Since there are so many of us here doing Noom, I thought I would create a post for some support!
If you wish, maybe you can share what brought you to Noom, how it has been working for you, some victories you've had, set backs, how Noom has been different for you, your goals...anything!
pear / 1992 posts
Hi!
Iāve been doing Noom since 9/15 and joined because even though I *knew* the changes I needed to make, I wasnāt able to motivate myself and put those changes in place. I had some tough snacking habits I wanted to break. CBT really helped me in the past and I thought this would be worth a try - here I am 3 months later and super happy!
I love that the emphasis is eating healthy filling foods vs. any specific diet and there are no products to buy. I also appreciate the daily weigh-ins that force me to see and accept the ups and downs of weight loss and natural fluctuations. Sometimes I struggle going āoverā red foods but then I remind myself it doesnāt matter the color of the food, as long as Iām around my calorie goal for the day and I feel satisfied, Iām good!
olive / 58 posts
I'll start. 
Starting Noom: Like many, I have been on so many different diets. After having my 2nd, I immediately went on WW, lost weight but then was just so over it that I gained it all back. I saw a pic of myself and knew I needed to do something, but I didn't want to go on a diet. I did IF and lost 15 pounds pretty quickly and then stalled for a few months. I was just on the border of "overweight" and still wasn't happy with it, so I started researching programs that were meant to teach you how to eat like a "normal" person. I stumbled across a non-sponsored blog post about this woman who did Noom and totally changed her relationship with food and kept it off for 2 years...that's what I wanted! I know I can lose weight, I want to keep it off. I was super skeptical but did the 2 week trial and the rest is history.
Victories: I have lost 19 pounds (I am 3 away from my goal) and have a MUCH better relationship with food. I have pretty much gotten away from good vs bad food and just see that some gives you the best bang for your caloric buck. I have also seen that I can have days like birthdays etc where I go WAY over what I need to eat and know I can just pick back up where I left off and, sometimes, without really stalling my progress. I have started walking and that has helped immensely with my mental health.
Setbacks: I am still am not the best about drinking water, but I am making an effort to drop more coffee and replace with water.
Goals: My goal has been to get back to my lowest weight after having my son...mostly because I have a ton of clothes that size. To have a balanced and healthy relationship with food and to be at a weight that I feel like "works" for me. I hope to get there by Jan 1st.
olive / 58 posts
@lindseykaye: Hi! That's so great! I started 9/10, so very similar! I agree that the best part of Noom are the articles. Other than that, it really is a lackluster food database. 
I actually got rid of my group and asked my coach to not contact me because I didn't find them helpful.
pear / 1992 posts
@minimalistmom: I really wanted to lean all the way in during my trial and even though I found myself thinking the lessons were a bit cheesy at first, they truly work and I love them!
Iāve lost about 25lb so far, and my āgoalā is another 20-25. My projections have me reaching my goal in early spring (about 6 months after starting). I am SO looking forward to next year spring and summer feeing more confident and pulling out all the clothes I stored from when I was this size before baby #2.
olive / 58 posts
@lindseykaye: What is it about first babies?!?! I gained 50 pounds with my first born and then lost 75! I did nothing. It was absolutely amazing!
About the lessons, I almost canceled a week ago because they started talking about things like "life hacks" and I was thinking they had run out of material...and then this whole week has been about intuitive eating. I was wrong!
pear / 1992 posts
@minimalistmom: I gained about 40 with my first, lost it without effort, then gained back 30 after I stopped breastfeeding. Lost all of that with Beachbody programs when DD1 was about 3ish. Maintained that for a while and then gained about 20 back during grad school.
Here comes DD2 and I gained 50 on top of the 20 I was already up. Breastfeeding did not work out for us this time, and then I was still only about 10lb lighter than my heaviest pregnancy weight 2 years later š¤·āāļø
Iāve just reached my post-grad school, pre-DD2 weight this week and am so happy!
One of my HUGE non-scale victories has been my engagement ring fitting again! I cried happy tears when I put it on (and take it off) without struggle.
apricot / 285 posts
So I just signed up this week, similar stories to yours. First baby weight dropped easily, second baby eh, third baby nothing is going anywhere and my diet is not good. Hoping learning about the psychological piece will help me make the changes I know I need to.
I just want to feel healthy and confident (and yes my rings fitting would be amazing!).
I love hearing your successes and hope that I will find the same, I would like to lose around 30 pounds.
olive / 58 posts
@lindseykaye: Congratulations! That's so awesome! I am terrible about wearing my wedding rings even though they fit now.
