I haven’t done it but have gone through their site for other offerings. I’ll say that their process seems very streamlined to separate you from your money while providing you with a thing that presumably addresses the problem you have communicated.
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I use Hims for other stuff, and it’s very simple + effective. But yes it’s a tad on the pricy side (gotta pay for good tech and branding lol)
I got GLP-1 through PlushCare for awhile. Very easy, really great doctor. Appointments basically available on demand. The GLP-1 didn’t work for me (made me feel incredibly nauseous and like I was poisoning my body), but I still subscribe to PlushCare for access to the doctor as a primary care doc. Great experience
I’m toeing a very, very fine line of being very upset with my weight. I have recommitted to Noom, I’ve been working out, I feel like I’m making better food decisions, but yesterday I hit my highest weight ever… I’ve never before hit 290 and was at 289.8. Just a really scary number to see on the scale and is discouraging with how much work I’m putting in. I’m sure you guys can relate, but my entire life seems consumed by weight loss. All day I’m thinking about food, about activity, about building good habits, etc.
But I played an hour and a half of bball last night and weighed in 1.5 pounds lighter today, so trying to keep pushing and know it’s a marathon not a spring.
But does anyone have thoughts/advice on scale readings? I’m honestly incredulous that I’m net gaining weight still after about 2 weeks of serious lifestyle changes. I’m tracking my calories in Noom and am in my “weight loss zone”, which is listed at 2230-2980. I’m generally coming in around 2400 daily. Could that range be way off?
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Are you weighing your food? I started out guessing proportions and was shocked at how wrong I was about things.
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Every persons journey is different and challenging
That’s so little food… as someone else mentioned, really check your portions
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Echo this, so easy to think youre eating one serving for certain and find out you arent once you break out the scale or measuring spoons etc. Im back on the WW bandwagon now and making sure for things that require weight/size for servings that Im checking that as I go. That said Im so heavy at the moment that its hard to eat all my points in a given day so its not really an issue, yet. But once the weight starts dropping and the points start falling itll be a good habit to be in.
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Coffee creamer was the big one for me. I’d assume I was using 2, maybe 3, servings (I don’t really like the taste of coffee). Big nope. I was using like 8.
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I use the sugar free kind but I even switched off that to just fat free half and half and maybe one or two little packets of splenda (or its equvalent).
My wife finally measured out how much creamer she was using, vs estimating and the difference was shocking!
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That seems like it could be way off. My maintenance calories at 5’10 290lbs (averages according to several TDEE calculators) was in the 2600-2700 calorie range. That put a 1lb/week loss at ~2100 calories a day and 2lbs/week at ~1700.
Yours may very based on height and amount of physical activity being calculated (I put 0 activity). IMO putting physical activity into the calculators will end up telling you that you can eat more calories than you are actually burning. Incredibly hard to actually track caloric burn from activities.
My recommendation is to either a) don’t put any activity into those calculators or b) underestimate the level of activity you put into the calculator.
The last time I lost a large chunk of weight I did account for activity but I typically only ate back 30-50% of the calories it said I burned.
I’m tracking in my head and not an app but I’m roughly in the ~1800 calories a day camp and I’m down from 295 to 252 since August. That’s with pretty much 0 “working out”.
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Also - two weeks isn’t enough to see smoothed out fluctuations IMO (unless you are on a crash diet). It’s why it’s so hard for people to stick to “diets” - we’re conditioned to quicker feedback than we actually see
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Echoing @lazyjk it can take more than 2 weeks to see a significant change. Between your body responding to a sudden increase in activity, reduction in caloric intake, and stress of active monitoring and worrying about not seeing results, you may see a plateau or even subtle increase before a steeper decline.
Noon was great for me over the longer haul for dietary habit changes. As others have mentioned, it can be very small things that slow or undermine progress so if you can manage to the margins that may accelerate things.
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Man, thank you all for the thoughts (and for talking me off a ledge)! I really, really appreciate you all.
To the first point, no I’m not weighing my food. I could definitely be underestimating calorie intake, but I’ve generally been bumping up the number of servings by at least 50% to try to be safe/account for that/get me to eat fewer calories.
To @lazyjk, thank you for that! It seemed really high imo but I just thought Noom knows better than me so I’ll go with it. I should probably make it my goal to come in under the low end of that threshold, then, wouldn’t you say? Say 2100 or under? Especially since I am working out?
Also congrats on the weight loss, that’s incredible and exactly the goal I’m trying to hit!! Super encouraging to see.
And to @IT-to-Green thank you for those words. I’m not the most patient person, so I’m definitely quick to cast off anything fitness related because I don’t see results. I need to get more consistent in many aspects of my life (2025 goals!), and being patient on weight loss is part of that.
I’ll keep pushing, make these slight tweaks, and report back in 2 weeks
thank you all
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First - you got this!
I haven’t used Noom and I’m not a dietician (just a guy who’s lost a bunch of weight twice now) but I would think that ~2000-2100 range would be good to start.
The myfitnesspal app will auto adjust your recommended caloric intake as you lose weight. I’m not using it this time but the first time I lost a bunch of weight it started me around that same range and then as I logged weight changes it would adjust me down to keep the same deficit - I think at the end it had me close to 1600/day which in hindsight was tough to maintain. This time I decided I’d just start and maintain at 1800 because that is roughly what I averaged over a two year period of logging food about a decade ago.
I think the key to making those large calorie deficits not feel rough (for me anyways) is I just focus on getting protein first and foremost. That has almost entirely kept cravings away this go round (I have a terrible sweet tooth). It’s sustainable, allows me to still eat carbs of varying shapes (I like bread), and keeps the snacking demon quiet.
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Just wanted to chime in that this is huge. I think the biggest test is to scoop out what you think a serving of peanut butter (or any other calorie dense food) is vs the actual weight.
It’s like a magic trick how they pack so many calories into such small servings.
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Items that always piss me off when it comes to calorie tracking are like Pasta or Rice that I never cook in single servings so we can eat it over multiple days and some packages don’t give you the cooked serving size. So now I have to individually cook off a single serving so I know how much it weighs.
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This about to be you
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What I’ve done with rice/pasta before is weigh out the amount that the bag gives for a dry serving size and cook however many servings I want and then weigh the cooked rice and just divide that number by the number of dry weight servings I cooked and use that to figure out how much by weight a cooked serving is. So if 45g is 150 calories and I cook 180g of dry rice I just weight the rice after it’s cooked and divide by 4 and then use that as a 150 calorie serving. Not sure if that’s mathematically appropriate, but when I was actively weighting food and losing weight that’s how I did making leftovers of rice and such.
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Thanks man. I really appreciate the thoughts and encouragement!
Feeling less discouraged and ready to keep going. Thank you all
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I switched to Trader Joe’s Unsweetened Vanilla Oat milk. 60 calories per cup. Makes everything taste like a vanilla latte. I only use a 1/4 cup in my large SGS Turvis with cold brew.
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This is the way to weigh.
I use macrofactor and really like the app. You can put entire recipes in and it will calculate your calories and macros based upon weight. It’s already a little estimate but it gets you closer enough.
Like tonight was Ground Beef Bulgogi Bibimbap made with lean ground beef. Something like this is comes in around 600 calories but 70g of protein and it’s super filling.
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