I am SO glad I came across this thread, I thought I was the only one who hadn't been brainwashed by this fool.
I joined RH around may 2018, as a 19 year old uni student, as I thought Richie was talking sense because I hadn't seen any other slimming group mention calorie deficits before. However, once I joined (this was before the app) I was recommended I think 1600 kcals a day, 15k steps with 130g protein. This was peak exam season for me, and I was struggling to hit 10k let alone 15.
On top of this, I was 19 years old, wanting to go out and drink with mates etc. Instead of encouragement from his page, his posts were always "Youre killing yourself going out with your friends on the sesh every weekend" "Make some sacrifices you've been large for too long" "Cut off friends that don't understand you're losing weight". Honestly these words are disgusting especially as I was so impressionable and desperate to lose weight at the time, I was barely over 12 stone and to imply I was killing myself by going out drinking guilted me so much.
Also the protein intake they give you is absolutely ludicrous, I was eating meat 3 times a day, eggs once or twice a day, there were still nights I was cooking turkey breasts at 1am to try and get my protein intake to 130g. HOW can they promote this as a viable and sustainable long term plan?
I gave up after probably less than a month as I wasn't seeing any difference and it was taking an extreme toll on my life. Fast forward to now I've graduated with a degree in food science and nutrition, I'm probably ten times more educated on the topic than he is and I am losing weight in a truly sustainable way.
This guy is absolutely deranged, how he motivates his clients is disgusting, he encourages people to cut off every single person that doesn't believe in his bull. He preaches how culty clubs like SW/WW are but honestly his minions are ten times worse. Just because he has sacrificed his entire life to be fit and eat a stone of protein every day he believes the rest of us should too. I struggled to follow his plan as a student, I can't imagine how impossible it is to follow as a mum/dad with a 9-5. He is so manipulative over his following and claims to help people who are traumatised from SW/WW, there's no way that telling people they're lazy and not taking weight loss seriously if they don't manage to do 15k steps every day and eat an insane amount of protein is repairing anyone's relationship with food, in fact he's probably making these vulnerable people worse.
Sorry for the rant lol I'm just so glad to finally find people that see him for what he truly is!!