@MACSUNSHINE: The psychological factor is definitely the biggest component of Noom. I've been doing noom for nearly 4 months and I will say that there isn't necessarily one approach it uses but, rather, gives you a variety of strategies. Some will resonate with you and some won't. One of the biggest things for me is not having "black-and-white" thinking.
olive / 58 posts
I will say that last night wasn't the greatest. It's probably because it was the last day of work before Christmas and I had baked too many holiday treats and...well... I am going to chalk this up to a "victory" not because I mindfully ate the treats, it was what my body really wanted, or anything like that but because I am up 1.5 lbs this morning and I am NOT angry, disgusted, or punishing myself with a stricter diet. I feel a bit blah and am absolutely done with the treats. I have had my fill, but there's no judgment or anger with myself or feelings like "this doesn't work, I might as well throw in the towel." Just back to business as usual. That's revolutionary for me. I would love to get to the place where I am mindfully eating these things because it's what my body really wanted and not because it was "there" but this is a step in the right direction and I will take it.
persimmon / 1130 posts
Sorry if this was answered somewhere else, but whatās the benefit of Noom over WW? I had my third last November, and Iām the heaviest Iāve ever been while not pregnant. Like some of you said, I lost the weight easily with #1, with #2 it was harder but came off slowly, and with #3 Iāve barely lost anything! Iām looking to lose 25-30 pounds.
apricot / 285 posts
@minimalistmom: thank you! Your whole last night is my every night...I am mindless eater when I am up late making lunches and cleaning up the kitchen.
@lemonjack I have never done WW but am hopeful to get to the bottom of my behaviors to better manage them and ultimately be healthier. Yes, I need to eat healthier and I have been saying that for 2+ years so for me Noom is more focused on the psychological piece. Plenty of people love WW so that is another good option.
olive / 58 posts
@LemonJack: Hey, there! I have been on WW many times and I think the difference between Noom and WW is that WW is meant to be a revolving door. Yes, I lost weight, but I never felt like I learned anything about my eating style, behaviors, and the overall "why," so I would tire of it really quickly and gain the weight back. Noom, in the other hand, is meant to be a program that you do and don't come back because you've learned tools to navigate your relationship with food. I am near the end of my program and while I am a little nervous, I have some real tools under my belt and feel like I have developed the flexibility to move forward in a mindful eating/balanced approach that works for me.
persimmon / 1495 posts
Thanks for starting this thread. I definitely am needing some motivation to keep up with the program. I had about 15 pounds to lose about baby #2. I've tried to eat healthy and lose a little weight before, but I usually get bored with the effort and give up after just a few days. I honestly started Noom because I thought that having to pay for something would make me stick with it. You can call it guilt or cognitive dissonance
Things I've liked and wins: So far I've lost about 10 pounds and haven't had any real setbacks, just plateaus. I do like weighing myself every day because it makes the small ups and downs more normal. @minimalistmom: I try to remind myself that a pound lost or gained is about 3000 calories (oversimplification, I know), so if I eat kind of crappy and weigh more the next day, it's probably not the food. You'd have to *majorly* overeat one day to gain a whole pound just because of the food.
One other thing I've learned about myself from Noom is that I do better if I eat 3 filling meals and not as many snacks. I used to be a grazer, and thought of myself as a grazer. But one early lesson on Noom talked about how the issue with grazing is that you're constantly thinking about food and never feel really full. I realized that totally applied to me. So now, instead of eating bits throughout the day, I try to eat 3 filling meals and maybe a small afternoon snack, but not always.
Not going as well: Holiday treats, of course. I haven't actually gained any weight back since Thanksgiving, but my weight loss is almost non-existent. I can't decide if I'm okay with keeping steady for now and getting back to losing weight in January. I want to be a good role model for DS that it's okay to enjoy treats in moderation. Since it's been hard to find time to exercise since we're cooped up at home still, my calorie count generally stays really low. But my birthday is the first week in February and I was really hoping to be down close to my goal weight by then.
olive / 58 posts
@Chuckles: Oh, for sure! I definitely know it's not fat but likely water retention, waste, etc but it's still not making progress, you know? But even that, I take so much more lightly than I used to and just chalk it up to "oh well." I have found, too, that I don't snack nearly as much. I genuinely thought that my constant eating was genuine hunger but I see now that is was emotional/mouth hunger. I was so anti-diet before Noom that I ate beyond excess. I am on the 1,200 calorie setting because then I can be more flexible. Like I had a bite of my son's waffle this morning and didn't log it. I figure that I end up somewhere around 1,400 calories. I know some people would scoff at this and say it's a starvation diet and I would have 100% said the same thing four months ago, but I realized I really don't need that much food. I just don't. And I am never hungry unlike WW because I was ALWAYS eating. It's so weird.
