Dukan Diet UK Reviews
The Dukan Diet itself works extremely well. However, my experience with the very expensive, supposedly "personalised" coaching programme offered on the UK Dukan Diet website was dreadful.
For a start, the programme is NOT personalised. It consists of a series of automatically generated messages that are emailed to you each day. The content of these messages is often patronising, crass and even tactless. It is generated on the basis of a questionnaire you fill in at the start.You cannot inform the message robot if your circumstances change and thus you may keep getting inappropriate, and sometimes even highly upsetting messages.
Communication with the live "coaches" on the site is abysmal. It can take days to get a response to an email. They are not native speakers of English, and it shows. They often do not seem aware of all the details of the diet, and you will often get contradictory information both in answers to your messages and in those given during the chat sessions.
Many of the highly touted "hundreds" of recipes are more than useless for people in the UK. A large number are for 6 or even 8 servings, which is no help if you are dieting alone. Despite being instructed to consume no more than 3 egg yolks per week, you will find very many of recipes include eggs.
The forum is heavily censored and many of the more critical messages are deleted. In my time there, many people were unhappy about the extremely limited time in which refund can be obtained. They only realised the extent to which they had been robbed after a week or so on the site, which is too late to make a claim.
There is no fixed fee. It all depends on the length of the dieting period calculated for you. You have to pay it up front. Many people find they are asked to pay well over £100.
Do not bother with this. Buy the book if you want to do the diet. The tiny amount of extra information you might find by digging through this poorly organised site is not worth the huge amount of money you will have to pay for it. You can find most of the newer rules, tolerated foods, etc, by searching on the Web. There are also several support forums available on the Web that you can join free of charge.
