Gracious sakes alive, I don't care what they call it.. squatty, potty, sp, squat pot or "the thing you can't live without".. it works! My physical therapist told me about it. I swear, that man knows me more than I know myself and he was talking to me one day all about this professional development class he took where he learned all about it. Naturally, I had to have one. Whatever that fella says, you can take to the bank so I figured if he said it, it would work. Course, he talked about it with great class whereas I, being an elementary teacher, brought it down to reality and funny when I realized it involved poop. Well now, it was great until I realized I'd have to go into a store to buy it. I found it at Bed, Bath, and Beyond (though smart folks get it online and save themselves from the embarrassing trip to the store). Me though.. I hadn't thought it through until the moment I had it in my arms marching like a confident person to the cash register. The confidence zip left me and on the fly, I came up with a great story about how I was buying it for the local nursing home. The lady who checked me out had that smirk of a look that says "uh-huh, right you are". Sheepishly I took it home and after experiencing it 1-1, I was so impressed, I bought one for each of my siblings and my nieces. Yup, for their Christmas gifts to boot. Nobody would tell me what they wanted for Christmas, and I was plumb wore out from asking so I decided to be the "I'm gonna save your colon lady" and got every single person one. That was over 5 years ago and to this day, I get Christmas lists from everyone a good month before Christmas. Imagine that! This thing works so well though, I splurged and got the fancy-looking version - you know, the type that says "I know I'm a squatty potty but I want to be too stylish to admit it". Then, when I realized I had to travel, as in leave my house to go to another city for medical appointments, I bought the travel version. With no shame now, I tell every single living soul about this gift from heaven. No longer do I lecture folks on food, nutrition, and exercise, but now I start off with my love version of that miracle called the squatty potty. Yup, they laugh too but I swear, I've had neighbors come to my house asking if I had extra ones they could have. Truth. And low and behold, just take a wild guess what you can find in all of my sibling's bathrooms and my niece's bathrooms too... Be a smart person though and use it in addition to proper exercising and great nutrition. This thing is wonderful but there are limits to its miracle power and you eating naughty and not consistently exercising and yet expecting a miracle from this thing is gonna test the limits of its miracle power. Just sayin.