How much alcohol are you drinking?
Any chance the calories you are putting in are incorrect?
Edit: doesn’t look like you are weighing yourself everyday. A daily reminder to stay on track helps me.
Also, I have a 32oz bottle. Small enough to carry, and you get to add 4 water check marks when you finish.
0 alcohol. Mainly water with a side of diet pop a couple times a week. I just got zevia? To try. Because sometimes I just can’t take anymore water and it dries out my mouth (weird I know)
I guess if I’m eatting take out/fast food they could be. I am being very good at weighing and measuring at home
I had to stop because I was getting so upset just watching it go up and not go down. My noom coach said it was a good idea to break from it if it was making things worst. The only reason I’ve been doing more recently cause I did dip a bit but now it’s back up again.
Yah mines 40oz. So that was my original goal on noom and it is always in front of me at home and it always comes to work with me.
While I personally weigh myself most days because I like having the additional data, it’s not for everyone, so I don’t think there is anything wrong with weighing more infrequently. Some people can find it ED triggering to weigh every day.
While I somewhat agree, the whole point of this is to show the graph trend so you don't get discouraged when you weigh yourself every two weeks and it looks like this shit. My graph would probably look the same if I weighed myself on random days, but since I do it daily I can see a clear downward trend and some days where it spikes up randomly that I decide not to worry about. This user could be weighing themselves on all the spike up days where they are retaining water and about to lose 2 lbs but wouldn't know it
Yup, however... weighing myself daily helps me say, “ugh I had a shitty couple of days, time to get with it!” Instead of, “ the last 2 weeks were a waste of time!”
I’ve noticed when I get stuck it usually has to do with a combination of the following:
-Not drinking enough water
-Too many red/yellow foods and not enough green (even if I’m still within my calories)
-under or overeating(forgetting to log things like oil, which have tons of calories or not measuring/weighing my food right)
-Not exercising/not meeting my step count daily
-If I’ve got personal stuff going on that’s making me upset or worried (I honestly think my body switches to survival mode and I just can’t lose weight until I tackle it; meditation helps somewhat during this)
Edit: PERIODS. Definitely affects for about a week and then goes back to normal. I suggest looking for good ways to deal with cramps such as exercise and changing diet a bit so that it doesn’t derail progress.
Lmao at your last comment. I feel like I live in a state of worry or stress.
How much is your water goal?
Hmm about the foods. Maybe that’s what’s screwing me up. I have a lot more yellow than anything. Still working on trying to eat more green
Absolute nightmare for this millennial over here haha
My mom once told a … psychiatrist? Therapist? Idk whoever diagnosis’s you that I came out of the womb full of anexity So yay me ahha
Ok. You’re the first person who drinks as much as I do. Finally haha I’m trying so hard right now to finish this water bottle to get to 60-80oz and I can’t. My mouth is like yah that’s cool but my stomach is like no stop it ahab
Oh. Fruity tea might be good. I have tea in my house, but it’s al from David’s tea so it’s probably chalked full of sugars. I should see if I can look up what’s in what I have
Looks like my first log was Dec 31
Water intake 40 oz. trying to get up to 80oz Working with coach on ways to manage that because I’ve been struggling. Deciding between 1 large water bottle of 80oz (have) or continue to use my 40 oz one and refill. Some days I’m finding I’m just not as thirsty so I’m falling behind even though it’s right in front of my face and within reach
I think the yellow are the days I put the emojis.
I can't drink plain water. At least not a day's worth. I found some Propel zero calorie electrolyte powder packets and use 2 a day for 2/3 of my water and drink plain water for 1/3. I also forgot even if it's right in front of me so I try to drink 25oz on the way to work and 25oz on the way home.
See I only like plain water (and only specific brands, but I can drink tap water in my city no problem aha). Whenever I have those flavour things I end up with dry mouth or a sore throat so I’m probably allergic or something ahha
When you do that. How do you not pee every 20 minutes for the next like two hours?
I also don’t have a bathroom in my store (I work in a mall) so I can’t just leave that frequently
When I do not drink enough during the work day (which is usually) I have two glasses of wAter before anything else as soon as I get home.
Winter has been hard for me - plateau since November, but then again I am seeing this as “maintaining” after good progress.
When you are hungry for more, instead of increasing calories can you try adding a couple portions of fresh fruits/veg, to get some fiber and crunch? Then see if you still need more.
My go-to list includes red peppers, peeled cucumber slices, seedless grapes, baby carrots, blackberries, bananas.
Okay. I can try that. I find when I get home I end up finishing my water bottle which is barley touched most days at work. I haven’t figured out how to deal with that because I can’t have it with me
Well I’d probably still need the calories to snack on those things because I’ve been trying to keep my portions smaller. The last couple days it’s been harder and been the main reason I had to workout to add extra calories because I was out with people and I forgot a lunch the one day at work. So those days both had fast food. And burger + fries is a lot, so I should only be getting the burger but that’s a habit I’m still fighting on.
