The8020lifestyleplan 

This plan truly did change my life. I joined in July weighing 14st 11lbs and a size 18 by the end of my 16wks I was a size 14. I decided to rejoin for a further 16wks and am currently in a size 12.

My experience with this company has been an extremely positive one. Every question I asked was always answered, any correspondence dealt with as soon as possible. Also the community spirit and support within the academy will help anyone to meet their own goals.

My advice is to actually do the plan. Watch all the videos, download and complete the weekly content, shout if you're not sure about anything. This will only work for you if your willing to commit and put yourself first. It's not a quick fix, it's teaching how to change your relationship with food and take it with you through out your life.

I tried everything else and 80/20 worked for me.

OMG what an amazing plan..... Dan your a legend. You and the team have helped so much, answered all my question and everyone is so positive. Ive tried everything from SW, juice plus, Cambridge, herbalife and now i eat my favourite foods and still loose. Its really changed my outlook on carbs.....thanks for changing my life 💌

The 80 20 lifestyle is absolutely amazing!! It's totally changed the way I think about food and more importantly changed the way I feel about myself for the better. Its easy affordable (ALOT cheaper than other companies promoting weight loss). This is a lifestyle to last, I love to eat and he pushes you teaching you along the way. There is no missing meals at all. The support is incredible, where I feel that dan and the team are cheering you on right next to you. He'll do anything to help you and no question is too silly. There is no other place I would recommend.

Stay away it’s a con! I had been watching Dan for months on social media and finally took the plunge to join up. I got nothing other than a few random videos and no guidance or help at all. I was also told to get the paid version of Myfitness pal which was an additional cost. I asked to cancel after two weeks and I never got replies to emails. It’s all very well in his video he says sorry for the way he treated his members and that he was in 140k of debt, so this is what my membership paid for! To pay off your debt! Con con con! If your that sorry pay mine and others money back!

Don’t get yourself lured in by the TikTok’s of this guy! You get nothing except calories and macros which you can work out yourself easily anyways! Send your measurements in every week for what?? Nothing! no feedback no support! I was under the impression that when you sent them in they get reviewed! I stopped sending them to see if they’d say anything or ask for them! Got nothing! You can’t even cancel before 16 weeks is up! Scam! Just wants your money and is a Waste of time and money in my opinion! Should have stuck with Slimming World!

Minimum £125 for "bespoke" calories and lives that are accessible to anyone across multiple platforms.

Rather than parting with your money, you will benefit more from doing a little bit of research and finding a free online calculator to work out your calories. If it is support you are looking for in your weight loss journey then sadly you won't recieve any more than "trust the process" from this company.

Please shop around and maybe find someone who has recent testimonials.

Please stay away from this con! It is a total waste of money that despite saying full money back will not give you a penny! Please start you new year well by heeding good advice from someone who was drawn in and conned

REPLY TO REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Hey Dan! NO I will not provide you with my details, especially since I had to change my phone number to get you to stop harassing and threatening me with my last phone number AND you refused to delete my information when I made the request under GDPR regulations. You know full well I was on your plan because you slag me off often enough. You know who I am, I'm not hiding behind any fake accounts, I am not scared of you and I am not hiding. Go on, do another live about me. TCHQ will be watching.

Stay away!

- The owner of this plan is a toxic bully.
- Misogynistic, egotistical, narcissistic, and self confessed "alpha male"
- Twists the narrative to suit his own egotistical agenda
- He consistently lies and contradicts himself
- Anyone that disagrees with him is harassed and verbally abused
- Does not follow GDPR rules
- Voices his opinions as facts
- Customer service is none existent
- If you do disagree a offering a physical fight or making underhanded threats are how he operates
- Takes drugs and advocates them to others. Even claimed a class A drug called DMT can help mental health
- Offers a money back guarantee he has no intention of sticking to
- 25% long term weightloss is not a success but 1cm overall loss is acceptable on his plan 🤷‍♀️
- Swearing is excessive and in poor taste
- Gloating to other coaches about "the biggest person" he's worked with as if we are just trophies
- Doesn't pay his staff
- Doesn't offer anything except a Facebook group for £25pm (back down from £49 pm!!)
- NOT QUALIFIED to a high standard
-Rattles off about Cognitive behaviour therapy but his qualification is a £20 Groupon
- Verbally attacks other plans and coaches but plays victim if you question him at all.
- Lives are rarely about lifestyle or weightloss (unless you ask a question, then he will briefly make up so 1 part fact 9 part utter twaddle for 2min) and more about him and his crude little jokes, getting one up on someone or playing victim.
- I was on 2340 calories (it seems the bulk of his members were) despite him claiming it's bespoke! I rarely ate that much and was doing 13-15k average steps plus 2 gym sessions. Looking back I was not doing his plan to loose my weight.
- Uses outdated, disproved theories to back himself up then back tracks when called out on it. (He used a students debunked homework essay in one argument 😅)

