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The flex-belt has tricked many people with all the high dollar advertisements Slender Tone produced using fitness models. The flex belt is not a weight loss product and many people purchased this device thinking the weight would just fall off by wearing it. Having said that, the belt does serve a purpose. I bought my belt do to having 3 ruptured disk in my lower back (got hurt in the service), with my bad back and that extra 40 lbs. I packed on I always had back pain. The best way to get rid of back pain I found out is to strengthen the core, that means the stomach and lower back. Having said that, at this point in my life I was sleeping in a bathtub of hot water a night do to horrible back pain, as you can imagine I really couldn't hit the gym and do stomach and back exercises. I started wearing the belt twice a day for about two months, in addition to the belt I also purchased a set of gravity boots and inverted myself once a day. During this period I started to change the way I eat, not really a diet but more a life style change. The belt never made me loose any weight, but it did strengthen my core which in turn made my back hurt less. This was two years ago, since I started this whole experiment I have now lost 35lbs and continue to use the belt when I'm at work typing at my desk all day. My back pain is about 98% gone and I attribute a lot of this directly to the belt. Oh course a lot has to due to the weight I loss also. In conclusion I used the belt because I needed to strengthen my core to alleviate my back pain. The belt served its purpose for building up my core muscles. The US government did a study on these kind of devices for just this purpose, and they concluded that if properly designed and used that they do work. If you decide to buy one just remember that its not for weight loss, its just for strengthening your core.