Noom

[kitsuneghost]

I have around 5 stone to lose and struggle with binge eating and boredom eating
Has anyone tried Noom
What does it involve? Is it worth it?

I do noom, it has good points and bad. I signed up for a trial as a friend had really good success with it, and carried on when they gave me a good deal to not cancel. It’s all app based, there are three things you need to every day - weigh yourself, do the lessons and log all your meals.

Ive lost just over a stone since early October. The psychology stuff is good, and I like the daily weighing, but the calorie counter is rubbish. It doesn’t remember your preferences eg. that you work in grams rather than cups, so you have to reset it every time.

You can’t plan, you can only do calories for the day you’re on so if you wanted to budget for a meal out at the weekend for example, you can’t. It also gives no real nutritional info so you can’t track macros. I think the idea is you live in the moment but I’m a planner so struggle with that.

I won’t renew when my current subscription is up, I will just use my fitness pal and take some of the stuff I have learned with me.

Hope that helps!

Thank you.
Sounds like it might be a bit of a faff with the tracker.
Might look into other options for the psychology side.

I have found Noom really helpful.

i have lost 5 stone this year. Noom was great for making more mindful re. what I was eating, both type of food and calorie content. I found the tone of it pretty good, it's chirpy, but not embarrassingly so. Its main strength was making me track EVERYTHING that I ate, and I recorded my weight every day, even I'd the last day had been a disaster.

I do think it allows you too many calories though (I'm v short and have a stupidly low TDEE). My weight was really lost doing 800 cals a day of predominately keto food, a load of zone 2 low impact exercise and really, really sticking to it. Noom tracked what I did and showed me that pauses in weight loss were normal etc., rather than making it happen (if that makes sense?).

it was about £150 for a year, and that was worth it to me. Good luck with your journey!