Weight Watchers vs Noom: Day 5

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Every day seems to start off well enough: two eggs and toast. By the time lunch comes around, if I haven’t had time to snack, I find myself hungry and making poor decisions. This is what I have learned: the hungrier I am, the poorer my food choices. Hunger is a trigger to bad food choices and must be avoided at all times. If I can stay ahead of my hunger, I do much better.

Today was a monumental day in my weight loss journey. For the first time in my adult life, I weighed in the 150’s. I was shocked and it felt really great, but it wasn’t as amazing as I thought it would be. My body is still the same shape, with the same problem areas, and I feel like I still have a long way to go.

I have found that the mind can trick you during your weight loss journey. One of it’s best tricks is not allowing you to see your body change. This is why it is so important to take pictures! Only when my pictures are side by side do I see how far I have come.

Chart

Remember when reading the chart below that I get 16 pts a day with WW, and 1200 calories a day with Noom.

Exercise: 7 mile run
Fitpoints earned: 20 pts
Calories earned: 417 calories (Remember Noom only lets you eat half the calories you burn from exercise. I burned 835 calories)

Stats

Height: 5’6
Age: 34
Weight 11/26/19: 159.2

WW: I consumed all daily points plus all fitpoints. I am 44 pts in the hole for the week. I was a hungry, hungry hippo

Noom: I consumed all my daily calories plus all my extra calories from exercise, and was -135 calories in the hole for the day.

Noom

There is something about Noom that makes me feel more supported than I ever have with calorie counting, but I can’t put my finger on it just yet. I like that we refocus on the psychology of weight loss every morning. It really helps me.

Like I’ve said in the past, this technique is aligned with this book that is helping me so much.

Now I just need to figure out how to eat healthier and still use Noom. I am slipping back into my old calorie habit of eating junk and still losing weight. Something that is much harder to accomplish on WW. The next big hurdle for me with Noom will be to bring over the healthy eating habits I have on WW. If I can do this, I think the weight will really start to come off, and I will feel great.

WW

I think I said it yesterday, but I’ll say it again. WW is not working for me this week. I am “failing” and -44 points in the hole. I typically would have given up and gone into the holiday weekend with the, “I’ll get back on track after the holiday” mentality. If it weren’t for Noom helping me with tracking, then I probably would gain 5 lbs over Thanksgiving go way overboard.

I am much more confident going into a holiday centered around food using Noom than I would be with WW. Like the other days, it seems that Noom is working better for me.

Plan

I’ve completely given up trying to get out of the hole this week with WW. I’m just going to log with Noom to get me through the holiday. Then I’ll log on WW to see the difference. When I get back into my routine, I will try to plan a perfect WW week to show you that WW is, in fact, an awesome option. Not doing a great job this week with that, am I? haha!

Thanksgiving should be interesting. It’s always fun to diet through a holiday. Not! In fact, “fun” and “diet” should never be in the same sentence as each other.