So, are you only 5lbs from your weight goal? I would say, don't put your weight loss on hold, just work in the treats like you always have on Noom. I am going to take Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off, eat mindfully, etc. I am 3 lbs away from my goal and I am going to order a Nordstrom trunk. That's my reward. I am going to get myself some new clothes. I have basically been wearing maternity, nursing stuff for the past 5 years and have nada.
honeydew / 7235 posts
OK, I just signed up for the trial! Following this thread too....
coffee bean / 26 posts
Thanks for starting this thread! This is my second time doing Noom - first time I lost 15 pounds and maintained that until COVID summer. I honestly think not being able to go to the beach or the pool contributed to things falling apart. Like many, I appreciate the psychology and I have totally changed my thoughts on calorie counting...I used to think it was kind of an intense thing to do but now I appreciate food logging as another data point.
Iām in a plateau now mostly due to the holidays and also because Iām bored with the app, which is different from last time. My āgroupā is barely active, and my āgoal specialistā sounds so much like a chatbot that I asked her if she uses that technology.
Anyway, I am overall happy and I am 100% certain this program works for me because it did before. So will check in here more to replace the lackluster group chat on the app! Congrats to everyoneās successes!
olive / 58 posts
@Lowell: I ended up asking to be removed from the group and asked my coach to not contact me because I found both a nuisance. I am glad to hear from someone who has maintained. How long were you on Noom the first time? I am kind of curious, do the articles end at some point? I am almost to 4 months...if I were to do 5 months instead, would there still be articles to read?
pear / 1992 posts
@Lowell: @minimalistmom: I basically stopped responding to my coach and they stopped contacting me by default š¤·āāļø
I also didnāt get much out of my āgoal specialistā and maybe thatās because I was expecting something different. I thought they would actually be able to see my responses in my curriculum and engage but itās a lot less personal than that. Once I was seeing progress on my own through logging meals and doing my lessons I decided engaging my coach wasnāt a priority for me. Same with the group - too many folks at different places in their journeys.
When I was doing Beachbody I had the opposite experience - my coach was amazing and the āchallenge groupsā really kept me on goal. Maybe thatās why I was not impressed by Noomās version of this. Theyāre just different though - so if you are starting out give them a chance and it may be a piece of the program that makes a difference for you!
honeydew / 7235 posts
@lindseykaye: I had started doing Beachbody a few weeks ago because I loved the coach. I didn't really care about the beachbody program because I subscribe to Peloton, but I was curious to try the shakes.... Anyway, she got me started in her FB group and the support was amazing, I was super motivated, BUT I absolutely HATED the shakes and returned them (got a full refund which was great) but also had to cancel the beachbody subscription, which again I didn't care about, but then I lost the coach which was a bummer...
olive / 58 posts
@lindseykaye: I, too, was disappointed with the "coaching" and the formulaic process of it drove me nuts. It didn't feel even remotely helpful. I contacted Noom and had them remove me from my group which is AMAZING because I don't get redirected to my group when I am supposed to share. It just goes back to the home screen. I have also had much more helpful coaching situations but I think I prefer this...it puts the onus on me and not someone else.
olive / 58 posts
If anyone is looking for a much larger community and you are on facebook, I HIGHLY recommend the group "Noom for Working Moms". I am sure your work status doesn't matter. I recently left fb because I just couldn't deal with politics but I think about making a different account just so I can go on there.
pear / 1992 posts
@hellobeeboston: I have kept my Beachbody OnDemand account because I really do love the programs Iāve done and the trainers. Now that Iāve made some weight loss progress I feel physically better with activity and Iāll probably go right back to the classic 21 Day Fix program.
I also liked the shakes but they were very expensive to maintain, so without those and a BB meal plan Iām not planning to join a group again when I start.
olive / 58 posts
I was feeling kind of discouraged about my progress lately and then I looked back at my goal chart and I have lost nearly 5 lbs since December 1st. I really like weighing daily because it keeps me accountable, but I think sometimes we also need to step back and see the bigger picture.
apricot / 285 posts
@minimalistmom: agreed, give yourself grace. Especially this time of year, I have fallen off this week and just have to let it pass.
olive / 58 posts
How is everyone feeling? I am up over 2 lbs (not surprised at all,) I was really hoping to have this super mindful eating Christmas and it didn't really happen.
pear / 1992 posts
@minimalistmom: I took a couple days off weighing because I kept forgetting to do it at my normal time and didnāt want to have weird entries. But I have been logging - and even my indulgent days for the holiday have been surprisingly not that bad. Iām well over my calorie goals, but not that far past a maintenance amount. And like you itās just a couple days vs. so much longer like past holidays.
