#tw: calorie counting

[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.

[baba-fett]

I hate trying to lose weight. like all I want are some mozzerella sticks but noooooo I’m already over my calorie alottment for the day and i’ll hate myself for it afterwards what the fuck

[elleon-the-mediocre]

Trying to be more consistent about tracking my calories. Also trying to move my body more. I’m overweight (technically I think, obese) but I’m tired of it. No day but today, honestly.

[emo-r3xic]

all it takes is discipline.

[ms-demeanor]

Okay THANK YOU for saying “your body craves what it needs” is bs because that felt like bs this whole time.

Like you don’t need more sugar if you crave sweets that is NOT what that means. Sugar is a food that people crave because it tastes good/sugar I think is an addictive food??

Idk it just felt like people making excuses when they’re supposed to be trying to eat a little healthier (healthier, not low cal, not low fat or keto or whatever. Diets are bs but craving sweets does not mean sugar is healthy thing for your body rn)

People crave sugar because it tastes good, which is not a bad thing, and there is an evolutionary reason that sugar and fat taste good to us. Carbs are your body's favorite thing because it is SUPER easy for your body to break them down into useful molecules.

I'm not a fan of the idea that any foods are addictive and I'm skeptical of models that suggest "refined food addiction" is a thing with a measurable, real-world impact; there's a lot of debate in that area of nutrition science and to me it kind of seems like the tools people use to track food addiction aren't really examining the addictiveness of specific foods, but are decent screening tools for people who have compulsive behaviors around food (for instance, one group of people who the Yale Food Addiction Scale has repeatedly been demonstrated to be REALLY good at identifying is people with anorexia).

But your body needs sugar all the time, whether that's in the form of complex carbohydrates that get broken down into simple sugars by your body, or simple sugars that you stir into your tea that then gets sent to your cells as energy. If your diet doesn't have enough sugar in it, your body has a processes to turn non-sugars into sugar so that it can use the sugar (gluconeogenesis!). Sugar is unambiguously good for you in the way that fat is unambiguously good for you. You need sugar to survive and it's not a bad thing if you want to have a cookie or a soda or some candy, and again - your craving probably isn't telling you that you're deficient in a specific micro or macronutrient, but I still think that you should listen to your craving.

Like, I don't know how much you know about psychotherapy but the attitude that a lot of diet-focused discussion takes toward cravings reminds me of cognitive behavioral therapy. "When you crave chocolate, no you don't! Don't think about the chocolate, you actually probably need starch or sugar or something, let's redirect that into having a banana, or some frozen berries, or some spinach. Point away from the unhealthy craving and into the healthy replacement, or, better yet, ignore the craving. Mind over matter. You choose how you act."

(I actually think "X craving means that I want Y food so I shall replace it with Z, which is similar" "craving salt means that I am dehydrated and need electrolytes so instead of potato chips I'll have some soup" is how this goes most of the time. I think this is a diet culture thing, not a food positivity thing.)

And you know what I think that's a garbage way to look at both food and emotions.

When I'm craving ice cream it's not because I've been mostly vegetarian for a week and am low on dietary cholesterol (AN IMPORTANT NUTRIENT. Don't be scared of consuming some cholesterol), I'm craving ice cream because sugar and fat taste good. So instead of trying to pretend that I'm getting "what I need" from a piece of salmon the size of a deck of cards with no salt and some lemon squeezed on top, I'm going to scoop out a moderate portion of ice cream and eat it while focusing on how much I enjoy it. And I'm going to do that instead of sitting down with a pint and a spoon while I'm stressed at work and eating something that tastes good to distract from the fact that work is stressful. (And sometimes it's fine to sit down with a pint and a spoon but I will say that's generally best not to do while you're in the middle of something stressful)

And if you want to relate that back to therapy I see this as more of the DBT approach. I've accepted that I want ice cream so I'm going to eat it in an intentional way and enjoy it instead of eating so much that I don't want dinner, or that it makes me feel sick, or that I eat it without noticing it because I'm using it as a distraction instead of a snack.

I'm not trying to shut down the negative emotion or shun the "bad" food, I'm accepting that I have that emotion and I'm working this neutral food into my day so that I'll feel good tomorrow and won't get heartburn overnight.

