Hi,
I've been using Noom for a couple of months now and have always used it and found losing weight with it easy. This time, I didn't lose at all if I stuck to the calorie limit and only lost when I ate 400-500 calories less than the limit. I work out a lot, varying walkouts between aerobic and weights, burning around 800 calories a day but progress is very slow. I've found it hard to have rest days but I ususally have 1 or 2 at the weekend.
I wondered if I was eating too little but that's never been an issue with Noom and I'm scared of gaining again. I'm on a 1200 calorie limit to lose 2lbs a week but I'm lucky if I lose 1lb and I am very experienced at logging.
I have considered that it may be a thyroid issue as mum had one but it's easy to assume it's something medical, yet I know I've been working really hard. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Where am I going wrong?
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Re: Where am I going wrong?
I should have looked through some more posts before posting mine as this obviously gets asked a lot! Here are some more specifics.
I've lost around 3-4% body fat, I don't know if that's a god loss for 2 months and 2 weeks of that I couldn't work out due to an illness and a back injury.
I am a scales addict and way myself daily, I know that needs to stop as I hate myself if weight isn't on the lowest I saw during the week on actual weight day, Saturday.
I eat a lot of lean meat, low fat yogurt, grains, oats, soups and fruit and veg but am often hungry. I try to drink plenty of water and keep sugar to a minimum as I have a sweet tooth and that is usually downfall. I rarely eat processed foods. I'm not trying to eat more good fats, avocados, oily fish and nuts.
As a teen I had an eating disorder and this weight loss started when I was ill and i lost a few lbs and wanted to keep that up but I was eating 1000cals or less, even on workout days but I've stopped that now as I want to build muscle and tone.
I've struggled with weight whole life and I love food but I want to be healthy more. This time I want to work it off and keep it off.
I've lost around 3-4% body fat, I don't know if that's a god loss for 2 months and 2 weeks of that I couldn't work out due to an illness and a back injury.
I am a scales addict and way myself daily, I know that needs to stop as I hate myself if weight isn't on the lowest I saw during the week on actual weight day, Saturday.
I eat a lot of lean meat, low fat yogurt, grains, oats, soups and fruit and veg but am often hungry. I try to drink plenty of water and keep sugar to a minimum as I have a sweet tooth and that is usually downfall. I rarely eat processed foods. I'm not trying to eat more good fats, avocados, oily fish and nuts.
As a teen I had an eating disorder and this weight loss started when I was ill and i lost a few lbs and wanted to keep that up but I was eating 1000cals or less, even on workout days but I've stopped that now as I want to build muscle and tone.
I've struggled with weight whole life and I love food but I want to be healthy more. This time I want to work it off and keep it off.
Re: Where am I going wrong?
Hi Friars, good to talk to you.
I am assuming that you are a female and therefore the sedentary average calorie intake for a female, should be around 1,800 calories a day, but you would be wise to add around 200-400 a day on exercise days, so you've got extra fuel and energy to support your activity.
What times do you eat at and what foods do you eat at those times?
Definitely keep the weights in your workout regime, but also keep the cardio as well.
In relation the weights, make sure you're doing a decent routine with 8-10 reps in it, as the 1 set of 15-20 reps with piddly bits of weight mentality a lot of females adopt is rubbish and is extremely substandard for even weight loss, so progressive lifting would benefit you by far to help you get stronger.
Most importantly think of this as a way of improving how your body works. Don't make it all about how it looks, because when you look at people like Kate Moss who smoke and take drugs, such people are hardly paragons of good living and don't represent the healthy ideal, but they look like they might.
So focus on how your body works and in time you will be able to improve how it looks as a byproduct. Be proud of your decision, keep believing in yourself and try not to worry too much about things and get yourself down when some weeks you think you're not doing as well as you should be, because doing your best will work if you're getting things right and sometimes if you make mistakes the best thing is to just get over them as quickly as possible and try to learn from them, so you're not stalling your physical progress.
I think you ARE worth it, so don't look negatively upon yourself for being that teen with an eating disorder, look at yourself as someone with the potential to be beautiful and special and if there are negative visions of you spoken about by others, don't let those peoples judgements of you define you, because I think you're worth more than that.
Remember it's a long road and it won't happen overnight, but if you stick to it and believe in yourself you CAN get there.
In relation to the scales, definitely stop weighing daily, as that will do you no good and potentially cause stress anxiety and lead to knee-jerk decisions about how you eat and train, if on a given day you don't like what you see.
Put the scales somewhere where you can't reach them too easily, or locked in a container, or even just a post-it note, reminding yourself that if you have to weight do it once a week, on a set day, after you've been to the toilet.
GOOD LUCK and remember that you ARE worth it and if you need any other help or advice, let us know okay and please do let me know what I asked you, but if you keep us updated, we can try and do more if we want or need to to keep helping you okay
.
I am assuming that you are a female and therefore the sedentary average calorie intake for a female, should be around 1,800 calories a day, but you would be wise to add around 200-400 a day on exercise days, so you've got extra fuel and energy to support your activity.
