Part of the problem was that, beyond giving me small ways to keep promises to myself, I knew that Noom wasn’t really doing anything for me in terms of building my self-worth. Noom really markets the shit out of the fact that there’s a lot of psychology and behavior modification built into the app, and while that’s obviously really helpful, none of that was really going to get to the heart of what I already knew were my deepest issues surrounding my body, which were emotional eating and subconscious weight protection as a coping mechanism for past trauma.
Basically: The body really DOES keep the score, babies.
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