Creating my Noom profile

Today I created my full profile at Noom, and I was impressed with the depth of the questioning.

Not only was I asked about my age, weight, height, but also about my preferences regarding diet and fitness routine. Do I primarily want to lose weight? Do I primarily want to get into shape?

I was asked how much coaching I need, and what kind of coaching it should be. Am I an experienced fitness warrior who is self-motivated, or am I less inclined to help myself?

I like that kind of personalization.

As I said in fewer words yesterday, I had held off joining Noom, because I thought I'd be continually contacted by a coach, bugged to death. I hated the prospect of that. As it turns out, I can control the amount of contact I receive, so I asked for a weekly bump. Dig.

The hardest part of the process was deciding my weight goal. I'm at around 196 pounds right now. I feel as if I'd love to get to 165, but I don't want to stretch too far, so I entered 175.

I have experience with weight-loss programs, and I've found that (1) I tend to stretch my goals too far, and (2) my body does not often cooperate the way I want it to, so I (3) overcompensate by exercising too hard, or (4) eating too little, and (5) I get injured, and then (6) I bag the whole thing, and (7) settle into getting fat again.

Not this time!

Noom promises to change my habits. I'm going to hold them to that!