Common Questions

What is included in the Skinny Pods kit?

The Skinny Pods kit comes with the lavender ice cream cone style holder, and 50 multi-use Skinny Pods (sealed in packets of 10 Pods each).

What exactly are the Pods? What material are they made from?

Skinny Pods are ultrasonically fabricated calorie restriction pouches made from our exclusive micro-pore matrix material. The patent-pending micro-pore matrix is made from ultrafine nylon, and fully complies with FDA specifications. Each pod is so light, it is nearly weightless to the touch.

How many times can a Pod be re-used?

Three to four times, depending on the user.

How will I know when it's time to change to a new Pod?

It's time to replace the Pod in use with another when the Pod tears or frays (usually after 3 to 4 uses). The Skinny Pods kit comes with 50 multi-use Pods. Refills are available, and may be purchased by clicking on the "BUY" navigation tab at the top of this page.

How do you clean a Skinny Pod after use?

Simply rinse with water for immediate re-use. To re-use at a later time, hand wash with dishwashing liquid.

What about cleaning the holder?

Clean the lavender ice cream cone style holder and white clip when necessary by hand washing with dishwashing liquid. The holder's lid twist-and-lifts easily off with a counter-clockwise turn for easy cleaning.

Why does the Skinny Pods holder look like an ice cream cone, since you can't use ice cream in a Skinny Pod?

The Skinny Pods holder was designed to be fun and easy to use. It's true that you can't use Skinny Pods to eat frozen desserts.

What foods are perfect for Skinny Pods?

Skinny Pods are designed for use with chocolates, cookies, cake, brownies, donuts, candy bars, jelly beans, gummy bears and many other non-frozen desserts and sweet snacks.

Especially convenient are the "100 calorie packs" of reduced-size cookies, cupcakes, donuts, and candy bar miniatures available at any supermarket.

Which foods should Skinny Pods NOT be used with?

Skinny Pods are designed to be used with desserts and sweet snacks ONLY.

Skinny Pods cannot be used with non-dessert items, or food items that require significant chewing to break down, including, but not limited to: meat, poultry, fish, pasta, bread, vegetables, or fruit (including dried fruit such as raisins.)

Skinny Pods don't work with liquids or foods that melt at room temperature, such as ice cream.

What is the Skinny Pods return policy?

Skinny Pods may be returned for any reason within six months of purchase for a full refund of the product price (shipping not included). It is not necessary to save the original packing materials, but please save your receipt or packing slip as proof of date of purchase.

To return Skinny Pods products for a full refund, less shipping costs, simply mail (via USPS certified mail) or otherwise ship (UPS or FEDEX Ground) all Skinny Pods holders and Ultralite Clips that came with your order, PLUS either the receipt or packing slip to:

Skinny Pods – Returns
67 Fairbanks Ave.
Irvine, CA 92618

Customer is responsible for shipping costs.
Please allow six weeks for your refund to be fully processed.

What is the Skinny Pods privacy policy?

We know you value your privacy, so we have taken all necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. To view the Skinny Pods privacy policy, click on the Privacy Policy navigation tab at the bottom of this page.

How can Skinny Pods be used with very low carb diets?

When following a very low carb diet, use Skinny Pods to curb your sugar cravings by using gummi candies instead of chocolate. The average-sized gummi bear has 1.5 grams of carbs and six calories.

What are the directions for using Skinny Pods to curb sugar cravings?

When used as directed, Skinny Pods melt away sugar cravings by hyper-saturating your taste buds with a single, constant, repetitive stimulus. This pushes your gustatory system into Total Taste Specific Satiety (TTSS), and you will lose all desire for anything sweet.

Chocolate Kisses or Gummi Candies. Your choice.

To curb cravings with Skinny Pods, choose either chocolate kisses or gummi bears for each Skinny Pods session.

If you choose chocolate kisses: Use only the plain milk chocolate version. DO NOT use the dark chocolate or any other specialty variety of chocolate kisses (jelly, nuts, peanut butter, etc), as they contain combinations of flavors which make them ineffective at helping you quickly reach TTSS.

If you choose gummi bears: Choose a single sweet flavor of gummi bear, and use only that flavor until the end of the 15 minute session. You may change flavors of gummi bears between Skinny Pods sessions, but not during a session. Always choose a sweet flavor.

Directions

1. Place either two chocolate kisses OR two gummi bears into a Skinny Pod, and snap the Pod closed, and attach to its ice cream cone style holder.

2. Take the Skinny Pod containing the kisses or gummi bears into your mouth. Roll them around with your tongue, and enjoy the flavor. Suck, swish, but don't chew. Continue for at least 15 minutes.

   During this fifteen minutes, your Skinny Pod is control-releasing tastants into your saliva, continuously flooding, and ultimately "glutting" your taste buds.

   * Don't eat or drink anything else during this process, or you will have to begin again.

3. Should you finish the chocolate kisses/gummi bears before the 15 minute session is up, simply refill the Pod with a single chocolate kiss (or two gummi bears), and continue to savor as before. (Calorie info: Chocolate kisses are approximately 22 calories each. Gummi bears are most commonly 6 calories each).

   By this point, most people find that they have lost their sugar craving entirely. : If a particularly stubborn craving persists, rinse the Skinny Pod off with tap water, and refill with one more chocolate kiss (or two gummi bears), and continue to savor as before.

   By now, more than 90% of users will feel zero desire for anything sweet for at least 4 to 6 hours.

And six hours later?

If cravings return, repeat the process. This is common during the first week of use.

Remember - each new 15 minute session gives you the choice of chocolate kisses or a single sweet flavor of gummi bears. But once you start the session, you must stick with your choice until the session is finished.

In between sessions, the Pods clean easily with standard dish washing liquid. They can be cleaned and rinsed in less than one minute (please do not place in dishwasher.)

For the first week, most people will need to use their Skinny Pods to curb cravings once or twice each day.

After the first week using Skinny Pods...

During the second week, you will begin to find yourself less bothered by sugar cravings. The need to use Skinny Pods will decrease, and you will probably find yourself using them no more than once per day.

During the third week, your cravings will further subside, to the point that you may find that there are days when you don't need to use Skinny Pods at all. But when you do feel an urge, your Skinny Pods are there for you.

After the first month using Skinny Pods...

By the end of the first month, you probably won't be obsessing much about chocolate or other sugary snacks at all. Why? Three reasons...

1. Since you can snack guilt-free, you feel less deprived and stressed by your diet. This causes cortisol levels to fall in your bloodstream, easing both hunger and cravings.

2. Since chocolate and candies are no longer taboo (with Skinny Pods you can have them whenever you desire them), their temptation loses its power.

3. After a month, Skinny Pods users become conditioned to think of chocolate and sugary snacks as parts of the Skinny Pods dieting tool, and less as that special treat they had enjoyed as a child. This is very important in ending cravings as a permanent solution.

   And when the occasional craving does arise, you will always have Skinny Pods to immediately handle it.

Is it sad to lose this special love of chocolate?

No. You'll still be able to enjoy chocolate as a casual treat. But you won't feel the NEED for it. This is a very freeing experience.