Beyond Body 4+

I have been using Beyond Body for about 3-4 weeks. I say 3-4 as 1 week I was traveling for work and, obviously, didn’t cook at the hotel. If I go out or make something for a special occasion, I can’t add what I actually ate… even if it isn’t on the plan. It would be helpful to be able to do that.

If I change a meal for another option the data isn’t reflected in the shopping list. I am also making the dinners for 4-6 people as I am not making 2 meals for my whole family. We all eat the same thing for dinner. It would be helpful to have the shopping list reflect that as an option/meal. Currently, I add everything to a spreadsheet and place my grocery order based on that taking 4 or more hours.

Lastly, I have been surprised at how good some of these meals are and I am losing weight and feeling better! I do not like that the ingredients are so varied that I’ve doubled my grocery spending to almost $300/week or more. That is not reasonable for me. I don’t need to buy a whole thing of almond milk or coconut milk for 1 or 2 meals, then see it wasted as I didn’t touch it again. My refrigerator isn’t big enough for the 6 types of milk, 5 berries, 3 different lettuces, 3 onion types, not to mention 7 oils, etc etc etc. I love that everything is varied, but some things could be consistent to save the customer $ and frustration.

Hello! Thank you for sharing your feedback about your experience with Beyond Body. We appreciate hearing from our users and are glad to hear that you are enjoying some of the meals and feeling better.

Regarding your concerns about being able to add your own meals and the shopping list not reflecting changes when you swap out meals, we will take note of this for future improvements to our app.

In terms of the grocery list, we understand that the variety of ingredients can add up in cost and space in the fridge. We are continuously working on optimizing our plans to strike a balance between offering a diverse range of ingredients while keeping the cost reasonable. We appreciate your feedback on this and will consider it for future iterations of our plans.

Thank you again for your feedback, and please let us know if you have any further suggestions or concerns.

I liked the app starting out although I started experiencing issues right away. The meals are decent, though can take significant time for some items. I connected the app to my smart watch/health app so it could track my calories burned. But it’s barely tracking anything. I will do a full workout and my smart watch will say I’ve burned 600 calories, the app will say I’ve only burned like 4 calories.

When creating the meal plan you are able to put in items you don’t like so they will exclude them from meals, however when I pull up the meals, it will have the very ingredient’s I asked it to exclude. And some of them will have option that are the same (ex, ingredient is tofu. Options are firm tofu or soft tofu. Not helpful if you don’t like/allergic to tofu).

I tried to recreate the meal plan to see if I could get better options and when I did so, it gave me a lot of the same dishes, but then the app started marking some meals as skipped or done so it already applied them to my daily eating diary. I contacted the help desk and their only suggestion was update my phone and then delete and reinstall the app. It didn’t fix the problem. It just became annoying to use with all the issues so I deleted after a little over a month of fighting with the app.

Hello! We sincerely apologize for the troubles you've had with the app. We want to take a closer look at this for you. Please send a note to hello@beyondbody.me so we can connect. Kindly, Team Beyond Body

I gave this a 3 star because I really do think there could be improvement. When making the shopping list there isn’t a lot of combining recipes. Another thing that is an issue is some things are not included into the items required list but then is in the recipe. For example today I made a steak and rice dish that the only ingredients listed were steak, bell pepper, olive oil, wild rice, and black sesame seeds but when I got to the instructions it stated to also add garlic, ginger, and soy sauce. I had soy sauce and garlic already at home but I didn’t have ginger so this is really annoying to me. Also I know they are trying to be as accurate as possible with measurements which I appreciate but I wish the unit process was better. Like I had a recipe that asked for a bagel and instead of saying 1 bagel it said the amount in grams. I don’t have a scale yet I just ordered one so it makes it hard to order ahead of time because I’m not carrying around a scale everywhere I go and it makes it hard to get meat since it’s all measured in the stores by the pound. Another thing is there are certain things I just don’t eat. Such as Greek yogurt and in 3 days so far they have had yogurt as a snack and I can’t change it. So instead I have to skip it and I can’t edit my preferences after I created my account.

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback.

Your point is valid, and we appreciate hearing your thoughts. We will make sure that this reaches the right team.

We're looking for more ways to improve, and with your help through your reports, we can make our services better. So, thank you for taking the time to let us know what you think. Kindly, team Beyond Body