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[quote=Anonymous]New PP. I started noom almost a month ago and am absolutely loving it. I have tried many things in the past and this is the first program that seems like it's getting to the root of my issues with food. I can say that my relationship with eating is different now. I've also lost weight, but the real success comes from realizing how differently I think about eating in a short time.

I am sure it works better for some people than others. Here are the things that I think make it a good fit for me:

I am a visual learner and like to read articles. I've heard many people say they were super cheesy at one point but I think they adjusted them. I would know say that they're somewhat cheesy at times, but not in a bad way. It actually makes the stuff they're saying feel less intimidating.

I like the feeling of complying to a program. The food logger is the best one that I've used.

I like systems to help me organize my thoughts. Thinking about foods as red/yellow/green based on calorie density seems not to be that small of an adjustment but it's really changed my thinking.

I have some deep patterns of emotional eating. This is bringing a lot of that to light, with concrete information and strategies that I can use to change my behavior.

I used to have a lot of guilt/shame over eating "bad" foods. This program is helping me understand that there is no need to beat yourself up. Slips are part of the process. The important thing is getting on track again, not spending energy telling yourself that you're a bad person.

I used to avoid the scale. With noom, weigh-ins are daily. This is partly to give yourself a ton of data points to work with. It's also to de-sensitize yourself from building up the scale to be this huge thing looming over you. I am surprised at how much that alone has changed my relationship with my weight/body.

These are the things that don't particularly work for me in noom:
there is a personal coach, which tends to use a lot of canned/prepared dialogue (at least that's what it seems to me). this type of interaction is a turnoff to me so I avoid it, nbd.
There is a semi-annoying "group" ... kind of like a mini message board. It's chaotic and there are too many people in it, so I avoid that too.

One thing that was really important to me about noom was the goal for the first week. The main thing you are supposed to do in week one is to believe that it will work. Oh my goodness. I actually broke down crying when I read those words. I have tried and failed so many times that this was one of the hardest things for me to do. But I think that's probably the key to making the program work.

Not intending to take over the OP's post, just hoping that some of the above might be helpful to someone who is considering it.

Oh, and by the way... I did lose a significant amount of my "covid 19" this month. It makes me smile to realize I forgot to talk about that until the very end of the post!

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