Karyn S.

The BistroMD Heart Healthy program is low fat and low sodium only. Every meal has fish, chicken, turkey, bison, or pork, with the exception of 2 tofu recipes, in this plan.
A Mediterranean diet, often recommended by cardiologists for heart patients, recommends fish and poultry weekly, which I would consider not more than about 3-5 meals, as it is not in the Daily category. It considers red meats (including pork) only monthly.
With the Heart Healthy program from Bistro MD, you will have meat in every single lunch and dinner meal, except that occasional tofu. This amounts to 14 meals a WEEK of meat, far more than recommended by most cardiologists.
There are NO vegetarian meals available.
Most of the breakfasts have eggs, which are also in the weekly category for Mediterranean diets, not daily.
Basically the BistroMD diet is a modified Keto diet, as I was told by them.
Also, the meals are quite large, and I found myself forcing down the meals. Their recommendation was to split it up into 2, and eat the rest 2 hours later. They have 3 meals and 2 snacks, each about 2 hours apart. That would mean eating 6 times a day, which is a LOT!
There is a Facebook "support" group, but they will remove any post that garners too much negative talking, so do not expect to be able to get support from others in the group for an issue you are having. They want you to contact them instead, which I did. In 3 calls, none of them had any real knowledge of what eating heart healthy really was, and considered their low sodium and low fat diet a heart healthy one. In my opinion, that's a normal healthy diet, and not tailored to what anyone needing a heart healthy program should have.
You can tailor your program to only have lunch and dinner, no snacks, etc. But you will still have meat in every one.
In the 4 weeks that I was able to choose from, the recipe choices did not change, there were no additional new recipes.
They do source good products. The meals tasted pretty good, but I had given 5 stars to only one breakfast and one dinner/lunch. There is a lot of eggplant in the vegetables, probably because it is a cheap source of protein.
I stopped the program after not even finishing one week, and just received my second week today on a Saturday, as I had to order pretty far out. They cancelled my third week (that was already on order) and refunded it.
I did loose 2 lbs in the first week, not uncommon for me when doing any kind of mindful eating.
I have requested receipts. I will attach once they send me one. I have not received any for the two shipments they sent. There is no way to access one on my online account with them.
They did not answer the phones today on a Saturday at 2:00C/3:00ET. There was a message that said I called outside of normal business hours. They are supposed to be available 9:00-6:00ET on Saturdays. I left a message and no call back as of 4:00C/5:00ET.
My shipment today had a duplicate of one meal, so was missing one of my other choices.
Just some FYI's so you know it will not be smooth sailing with this company.

This is the third time I have tried to order something, ahead of time, for a specific date, that I need to get it by. All 3 times, it arrives 1-5 days AFTER I've left for the event.
This time, 1-3 days was the listed timeframe. The 3 days shipping would have been great, but the first email I get, has it arriving 2 days later, so 5 DAYS to ship. That is NOT "Expedited" shipping. Each time, I've notified the sender that I need the item shipped ASAP. That makes no difference.
Expedited would/should be Priority Mail USPS, and there just isn't any reason Priority would take 5 days.
I ship all the time for Etsy, all over the country, and do not have that issue.
This is the last time I will shop with Poshmark. Contacting Poshmark is next to impossible. If you do get an actual person to respond, they just tell you to "reposh"/resell it on their site. That works GREAT for them, as they collect fees every time there is a sale. I will donate before I give them any more of my hard earned money.
Just do not use this company.