Ella H.

I joined last year and initially was quite pleased with the programme.

It does works but so does any keto plan.

The upsell of recipe books and plans etc is awful. They are not worth it at all and all of them can be found inside the group for free.

You do get some great recipes from the resident chef on the programme. Her stuff is great (Deborah's own stuff less so) but you would be better following her website separately.

The issue here is that the support team are not at all knowledgeable and in order to get sensible answers you have to Google.

Many of the answers offered are cut and paste. It is as though they have a manual that they all copy answers from.

Recently half the support team have left and have not been replaced. The group is dead and lots of questions are unanswered.

There's also a huge amount of censorship and negative comments are just deleted and people are muted.

Half of the support team are also enrolled in a kind of pyramid scheme whereby they have paid to become coaches and are now scouting the group looking for vulnerable members who may wish to pay extra for 1:2: 1 support… however the support offered is just from these coaches who paid for their ‘qualification' and are reading from the same materials available to you as a member.

It's all a big money grab and a bit of a shame.

There's no doubt at all that the plan works if you follow it, and it's heathy, wholefood and sustainable, however you are bombarded by sales messages.

Deborah herself promises that you will see her live every week but you don't. Her lives are never live and she pretends to read comments. Many of the lives are also old videos that her team edit. In fact I remember one where they had to edit out a date and every time they replay it they say that the signal was bad so it glitches, but it's actually bad editing. One of the ex team told me that they were joking about this in their back room chat.

The support team are a mixed bunch. Some have lost lots of weight. Some only a little. There are some big claims by members who don't ever show any recent photos and so I suspect they are either made up people or they have regained the weight and are just admins because it's their job.

They often contradict one another's advice and god help you if you ask a question that isn't in their manual.

The 30 day programme is not a bad price if you are Willing to accept limited support from moderators who are just reading from a manual - many of whom have not actually lost much weight themselves.

Don't purchase the ‘lifetime' offer. It really is not worth the price.

Deborah herself is not interested in either product but treats the group as a sales funnel for her coaches, who then do all the sales work and have to pay her most of the money they get from the member. For Deborah these groups are residual income. Old material that she never updates but a constant flow of cash so she can buy a new car and tell everyone about the new house she is building.

Deborah pitches the TKS programme as being the only diet you will ever need and that the mindset is the real point of difference, but since she launched the coaching programme she has started suggesting otherwise.

Now apparently you need a coach because you will regain the weight if you try to go it alone. In fat respect it's the same as any other diet out there. I guess if you are willing to pay $200 to join TKS and a further $500 to connect to a well meaning ‘coach' in order to get the accountability then go for it.

I wonder what happens after your 8 week coaching programme? I suspect that the weight comes back and you need to pay another $500 to keep the support that you now feel dependent on.

And please don't get sucked in by the promise of making money as a coach. They have to pay thousands of dollars for the course, then continue to pay for a ‘licence' to allow them to sell the product. I have spoke to several of them and they are all embarrassed that they were taken in by it, but with a $15k credit card debt they have no choice but to stay and attempt to recoup some money.

They don't get the $500 … far from it.

Finally. She's just about to launch her own brand of food. It's another brand that she is relabeling and reselling with a massive mark up.

In short. Get a book, join a FB keto group, but good quality coconut oil from the health food shop and save your money.

Deborah is pitching herself as an expert in everything from Keto to sex and relationships and she has zero qualifications or credibility in any of those areas.

I'm well over 100lbs down. The plan works but it's keto and you absolutely have to stick to it. If you follow the mindset in the 30 days programme and then branch out to other self reflection work that's available for free all over the internet then you will
Succeed too.