To be honest this list could just go on but I'd recommend looking on the tattle threads about him and his business too before signing up. You have been warned.

Yes this is my ONLY reveiw as my previous one I deleted due to the harassment and bullying I received but this one will be verified when TP ask for it and it will remain up.
This man needs shutting down because his advice is 1 part fact and 9 part rubbish and opinion.

I won't deny the plan has potential with a fully qualified and trained coach but certainly not with this man. The plan loosely worked for me but more due to the support from other members and by introducing me to tools such a nutracheck. Dan claims it was his plan that made me loose the weight and his plan that helped me conceive but it was not him, it was the other members that spurred me on which I could have found in any weightloss group and treatment I was having with an osteopath for long term back issues. I still do well on my own with friends I've made along the way.

YOU DO NOT NEED THIS PLAN. Seriously do your research and trust your gut, stay away!
Join some free weightloss groups, educate yourself and don't trust these fad diets - of which 80/20 FIRMLY belongs!

Complete madness, total S@:t show, contradiction after contradiction, no staff, old plan, too many calories. Better other choices out there!

Save your money!

I was full of hope for a new way to lose weight in a full supported online community and couldn’t wait to get started. My first mistake was not reading any reviews. I allowed myself to be caught up in the social media ‘hype’ and didn’t bother looking at what is a growing list of complaints from others, that would entirely match my own.
When I enquired about the plan initially I was concerned that ‘support’ was on Facebook, because I’d taken myself off FB some months before and didn’t want to go back, however, I was assured that I would be fully supported via Email. Needless to say, that didn’t happen.
Instead, like all the others, I was deluged with nonsense, boring, repetitive, emails and expected to watch unnecessarily long, nonsensical, boring, repetitive videos that were really hard to engage with and fill in paper emotion trackers for what purpose?
In week three I was already wondering why I’d signed up.
I eventually had to reopen my FB account
and join the “academy” to try to get any help or further information, but it was useless. Apart from Lois (who was swamped with questions) who tried her best to help hundreds of us, answers weren’t forthcoming and you quickly felt bullied by the ‘huns’ if you weren’t playing along. As SO many others have said, all you got in reply was ‘trust the process’ and to begin with you do, despite feeling my calories were set WAY too high. I lost an odd centimetre but really just gained weight and felt worse and worse about myself, but we’d been promised emotional support. Where was it? As the weeks went by and I vented my disappointment at how it (wasn’t) going, I found that there was no help at all and my questions seemed to constantly go missing.
I got completely fed up of logging into to FB to find the academy was endlessly full of the same questions over and over and over and it was crystal clear that the plan wasn’t working for just about everyone. How could that be? We were trusting the process but the process wasn’t working. I just became more and more disillusioned.
I rarely logged into the lives because after the first couple of weeks I couldn’t bear the horror show and the constant burping, nasty comments and unbelievably unprofessional manner they were delivered in. Everyone else was to blame for everything and HE was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Absolutely appalling behaviour and we were paying him!
What finally pushed me over the edge though, was that it very quickly became apparent that he was happy to give away for free all the “tailored” (it absolutely isn’t) information that hundreds of us were paying for. Why had we bothered??? All the promises made about what was upcoming and of extras for paying clients, none of it materialised and in reality everything was available for free.
I’d wasted SO much money on a “cookery book” which was dreadful rubbish and 16 weeks of unsupported nonsense, I couldn’t wait to get out.
Please, please, please KEEP YOUR MONEY. Don’t waste a penny or a second of your time on this absolute scam.
Everything you need is already out there for free.
This has been a very expensive lesson and I’m annoyed with myself for being taken in by this grade A charlatan. DON’T DO IT.