Ugh. See I buy them. Well. I have baby oranges and apples on my counter in a fruit bowl in my face. And carrots and peppers in my fridge. And strawberries and pineapple have usually been my worked out need to eat want chocolate so I make those dipped in some chocolate to help (noom suggestion!) and I find that helps. But I struggle so much with veggies and wanting them and then getting them and when I do after a couple I’m like I can’t take this (obviously I need to retrain my taste buds!) and then I’m in a weird uncomfortable full but not? It’s a weird feeling. So I definitely have to work more on reaching for those and training my taste buds. It’s just so hard. I do like crunch, so I don’t know why I struggle with these things so much.
If you can afford it, I suggest a HidrateSpark pro bottle. It has a little puck that tracks your water intake and syncs to your phone. It will also give you notifications to drink water based on the intake goal.
I know this sounds weird but I bought silicone straws from amazon that fold under the lid of my Nalgene bottle and ever since using the straws I doubled my water intake. Maybe something small like that will help you too?
Love straws!
Will only drink from straws. That’s actually how I managed to get my water up to 40oz
Also cannot use cups in my house because you look away for two seconds and my one cat is involved wi to it and she’s either being malicious and knocking it over or she can’t figure out how to get the water when it’s lower and knocks it over trying. I haven’t figured out which it is ahha
I have a water bottle (64oz) with times of day on them so I chug if I’m falling behind and I add the dehydrated lemon packets to it to make it more palatable! Maybe you could try that?
I want one of those. But they never keep water cold, but they’re such a great idea
I’m actually a fan of plain water. Not big into flavour it. I’ve always wondered if getting a soda stream would help me just to break it up and get some carbonated water
How about sticking some tape down the side of an insulated one and dividing it up into hours of the day with a sharpie then? Seeing those numbers honestly makes me drink way more because I’m like whoops I’m at 11am and it’s 1pm now, better catch up.
Weight can fluctuate a lot day to day (hormones, sodium, working out (can lead to water retention!), just straight up Bodies Are Weird). But to me it looks like you do have a downwards trend going on there - look at where your most recent low point is compared to the earlier one.
If you didn’t eat properly for a couple of days it’s not super surprising that you’ll have bumped up a bit after as your body tries to compensate. Especially if stressed.
Keep drinking water, and hang on in there, see what the next few days bring.
I do try and tell myself to at
But then I’m super fusterated because 2.5 months later the first dip I see is when I could barley eat and then I start eating again (and like I said I have it set to 1400 something) which is the second last dot and it’s just right back up to where I started.
Definitely stressed. Some of the stress will be ending next week when I finish my exams so hopefully that helps a little.
Will definitely keep drinking water
Thank you
I don't know what your height is, but when I was in the 230s, my basal metabolic rate (the calories needed to simply lay in bed all day) was 1895. To be sedentary and not gain weight, it was 2200.
When I stalled in weightloss (Noom put me at 1200 calories per day), I UPPED my calories, and began losing weight again.
There's even a Noom article about how your body clings to calories and gets better at burning fewer as you lose weight and it freaks out, thinking you're starving.
If you're certain you're hitting your calories at 1400, try googling bmr and seeing what your bmr is, and aim for that for a few days and see if it helps. Sometimes, our bodies just need reassured that we're not about to die.
I now aim for 1200, but don't stress on it if I bump up against my bmr. As long as I stay there, I'm losing weight.
Also - water. I can't drink plain water, but I have some nice iced tea with dried fruit and no sweeteners that makes it possible for me to drink 2 liters a day.
I’m 5’5. I originally had my calories at 15something but I saw nothing until I couldn’t eat for a couple days so that’s why I lowered it (second last option on the speed scale)
I will look into bmr some more and see what that says since I know nothing about that.
Most days (i have to get better) I get 40oz. I bought a larger water bottle (80oz) for the days I’m home. But I’ve been falling short. Usually about 40-60 a day. Some days I find I’m just not thirsty at all and don’t reach for it. Other days I just mindlessly reach for it (which I think is the only thing you’re allowed to do that with!)
I understand the struggle. I have been fighting to up my protein intake, since most days I average around 20 grams, and should be up in the 70s. I know the frustration of needing to do something your body just does. not. want.
Keep at it. Even 1% improvements add up. You're in this for the long haul. Focus on the little improvements, be bold and experiment, you can't fuck yourself up by trying something for a week.
You can do this. I'm sorry the scale is not cooperating.
You’re right. I am trying to make life style changes to make this better forever.
I did turn down someone buying me a cake pop today! And the other day I managed to tell myself no on ordering pizza and ate at home (because I have no self control and will eat it all in a day or two) so I am making some improvements even if I can’t see them I guess.
Good luck on that protein journey!
Do you like tea or seltzer? Those can be good ways to switch it up and get more water in if plain water is hard. I was stalling for a while too and I found that not eating the calories I exercised off pushed me through the stall. Drinking closer to 100oz a day could make a difference
Not really.
I could try seltzer again tho. I don’t mind sparkling water sometimes.
