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MyMumTakesMyNudes

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I’m an ex project x member, you probably already know all this but I thought I’d share my experience. Before joining I had never been into fitness, I was a newbie to the gym and needed some guidance. I was following him on insta and I liked his videos and thought id give it a go. What sold me the most was, now I know is Diren marketing strategy, the month I signed up to was £50. Originally it would of been £100 but because bills had gone up for everyone he understood peoples struggles and made it half price.

I was only with him 3 months cos all he cared about was money, he became desperate diren towards to end which was cringe to watch and felt he was very half arsed doing his job. You get a gym routine, a calculation of how many calories you can eat and two calls a week which all his clients attend and you have to ask him a question and he answers in the 10/15mins you have with him. He always says say how important the community was and he wants all his clients to interact with each other but I noticed he actually never got involved in any discussion or liked any posts from us. I actually learnt and got more support from the community than him.

I messaged him a question about my exercise and he took over a week to reply back when I knew he was replying to others. I don’t expect a PT to message straight away but if I’m paying you I don’t expect a week. He was doing his calls from Bali, obviously there’s a time difference and it was late at night for him to do our calls. He would always tell us how lucky we are to have a PT that would still do calls from abroad. Errrr we didn’t tell you to go Bali? And yes, you should be doing the calls as we are payed you?

His emails would become sooo desperate by telling you a roast dinner contains over 4000 calories???!!! Utter shite and that your neglecting your body at the weekends so sign up with me and you can change. He also went onto another market strategy of emailing everyone but with the wrong names so he wanted you to reply back to it to get his attention to then fob you off with his membership prices.

I remember when I had just started he said to his clients don’t a timescale of losing weight as you will be disheartened if you don’t reach it and will give up on fitness which I liked. 1 months later he’s emailing saying JOIN ME AND YOU CAN LOSE 5KG IN 1 MONTH. I completely understand PT need clients which means money BUT you need to put the work in.

He was doing a tour at the time and I noticed he wasn’t selling many tickets so he was offered any one who signs up to Project X gets a free ticket to his show. He emailed offering key worker free tickets as they have worked so hard in the pandemic and this is his way of saying thank you but about 2 months late into his tour? As a key worker I found this insulting as he wasn’t actually giving it to us because of our work, but because he wanted his show to look packed.

Here’s a little reminder of the roast dinner email
Honestly the restaurant probably said it was 4200 KILOJOULES… which is around 1000 calories.

You know he can’t read, so… 😂

Christ, talk about the blind leading the blind. He’s a total sham.
 
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bamboo98

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Because they are a laugh for those of us who aren't signed up?


Just because you don't enjoy it others might.
This. I don’t want to bump his email subscriber list up but I like to laugh at how shit they are so I’m glad they get posted here 😂
 
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Bugger.lugs

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I knew more than one person had done the Diren Kartal Project X here - wouldn't exactly inspire anyone to part with cash (even if it is half price at the minute).The mega fans obviously were the ones lining his pockets to buy the calendars as well - absolutely cringe.
I saved up to do project X after JSA didn't work out. Finally paid for the November lockdown one as it was cheaper. I was under the illusion that Direns was so much more expensive because it was more 1-1 accountability but its just the standard JSA plan with a weekly zoom call 🤷‍♀️

He also earned a good 10-20k from lockdown one. Which will be why he decided to change and make all of his project xs 'cheaper' but only 4 weeks long.

He's rolling in it when most the people in project x that actually need help and support just quietly feel rejected and have no help. Seriously. Paying £99 for 4 weeks to be told to eat the calories you are given and walk 10000 steps a day. If you don't lose weight you obviously didn't stick to your goals. (God forbid the calories you were given were too high!)

It's completely fucked and I can wait to watch him and James fall on their arses.
 
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Icanteven

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"I could go into more detail but to be honest I don't want expose that person or their insecurities which led them to be like that.:

By the sounds of it that relationship ended a long, long time ago.

She's prob moved on and his emotional intelligence peaked in 2017.

He likes to randomly slip into his rants that he was the one who left a big relationship but I highly doubt she's out there emailing her work colleagues about the time she got dumped 5 years ago.
 
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Candycrush

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5 emails today and yesterday for project X. Someone's struggling to get sign ups. I don't think he understands the meaning of the term personal. He constantly says "if you've ever wanted to work with me on a way more personal level than any other app or programme". How is PX (group based) way more personal than when he did 1-1 coaching and it was only the two of you on the call? Baffles me every time he says it.
 
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instaknobs

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well this is just grand, Shivers, Dirat and JS all back on the gym floor. Guess they all really do live differently. most of us make our mistakes and learn in our later teens/ early 20s; this bunch of charlatans fuck around until mid 30s and then start all over again with the early 20 year olds, a generation apart. Its brilliant and im here for it.

JS will probably employ Dirat as his head coach, Dirat will say he's helping his bestie out.