I stumbled across Dan Wheeler on Tik Tok, and what he seemed to be saying made some sense. Did a bit of research and there was some sense behind it.
It started off well, ate more, moved more, made some cms losses. Didn’t lose weight though. Then I plateaued.
You submit your measurements each week but there is zero follow up or checking in on you.
The lives at 1st were ok, but they slipped quickly into revolving around Dans ego & became more about him. As time went on they went too far in what was being said. There were the odd good moments, then getting out to walk while doing them was a decent attempt to encourage people to get out in the morning but they didn’t last.
We were promised new fresh content by September but then it slipped to 2022 & the Dan disappeared due to what ever reason & you then start to wonder what you are paying for.
The only person who genuinely seemed to care about people was Lois but she had hike now as well it would seem.

Avoid this at all costs.. you can work out your TDEE online… and go from there. Unless you are part of a small clique you don’t get the support.

I signed up to the £25 a month plan as it was then. I was given what I know is my maintenance calorie not weight loss. I was really interested in the nutrition side of the plan but the videos were mainly old members of staff that have since left the company talking about the mindset. I didn’t find this helpful at all, it just wasn’t anything new. The videos felt like they were had large parts cut out and edited, I’m guessing as the staff withdrew their permission to use them.
The lives were chaotic and unprofessional, sometimes involving him smoking cannabis other time just ranting about people who questioned him. His ego was dominating every live, I ended up tuning in like it was a car crash! What is he going to say today?!
The academy was heavily moderated and anything that questioned the plan was deleted. Any questions that did make it through we met by ‘legends’ and their copy and paste answers. Mostly along the lines of ‘trust the process’.
Nothing about this was personal or bespoke, which was the main selling point of the plan.

Really wished I’d listened to people because I was warned off joining up but decided I knew better!

Dan Wheeler makes this sound great in his videos but it’s an absolute waste of money! Absolutely not ‘bespoke’ and no one actually engages with your information (measurements etc) or updates as you go along.

The videos and Facebook content are not, in my opinion, worth the money.

You can get your macros for free online. Do that! Don’t pay for this!

Disappointing experience whilst on the plan .
Signed up after following Dan wheeler on TicTok. The man can talk the talk but in reality doesn't walk the walk.
In principle the plan sounds good but sadly fails with the " never diet again " theory. Even his top fans have admitted to gaining cms and weight just by having 2 weeks off. The high calories are difficult to consume without eating massive amounts which for me didn't improve my sleep or Mobility as I just felt stuffed and uncomfortable.and as for the 10,000 steps per day who wants to go out when it's cold wet and windy ?
If you have problems on the plan ,you can ask in the questions in the Facebook academy but your lucky if they get aired as everything is moderated and only the good ones are filtered through.
Dan claims he can help with medical issues and mental health problems ,it would appear he needs to take his own advice as he is struggling himself at the minute.
Please take the time to read all the 1* reviews as they are all a true reflection of what the 80/20 has to offer .
£49.00 per month for a no show of the man himself is what you will get .

Unfortunately, I was not successful on this plan. I have thyroid issues and it’s not controlled. I explained this and was told it would still work. I only lost cm during one week and that was the only week I didn’t hit my calories. I asked whether I should reduce I was told to believe in the process. During one of the weekly videos Dan very briefly mentions the thyroid and says you can burn it out. When I asked about this during a live I was told that he wouldn’t have ever used that vocabulary and wouldn’t be something he would say and he just repeated I wouldn’t say that over and over again. I did the entire 16 weeks. During my last week I finally got an answer whether my uncontrol thyroid could have an impact on my weight loss I was told yes and go to the doctor. My thyroid has been an issue for years and my consultation has been trying to get it under control for years so that wasn’t going to happen. Some days I didn’t hit my water target or my walking target. If you do want to go ahead with the plan. Keep a record of everything you do. It’s only money back guarantee if you can prove your every move. The only thing I lost was money. So back to slimming world for me.

