I just began noom yesterday. I thought a thread on this forum would be nice, to share tips, wins, and woes. I am really liking the app so far. Between their large database of food and nutrition facts, and me owning a kitchen scale, logging meals is much easier. And this could just be day 2 talking, but I’ve already noticed that when I have a smaller portion of something indulgent, it tastes better because I take longer with it and savor the little bit that I have. Part of breakfast today was 80 gr of green apple with12 gr of my favorite rogue river Smokey blue cheese. Equivalent calories, only 83 total. But it was so freaking tasty!
I wish you more success than I (and friends of mine) had. I really do.
I enthusiastically joined a few years ago, and while I found the ‘psychological’ pop quizzes remotely entertaining with my morning cuppa, in the end it’s just another calorie counting program, and I found it rather tedious to log those every day. The ‘coaches’ were also not particularly helpful.
I lost zero lbs with a 1,200-1,500 cal/day allotment for half a year. Another friend lost 30lbs, but didn’t keep them off in the long run.
Good luck! I hope your experience is better 
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Ty. Dieting sucks. Being overweight and unhealthy and also dealing with the regular ways in which your body fails when you get older are also not fun. It’s become eminently clear that I need to do something. So I will give it a try. I owe it to myself to put at least as much effort into myself as I do into my family and friends.
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Absolutely! And I am rooting for you that it works, since it seems to work for many other folks who have been and are using the program.
Menopause has been an absolute bitch for me, in that any effort to lose even a minuscule amount of weight is met with… zero response — save for practically starving myself, which is not a healthy way to lose weight, efficient as it may be (I mentioned a close friend of mine here who has taken that approach while also obsessively working out to the point where she’s developed an eating disorder, which are notoriously difficult to cure).
I think Noom offers a healthy-ish approach & provides good guidance about being mindful about what we put in our gullets, and if one can follow those lessons for the rest of one’s life, that’s great.
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At 51, I’m probably close… accountability is my Achilles heel so if I can log reliably I may at least lose some. They had me at my goal in about 8 months and I’m thinking that is way too fast and even if I succeed I will fail in the long run. So I’ll do it slowly… Fingers crossed. The last time I intentionally monitored my food and saw payoff on the scale was 13 yrs ago.
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Best wishes!
I am in a similar program, but for diabetes prevention, and have been for seven years. I was not very overweight; elevated blood sugar was my problem. I didn’t think of it as calorie counting, but definitely carb conscious. Still, I don’t think of it as a diet as much as being more intentional when I eat.
Fortunately I prefer pork belly rather to rice or cake.
I lost 15 percent of my body weight in the first two years, and kept it off. Until I stopped drinking about a year ago. I’ve only regained a few pounds, but my blood sugar has crept up too! 
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Congratulations! That’s great! Strange about the weight creeping up after quitting booze.
I went from having booze 3-5 days a week to 1-2 days a week for roughly the same time I was on Noom. It had absolutely zero effect on my weight — which I suppose was ‘good news,’ as I do enjoy my wine & martinis
I would be happy losing just 5lbs at this point, but ideally would have to lose 10-15 to fit into many, many, many dresses that are currently not available to me 
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Thanks! Kudos to you for many years of discipline. Sometimes I wish I was an eat to live person. But then I’m sure I’d be having a hard time with something else. We all have our own personal burdens and things we find easy, and others will have a different mix. I hope to finally make a change that sticks.
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I don’t really drink. Very occasionally. Somehow I find the calories elsewhere!
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My point was to inspire hope, but you are so right. For me, not drinking has been much harder.
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Ive reached a point I just blame everything on menopause.
And yeah, my metabolism has full stopped.
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If you’re using an iPhone you should be fine. The app crashed repeatedly on Android, and they told me that Id have to just start over (20 pounds down and 4 months into it).
I finally ended up getting my money back. I really liked the program but the app was a complete fail.
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That’s a real drag! Yes I’m on an iPhone.
I found Noom a little annoying. My friend did have success.
I log my foods and weight in MyFitnessPal.
I hear ya, sister.
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I eat my extra calories from after dinner until midnight.
Menopause + quitting smoking = sixty pounds, until I started Weight Watchers decades ago. It worked for me and I enjoyed the ‘in person’ group meetings. The meetings I attended were not always ‘to the letter’ as the organization dictated. Our leader crafted her meetings to work within the Weight Watchers framework, however she really emphasized our unique individualness and I think this was key to our success. We had great discussions. This was before iPhones, wearable activity monitors and Oprah. Key to me was my accountibility to getting the exercise element in. Acknowledging the fact that our food intake needs will reduce as we age was eye opening, too.
It is a lifestyle alteration, no matter.
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^^^^This. Any “diet” one can’t stick to in the long run (or even the short run) is an exercise (SWIDT 
) in futility.
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These threads might tie in with your Noom diet.
Healthier (however you define it) meals you’ve been making lately
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No other noomers out there? I was really hoping to create a community here. Anyway, my lovely H tried to be helpful with the cooking and made waffles for breakfast. Pretty much every ingredient besides baking powder was in the orange foods lol. I had one. I was very surprised that buttermilk is orange. It’s pretty low in fat. Only a couple calories more per cup than skim milk. Oh well. Noom don’t like buttermilk.
