Thanks for the overview, Werebear. Like everyone else, I've been getting hundreds of pop-up ads for NOOM. And by the way, is that an acronym for something?? How do you pronounce it (as if I care)?

Dietary recommendations aside, this thing functions as an accountability scheme for people who need it. Paying for advice, however impersonal and generic, seems to support some people's resolve. I'm too thrifty to enjoy that!

Eventually (probably before a new habit has a chance to get going) even those who are successful at losing the ten or twenty pounds quit paying--and quit doing it. Guess what? Back to where they started.

My LC life has had its ups and downs, too. But for twenty years, it has been a baseline I know I can count on. The only requirement? Doing it!