I joined 8020 after watching Dan on tiktok for a month. He appeared to know what her was talking about. Signed up and very quickly things changed and I realised I had made a mistake. Firstly told to take melatonin to aid sleep. This can only be taken through a GP prescription in the UK, then advised to buy it abroad. I stated that this was wrong and that it could only be prescribed be a GP to be told by staff i was being dramatic. I should at this point have realised that any health professional would not advocate taking drugs but I stuck with it. I stuck to the plan religiously. Very quickly realised the plan did not work. The generic 10000 steps and high calories ( maintenance calories) that were given to me obviously did not allow me to lose weight. Could kick myself with this as i was already doing over 10000 a day so should have realised that if i did not up my excersie then I was never going to lose weight but i trusted him, it was meant to be a bespoke progame but they had obviously not looked at my form or what my excersie level was already. When I reached out to them I was told to stick with it trust the process. Then told it takes the 16 weeks to see a difference. When I signed up we were told we would get recipes, have support from professionals, and money back if the plan did not work. None of these things happened. Thr only support is through other people on the plan on the face book page. I did not sign up to get help from people who have no training. Then as the weeks went on the main staff member became more outrageous in what he did and said online. He did a tiktok where he was choked out live. This was the end for me. Not only had I not lost but by now had put on he was promoting the dangerous acts and thought it was funny. I emailed and asked to be removed from the programe. Got told they would keep sending me what I had paid for. I once again asked to stop everything. They then blocked me, blocked me from accessing site and thankfully stopped the relentless emails. I would advise to have nothing to do with this plan. Toxic staff who if you ask for advice or say you are struggling you are told its your fault and belittled. On the whole an awful experience and I would tell anyone to stay well away.

Please think twice before signing up to this DIET!!!
I joined the 8020 lifestyle plan after seeing Dan on TT, for £25 a month (back then) for a 16 week content sounded too good to be true.. well I suppose it was because it was truly a waste of money, time and effort. you are lead to believe for the money you will get bespoke cal/macros, 16 weeks content to help you ‘stop dieting, start living’, advice on nutrition as well as support, recipes, menopause knowledge and he can cure binge eating. On joining you fill out a form and get calories etc for this you will get given the basic generic calories you can find on any tdee calculator (just look for the maintenance calories) and told to walk 10k steps or build it up from 6k this is the same for everyone so the starting info as ‘sold’ is NOT bespoke! I questioned the cal limit and was told to eat the calories ‘enjoy the extra food and freedom’. After a bombardment of emails (there are so many!) I watched the first two weeks videos, took my first set of measurements and starting photos, weighed and tracked it all on the spreadsheet as well as the eform they send. Ps there are 14 points on your body to measure … each week! You are told not to weigh but I’m glad I did.
after a couple of weeks I asked some advice on a live as I’d not really lost anything (almost 1cm in total) I was concerned I was missing something however I was hitting all the targets, drinking, walking calories etc. I was simply told to trust the process. Few more weeks I asked the same question as again no loss but my scale weight had increased. This time I was asked a series of Q’s then told to email all the measurements, progress photos, photo proof of cals eaten and steps count. Not really sure why I needed to do this as I was submitting most of this weekly on the forms sent out. anyway I did and I was told I could increase steps but not reduce calories and continue to trust the process again it’ll work (oh and don’t weigh).
Additionally I was offered a one off phone call with Dan for £99 if I felt I needed extra motivation, or had I considered upgrading the plan. Having watched the videos so far done the mindset work, met all the targets I really couldn’t see the benefit of paying more speak to someone, I did consider the higher package but I couldn’t afford it and apart from a monthly call I couldn’t see what difference there was that wasn’t already being ‘promised’ as part of the initial package.

More weeks passed and I went to see my GP for BP check up. my weight had increased further, bursting into tears I explained that I had been trying so hard, the plan I had been following, I even took print outs of the spreadsheet I had been tracking everything on, the GP was very helpful and advised me to STOP this diet ASAP, the ethos around move more was ok ‘in theory’ but the calories set were way too high and no amount of walking would counter balance the calorie input is been put on! Let alone create a deficit. When I mentioned this to 8020 it was laughed off and suggested I change my GP.