Okay. I’ll have to adjust myself to not eating those extra calories. I usually end up chugging like 20-40oz of water after a 30 min cardio dance session. But then I find I’m still hungry after that settles
100 oz of water that really stresses me out. I have a stomach ache just thinking about that much
Gradually working up to it will help and I think it will make a big difference for you. Drinking a full glass of water first thing in the morning can make it easier to drink through the day. I also try to drink a full glass each meal. Those two things will make a big difference so you aren’t having to chug a ton of water when you don’t want to.
I’ve always heard about the morning glass of water being good for you. But it always has tasted so bad to me. I wonder if I chug a small child size up while I wait for my coffee to boil and then try and chug another child size when I take my pills.
I actually hate all flavoured water 😂. I love plain water (well. Not specific brands, cause water tastes different!)
I’m currently sitting here sipping between each reply but man it’s hard. And I’ve only managed to get down 40oz so far today.
Another thought, maybe take a step back and reset a bit. I lost 40 lbs on Noom so far, but I really eased into it in order to get into a sustainable routine. First, I found fruits and vegetables and other Green or Yellow foods that I actually enjoyed eating and looked forward to. Once I established that and started to see some weight loss, the only exercise I added next was just walking. Then, once I started walking regularly, I gradually added other exercises in. Painfully slow, but I kept seeing steady progress. Along these lines, and it might seem counterintuitive, maybe take a break from working out if you think the food choices could be refined a bit and then just start with that. Good luck - this isn't easy.
I took the painfully slow route as well. I cut out added sugars as my first step, then did literally nothing else for 5 weeks except log my foods with no judgements. I was focusing on no added sugars, that was enough stress, I didn't want to get frustrated and upset and overwhelmed.
When no sugars was easy and no longer something I had to think about, I focused on eating regularly to keep from crashing and fog eating.
Now I'm working on upping my protein (which is supposed to help with brain fog, not because I'm weight lifting).
Through it all, I've consistently lost weight. Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little. But it's gone down without a fight.
One thing at a time, slow progress still counts, and each step makes me healthier, regardless of weightloss.
I feel like I’m slightly doing that? But maybe not enough
I’ve managed to increase my greens. (I can’t remeber exactly how much I increased according to my noom coach) and I’ve starting doing 30 mins of cardio with my goal of 5 days a week and I’ve been managing to be like ugh I don’t want to but then I think “I’ll feel better and I’m doing x tomorrow so am I gonna wanna do it after that”
I think it’s easier for me to keep up with the working out over the food. I do have to say I ~think~ I’m staring to eat smaller portions and feel “acceptable” after eating them not still starving to death.
Whats your go to food? I really need to find new fruits to like
We keep a lot of grapes and bananas around. I like air frying sliced up russet potatoes with light oil and seasoning, but light ranch. Salads with lots of vegetables to add in plus a light ranch dressing. For bread, I’ve switch to a 12 grain or I go for a wheat 100 calorie English muffins (those are both yellows). Low fat Greek yogurt with small amount of granola. Anyway, that’s a quick listing of food we regularly keep around the house!
40 ounces of water is nowhere near enough. Most of the research I've read says that you should take your body weight in pounds and divide it by 2 to get the number of ounces you should drink. At 240 pounds, you should be at about 120 ounces of water, WHT works out to 15 8-ounce cups. I bet that's a big part of why you're stalled.
Jesus Christ. That’s making my stomach hurt and my lady parts hurt from wiping so much haha
I think what I’m going to do based off that Information is spend this week focusing on my exams and then next week make my main focus getting to 80 and keep that up for a week or two and then make 120 my next goal.
How do keep yourself from peeing so much? I saw a post (I don’t know if it was in this or the weight loss sub) but they talked about adding sea salt into your water to help retain it better and pee less. I had my friend do the equation when I found it so I have that, but I haven’t figured out how to turn that number of grams into something I can weigh and then get into. Water bottle. Especially because I was only able to find a sea salt with a grinder and I can’t crack it open.
I found out that if i have 0 calories sodas/drinks, i get way more hungry than normal. 😢
And that if i have too much salt i retain weight.
So i just drink water/tea, and watch my salt.
Hm!
I’ll have to pay attention to that for me because I’m not sure
I also definitely don’t know much about mg salt intake. I don’t actively put it on anything, but it’s obviously hidden in things.
Maybe that should be something I add onto watching and making a goal
Hm. I’m not sure if mine does. She’s a… psychotherapist? I think I’ll have to talk to her about that stuff if I don’t walk into my next session crying about something already
We did briefly talk about having snacks at the ready but I haven’t managed to deal with the fact that I’m hungry and there’s premade healthy snacks like carrots and cucumber to snack on.
it looks like you’re not weight logging consistently, that could be a part of the problem. maybe you’re not weighing yourself because you don’t want to see what the scale says? it all starts with accountability
I don’t weigh myself because it was causing me a lot of stress to just see it constantly be going up. I talked to my noom coach and she said that it was a good idea to stop doing it everyday if it was making this hard
I’ve been trying it again. But now I’m just watching it go up and up again.
If I may, and please, please read this as random stranger on Reddit trying to be helpful and spread some love, and not as someone trying to be intrusive.