So I see that you're trying to be kind of anti diet culture here, but I don't think people need excuses to eat sugar, and I actually think that making excuses to eat it is significantly less healthy than just eating the sugar (which, again, is unambiguously healthy to eat as part of a varied, filling, nutritious diet). It seems like you may have internalized some ideas about sugar that are not great even if you are trying to separate from diet culture.

Nobody is ever going to eat a diet so healthy and nutritionally complete that they don't want candy or cake or cookies sometimes. Food is not only fuel, it is entertainment and culture and comfort and distraction and celebration and a million other things, but it is not bad. I don't think there's a single universally bad food out there, or any food that never belongs as part of someone's diet (unless it's something you're allergic to - I don't care if you're craving peanuts, do not eat peanuts if you have a peanut allergy).

So it's okay to make sugar, you don't need to make excuses. It's okay to eat sugar if you're craving sugar, even if that's not what your body "needs". But also sometimes a craving is your body saying "I'm hungry and this sounds good, please feed me" even if you're not a finely-tuned spectrometer that's craving blueberries pie because you actually need antioxidants from the blueberries (you're not a finely tuned spectrometer, you don't need the antioxidants from the blueberries, it's perfectly fine to just eat a slice of pie).

[sk1nbtchbl00g]

people who were fat as kids either become a fat adult or an adult with an eating disorder fr

[nihilistmoth]

You asked, and i delivered. The result of the poll was low cal recipes so here ya go ๋࣭⭑ֶֶֶָָָ֢֢֢𖹭

Stay safe!!

[recoveryposting]

a little while ago i was talking to a friend about my ed and i dont remember the context but she said to me "I LOVE CARBOHYDRATES!!!!! I LOVE CALORIES!!!!!!" and i stopped and stared at my phone because i had genuinely never heard anyone say they love calories. like, even implicitly theres this messaging that lower calorie = better and that we should enjoy of food despite the calories it contains. and i was just floored that this was the first time i had ever heard anything like that and it made me feel so comforted. anyway appreciate your friends they are some of the most important people in the world

[morethanweseem]

Taking the brain out of the microwave, Liv opened up a package of popcorn and put it in. Glancing over her shoulder, she picked at the brain with her fingers, tearing off pieces and wolfing them down. Ha. Wolfing. She shook her head at the terrible mental joke. WAIT. Her stomach dropped and she bit her lip. If a brain was nineteen hundred calories. She had a third of a brain. She'd eaten about half of that. Add popcorn and her meal for tonight was over 400 calories. Pulling in a deep breath, she felt her eyes watering.

He didn't do a double take at how quickly she said you. He had gotten used to the idiosyncrasies that came with brains. "Okay." He said. He moved from the couch, and went to the selection of movies. He moved to pick one that he knew that Liv would also enjoy, or at least he hoped so.

[brain-go-brrrrr]

Cal amounts for snacks/meals

[3y3hurtcup1d]

how it feels to eat a meal under 300cals

[o0jess0o]

Total= 138

Ingredients:

1 apple- 50

2 teaspoons sugar- 30

1 teaspoon cinnamon - 6

10g of oats- 35

Splash of oat milk- 7

1 tablespoon of fat free yogurt- 10

[emo-r3xic]

[littleanastasiasblog]

⊹₊ ˚‧︵‿₊୨୧₊‿︵‧ ˚ ₊⊹ WIEIAD ⊹₊ ˚‧︵‿₊୨୧₊‿︵‧ ˚

⭐️ lunch avocado toast on rice cake ( 252 kcal )

⭐️ snacks : miso soup ( 26 kcal ), rice chocolate cake ( 38 kcal ), skinny hot chocolate ( 12 kcal )

⭐️ dinner : none.

Total intake : 328 kcal

Total burned : 2100 kcal

Workout : 10k steps + dumbbells Pilate session

Stay safe girlies 💕

[sk1nbtchbl00g]

☆ing is bad but intermittent fasting is good?

bruh do you think your body knows why youre not eating LMAO

[s4nanice]

I don’t feel pain anymore, but I’m so hungry.