Noom — finished/not finished

[bill_schubert]

The huge difference in Noom from anything else I've seen is the focus on psychology and what I recognize as Buddhist thought.  The Middle Way.  

Lots of Noom complaints on Reddit about how the calorie count is wrong and how the various density calculations (Noom rates food on a density scale — vegetables less dense than chocolate or steak, unfortunately) are inconsistent.  I suspect there is some focus in the Noom company to correct those errors.  But the more I got into it the more I realized that super focus on calories or density is beside the point and ultimately what is wrong with the other systems.  Starting there is fine but if your mind isn't trained to intuit healthy choices then the system becomes all there is and that will fall off eventually.  Kind of cerebral, I know.  Very Buddhist although they never use the word.  So much of psychology is Buddhist based it is hard to avoid even if one wanted to.

I'm only halfway to my goal but at 15 minutes a day have finished the initial training and now am a 'Noom Master'.  That and $1.50 will get you some coffee.  My thought was to repeat the training, to go back and start over picking up what I had missed.  And I think I could still do that if I wanted.  But damn if they didn't keep going to another level.  They have integrated all the stuff they went through in the first couple or three months into the base of some new stuff.  Not sure where it is going now but initially it has to do with some rather sophisticated personal experimentation to decide if and when and where I want to take my life.  Weird.  But interesting.  I've got to 23 January 2022 when my subscription runs out to decide all that.

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[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

"Begin Mastery"?