The weight-loss program gets high marks from this nutritionist.
What Is Noom?
Noom is a mobile platform-based wellness program that includes personal coaching and group support in order to help you create better lifelong habits and, as a result, live a healthier life. Although food and exercise are a big part of this plan, its founders say it’s just as much about how to make sustainable lifestyle changes as it is about how to eat and exercise. One key goal of Noom is to help you overcome emotional and psychological barriers that may prevent you from leading a healthy lifestyle.
There are two programs available on Noom: a healthy weight program and diabetes management program. If your goal is weight loss, you’ll be given a daily calorie budget and use a color-coded Noom database and tracking technology to help you stay within your limit. You won’t be making any radical changes or making any foods off-limits, though, and shouldn’t expect to lose more than one to two pounds a week, which complies with the National Institute of Health’s guidelines for safe weight loss. “Our goal is to destigmatize weight loss as something that’s restrictive (or ‘impossible’ for some), and provide a slow and steady pathway built on the acquisition of sustainable skills,” Jeong says.
If you choose the diabetes management program, you’ll focus more on choosing and tracking foods based on their carbohydrate content. The program is fully recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a diabetes prevention program, meaning it provides evidence-based Type 2 diabetes prevention in communities across the United States and has demonstrated effectiveness by meeting all the recognition program’s “performance criteria.”