My friend is a Beach body Coach (Shakeology) and swears by it, however, she has been working out and drinking those shakes for years now and still looks roughly the same (read: it's not working for her). She (tries) to incorporate the shakes with those colored plastic containers, but really, to me, it looks like WAY too much food and calorie intake to do much good. When I diet, I will eat some oatmeal OR a couple hard boiled eggs OR a piece of toasted multi grain bread and a banana in the morning and call it breakfast. She eats bacon, AND no carb muffins AND eggs AND a shake with all kinds of added stuff in it, then coffee with splenda, etc.....then lunch is a crazy amount of food, and she often seems to let it all go at dinner judging from her facebook posts....it just seems like way too much food to be able to lose any weight.
She gave me a trial bag of the shake mix, and it was really disgusting, to be honest. It was so frothy thst I had to drink though half a glass of bubbly froth before getting to the shake, and to make it palatable, you're supposed to add in peanut butter (ick), or fruit or spinich, or whatever you want to cover up the taste of the mix.
Well, for $120 a bag and the hassle of making the shake, not to mention how it's touted to be "superfood" in and of itself, I don't see how spending a ton of extra money and preptime in ingrediets for the shake make sense!
I've never gone wrong by simply watching my calorie intake (my fitness pal food tracker app is my go to), exercising, cutting down on all sugar except what's naturally in whole foods, and upping my water consumption. It's not fancy and it doesn't make me lose 10 lbs a week, but it's a slow and steady weight loss that works as long as I keep it up.