#Noom weight loss

[somekindof-strength]

Weight Management App Review

Noom Weight

Overall: It’s fine but there are better ways to spend your money.

It’s minimum $20 a month for information and services you can get elsewhere for free.

There are several different styles of Noom depending on what you asked for, and how much you’re willing to pay. For example, Noom Med provides medical testing and doctors who will prescribe drugs like GLP-1 .

I used Noom Weight, which doesn’t include the medical portion. I used it for two weeks. It has standard calorie tracking and free workout videos, but more unique to Noom, it has daily lessons and coaches you can message.

The calorie tracking isn’t bad, but it’s not great. The goal is to eat as many green foods as possible, and there’s a soft limit on how many yellow and orange foods you should eat. It’s based on caloric density, so green foods are stuff like vegetables, tofu, and water-heavy things, while the yellow and orange foods are more calorie dense.

The problem I had is that the foods I normally eat just aren’t in the system. I could enter the information myself but it was never assigned a “green, yellow, orange” rating. I suppose the people who can drop $20 minimum on an app don’t normally shop at Aldi.

The ads also boast about coaching and community, but it’s all a gimmick. The coach is just an AI bot. I asked a few questions about meal planning and it just told me to eat more spinach and tofu. As for the community, it’s Ike a large Facebook feed of strangers’ text posts. There’s little context or history, and even though it looks like you could follow someone, I couldn’t figure out how to do it.

Another big feature is the daily lessons, which are good, if you don’t know what to do or if you need a reset. It talks about things like, motivation, kinds of eating styles, calorie deficits, etc.

Pic: my lessons about two weeks in to the program.

The lessons are grouped together in units, and so for a few days, all your lessons are about the same general topic. They’re very passive and standard for everyone, so it’s not actually tailored to you. The lessons themselves are fine, but if you’ve tried to lose weight before, it’s all stuff you’ve already heard. I didn’t find it particularly interesting, but ymmv.

Overall, the app delivers on all of its promises, but only by doing the absolute minimum. Nothing is personalized beyond a calorie suggestion based on your weight. The promised features are all there and technically work, but they’re lame and mostly go unused. If you manage to lose weight with it, it’s because you put in the work, and Noom expects a cut anyway.

[maritsahhh]

[valiantkittyzombie]

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[leighskarz]

Wearing clothes other than sweatpants and baggy sweaters feels WEIRD. It's all I've been wearing for the past couple years. It was the easiest way to feel comfortable while also ignoring how much larger my body was getting.

Turns out that apron belly I've been ignoring for years has gotten MUCH bigger than I realized. Easy to miss when you ignore it and refuse to look at yourself in a full body mirror. Trying to embrace it and love it as part of my body in the meantime.

New additions to the journey:

Traded my Fitbit for an Ultrahuman ring and already love it. (peep it in the photo!) In a perfect world my wearable would have AI that would take all of my data and give me a to-do list every day. When will science boss me around? (half joking)

Signed up for NOOM - something I used years ago when it was $12/month. Since then it seems to have grown and re-vamped so I am hesitantly giving it a try despite the MASSIVE price tag and my reservations about calorie tracking. It's a pain in the ass, but helpful for me since I mindlessly consume food. (EDIT - canceled. Couldn’t justify the insane price tag)

[struggling-to-be-healthy]

August 30, 2024

Starting Weight - 315.7 lbs.

Current Weight - 304.8 lbs.

Total Loss - 10.9 lbs.

Today marks one month since I started Noom. I am pretty happy with it so far. I did slip up several days this month, but it was really easy for me to get back on track, not like how it was with Weight Watchers. I know it's just my brain being stupid, but it catorgizes Noom as a daily thing and Weight Watchers a weekly thing. My brain is being tricked by weighing in daily and not having points that roll over or are affected for an entire week. So that makes it easier for me to jump back in whenever I am ready. I'm not sure if that makes sense.

I haven't decided if I am going to do monthly posts about my weight loss progress or go back to weekly ones. I guess I will see what I'm feeling! If I do monthly, it will be the last day of the month from now forward. I just posted today since it has been a full month.

[thousandtinywaves]

I swear I would sell a kidney to never have to see the fucking noom ads ever again

[sarpedon]

so i got an ad for noom (calorie counting app) on youtube and the ad was someone saying "using noom i lost [x]lbs! then i thought i could do it on my own so i unsubscribed, and i gained it all back! now im back on noom and everything is great and im back on track!" like HUH. so you're just openly admitting your system isnt sustainable? you're just saying that with your whole chest?? who would see an ad like that and think "awesome! this is the app for me! cant wait to have to pay for it for my whole life out of Fear that i will Gain The Weight Back!" christ alive.

[lizinthelabyrinth]

I Live! I’m trying again...

It’s been forever since I’ve posted anything. My last attempt at changing habits went absolutely nowhere. 😓

However I’m not giving up!