If you are one of the unlucky ones who are stuck in the plan contact citizen advice as they were very helpful with how I should proceed.

Additionally Dan often ranted about trolls on lives & I once felt sorry for him however after a little investigation it’s clear almost all those which he calls trolls are simply disappointed past members speaking out, they’ve treated some of these people terribly by 8020, staff, supporters or Dan himself.

anyone leaving truthful reviews of their experience is being branded a troll however 8020 has admitted to to failing members but still refuse to accept their plan is anything but successful, they have not done anything to try to make amends or provide what’s simply been paid for, nor refund for a mis-sold product/plan.

Ps There is some great support from past members who have come together (who 8020 calls ‘tattle’ trolls) a quick Google search should point you in the right direction. This is by far more positive than the toxic academy support you will have access to if you join the plan.

Saw a few posts from Dan before I signed up even though I couldn’t find much of what the plan was before I signed up. When I did, I submitted my measurements, got what I believed was a generic email back with calories and asked to submit measurements weekly. Wasn’t once told I would/wouldn’t get feedback. Found the ‘academy’ was just other members giving advice. Didn’t seem to get anything directly from 8020 apart from a few pre-recorded videos about mindfulness and ‘nutrition’. Found content mostly unnecessary & dull and didn’t help me at all. Lost a few cm’s but no weight at all. Probably because I was drinking loads of water which is just obvious.
After a month I requested to cancel the plan - and I was very shocked they did!

Definitely wouldn’t recommend this. You get no support, no real advice apart from eat well 80% and do what you like mostly 20%. It’s not a lifestyle plan, it’s not supportive and the ‘owner’ is pretty rude and arrogant with how he slags off SW and negative comments.

So I signed up after watching Dan on TikTok. I was sent a ton of emails and over an hours worth of videos to watch. Considering this is meant to be bespoke the videos were generic, too long and quite boring tbh. These videos came in weekly and in the end I stopped watching them. I didn’t have an hour a week to just sit and watch videos (especially ones that weren’t engaging).
The Facebook group was odd, you were basically told you couldn’t put anything negative there, I mentioned that I’d put on cms in places but got told that it was okay as I’m losing cms in the right places… sure okay! I then emailed asking for some help and got nothing in return.
You have to submit your measurements via a google website which is so faffy after you spend time inputting everything into an excel spreadsheet.
Dan is also quite unprofessional IMO, he was asking for investors and for quite a lot of money on the Facebook group, and would also air a lot of his dirty laundry too about people talking about him behind his back. Not what you’d expect from a company owner. The helpful lives were just him and his mates chatting.
I did learn that I need to eat more and move more rather than restrict which is helpful to understand and I learnt that proteins are hard to digest and keep you fuller but other than that… I wish I hadn’t wasted my money.

Edit - I questioned on TikTok why I didn’t get a response to asking for help via email and I got blocked by Dan! Absolutely awful customer service. Imagine blocking a customer for asking a question!!!!

** update dec21**
Dan has asked for my info and I was happy to provide it. I have said nothing wrong in my review, all my experience. I am not a troll, simply someone who was drawn into false promises of a plan that would help me.

I signed up to the 80/20 as I saw some of Dan’s videos on tiktok. I agreed with a lot of what he was saying around slimming world and how calorie counting was the way to lose weight.
He talked about his amazing plan and how he would change my thought process around dieting which would change my life. I mean that’s amazing right!? Wrong.
When I signed up I was just sent a ton of emails with loads of videos to watch. There were way too many videos and tbh they were dull and boring so I found myself not watching them. I was given my calories quite quickly but I felt they were high.
Anyway I started week1 and I did notice some losses in measurements however I do believe this was mainly water weight as week 2 I actually increased.
This is when I emailed the team asking for help. Just told to try my best.
The Facebook group was just a waste of time. I hated it. Just all about exercise and eating junk cause it was within their calories. It also made me fell rubbish how bad I was doing but you can’t post anything negative on their page.
So to sum it up I wasted all that money and actually felt worse at the end of it. I left a review and told the team my issues. They just apologised and said they are trying to do better. But I didn’t get a refund….if I had maybe I would’ve felt not so bitter in the end.
So here I am, tried every diet in the book and feel fatter than ever. Thanks Dan