Transition from Noom to My Fitness Pal Advice?

Just left Noom today— I had a 2 week free trail and ended it a day early.

Also, i can only add friends on the web and am currently on my iPad. Will totes be friends if you send a request (5’6”, 250, down from 270, teacher in Iowa, US)

ebethsea wrote: »

Thanks for responding to my question. Are you being successful with My Fitness Pal? I have a week to make my decision and it looks like the free version of My Fitness Pal does almost everything Noom does and the paid version even gives you a coach. I am thinking I can get what I need here.

If you're active in the MFP community forums, people will answer your questions, and offer recommendations. (May not always be the answer you want to hear, in the way you want to hear it, but usually you'll get multiple answers from different perspectives, so you can pick and choose.)

If you get a good group of MFP friends, you'll get encouragement and "likes" on what you're logging.

There are no coaches, but there can be interpersonal support, if you choose to participate. And that support can include quite a few people who've been successful themselves at weight loss with MFP.

There are always tradeoffs, right?

Welcome!

I lost weight with mfp years ago (about 60.lbs I never weighted at my highest) and kept it off until I became pregnant.

After pregnancy and breastfeeding I'd put on about 40lbs and was lazy in getting rid of it as it wasn't as bad as I was. I decided to start losing weight and tried noom. It didn't really tell me anything I didn't know already and I felt it gave me less options to edit things myself. I feel like the information on noom is readily available online - it's just packaged in a nicer way on noom.

If you are someone who needs the little tips like a cup of Grapes fills you up more than the same calories of raisins etc then noom and similar programs are really useful though. I've got a friend who has dinner really well on second nature because it tells her what a plate should look like for a good meal and helps with portion advice.

I don't think I'd get anything else out of it that I don't get from mfp as I know what my issues are and that I eat too many snacks and too many big meals etc I just need to have something to help me track and monitor.

I'm in my last few days of Noom trial, and I think I'm going to cancel. I've been on MFP on and on for several years. When I log and exercise, I do ok. I thought with a Noom coach, I'd stick with it, but my son and some friends are on MFP, so there is accountability if you ask friends to do gentle reminders. Plus, I've been having to log in both places because my son copies log of family meals. And, while I love the ease of using the apps, I like being able to log on an actual computer. My middle age eyes and chubby fingers just doesn't like doing everything on my phone. LOL!

I'm happy to add some MFP buddies.

I lost almost 60 lbs in 2010 going through the HMR program. I plateaued after my dad died. Slowly over the last 10 years, I've regained about 50 of those pounds after losing 5, gaining 10. I dropped 3 lbs. in the last 2 weeks. Well, you may know that. I turn 50 next March and want to lose another 50-65 lbs. by then, so I have my eyes on that and think staying right here will be the way.