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Noom can help you stay healthy during the holidays—here's how
Noom is best known as an app for weight loss—and our tester found that it really works. That’s not the app’s only purpose, though. Noom’s program centers health in a number of ways.
Personally, I know I’m setting myself up for a losing battle if I insist on spending December trying to lose 20 pounds...
...but what I can do is plan ahead, think about my health as a whole, and make choices I feel good about.
1. Use it to make sure you’re sticking with your intentions
One of the biggest things that sets Noom apart from competing programs is that it doesn’t ask its users to make massive short term changes that they can’t sustain, eventually leading to backsliding.
Instead, it promotes habitual adjustments, encouraging users to change their lifestyles in smaller, but more sustainable ways.
This makes it less likely you’ll burn out, and more likely that you’ll be able to maintain good habits in challenging circumstances.
2. Use it to make sure you’re getting the nutrients you need
If I’m not actively thinking about getting the nutrition I need, it can be easy for me to miss my body telling me that it’s time for something more substantial.
If you also struggle to keep up with your body’s cues, no worries—Noom can do it for you. By reminding you to log your meals, it also essentially reminds you to eat them.
3. Use it to keep you moving
After days of lazing around on the couch, I find myself getting cranky, sleeping poorly, and generally not enjoying my time off. The solution is so simple, but it can be tough to self-motivate.
That’s when it’s nice to have some external motivation. Noom can nudge you to stay active, and help make some exercise part of the plan from the get-go.
4. Use it as part of a holistic approach to health
Noom isn’t just about diet tracking—after all, a healthy lifestyle isn’t all about diet. You can also use it to track other metrics, like blood sugar, heart rate, and blood pressure.
Noom even offers a specialDiabetes Prevention Program with a greater emphasis on diabetes risk factors, warning signs, and prevention.
For those of us who suspect our blood pressure spikes in December, it could even be an opportunity to start reexamining our relationship to holiday anxiety, and thinking about ways to make the season less stressful.
5. Use it to keep up with your fitness goals, if you have any
I’m all about being flexible and staying kind to yourself, but sometimes the way to be kind to yourself is by sticking to your goals.
The truth is that sometimes, sticking to your diet or excusing yourself to complete a workout can feel like rocking the boat.
It’s far easier to do this when you have an external program, like Noom, reminding you that you made a plan for a reason.