Noom; weight loss app

[Mr. Ed]

The Noom app is a subscription based app for smart phones and tablets. Features include meal logging & food calorie intake, AM weighing & documentation, positive feedback, goal setting, course progress, introduction to the psychology of weight loss, food fundamentals, mastering motivation, beyond food, stress and you, mastering your mind, etc

I like Noom because it's database allows me to look up food products I buy at the grocery store. For example, for breakfast I eat a bowl of Price chopper old fashion oats, and whatever low-fat vanilla Greek yogurt I buy. It's in the Noom database that gives me accurate calorie count based on the food products I use. Noom is a great way to compare food and food brands as well.

Noom is a little costly, and perhaps not for everyone, but it has helped me learn about and recognize food categories, calorie intake and menu planning.

 

[Della]

You can get almost all of that for free on My Fitness Pal. I've been using it for years to log my food and it keeps the ones I eat frequently handy so I can just put check marks by my usuals and they jump onto my log. I also like that I can enter my recipes and it will figure the calories for me and it not only has all my store brands it has most of the big restaurant calories.

 

[Happyflowerlady]

I use one called “LOSE IT”. they have both a free version and a paid for version, and from the description of what NOOM does, it sounds like about the same thing as what LOSE IT does.
I did get the paid version for one year, because in a year (or maybe even less ? ) I should have lost all of the excess fat that I need to lose, and then if I want to keep the app, just the basic free version should work for me.

I also used My Fitness Pal, but it was a hassle for me , and I am much more satisfied with the Lose It app. Over all, I think that whichever app a person chooses to track their food and exercise, it is a good thing to do and very worthwhile.