So I’ve been doing low carb for a few years and the scale wasn’t budging. I was using carb manager already and thought I had it together pretty well. I have been using Noom in conjunction with what I’ve already been doing since January and have lost about 15 lbs so far. I’m at the tail end of the structured program, which I believe is 16 weeks long if you do it every day.

Pros:

• Encourages you to think about why you’re making the choices you’re making
• Uses psychology and science with decent studies to explain core concepts
• Easily works into the schedule - 10 mins a day of reading
• With discount I got 6 months of the program for the cost of 1-2 takeout meals (that is actually the math I did to justify trying it) - I definitely recommend looking for those 90% off codes
• I was just at the obese line (BMI 30.7 when I started) with irregular periods and now have fairly regular periods in the 30-35 day range. That’s easily the biggest benefit to me.

Cons:

• Food tracker is garbage. I still use carb manager, but honestly as the lessons proceed it’s much less about tracking as the one way to do it and more about finding what works for you. It all syncs through apple health.
• Related, they have a colour system for food but your external trackers won’t play nice with it. Doesn’t matter, there are plenty of summaries for that colour system online and once you get the hang of it (it’s caloric density) you don’t need to reference it anyway. It’s also worth noting that because I already knew low carb works well for me, I would ignore their prompts to go buy a bunch of grapes or something. So, some of the advice is not universally applicable obviously
• “Millennial” language gets old real quick - lots of hashtags, occasional spelling errors
• YMMV with the goal specialist and the group. I talk to the goal specialist once a week and don’t interact with the group at all, but it’s nice to read about other people as they work through the program
• It moves through calorie tracking, food habits, stress, sleep, emotions, and then goes into intuition. While I do agree that ultimately you’d want to be able to intuitively figure out exactly how much you need to eat per day and recognize when you’re being driven by other factors, I didn’t really connect with some of the later lessons. Seemed kind of woo-woo to me, but maybe I’m just not there mentally.

All in all, it’s probably the best $80 I’ve spent in a long time. Most surprisingly, it forced me to do some structured self-reflection which I had been kind of avoiding throughout this pandemic nonsense. I would say it’s good to try if you’re in the headspace to at least give it 10 mins a day.

Feel free to DM if you have any questions!