#noom

Dancin' Noom

Paused How to train your Dragon at the right time. I'm fucking dying! Look at him!

All of the ads that are just them showing footage of either extravagant or absolutely wild, no-one-has-ever-eaten-this food dishes with voice over saying "I couldn't figure out why I wasn't losing weight!" And the most recent iteration of this ad starts with footage of someone spraying whipped cream on a hot dog. Why? Who knows! But it's apparently related to why the paid voice actor wasn't losing weight I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was actually telling Mod Squirrel about this ad last night because the manipulative tactics of this one are so blatant and disgusting. The Noom ad starts with footage of puppies—I kid you not—and then says "Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired about your weight? We've got you!" I don't know what's more disgusting, the fact that they're using puppies (PUPPIES!!!!) to sell their fatphobic eating disorder app like some kind of cartoon villain, or the fact that they're pretending to come to the rescue of people who are tired of feeling ashamed of their fat bodies when companies like Noom are one of the direct causes of that internalized fatphobia in the first place. That would be like a canister of gasoline showing up to a house on fire and saying "Tired of me coming to your house ten minutes ago to set all of your belongings and memories ablaze? Don't worry, I've got you!" *starts a forest fire in the forest behind the house* "That'll be $100."

It's been a while since I've had to see this shitty Noom ad, and I hope it's because they received backlash for it since even people who don't care about fat liberation at least care about xenophobia. Does anyone remember that advertisement Noom made of (if I'm remembering correctly) a Latine grandmother showing her grandchildren love by cooking them homemade food that was part of their culture, and Noom called people like this Latine grandmother "food-pushers"? Literally coming after grandmothers making their grandchildren food from their cultural heritage????

Please let 2024 be the year that the Noom app dies. I am so tired of that fucking app.

and I recently got VRChat, buuutt don’t know how it works just yet, and I think it’d be really great to have him as my avatar. But- I have NO 3d modelling skills what so ever. I was wondering if anyone that knows how to would be willing to take a commission? But, another downfall- I have like- no money, but! I can do a few art trades as payment, or animation (not too good at animation though). If anyone knows or is a bit experienced with it, PLEASE let me know! (Message me)

Examples of my art just in case:

Wearing clothes other than sweatpants and baggy sweaters feels WEIRD. It's all I've been wearing for the past couple years. It was the easiest way to feel comfortable while also ignoring how much larger my body was getting.

Turns out that apron belly I've been ignoring for years has gotten MUCH bigger than I realized. Easy to miss when you ignore it and refuse to look at yourself in a full body mirror. Trying to embrace it and love it as part of my body in the meantime.

New additions to the journey:

Traded my Fitbit for an Ultrahuman ring and already love it. (peep it in the photo!) In a perfect world my wearable would have AI that would take all of my data and give me a to-do list every day. When will science boss me around? (half joking)

I went over my calories today. I went out to dinner with a friend I hadn't seen in a month. We were going to go to Mad Mex, so I had everything planned out. When we got there they were closed because of a gas leak 😭 We went to a Japanese place because she really wanted sushi. I ended up getting orange chicken and fried rice. Nowhere near the healthiest choice I could have made, but I tracked it the best I could, and I am moving on! I even tried some sushi for the first time ever!