90 day money back guarantee. Just return the program material, any unused supplements or empty bottles and get all your money back. This means you could essentially do the program for free regardless of whether you saw results or not as there is no return clause saying that if you saw results you can't return the product.
Healthpointe Skepticism
Yes I do have my reservations about Healthpointe. It's not that I doubt the program will help me to lose weight or anything, though I do have my doubts about whether I can maintain any weight loss after the program.
My first point of skepticism is aimed at the business model. Basically I think that Healthpointe is a very clever way to get people hooked onto using Amway products. Though I don't personally believe that their supplements are inferior to open market supplements, in actual fact they are superior to open market supplements but they are not cheap.
Healthpointe recommends Nutriway products which was bought by Amway as part of trying to keep Healthpointe and its supplements exclusive to Amway members. Yes it could be possible to use supplements more widely available but it would require a lot of ingredient and fact checking to ensure the products that you are using are directly comparable to those recommended by Healthpointe. The other problem with using other supplements is that you're basically not following the program as intended and this may skew the results of the program. I personally have done some research and agree that Nutriway products are very good but they are also expensive. To be fair the Healthpointe program price includes all the supplements in quantities that will last the full 6-weeks. After the program anyone can choose to stop buying and using the supplements at their discretion and only 3 of the numerous supplements are recommended for after the program use. These 3 supplements are basically analogous to the recommendations you'll see anywhere you look (health shops, health websites, some doctors and dietitians even) which are multi-vitamin, omega-3 and concentrated fruit and veg.
My second point of skepticism is that Healthpointe incorporates a supplement that is essentially a metabolism stimulator. The program repeatedly insists that it has a focus on using 'real food' so why all the need for all these supplements and even a metabolism stimulator? Sounds a lot like some other weight-loss pills to me. Regardless of this I have decided to press on with the program as I have been happy with what I have seen of the program so far and I have some close friends who have had good results with the program.
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