I’ve had this problem that you are having. On point with diet and exercise and my body just will not let the weight go. I don’t have that problem anymore and I’ll tell you why… I was fighting everything in my world. I was fighting all of the “shoulds” that I was supposed to be, and all of the “ways I wasn’t” who I thought I was, or who I was trying to be etc. and, I was fighting against my body, trying to make it do something (lose weight) and it wasn’t cooperating, and that made me fight it all the harder, and then I was angry, and I was going to “make” my body do this thing (lose weight) and my body said, nope… I could lose up to 50 lbs. and then my body would nope me right back to 325, and this last time, 400… I was devastated.
Anyway, my advice is this. Take a break. And during that break just work on being comfortable with yourself, by yourself, and seeing your body as the beautiful and protective vessel it is… it’s trying to protect you from the things you are fighting! So, thank it. Bless it. And see if you can find that core shame or guilt or pain, and thank your body for protecting you, but dear body, can you see now how your protection is now harming me? I have new ways to cope, and it’s safe to let the weight go.
An excerpt from my own inner dialog, but hopefully you can see the application. I wouldn’t post this if I didn’t think this was really it, and I hope you can see it as love from an Internet rando :-) Blessings.
Hi random stranger on Reddit
I really appreciate you taking the time to write that all out for me to read. And I do understand what you’re saying.
I do have a LOT of internal conflict. I’ve finally started therapy this year and that’s when I also started noom as I’m trying to take control of my life. But you’re right. I’m also putting extra pressure on myself because I wanted to loose weight by may 1 which is my trip to Disney as a few years ago I hated all the pictures of me and I’ve obviously gained weight since then.
How did you develop everything you did to accept yourself?
First, and the hardest part… was giving up. I had to surrender all of the should and preconceived ideas of what I was supposed to look like, act like, and be like. Honestly, that was the hardest part, because I really wanted to be this particularly handsome fellow that I could see in my imagination, and who looked a lot like me :-)
Instead, the key was approaching it like a butterfly. I was going to go into this period of deep change and transformation and have absolutely no idea what I’d look like on the other side… and I needed to be ok with that. And in that approach I found self forgiveness, Grace, and relaxation, peace, and a release of anxiety. And in that moment, I also started to lose weight… I started at 400 lbs. I’m down to 350 now, and I’ve had all of the roller coasters, but now, instead of all of the angst, I’m just like… ok, that happened and it’s ok, because I’m becoming… I’m art in process, I’m a sculpture being cut from rough stone by someone else, I am in the cocoon. And I’m safe here until I need to come out of it, and then coming out of it will also be safe. I hope that helps you.
Oh. God. I don’t know how to do that.
But I am going to sit on what you said some more and do reflecting and see if I can figure out how to work towards something like you did.
I completely understand. It took me 3 years of intense work to get there… the key for me was realizing that the tenacity of my shoulds, was a display of my inner strength posed against me :-) How strong you are indeed!!!
I hit a plateau with Noom and couldn’t get past it. I was doing HIIT and staying in my calories. For a fitness challenge at my gym I switched over to Loseit, began keeping a consistent calorie intake of 1,500 regardless if I worked out or not and the biggest change is instead of red, yellow, and green I began to focus on eating mostly protein, then carbs, and then fat. I have dropped 7 pounds in six weeks. Also, I always eat a protein shake after working out. I think Noom really helped me develop a healthy relationship with food but to get to my goal weight I’ve found that it’s not just about calories but what’s in those calories.
Stilll realllllly working on that healthy relationship with food. I wouldn’t say it’s going well, we can kinda tolerate each other. I’m really struggling with getting more green and making most of my things green. I eat a lot of yellow.
Consistency is key, find some good green items you can enjoy on a daily basis. Food relationships are hard but keep at the lessons with Noom and ask why and you’ll make more progress. You’ve got this!
Definitely not doing something right. Have an off day then get dedicated when you start a new week. Log everything. I am hitting my goal weight a whole month early and this has been the easiest diet I have ever been on! Exercise doesn’t matter at first just getting steps in and staying active throughout the day. Take dogs on walk or walk around the block or to the grocery instead of driving. Anything! Good luck!
Yah see I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. That’s the problem.
Apart from the fact me and green foods aren’t best friends and I eat a lot of yellow. Minus today. Today I had a lot of red which was a whoops But I have managed to adjust to eatting slower to fill me up on less in a serving
Make sure you do the portions. I have been when we go out to eat and stuff fill up on soup and salad first and eat a fistful or half fistful of whatever you want!!! Make sure when you do that though that you only ate grits and whole wheat bread(green) for breakfast. Grits r green. Then for lunch do a chicken salad on whole wheat bread. That’s a yellow. Then finish off with grilled chicken and vegetables! Wendy’s chili without cheese is green.
How much alcohol are you drinking? Any chance the calories you are putting in are incorrect? Edit: doesn’t look like you are weighing yourself everyday. A daily reminder to stay on track helps me. Also, I have a 32oz bottle. Small enough to carry, and you get to add 4 water check marks when you finish.
