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Fighting withweightloss is one of the most common shared human experiences. TheCDC The percentage of obese American adults at 42.4% and new research suggest that more people are previously before. (Taking into account the health risks associated withobesity and his link toCOVID-19 complications, It's good to hear.) For any reason possible, people want or need to hang out books, there are a dozen weight loss methods to choose.

For centuries, people have tried everything, fromIngestion sheet In the early 1900s (yikes) to today popular (but controversial)intermittent fast. Of course, different approaches have different levels of efficiency and the most important factor of any weight loss program isdurability-AKA The ability to keep it for a long time. The quest for such a solution has led many people to downloadNOOM, an application that claims: "Stop diet. Get life lifetime results." (In touch:100 instantaneous food on the planet.)

Founded in 2008 by Saeju Jeong and Artem Petakov, the philosophy of NOOM is the one we know well: the crash regimes do not work and people need durable and healthy lifestyles to lose weight and keep it. The invoice application $ 59 per month or $ 199 annually and uses psychology in its weight loss methodology. More specifically, it uses a cognitive-behavioral therapy (or CBT), which is a type of common conversation therapy in which users are encouraged to reflect on their habits, emotions and thoughts. In this case, this analysis concerns eating and food habits in order to permanently identify and improve problematic trends.

While Noom falls outside the conscious consumption of crash power andcalorie count, The program actually ends from counting calories because users must connect everything they eat. It also provides information about healthy and non-sister foods, quiz, and the ability to discuss with other users and / or trainers (which areAll registered dietitians are not all But are approved by the national consortium for health and well-being coaches). The amount of information, the virtual support system and real-time orientations are useful objective tools that users have found success.

Currently, there is45 million NOOM users And the company claims to have helped 1.5 million people to lose weight. However, for eachHAPPY User andExpert approval, it seems that there were also negative criteria and concerns raised (OH, and a series ofBest Company Complaints, too much).

More recently,Vice The writer Sarah hurts the question of whether NOOM works and / or promotes the consumption of disordered people. The main problems of bad guys have already been injured.NBC marked: The application can sometimes recommend daily calorie totals for too low users to be healthy, the program fails to request new users if they have a history of disordered handling and, while the approach to Behavioral Therapy could be a game changer in theory, noom does not have enough trainers at your fingertips so that users can get the individual attention needed for it to work.

When we asked experts to weigh on the application, they also raised their own concerns.

"This approach works for some people and not for others", "registered dietitian based in NYCNatalie Rizzo, MS, RD tellsEat this, not that! "Many are overwhelmed by the logging of every thing they eat and give up their weight loss ... Others find calories tracking a useful tool - it helps them recognize appropriate portion sizes and not eat too much. "

Mitzi Dulan, Rd, founder ofovercome, accept. "I believe that Noome can effectively help some people lose weight healthy by recording food consumption, objectives and the use of cognitive therapy."

However, the rizzo and the Dulan expresses both the thin line between the logging of useful foods and encouraging the disordered eating habits. "Anyone with a disorderly manual story should not follow the calories because it can induce unhealthy thoughts surrounding the food," says Rizzo.

In other words, NOOM can certainly work for those who have no history of disordered people who are ready to follow calories and analyze their eating habits. But anyone has had trouble limiting too much to be limited should rather look for specialized therapists and dietitians.

"The vast majority of people have an exceptional experience using coaching and psychology to lose weight using NOOM, but as with anything in life, it's not the perfect fit for all the world, "saysShanon Whitchham, a holistic nutritionist who is also a health coach for NOOM. "It really gets to try it for at least a month to give him a good feeling, then decide if it's a good plan for you."

While Whittingham saw the NOOM CBT approach Helping users daily, she advises potential users thinking about how they like to work on their weight loss. NOOM offers different options for forestry logging as well as the group or supervision of a group, but some people can always see that the specialized attention of a registered dietitian or nutritionist is the best.

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