Maybe unpopular: Noom was working well for me (just the app, not doing the meds) but I cancelled it. I got from 232 down to 199, my final goal is 180.
My only complaint was the price.
I’m well versed in tech and AI so I thought if the psychology portion was publicly available knowledge I can build my own chat for this. It is and it turned out to be easy.
Built it with Claude and it works the same. Same lessons, same macro tracking. It offers recipes and tips. It tracks other things I want to track that Noom won’t (e.g. it’s infinitely customizable, for example it also tracks all my workouts and graphs my intake, workouts and weight all together, as one example). And I can just dictate what I ate to it and it will log it, it asks me questions if it’s unsure, etc.
Not a plug for Claude I’m sure other AIs can do this also. Working in tech I have deployed several LLMs and this would be easy for all of them. Claude Pro is $20 / month and obviously I also use it for way more than this weight loss and exercise tracking chat. in my view much better value than Noom app.
Just my experience thought I would share.