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Posted on: 8/24/19 6:13 PM ET
Has anybody tried it? I'm curious.
  
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Posted on: 8/24/19 7:05 PM ET
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Have you been listening to NPR? NOOM must be doing well as they sponsor constantly.

No. I looked at it several times. They are not at all transparent. To get any info from the main website you have to input way too much personal information and I stopped there. I'm not into enabling Big Brother to get that precise a picture of me and my health issues. My Doctor has HIPPA guidelines on sharing that info, NOOM doesn't as far as I saw. It was like pulling teeth to find out anything, even price, and most of the info of any value came from other sources, not NOOM. There's a lot of info here at Total Shape.

I understand there is a free version that gives access to the food data base but not a nutritionist and wellness coach. That version is apparently $59.99 month heavily discounted with longer term subscription, I believe a full year prepaid is $199. There is also a version for people with diabetes and it gets good reviews.

I like their listing of foods into green, yellow, red to distinguish healthier choices. The program works to encourage lifestyle changes by behavior modification.

If you like to constantly input info into your smartphone or tablet this might be nice. I don't. I use a clever phone, not smart, doesn't do apps. If I had a small tablet this might be usable as some of the screen shots had a lot of info for a little phone screen.

Also if you have an interest in balancing or controlling certain things, say your cholesterol or fat intake, protein, certain vitamins a tracker like this might be good.

I'm interested too to hear if anyone has used it.
  
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Posted on: 8/24/19 7:06 PM ET
I had tried it three years ago. I also tried My Fitness Pal and it seemed more helpful for me as it’s a bit less structured than NOOM. I’ve logged into My Fitness Pal and tracked my food every day for the last three years. By tracking food and exercise, I had lost 25 pounds and kept it off.
  
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Posted on: 8/24/19 11:11 PM ET
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I had tried it three years ago. I also tried My Fitness Pal and it seemed more helpful for me as it’s a bit less structured than NOOM. I’ve logged into My Fitness Pal and tracked my food every day for the last three years. By tracking food and exercise, I had lost 25 pounds and kept it off.

Wow! Congrats, that's great. I've heard of Fitness Pal but that's about it.
  
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Posted on: 8/25/19 8:10 AM ET
I went to their website out of curiosity. It didn't give me any information -- it just said "Find out how much weight you'll lose for good with Noom's free 30-second online evaluation." I thought, OK, I'll see what happens. I filled in the information, including an e-mail address (I hope I will not regret this). It offered a free 14-day trial. I decided to keep following this path to see where it led. At the end it told me the length of time it would take me to get to my goal weight (in kg) by following their plan. Then it said that it costs them something to develop a personalized plan, and asked me how much I would be willing to pay for the trial -- ranging from $1 to other amounts (nothing very high). But at that point I closed my browser. At the beginning they had said free trial, and now they were asking me how much I was willing to pay for it.
Weird.

Anyway, I'm happy that it works for some people.


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Posted on: 8/25/19 8:23 AM ET
I had a terrible experience with it. Check out online complaints, especially from former employees on Glassdoor openly admitting it was a scam designed to take advantage of desperate people. I contacted a nutritionist through my EAP and set up an exercise program through my doctor. It’s coming off slow, but it’s cheaper than NOOM and I’ve never felt better.

If I had a choice between gaining weight or giving noom a single penny, I’d carry the weight. They are vultures.
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Posted on: 8/25/19 9:11 AM ET
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I tried it and learned a few things, but I didn't lose any weight.

I had lost 60 pounds years ago by eating a lot less and exercising a lot more. I have kept most of it off. Over time, about 10 pounds have crept back on and I was looking for a new approach to losing it. Since I only had about 10 to lose, and I was pretty well-versed already in healthy eating and exercise, I didn't have much of a learning curve.

Pros and Cons:
* Pros: You learn a lot about yourself, including the true reason WHY you want to lose weight. You learn lots of tricks for handing tough situations, such as emotional eating, social pressures and whatever else challenges you. I think these things are important because once you learn HOW to eat and move, you need tools to help you make good choices consistently and to deal with whatever triggers and challenges you have personally.

Cons: The Noom calorie target of about 1200 a day left me hungry and irritable. The so-called "coach" was really just some kid who's text me once a week and have me set a goal - she/he was not really available and all I'd get were questions to answer, very little personal help. Likewise, the group you're put into constantly changes so there's little social connection - if you need people around for support, you may not get it.

Overall, I think what you learn in a month is worth the $100 but I would not do it for longer than that.

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Posted on: 8/25/19 12:55 PM ET
I read some reviews online about the credit card issues after trying to stop the plan. Sounds like the old Bally fitness issues. You are definitely paying for their expensive marketing campaigns.
  
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Posted on: 8/25/19 2:06 PM ET
I've looked into it because the commercials made me curious. It looks like a REALLY EXPENSIVE VERSION of the truly excellent information and program in Dr. Judith Beck's book The Beck Diet Solution. Beck is a cognitive-behavioral therapist who works primarily with weight-loss clients, and the book offers a six-week plan of daily activities and "lessons" to teach the motivational and emotional skills necessary to successfully follow a diet plan. (It's not a diet plan itself; it's more about the behavioral skills needed to STICK to a diet plan so that it's ultimately successful.)

I had great luck with it several years ago, and continued to use her approach for more than a year after the initial six weeks of the plan were over. It clicked for me at that time in part because many of her techniques were exactly what I was accustomed to doing when I was very sick with IBS and had to eat an extremely restrictive diet.

I recommend this book WHOLEHEARTEDLY. It'll set you back nothing but time if you get it from your library.


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Posted on: 8/25/19 6:09 PM ET
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I went to their website out of curiosity. It didn't give me any information -- it just said "Find out how much weight you'll lose for good with Noom's free 30-second online evaluation." I thought, OK, I'll see what happens. I filled in the information, including an e-mail address (I hope I will not regret this). It offered a free 14-day trial. I decided to keep following this path to see where it led. At the end it told me the length of time it would take me to get to my goal weight (in kg) by following their plan. Then it said that it costs them something to develop a personalized plan, and asked me how much I would be willing to pay for the trial -- ranging from $1 to other amounts (nothing very high). But at that point I closed my browser. At the beginning they had said free trial, and now they were asking me how much I was willing to pay for it.

Weird.



Anyway, I'm happy that it works for some people.




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Yes, I was curious, too, but didn't get as far as you did. I just wasn't feeling it and quit. Asking too much for something I knew nothing about. I didn't even see a Free Trial. And when I do see Free Trial, I expect it to be free. We can talk payment if I sign up when the Free Trial is over. That's a crappy way of doing business, tho, I know lots of companies do that. It's time for us to start demanding better of these companies or make them suffer. Ok, off my rant.
  
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