Something big I noticed is that I am feeling so much happier to be in family snapshots and videos this Christmas after making lots of progress over the last 3 months. This was part of my Big Why!
nectarine / 2242 posts
Starting two week before Christmas was not the best timing but it Iām hoping to make real changes once my kids go back to school in a week! I find it really hard to drink water and eat meals when they are home, and with all the sweets weāve been having I havenāt lost anything yet. I am loving reading what has worked for you guys though so thanks for starting this thread! I also still donāt have a group or coach so I think
maybe they are swamped with new people!
apricot / 285 posts
Ditto everyone, I let myself off the program for the long weekend and back on track tomorrow. First time I have missed a Peloton ride in 6 months too, need to refocus.
olive / 58 posts
@lindseykaye: That's so great! Thinking about it now, I had the same experience. I didn't think about my double chin at all!
@HappyBaker: I got a goal specialist pretty quickly but I didn't get into my group until nearly 3 weeks in. Best of luck on Noom! It's awesome.
@MACSUNSHINE: I honestly think this has been one of the greatest tools. In the past, if I had gotten "off the wagon," I would have stayed off much much longer and feel guilty/like a failure. Now, I just chalk it up to moderation and hop back on right away! It's given me so much more confidence about staying the course when I know it's not meant to be perfect. That ups and downs are part of the journey.
coffee bean / 26 posts
Loving reading about how everyone is handling the holidays with plans to get back on track after some time off. Iām taking some time off work (first time Iāve completely disconnected in a LONG time) and realizing how a structured day makes logging and making time for working out and meal planning easier. Itās great to just hang out with the kids and family but that translates into much looser days. Fortunately Iām walking about 20K steps/day because of all the activity but Iām happy that we are not making a huge deal of New Years so the middle to end of this week will start to feel more ānormal.ā
persimmon / 1419 posts
Hello all! I signed up for Noom today because a woman I know lost like 35 lbs with it. I have definitely fallen off the clean eating bandwagon recently, and Iām hoping the accountability will get me back on track. I was at a weight I felt good about 3 years ago before I started trying for a baby and had multiple losses followed by a successful pregnancy that kept my hormones and emotions on a continuous rollercoaster. Iām about 20 lbs heavier now. Iād like to at least get back there if not a little lower. According to the app I can get there by Spring, but dieting has never worked for me and with DD a toddler finding time to exercise has been extremely difficult during the week.
nectarine / 2242 posts
I am a few weeks in and I think I am finally shifting from this being a diet to this just being a way to introduce better habits into my life and I love it! I've done WW on and off for literally ten years and it has never "stuck" because I always felt deprived. On Noom, I knew we'd be eating McDonald's yesterday for my son's birthday lunch, so I had a healthy breakfast and dinner and it was no big deal to fit into my day. I think what I love most is that each day is a fresh start, instead of on WW where if you blew your weekly points you were done for the whole week. I also have never read or counted calories, and they make SO much more sense than points ha. It's so easy to just look at a package or menu and know what fits into my day. Though Noom's database does suck, I just usually enter the calories myself.
I recently made two small changes that have helped a lot - one was to put the fruit basket on our kitchen island front and center instead of buried in a corner, and our whole family has been eating so much more fruit because of it. I also started drinking a ton of water, I have a 30 oz cup so I try to drink one before my coffee, one before/with lunch, and one with dinner/the rest of the day.
pear / 1992 posts
Itās been a little while so I wanted to check in after the holidays have officially ended
I wanted to share something that I found really helps me stay on track. If I pre-log my dinner, I can better judge my other portions/options for the day. Dinner is my priority meal - especially wanting to just eat what my family eats without substitutions for myself. And when I log those foods first I am far less likely to go over my budget. Seems simple but took me a while to do!
I have also been using the recipe function a lot and itās really helpful for repeat meals I make often.
persimmon / 1419 posts
@lindseykaye: great job on the logging!
nectarine / 2242 posts
@lindseykaye: totally agree logging dinner first helps make the day work! And also makes this feel like it isnāt a ādietā since Iām still eating what my family eats for dinner, Iām just adjusting my breakfast and lunch to make it work, and adding more veggies to my dinner plate.
@karenbme: Iām set to 1200 calories but it gives you extra if you work out, Iāve been able to stay pretty close to that by keeping my breakfast and lunch fairly low calorie. For breakfast I have a light multigrain English muffin with 1 tablespoon of jam, and lunch varies but is usually around 300ish calories. Iāve even had room for some Christmas stocking candy most days! I think also definitely check calories against actual packaging because a lot of stuff is way off.
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