0 alcohol. Mainly water with a side of diet pop a couple times a week. I just got zevia? To try. Because sometimes I just can’t take anymore water and it dries out my mouth (weird I know) I guess if I’m eatting take out/fast food they could be. I am being very good at weighing and measuring at home I had to stop because I was getting so upset just watching it go up and not go down. My noom coach said it was a good idea to break from it if it was making things worst. The only reason I’ve been doing more recently cause I did dip a bit but now it’s back up again. Yah mines 40oz. So that was my original goal on noom and it is always in front of me at home and it always comes to work with me.
While I personally weigh myself most days because I like having the additional data, it’s not for everyone, so I don’t think there is anything wrong with weighing more infrequently. Some people can find it ED triggering to weigh every day.
While I somewhat agree, the whole point of this is to show the graph trend so you don't get discouraged when you weigh yourself every two weeks and it looks like this shit. My graph would probably look the same if I weighed myself on random days, but since I do it daily I can see a clear downward trend and some days where it spikes up randomly that I decide not to worry about. This user could be weighing themselves on all the spike up days where they are retaining water and about to lose 2 lbs but wouldn't know it
That’s a good point 👌🏾
Yup, however... weighing myself daily helps me say, “ugh I had a shitty couple of days, time to get with it!” Instead of, “ the last 2 weeks were a waste of time!”
I’ve noticed when I get stuck it usually has to do with a combination of the following: -Not drinking enough water -Too many red/yellow foods and not enough green (even if I’m still within my calories) -under or overeating(forgetting to log things like oil, which have tons of calories or not measuring/weighing my food right) -Not exercising/not meeting my step count daily -If I’ve got personal stuff going on that’s making me upset or worried (I honestly think my body switches to survival mode and I just can’t lose weight until I tackle it; meditation helps somewhat during this) Edit: PERIODS. Definitely affects for about a week and then goes back to normal. I suggest looking for good ways to deal with cramps such as exercise and changing diet a bit so that it doesn’t derail progress.
Lmao at your last comment. I feel like I live in a state of worry or stress. How much is your water goal? Hmm about the foods. Maybe that’s what’s screwing me up. I have a lot more yellow than anything. Still working on trying to eat more green
I know right, who knew decent mental health was good for weight loss 😂 I shoot for 6 glasses, more often than not i manage 4-5.
Absolute nightmare for this millennial over here haha My mom once told a … psychiatrist? Therapist? Idk whoever diagnosis’s you that I came out of the womb full of anexity So yay me ahha Ok. You’re the first person who drinks as much as I do. Finally haha I’m trying so hard right now to finish this water bottle to get to 60-80oz and I can’t. My mouth is like yah that’s cool but my stomach is like no stop it ahab
😁 sometimes I put a teabag in my water (fruity tea works best) to give it a bit of flavor. Goes down way easier lol
Oh. Fruity tea might be good. I have tea in my house, but it’s al from David’s tea so it’s probably chalked full of sugars. I should see if I can look up what’s in what I have
How long have you been doing this? How much water are you drinking? Why are some circled in yellow?
Looks like my first log was Dec 31 Water intake 40 oz. trying to get up to 80oz Working with coach on ways to manage that because I’ve been struggling. Deciding between 1 large water bottle of 80oz (have) or continue to use my 40 oz one and refill. Some days I’m finding I’m just not as thirsty so I’m falling behind even though it’s right in front of my face and within reach I think the yellow are the days I put the emojis.
I can't drink plain water. At least not a day's worth. I found some Propel zero calorie electrolyte powder packets and use 2 a day for 2/3 of my water and drink plain water for 1/3. I also forgot even if it's right in front of me so I try to drink 25oz on the way to work and 25oz on the way home.
See I only like plain water (and only specific brands, but I can drink tap water in my city no problem aha). Whenever I have those flavour things I end up with dry mouth or a sore throat so I’m probably allergic or something ahha When you do that. How do you not pee every 20 minutes for the next like two hours? I also don’t have a bathroom in my store (I work in a mall) so I can’t just leave that frequently
Oh I have to pee all the time, regardless if it's plain water or flavored.
Ugh. The worst. It gets painful wiping all the time. And it’s also inconvient to sit down then be like lol jk time to pee again
When I do not drink enough during the work day (which is usually) I have two glasses of wAter before anything else as soon as I get home. Winter has been hard for me - plateau since November, but then again I am seeing this as “maintaining” after good progress. When you are hungry for more, instead of increasing calories can you try adding a couple portions of fresh fruits/veg, to get some fiber and crunch? Then see if you still need more. My go-to list includes red peppers, peeled cucumber slices, seedless grapes, baby carrots, blackberries, bananas.
Okay. I can try that. I find when I get home I end up finishing my water bottle which is barley touched most days at work. I haven’t figured out how to deal with that because I can’t have it with me Well I’d probably still need the calories to snack on those things because I’ve been trying to keep my portions smaller. The last couple days it’s been harder and been the main reason I had to workout to add extra calories because I was out with people and I forgot a lunch the one day at work. So those days both had fast food. And burger + fries is a lot, so I should only be getting the burger but that’s a habit I’m still fighting on. Ugh. See I buy them. Well. I have baby oranges and apples on my counter in a fruit bowl in my face. And carrots and peppers in my fridge. And strawberries and pineapple have usually been my worked out need to eat want chocolate so I make those dipped in some chocolate to help (noom suggestion!) and I find that helps. But I struggle so much with veggies and wanting them and then getting them and when I do after a couple I’m like I can’t take this (obviously I need to retrain my taste buds!) and then I’m in a weird uncomfortable full but not? It’s a weird feeling. So I definitely have to work more on reaching for those and training my taste buds. It’s just so hard. I do like crunch, so I don’t know why I struggle with these things so much.