What times do you eat at and what foods do you eat at those times?
Definitely keep the weights in your workout regime, but also keep the cardio as well.
In relation the weights, make sure you're doing a decent routine with 8-10 reps in it, as the 1 set of 15-20 reps with piddly bits of weight mentality a lot of females adopt is rubbish and is extremely substandard for even weight loss, so progressive lifting would benefit you by far to help you get stronger.
Most importantly think of this as a way of improving how your body works. Don't make it all about how it looks, because when you look at people like Kate Moss who smoke and take drugs, such people are hardly paragons of good living and don't represent the healthy ideal, but they look like they might.
So focus on how your body works and in time you will be able to improve how it looks as a byproduct. Be proud of your decision, keep believing in yourself and try not to worry too much about things and get yourself down when some weeks you think you're not doing as well as you should be, because doing your best will work if you're getting things right and sometimes if you make mistakes the best thing is to just get over them as quickly as possible and try to learn from them, so you're not stalling your physical progress.
I think you ARE worth it, so don't look negatively upon yourself for being that teen with an eating disorder, look at yourself as someone with the potential to be beautiful and special and if there are negative visions of you spoken about by others, don't let those peoples judgements of you define you, because I think you're worth more than that.
Remember it's a long road and it won't happen overnight, but if you stick to it and believe in yourself you CAN get there.
In relation to the scales, definitely stop weighing daily, as that will do you no good and potentially cause stress anxiety and lead to knee-jerk decisions about how you eat and train, if on a given day you don't like what you see.
Put the scales somewhere where you can't reach them too easily, or locked in a container, or even just a post-it note, reminding yourself that if you have to weight do it once a week, on a set day, after you've been to the toilet.
GOOD LUCK and remember that you ARE worth it and if you need any other help or advice, let us know okay and please do let me know what I asked you, but if you keep us updated, we can try and do more if we want or need to to keep helping you okay
.Re: Where am I going wrong?
Hi Boss Man,
Thank you for your reply. I had been using Noom to log all food and exercise so I've looked back at that. This is what I was having: -
Breakfast - Porridge with skim milk
Lunch - Soup and fat free yogurt
Snack - Apple or grapes
Dinner - Varies a lot but usually meat and veg is some form
Snack - Fat free yogurt
All usually adding up to 1200 cals or less most days.
I didn't food log yesterday but upped calories, having bigger portions and I felt so much better mood wise. I am hypoglycemic so I was struggling with fatigue and I can see how, when Noom already limits your calories, I was reducing it further and probably entering starvation mode.
I'm going to try Carb cycling for a few weeks and cut out sugar and see if body can tolerate the low carb days and have those as rest days or weight training days with plenty of protein.
I've been scared of eating nuts and nut products but I'm going to include them more, with good fats also and keep meat etc lean and make sure I'm getting plenty of protein.
I can see that m body needs more fuel in order to build more muscle and although I might not see change so rapidly, it's change that will last and help burn fat more. All this reading has helped change mind set to happy, healthy, satisfied and fit, not hungry, miserable and thin! Scales once a week, I'm not even worried about food logging now but I may do it for a few weeks just to compare it. I see now that different ways of eating and exercising work differently for different people so I am going to give this a good try
Thank you for your reply. I had been using Noom to log all food and exercise so I've looked back at that. This is what I was having: -
Breakfast - Porridge with skim milk
Lunch - Soup and fat free yogurt
Snack - Apple or grapes
Dinner - Varies a lot but usually meat and veg is some form
Snack - Fat free yogurt
All usually adding up to 1200 cals or less most days.
I didn't food log yesterday but upped calories, having bigger portions and I felt so much better mood wise. I am hypoglycemic so I was struggling with fatigue and I can see how, when Noom already limits your calories, I was reducing it further and probably entering starvation mode.
I'm going to try Carb cycling for a few weeks and cut out sugar and see if body can tolerate the low carb days and have those as rest days or weight training days with plenty of protein.
I've been scared of eating nuts and nut products but I'm going to include them more, with good fats also and keep meat etc lean and make sure I'm getting plenty of protein.
I can see that m body needs more fuel in order to build more muscle and although I might not see change so rapidly, it's change that will last and help burn fat more. All this reading has helped change mind set to happy, healthy, satisfied and fit, not hungry, miserable and thin! Scales once a week, I'm not even worried about food logging now but I may do it for a few weeks just to compare it. I see now that different ways of eating and exercising work differently for different people so I am going to give this a good try
Re: Where am I going wrong?
Here are some options you can use, like microwave soups, baked beans and rice dishes, oat granola's, ham, turkey, beef, pork and chicken from a packet, low fat cheese, nuts, peanuts, fruits including tomatoes and cucumber, vegetables including pineapple, raw carrot and celery sticks, pre-boiled eggs, pre-cooked chicken breast and low fat yoghurt, nuts and peanuts, bread, sandwiches.
Some of those represent partial snacks and some represent full ones, but you'll probably be able to work out which are which,
Some of those represent partial snacks and some represent full ones, but you'll probably be able to work out which are which,