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recently someone wanted to know my opinion of  noom okay what is noom well it’s a weight loss  

app and then their website um they describe  their program as an anti-diet habit and behavior  

program no food is off limits their main focus is  on calories okay you eat less calorie rich foods  

and you lose weight they also have a rating scale  with different color foods and with the emphasis  

on eating more green foods like salads because  they’re less calorie and more nutrient dense  

now the whole idea the whole concept is that  you’re going to increase your awareness if  

you’re tracking your calories and you may lose  some weight if you eat less junk food but here’s  

the problems with noom the first time you do it  it may work ask any female over the age of 50  

that has done a lot of diets in your life and  they will always tell you the same thing the first  

time they went on a low calorie diet it worked and  then each time they repeated that low calorie diet  

it worked less and less and less and less to  the point where it stopped working why because  

diets in general specifically low calorie diets  or low fat diets end up slowing your metabolism  

because your body is adapting to a lower amount  of calories so my opinion of noom it’s a gimmick  

it’s not a long-term healthy lifestyle because  what are you going to do you’re going to do this  

your whole life you’re going to be tracking your  calories or are you going to just do it until you  

lose your weight go back to your other program  gain the weight back and then start over again  

so that’s a big problem also they’re assuming  that all these calories that are being tracked  

are treated the same by your endocrine system  or your hormones and that is absolutely not  

true there’s one very important hormone it’s  called insulin that controls whether you burn  

fat or not if insulin is higher than it should  be you will not burn fat in fact you’re going to  

only store fat if insulin is lower your body will  then burn fat so i think it’d be really important  

instead of focusing on calories focusing  on foods that stimulate or inhibit  

insulin that would be a way better strategy  to help you lose weight and it just so happens  

that the calorie-rich foods the fats have  a near-zero effect on insulin carbohydrates  

have the highest effect on insulin with proteins  having a moderate effect on insulin so what does  

this tell us you should be in a higher fat  moderate protein low carb diet we call that a  

ketogenic diet now the other thing is when you’re  aging your metabolism is slowing down so count  

your calories is not going to work especially when  you have no food that is off limits because you’re  

allowing any foods including the carbohydrates  in a certain amount also they allow snacking  

and what happens anytime you eat anything you’re  going to get a little spike in insulin so if  

you’re snacking through the day and you keep that  insulin high not only is that going to slow down  

your weight loss but you’re going to be hungry  all the time so very simply you want to lower  

your carbs that’s going to decrease insulin your  body is going to start burning fat it’s going to  

turn into ketones okay and then combine that with  intermittent fasting if you haven’t heard about  

keto and intermittent fasting using those together  you definitely need to know about that because  

it’s going to make your weight loss program  not only a lot more effective but a lot easier  

because your hunger is going to go away you’ll get  into fat burning more consistently and more long  

term and you won’t have to count your calories or  track your calories at all so you have a lot more  

extra time on your hands so i put those links down  below but let’s go ahead and show you some of the  

results that you can get when you do healthy  keto in intermittent fasting check this out  

i was i’ve lost 370 pounds on keto in two years i  lost 346. so yeah i’ve had great success on it and  

continuing to have success with it i started  this journey on january 14th of 2019 this year  

and um my husband made me this book because he’s  very proud of me and i’ve lost as of this friday  

107.7 pounds and i’m in a size 6 which is now  loose and i’ve never been in a size 6 probably  

until i was 10. keto’s changed my life i lost 120  pounds on the keto diet and it’s been incredible  

i’m so happy i’m so much healthier my family is  better i have four children so i just i feel like  

a million bucks now and i can walk i couldn’t  i had i was limping before healthy keto and  

intermittent fasting fasting version literally  changed my life i lost over 40 pounds in less  

than seven months and on top of that i managed to  finish the iron man which is the single hardest  

sports event in the world the single day event  and so i ran a swim bike run and i did in total  

743 miles in just under 6.5 hours it was amazing  i was fully fat adapted and that couldn’t happen  

if it wasn’t for the keto i lost a hundred  pounds in one year and i’m dominican so we eat rice  

beans plantains we don’t know what kale is okay  he changed my life that education really helped me  

on a yo-yo diet my whole life i’m full of energy i  feel great and i tell everybody about it trust me  

everyone it’s annoying i know but i’m so grateful  to dr berg and i’m really excited to be here i  

was on the last season of nbc’s the biggest loser  in 2016 got off there gained a lot of weight back  

keto diet helped me take off maybe 30 40 pounds  i’ve lost i gained 90 back after the biggest loser  

in 18 months and lost about 30 of it through  keto and the rest through intermittent fasting