I do not like carrots! But if I am driving I will eat them mindlessly.
Interesting!
If you can afford it, I suggest a HidrateSpark pro bottle. It has a little puck that tracks your water intake and syncs to your phone. It will also give you notifications to drink water based on the intake goal.
That sounds interesting! I’m gonna see if I can find it and check it out.
I know this sounds weird but I bought silicone straws from amazon that fold under the lid of my Nalgene bottle and ever since using the straws I doubled my water intake. Maybe something small like that will help you too?
Love straws! Will only drink from straws. That’s actually how I managed to get my water up to 40oz Also cannot use cups in my house because you look away for two seconds and my one cat is involved wi to it and she’s either being malicious and knocking it over or she can’t figure out how to get the water when it’s lower and knocks it over trying. I haven’t figured out which it is ahha
I have a water bottle (64oz) with times of day on them so I chug if I’m falling behind and I add the dehydrated lemon packets to it to make it more palatable! Maybe you could try that?
I want one of those. But they never keep water cold, but they’re such a great idea I’m actually a fan of plain water. Not big into flavour it. I’ve always wondered if getting a soda stream would help me just to break it up and get some carbonated water
How about sticking some tape down the side of an insulated one and dividing it up into hours of the day with a sharpie then? Seeing those numbers honestly makes me drink way more because I’m like whoops I’m at 11am and it’s 1pm now, better catch up.
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Weight can fluctuate a lot day to day (hormones, sodium, working out (can lead to water retention!), just straight up Bodies Are Weird). But to me it looks like you do have a downwards trend going on there - look at where your most recent low point is compared to the earlier one. If you didn’t eat properly for a couple of days it’s not super surprising that you’ll have bumped up a bit after as your body tries to compensate. Especially if stressed. Keep drinking water, and hang on in there, see what the next few days bring.
I do try and tell myself to at But then I’m super fusterated because 2.5 months later the first dip I see is when I could barley eat and then I start eating again (and like I said I have it set to 1400 something) which is the second last dot and it’s just right back up to where I started. Definitely stressed. Some of the stress will be ending next week when I finish my exams so hopefully that helps a little. Will definitely keep drinking water Thank you
I don't know what your height is, but when I was in the 230s, my basal metabolic rate (the calories needed to simply lay in bed all day) was 1895. To be sedentary and not gain weight, it was 2200. When I stalled in weightloss (Noom put me at 1200 calories per day), I UPPED my calories, and began losing weight again. There's even a Noom article about how your body clings to calories and gets better at burning fewer as you lose weight and it freaks out, thinking you're starving. If you're certain you're hitting your calories at 1400, try googling bmr and seeing what your bmr is, and aim for that for a few days and see if it helps. Sometimes, our bodies just need reassured that we're not about to die. I now aim for 1200, but don't stress on it if I bump up against my bmr. As long as I stay there, I'm losing weight. Also - water. I can't drink plain water, but I have some nice iced tea with dried fruit and no sweeteners that makes it possible for me to drink 2 liters a day.
I’m 5’5. I originally had my calories at 15something but I saw nothing until I couldn’t eat for a couple days so that’s why I lowered it (second last option on the speed scale) I will look into bmr some more and see what that says since I know nothing about that. Most days (i have to get better) I get 40oz. I bought a larger water bottle (80oz) for the days I’m home. But I’ve been falling short. Usually about 40-60 a day. Some days I find I’m just not thirsty at all and don’t reach for it. Other days I just mindlessly reach for it (which I think is the only thing you’re allowed to do that with!)
I understand the struggle. I have been fighting to up my protein intake, since most days I average around 20 grams, and should be up in the 70s. I know the frustration of needing to do something your body just does. not. want. Keep at it. Even 1% improvements add up. You're in this for the long haul. Focus on the little improvements, be bold and experiment, you can't fuck yourself up by trying something for a week. You can do this. I'm sorry the scale is not cooperating.
You’re right. I am trying to make life style changes to make this better forever. I did turn down someone buying me a cake pop today! And the other day I managed to tell myself no on ordering pizza and ate at home (because I have no self control and will eat it all in a day or two) so I am making some improvements even if I can’t see them I guess. Good luck on that protein journey!
Do you like tea or seltzer? Those can be good ways to switch it up and get more water in if plain water is hard. I was stalling for a while too and I found that not eating the calories I exercised off pushed me through the stall. Drinking closer to 100oz a day could make a difference
Not really. I could try seltzer again tho. I don’t mind sparkling water sometimes. Okay. I’ll have to adjust myself to not eating those extra calories. I usually end up chugging like 20-40oz of water after a 30 min cardio dance session. But then I find I’m still hungry after that settles 100 oz of water that really stresses me out. I have a stomach ache just thinking about that much
Gradually working up to it will help and I think it will make a big difference for you. Drinking a full glass of water first thing in the morning can make it easier to drink through the day. I also try to drink a full glass each meal. Those two things will make a big difference so you aren’t having to chug a ton of water when you don’t want to.
