Currently enrolled on week 14
My coach has made it fun and interesting. She very supportive, direct and appropriate. I've lost 16 lbs and am down 2 sizes.it helps me visually to see how and what I eat. I will be sad for it to end!
Omada Health emphasis is on education and accountability. Yes, it's digital, but the Omada Coaches (especially Nicole) are wonderful. The lessons are terrific, as are the articles. The digital scale synched with the Program and our phones, and Omada charts our weight loss progress. As with anything in life, you get out what you put in.
This program provided the means I needed to be accountable for what I was eating. And the result was a 40-lb. weight loss, which I'm thrilled about! So I will always have good things to say about the Omada program.
There were things I had to work out for myself (like getting my own scale because their scale didn't go high enough for me) but they were easy to work with and I will always have positive things to say about a program that helped me achieve something I thought I could never do, which was losing any weight at all! Thanks for the great start, Omada!
I joined Omada because my employer provided insurance covers it and it was marketed at our health fairs. I can only describe it as disappointing. I am writing to my insurance company and employer to ask that they reconsider promoting Omada. The only benefit for me was knowing someone saw my weigh ins. The Bluetooth scale and knowing my coach saw my weigh in was a tremendous motivator and the only reason I am giving 2 stars. That alone was initially well worth it. When I became very sick in December and went weeks without weighing in and realized my coach didn t even ask why o wasn t weighing, I lost my motivation. Here s more details on why only 2 stars.
1. The app is simplistic at best. It performs as you d expect a beta version to perform but it s not beta. It does not allow you to track calories but you re encouraged to track calories. You can enter a basic written statement of what you ate such as cereal and milk. You can get as detailed as you like with that statement but you have to renter it each time. You can enter 1 photo per meal. I stopped tracking in the app after 4 months because even on bad days I received feedback on a meal exactly one time and it was when I typed a question into my meal entry. You re encouraged to use other apps like My Fitness Pal then screenshot it then type it into Omada then add the screenshot. Are you kidding me?
2. You receive little guidance on what your weight loss goals should be. When I asked my coach she said she cannot give such advice and talk to my doctor.
3. Reponse from coaches are canned text (meaning something copy pasted into messages. If I didn t lose I d get something like wow you re amazing and if I lost 3 pounds I d get the same.
4. The weekly lessons are very very simplistic to an insulting degree. They seem to be written with the assumption that obese people are uneducated.
5. Only steps can be counted for exercise. On days I went to the gym and lifted I had lower steps and did not hit my step goal which meant my exercise ring in Omada didn t close. One day I kayaked for 2 hours which was huge for me but that darn ring still didn t close because I didn t get enough steps. That was very very discouraging when I was actually working hard. I asked my coach how to approach it and she suggested I talk to my doctor and sent a link to an article about getting started with exercise. I was exercising! I was working sooooo hard!
6. I made it clear from day 1 that I needed support from other people or the group and desperately needed that connection with people. In the first 16 weeks no one posted or responded to posts. There was no value in the group at all. I joined a Facebook group instead.
7. I asked my coach about the DASH diet or other diets recommended for hypertension. She said she couldn t advise on nutrition and talk to my doctor. Tell me again what select health is paying you for, Omada?
8. When a urologist told me to cut protein I asked about suggestions for breakfast. I was sent a link to an article.
9. When I got covid I was offline for 3 weeks. I thought when I logged in someone would have noticed I was gone. Nope. Not even a message from my coach asking if everything was going okay. After that I realized no one even notices if I m participating and I gave up. I know I need to do this for me and I actually am but for many reasons that I won t go into here I desperately need support and to know someone cares that I m working hard.
10. That brings me to insurance coverage. This program is being covered by insurance because it benefits the health of the customer but it doesn t. The same information can be found via Google. Why is insurance covering this? Maybe for someone who doesn t understand basic exercise and nutrition principles it s helpful but that s not me. I am not overweight because I don t understand nutrition. I am smart and educated and made it clear I needed support in my journey. I lost 28 pounds on 4 months and have kept off 24. I have now moved to Noom and looking forward to getting off the rest of it.
I am in week 6 of the program and am likely going to quit.
It s nothing but a scale that doesn t function well, articles with really basic info and free text food tracking.
Group is pretty much inactive and there is no feedback at all. All the health coach does is post canned articles which isn t helpful. I ve tried reaching out to the group for support and all I got was a few questions from the coach.
I haven t lost a pound and I ve been eating for the most part according to the guidelines in the articles and exercising..
There is no larger community to interact with so if your group is quiet you re basically going at it alone- I feel like this is an overly expensive program that could be replaced by a notebook and google searching articles.
I lost 85 pounds with this program and have kept the weight off for two years. I have tried other programs throughout the years without success. Omada taught me that I'm control, the program never ends and we don't get to return to our old habits.
Omada Health distributed tens of thousands of electronic 2G scales to participants through 2016. They updated their electronic scales to 4G in 2017, rendering all of those earlier scales inoperative if your membership ended in 2016. Apparently, they have now become eco-friendly and the newer scales can be used as an ordinary scale after your membership ends. I emailed them only to be told that my 2G scale could be used as a stand-alone scale, only to be told in my follow up email that it couldn t. What a waste that so many of these scales ended up in our landfills. Not every one has access to electronic recycling centers. SHAME ON OMADA HEALTH FOR NOT CARING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT!
Like others are saying, I feel that the program itself is basic. The health coach is helpful, but the community base group is non existent.. IE quiet. I find the topics covered and suggestions to be generic and anyone looking to lose weight will already have read about them. Entering the program I was very excited to try it, but 6 weeks in, I can't recommend a program that doesn't have an engage community. The only reason I'm sticking to the program and giving it 2 stars is the scale is useful and the coach does try and engage me in communication. But at the end of the day, all it is is a fancy scale..
Didn t work for me.
Basically they give you a fancy weighing scale and some articles to read. Then it s hands off
I could have done that my self. There are plenty of articles you can read online for free
The guide was useless. Didn t give any feedback or advice and just kept asking questions. There was no feedback on your activity or food intake or any input on what you are doing right or wrong
Save your money.
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