Last week, I remarked that Rob got me to use an app called Noom. It tracks calories and workouts and tells you how much you can eat. It works terrifically for Rob. He's lost 6 pounds since starting circuit training and using the Noom program, in only three weeks. However, the first week I tried it, I gained a pound and two percent body fat. This despite the fact that I was doing double workouts and walking the dog daily.
Well, last week, I lost my phone. (It got put in the second shelf of the cat scratcher, where the cat never sits, but which for some reason collects stuff.) It has been a different kind of week, with a lot less exercise, though the weekday workouts continued. Without the phone, I was back to guessing what I should eat and basically following my body's signals. Turns out I lost a pound this week, even considering I had too much pizza and a soda last night.
The lesson for me is that, when I listen, I know my body's needs better than a computer program. The program was actually encouraging me to overeat, because all my exercise gave me extra calories to consume (and keep in mind that it would only give back part of what I burned in exercise, yet that was still too much for me to process.)
I'm not dissing the program, btw. It works great for Rob. It gives him guidelines and discipline he needs, and as he noted, his intuition works far better with externals than listening to his body. The program is kind of fun, too, if you get into tracking stuff, which I usually do. In this case, however, I think I'll stick to my weekly measurings and just listen to my body on a daily basis.
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