2023, let the games begin
 
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Call me sad but I’ve just reported Diren’s Bulk story to the ASA. Clearly gifted products.
Says he’s not an influencer but gets freebies, that’s literally all influencers do get free stuff and post about it. Sorry Diren but you ARE an influencer, embrace it
 
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stay.woke

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I was a member of progress 247 and I'm shocked with what I'm reading about the charity money... 😳😳😳

This has also jogged my memory to something suspicious that happened around the same time!

A girl whose been with his programme for a long time won a challenge and was meant to have an all inclusive paid holiday to Turkey as the prize....

I've checked his IG, her IG (the "winner") and progress 247 IG and can't find any mention of the trip...surely it's something you'd publicise to encourage people to join if they can win a holiday.

I hadn't considered it till I read about the charity money going astray, but, cos she's been with him a long time, do you think it's possible that he worked with this woman to set up a fraudulent competition - where there was never any prize - just to attract customers for Progress 247? 😳😳😳
 
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instaknobs

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Well you wouldn’t get lost in the crowds at his party that’s for sure. Looks like a 13th birthday in a village hall.
 
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imdoingnothing

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I’m an ex project x member, you probably already know all this but I thought I’d share my experience. Before joining I had never been into fitness, I was a newbie to the gym and needed some guidance. I was following him on insta and I liked his videos and thought id give it a go. What sold me the most was, now I know is Diren marketing strategy, the month I signed up to was £50. Originally it would of been £100 but because bills had gone up for everyone he understood peoples struggles and made it half price.

I was only with him 3 months cos all he cared about was money, he became desperate diren towards to end which was cringe to watch and felt he was very half arsed doing his job. You get a gym routine, a calculation of how many calories you can eat and two calls a week which all his clients attend and you have to ask him a question and he answers in the 10/15mins you have with him. He always says say how important the community was and he wants all his clients to interact with each other but I noticed he actually never got involved in any discussion or liked any posts from us. I actually learnt and got more support from the community than him.

I messaged him a question about my exercise and he took over a week to reply back when I knew he was replying to others. I don’t expect a PT to message straight away but if I’m paying you I don’t expect a week. He was doing his calls from Bali, obviously there’s a time difference and it was late at night for him to do our calls. He would always tell us how lucky we are to have a PT that would still do calls from abroad. Errrr we didn’t tell you to go Bali? And yes, you should be doing the calls as we are payed you?

His emails would become sooo desperate by telling you a roast dinner contains over 4000 calories???!!! Utter shite and that your neglecting your body at the weekends so sign up with me and you can change. He also went onto another market strategy of emailing everyone but with the wrong names so he wanted you to reply back to it to get his attention to then fob you off with his membership prices.

I remember when I had just started he said to his clients don’t a timescale of losing weight as you will be disheartened if you don’t reach it and will give up on fitness which I liked. 1 months later he’s emailing saying JOIN ME AND YOU CAN LOSE 5KG IN 1 MONTH. I completely understand PT need clients which means money BUT you need to put the work in.

He was doing a tour at the time and I noticed he wasn’t selling many tickets so he was offered any one who signs up to Project X gets a free ticket to his show. He emailed offering key worker free tickets as they have worked so hard in the pandemic and this is his way of saying thank you but about 2 months late into his tour? As a key worker I found this insulting as he wasn’t actually giving it to us because of our work, but because he wanted his show to look packed.

Here’s a little reminder of the roast dinner email
 

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Louiselb

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Since you’re reading here now Diren, hello, your content on stories used to be really funny and your stories were better than James. Now it’s just overkill of extreme closeups of your face like James does and really boring, hard to watch. If you did less, and made it more interesting, rather than just your daily mundane activities that I’m sorry, everyone does... aka eating and walking around... it would be good again. Think about it.
 
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You don't happen to be female by any chance?
Its quite noticeable how often this pair go after women in their stories.
Now that you’ve said that I’ve realised it’s very rare they go after men unless they go after one that is quite timid. You’d never see them doing any of that to someone that would knock them out if they were to meet.
 
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Wild theory / plot twist

Diren dumped fliss to get together with Lucy lord. They have spent the last few days together before he went to texas.

James commented direns post of a tree "IYKYK" referring to diren and Lucy and also started showing the girl he was with in Mexico.

Lucy has now post something about " move the way love makes you move."

Probably wrong but I wanted to put it out there incase I am not 🤣🤣
 
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brandambassador

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Just saw this on another thread, I’m delighted for her. I’ve been the fliss in a relationship like that, so am very very happy for her 😂
me too! Wasted time on a guy who never made me his first choice any single day we were together. So I get how hard it is to walk away and I truly wish her well but I don’t need a bump pic or pregnancy reference every day for the next 6 months
 
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Sour Pickle

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May as well stick your money on the fire, if you are contemplating giving it to Diren. Least you’ll keep warm from it for 2 seconds which will go further than it would in Diren’s hands.

Also ‘wear the bikini’, ‘nobody cares what you look like’. And yet gets in an argument with someone online and immediately comments on their aesthetics “shirt too small for your body”. What a grade A conman.
 
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