Noom weight diet program is a weight loss program that is custom made. A team of psychologists have developed the program. And it is available as a phone app and is a personalized diet plan with no food restrictions or insistence on fasting for weight loss.
Noom weight diet program
Noom weight diet program is a personalized diet plan for weight loss. Artem Petakov and Saeju Jeong founded this app in 2008. This company is headquartered at New York city. In this app, the foods are coded into three colors: red, yellow and green. But there are no food restrictions at all. There is no fasting either. The app guides the user throughout the period of use and believes in lifestyle changes in the user.
Noom weight diet (Source: Good housekeeping)Users can have a 4 month subscription for USD 159 or USD 40 per month. There is a 14 day trial period for new users. Moreover, subscribers get live 1-to-1 assistance and guidance from coaches during business hours. The app has tools to measure blood sugar and blood pressure. It encourages users to use it so they are able to know how their nutrition choices affects these two parameters of health.
Color coding of foods
The various foods are graded into three colors: Red, Yellow and Green.
In the red group are foods such as red meat, processed meats such as salami, bacon and ham. This group also has sugar including fruit juices, oils such as olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, condiments such as mayonnaise, ranch, and calorie dense foods like pizza, fries, hamburgers, and chocolate.
In the yellow group come lean protein (tuna, salmon, turkey breast, chicken that is grilled), good dairy like low-fat milk, yoghurt, low fat cheese and eggs, healthy fats from olives and avocados, and whole grains and legumes such as kidney beans, black beans, chick peas, etc.
Noom weight diet (Source: Forbes)In the green category are vegetables, edible dark green leaves, all types of fruits, good dairy like low fat cheese and Greek yoghurt, and whole grains like oatmeal and brown rice.
The diet recommends that users should consume 45% of the food from yellow group, 30% from green group and 25% from red group.
Controversies and contraindications
Noom weight diet has got a mixed reaction. Antagonists state that it leads to a fractured relationship with food items. Also, all red category foods are not bad. And all green category foods are not healthy if taken in large amounts. But people might interpret things that way and feel that all green foods are healthy.
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This diet program is not meant for people with eating disorders. It might aggravate the problem or precipitate it if in control. The program is a paid service. It might help some but not be of any use to others. There is no guarantee in its success.
Noom weight diet (Source: Pinterest)But the program has continuous guidance for users with coaching during business hours. The program focuses on changing feeding behaviors. There is no fad diet or restrictions on food intake. It is a digital platform and one can have it from the comfort of their homes. Additionally, there is info about food dishes from meal delivery services around.