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I Don’t Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life Obsessing Over My Body
There is more to this life than the size of my jeans
I didn’t think I would, but I caved and tried another weight loss program. This one sounded promising. The program even offered psychology so you could keep the weight off once you lost it! I wouldn’t be obsessing over calories, jumping on scales all the time, and I would healthily lose weight this time!
It sounded like a dream. An app about weight loss that didn’t come off as fatphobic? Sign me up! I’d love to try to lose weight without it turning into a fatphobic nightmare!
If you haven’t guessed it by now, I’m talking about Noom. So for the first time in my life, I paid for a weight loss program, and I regretted it.
The first month, I lost weight. I was down seven pounds from my first weigh-in. But then I got my period, and I gained that weight back. And I gained five more pounds since the first weigh-in. That’s all in five months. And it’s not coming off this time.
The calorie counting is still there, even if it’s packaged in red, yellow, and green foods. And I go way over budget on red foods every single day. We have one on one coaching and group coaching. I managed to get out of the group coaching. It felt like they wanted me to surrender to…
