Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

So I ordered this after seeing a fellow gym member wearing one and asking about it... my “problem area” has always been my stomach and so I figured I would give it a try. She told me to go ahead and order the sweet sweat stick also, so after my band arrived and I tried out the sample of the sweet sweat gel and decided I liked it (I wanted to make sure I wouldn’t break out or anything before I ordered the stick - all was well for me!) I went ahead and got the stick too. I have been using this product every day at the gym and during my walks for about a week now and it definitely does what it says. Prior to using this, I never noticed much, if any, sweat coming from my stomach. I work out pretty rigorously at the gym 2 hours a day, 6 days a week, and try to log around 20 miles of walking per week in addition to my gym time. The first time I wore this, the removal was so dramatic... sweat poured out of it and onto the floor around me! It was simultaneously the most disgusting and most sexy thing I’ve ever seen... LOL I ordered the medium and it fits great. I could have gotten a small, and probably will when I order a second one. My only complaint or thing I would change about this is I would make the band wider - personally I would love if it covered my entire midsection, from my rib cage all the way down to my hips, but since it doesn’t, I have to choose whether I am going to wear it high, under my boobs, or lower, around my waist/hip area. Originally my thought was that I would switch it halfway through my workout and wear it one hour in each location, but so far I haven’t remembered or taken the time to do that. I am thinking about ordering a second one in a small to wear around my rib cage, and continue wearing the medium around my waist/hips. Also, depending on what you are doing and how much you are sweating, this can have bursts of leakage ... the first time it happened to me I was doing a fitness bootcamp where there was a lot of floor exercises and standing, bending, laying, hands and knees, etc... at one point I felt a warm gush of what to me felt like an extraordinary amount of liquid pooling out around my lower stomach area and even though I am not pregnant, immediately I had the thought “OMG my water just broke” 😂😂😂 so, if you are wearing any color other than black, this is going to show through. Personally, I only wear black pants or very patterned ones that you wouldn’t notice extreme soaking with, so it doesn’t bother me... I like feeling like I have worked so hard for something and the intense amount of sweat is reflective of that for me. I did not take measurements so I’m not sure if I am losing inches yet, but I do feel slimmer after working out with this. Also, several have mentioned that when using this product, they sweat more overall, not just in their midsection... for me this may be a “tiny” bit true... but I don’t believe it has increased my overall sweating enough to really mention it - only in the midsection where the band is. If you are looking to increase sweating in your midsection, this product will definitely do it!