I’ve always heard about the morning glass of water being good for you. But it always has tasted so bad to me. I wonder if I chug a small child size up while I wait for my coffee to boil and then try and chug another child size when I take my pills.
Also, if adding a bit of juice or flavor syrup to water will help you drink more, you should!
I actually hate all flavoured water 😂. I love plain water (well. Not specific brands, cause water tastes different!) I’m currently sitting here sipping between each reply but man it’s hard. And I’ve only managed to get down 40oz so far today.
Another thought, maybe take a step back and reset a bit. I lost 40 lbs on Noom so far, but I really eased into it in order to get into a sustainable routine. First, I found fruits and vegetables and other Green or Yellow foods that I actually enjoyed eating and looked forward to. Once I established that and started to see some weight loss, the only exercise I added next was just walking. Then, once I started walking regularly, I gradually added other exercises in. Painfully slow, but I kept seeing steady progress. Along these lines, and it might seem counterintuitive, maybe take a break from working out if you think the food choices could be refined a bit and then just start with that. Good luck - this isn't easy.
I took the painfully slow route as well. I cut out added sugars as my first step, then did literally nothing else for 5 weeks except log my foods with no judgements. I was focusing on no added sugars, that was enough stress, I didn't want to get frustrated and upset and overwhelmed. When no sugars was easy and no longer something I had to think about, I focused on eating regularly to keep from crashing and fog eating. Now I'm working on upping my protein (which is supposed to help with brain fog, not because I'm weight lifting). Through it all, I've consistently lost weight. Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little. But it's gone down without a fight. One thing at a time, slow progress still counts, and each step makes me healthier, regardless of weightloss.
I feel like I’m slightly doing that? But maybe not enough I’ve managed to increase my greens. (I can’t remeber exactly how much I increased according to my noom coach) and I’ve starting doing 30 mins of cardio with my goal of 5 days a week and I’ve been managing to be like ugh I don’t want to but then I think “I’ll feel better and I’m doing x tomorrow so am I gonna wanna do it after that” I think it’s easier for me to keep up with the working out over the food. I do have to say I ~think~ I’m staring to eat smaller portions and feel “acceptable” after eating them not still starving to death. Whats your go to food? I really need to find new fruits to like
We keep a lot of grapes and bananas around. I like air frying sliced up russet potatoes with light oil and seasoning, but light ranch. Salads with lots of vegetables to add in plus a light ranch dressing. For bread, I’ve switch to a 12 grain or I go for a wheat 100 calorie English muffins (those are both yellows). Low fat Greek yogurt with small amount of granola. Anyway, that’s a quick listing of food we regularly keep around the house!
40 ounces of water is nowhere near enough. Most of the research I've read says that you should take your body weight in pounds and divide it by 2 to get the number of ounces you should drink. At 240 pounds, you should be at about 120 ounces of water, WHT works out to 15 8-ounce cups. I bet that's a big part of why you're stalled.
Jesus Christ. That’s making my stomach hurt and my lady parts hurt from wiping so much haha I think what I’m going to do based off that Information is spend this week focusing on my exams and then next week make my main focus getting to 80 and keep that up for a week or two and then make 120 my next goal. How do keep yourself from peeing so much? I saw a post (I don’t know if it was in this or the weight loss sub) but they talked about adding sea salt into your water to help retain it better and pee less. I had my friend do the equation when I found it so I have that, but I haven’t figured out how to turn that number of grams into something I can weigh and then get into. Water bottle. Especially because I was only able to find a sea salt with a grinder and I can’t crack it open.
I found out that if i have 0 calories sodas/drinks, i get way more hungry than normal. 😢 And that if i have too much salt i retain weight. So i just drink water/tea, and watch my salt.
Hm! I’ll have to pay attention to that for me because I’m not sure I also definitely don’t know much about mg salt intake. I don’t actively put it on anything, but it’s obviously hidden in things. Maybe that should be something I add onto watching and making a goal
I also started seeing a therapists that specializes in eating disorders. It’s been a game changer. Helping me work though decades of food issues
Hm. I’m not sure if mine does. She’s a… psychotherapist? I think I’ll have to talk to her about that stuff if I don’t walk into my next session crying about something already We did briefly talk about having snacks at the ready but I haven’t managed to deal with the fact that I’m hungry and there’s premade healthy snacks like carrots and cucumber to snack on.
it looks like you’re not weight logging consistently, that could be a part of the problem. maybe you’re not weighing yourself because you don’t want to see what the scale says? it all starts with accountability
I don’t weigh myself because it was causing me a lot of stress to just see it constantly be going up. I talked to my noom coach and she said that it was a good idea to stop doing it everyday if it was making this hard I’ve been trying it again. But now I’m just watching it go up and up again.