A few things changed in my life that have allowed me some behavioral changes as well. The most impactful is that I am no longer on the night shift!! I now work 7am to 6pm (yes 11 hours). My off days now align with the normal world so I can spend more time with my family. 

At the start of this year I signed up for Noom. (which yes I know there is a fair amount of hate for and I think that the general premise is good). It’s definitely got me eating better. I’ve cut out most processed foods and am eating so many fruits and vegetables a day. 

Since I’ve been using the logging program in the Noom app, I’ve also been logging my water intake. With that and a large red Nalgene I’ve cut my soda intake to one 16.9 oz bottle a day (previously it was four or more). On average I’m drinking at least 32oz a day. 

I’ve been using a habit tracking planner I bought off of Amazon to track other habits I’ve been neglecting due to depression and general executive disfunction. I can’t claim as great a success with this method but I’m only a month in. 

So far I’m down a little over 15 pounds. I’m feeling so much better and I am seeing health benefits. 

[danniebeskinny]

Idk, I feel like I ate more calories today cause we had spaghetti for dinner ):

[creativecanva]

Has Anyone Lost Weight with Noom? Exploring Success Stories and Insights

What is Noom? An Overview

Noom is a mobile app designed to help users lose weight through behavior change. Unlike traditional diets that focus primarily on food restrictions, Noom takes a psychological approach, teaching users how to understand their eating habits and build healthier routines.

[lunarnoviloses]

[lifeontracksblog]

Not the best but still managed to hit my calorie count for the first time! So take the little achievements as they come ☺️

[munson-blurbs]

tw: weight loss (i'll put it under the cut)

has anyone here tried noom? i'm struggling to lose weight and i was thinking of giving it a try. i have a promo for it, but i haven't heard of anyone using it.

[fatphobiabusters]

The fact that noom ads start by saying "This is why I wasn't losing weight!" shows how much of a scam noom and all weight loss products are. If you have to start your advertisements by blaming user error right out the gate, there's something sketchy about your product.

-Mod Worthy

[varyathevillain]

did not want to negatively interact with the OP from whom I got this image, but this threw me into a fit of such incandescent fury that I had to talk about it, and I do not want to make others feel like they're at fault about something AJN said, about the implication (or outright possibility) of them being used for clout, or my own reaction to this. and I also will say, this is not an objective opinion. this is me, tired of this bullshit that keeps appearing in my life despite me repeatedly trying to move on.

what a fucking horrifying quote. this does not read as someone awkwardly relating to their audience to me. this is a rehearsed, researched 'funny guy' moment, scripted specifically to pander to people who would quote and reshare this moment, and it doesn't have the care or emotional attachment to the audience that many would ascribe it. this is a marketing strategy.

Alexander James Newall and his podcasting company have repeatedly in the past worked with companies like, for example, BetterHelp. in their case, Rusty Quill have been keeping the partnership and advertising it even after the FTC officially forced said company into paying settlement for breaking privacy agreements and selling customer data to third party services (such as pharmaceutical companies and other interest groups like Facebook/Meta), then the reveal of overcharging patients for subpar service, and repeated ethical violations within the company. you cannot say that this is an uninformed choice, since as a creative interacting with their fanbase via internet, especially as a multimedia practice (podcasting, youtube video creating, streaming etc), you simply cannot not learn about the scumminess and the actual legal issues of such a company. and it's not even 'oh, they did it only once' - people repeatedly complained about getting ads from AI training software companies, other 'mental health' help companies that turned out to also have AI training software, and on some notable occasions, a Noom app ad read, which is a weight loss app that 1) had also been in court reaching a settlement for tricking its customers, but for 'free trial' payments instead of selling their data, 2) had repeatedly been in hot water with health professionals about their diet practices.

and this is the company the face of which AJN presents. he is not a quirky fellow creative struggling for podcast space; he's a businessman running a company that is manipulating its audience with relatability, and it is working. he is not with you against the rich; he is the rich. and from what I am hearing and seeing, currently producing the main running show, the successor of The Magnus Archives, of a show that got critical acclaim and over 700 thousand pounds in kickstarter money to produce the 'sequel', only for that show to barely ever appear on anyone's radar outside of former TMA fans, to be quietly discussed as not being quite as coherent as its predecessor, and even outright criticised for the voice acting and issues with audio, where even interesting conversations turn into mumbled, inconsistent messes people can't really listen to without transcripts.

We Care What We Put Name To, in-fuckin-deed.

[onewingednatu]

Oh my GOD I'm so SICK of weight loss commercials. "Eat this! It'll help you lose weight!" "Take this medicine that you probably don't need for this specific illness! It'll help you lose weight!" "You're probably asking yourself why you can't lose weight! Well, the reason could be- (insert medical condition so they can sell you more drugs)."

I swear, there was like a 1-2 minute long weight loss commercial on in the living room, I didn't hear what the bullshit product was and didn't care, and when it FINALLY went off, it played a fucking Noom commercial!

I swear, it's getting worse.

Edit: Fatphobes will be blocked on sight! :)