Mara Holt

It's easy to find what I wanted, there are a variety of colors and styles, the delivery is prompt, and the compression stockings are exactly what my doctor wants me to wear. I'm staying with "For Your Legs."

Belle helped me get through a trip recently with encouragement about food and exercise choices I was making. When I returned home my partner and I had words, and I left the house and drove around for a while, and I parked in a shady spot at a restaurant and texted my partner. When I got home, he was surprised to learn that I had not eaten any ice cream. I hadn’t even thought about it until he brought it up. In every similar situation, I have brought ice cream or a cream pie and eaten all of it before returning home. This is how Belle and this program has changed my life. I have a history of binge eating to solve my emotional problems, and this time I got through the trip and its aftermath without succumbing to emotional eating. The next time I weighed I had lost 2 lbs.

This program, with Belle’s help, has taught me how to eat so that I’m not ravenously hungry between meals, has taught me how to cook meals I enjoy, and how to keep up exercise in difficult situations. Belle and Fitmate are moving me away from my previous diet/binge cycle that has characterized most of my life. This program works. Belle doesn’t blame or punish me; she only encourages me. Thus I am gradually learning not to blame or punish myself.

After almost 4 weeks in the program, I feel more capable and energetic. I have counted calories for years, but I haven’t paid formal attention to protein and fiber. Having protein and fiber goals has kept me from feeling the incessant hunger that I have felt with other diets.

I am much more motivated because of the gentle accountability that Belle has provided. Belle is a perfect coach. She is responsive, always there when I need her, always positive and encouraging. The teamwork keeps me on track. I have been on a lot of diets in my life, and I know my pitfalls pretty well, and Belle listens to me and helps me incorporate my successful strategies into the program. If she makes a suggestion that I know won’t work for me, she will modify it. She knows that if I do well on a smaller goal that I will push past that goal when I am ready.

I am enjoying new foods and the creativity of putting ingredients together to develop the right balance of calories, protein, and fiber. And I’m able to do more in a day without getting as tired as I used to get. I look forward to exercise and to the next recipe.

My first time did not work for me, but the second batch was really on target, thanks to my stylist’s attention to my feedback. I ended up with several lovely pieces for less money than I expected.

Noom is great. It’s a lot of work if you do everything they ask, but it takes that for me to effectively lose weight at my senior age. They have all bases covered—emotional, psychological, scientific, exercise, and food. And social support. I have tried everything, and this is the best, most effective, and most motivating program I’ve experienced.

Everything worked out fine, and the products are fine. The reason I'm giving a 3 star rating is that the communication wasn't as good as it could have been. One of the 3 items I ordered took much, much longer than the other two, and I was not sent any "in process" emails. When I went to the company chat to ask why, I was told that someone else would be contacting me, and no one ever did. At some point I got asked to review the order, and yet the 3rd piece hadn't arrived. The 3rd piece has arrived, so I am now reviewing the order.