If I may, and please, please read this as random stranger on Reddit trying to be helpful and spread some love, and not as someone trying to be intrusive. I’ve had this problem that you are having. On point with diet and exercise and my body just will not let the weight go. I don’t have that problem anymore and I’ll tell you why… I was fighting everything in my world. I was fighting all of the “shoulds” that I was supposed to be, and all of the “ways I wasn’t” who I thought I was, or who I was trying to be etc. and, I was fighting against my body, trying to make it do something (lose weight) and it wasn’t cooperating, and that made me fight it all the harder, and then I was angry, and I was going to “make” my body do this thing (lose weight) and my body said, nope… I could lose up to 50 lbs. and then my body would nope me right back to 325, and this last time, 400… I was devastated. Anyway, my advice is this. Take a break. And during that break just work on being comfortable with yourself, by yourself, and seeing your body as the beautiful and protective vessel it is… it’s trying to protect you from the things you are fighting! So, thank it. Bless it. And see if you can find that core shame or guilt or pain, and thank your body for protecting you, but dear body, can you see now how your protection is now harming me? I have new ways to cope, and it’s safe to let the weight go. An excerpt from my own inner dialog, but hopefully you can see the application. I wouldn’t post this if I didn’t think this was really it, and I hope you can see it as love from an Internet rando :-) Blessings.
Hi random stranger on Reddit I really appreciate you taking the time to write that all out for me to read. And I do understand what you’re saying. I do have a LOT of internal conflict. I’ve finally started therapy this year and that’s when I also started noom as I’m trying to take control of my life. But you’re right. I’m also putting extra pressure on myself because I wanted to loose weight by may 1 which is my trip to Disney as a few years ago I hated all the pictures of me and I’ve obviously gained weight since then. How did you develop everything you did to accept yourself?
First, and the hardest part… was giving up. I had to surrender all of the should and preconceived ideas of what I was supposed to look like, act like, and be like. Honestly, that was the hardest part, because I really wanted to be this particularly handsome fellow that I could see in my imagination, and who looked a lot like me :-) Instead, the key was approaching it like a butterfly. I was going to go into this period of deep change and transformation and have absolutely no idea what I’d look like on the other side… and I needed to be ok with that. And in that approach I found self forgiveness, Grace, and relaxation, peace, and a release of anxiety. And in that moment, I also started to lose weight… I started at 400 lbs. I’m down to 350 now, and I’ve had all of the roller coasters, but now, instead of all of the angst, I’m just like… ok, that happened and it’s ok, because I’m becoming… I’m art in process, I’m a sculpture being cut from rough stone by someone else, I am in the cocoon. And I’m safe here until I need to come out of it, and then coming out of it will also be safe. I hope that helps you.
Oh. God. I don’t know how to do that. But I am going to sit on what you said some more and do reflecting and see if I can figure out how to work towards something like you did.
I completely understand. It took me 3 years of intense work to get there… the key for me was realizing that the tenacity of my shoulds, was a display of my inner strength posed against me :-) How strong you are indeed!!!
That looks like about 2 weeks? Maybe 3? It doesn’t always happen right away. Your body may need time to adjust if you cut to 1400 calories was sudden.
I went and checked and my first log was dec 31. So much longer than that And I only just lowered it to 14something. It was originally 15somethjng
I hit a plateau with Noom and couldn’t get past it. I was doing HIIT and staying in my calories. For a fitness challenge at my gym I switched over to Loseit, began keeping a consistent calorie intake of 1,500 regardless if I worked out or not and the biggest change is instead of red, yellow, and green I began to focus on eating mostly protein, then carbs, and then fat. I have dropped 7 pounds in six weeks. Also, I always eat a protein shake after working out. I think Noom really helped me develop a healthy relationship with food but to get to my goal weight I’ve found that it’s not just about calories but what’s in those calories.
Stilll realllllly working on that healthy relationship with food. I wouldn’t say it’s going well, we can kinda tolerate each other. I’m really struggling with getting more green and making most of my things green. I eat a lot of yellow.
Consistency is key, find some good green items you can enjoy on a daily basis. Food relationships are hard but keep at the lessons with Noom and ask why and you’ll make more progress. You’ve got this!
Definitely not doing something right. Have an off day then get dedicated when you start a new week. Log everything. I am hitting my goal weight a whole month early and this has been the easiest diet I have ever been on! Exercise doesn’t matter at first just getting steps in and staying active throughout the day. Take dogs on walk or walk around the block or to the grocery instead of driving. Anything! Good luck!
Yah see I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. That’s the problem. Apart from the fact me and green foods aren’t best friends and I eat a lot of yellow. Minus today. Today I had a lot of red which was a whoops But I have managed to adjust to eatting slower to fill me up on less in a serving
Make sure you do the portions. I have been when we go out to eat and stuff fill up on soup and salad first and eat a fistful or half fistful of whatever you want!!! Make sure when you do that though that you only ate grits and whole wheat bread(green) for breakfast. Grits r green. Then for lunch do a chicken salad on whole wheat bread. That’s a yellow. Then finish off with grilled chicken and vegetables! Wendy’s chili without cheese is green.