Noom Obsesses Over Calories

Noom’s another calorie-counting app. No, thanks.

Regina Rodríguez-Martin
5 min readJul 2, 2023

Originally published on 2 July 2023.

Counting calories is outdated dieting advice, so Noom’s focus on calories makes it useless to me, but if you’re curious about Noom, I wrote my first impressions in How Does Noom Work? I’m doing their 7-day free trial and on Day 3, this is what else I see.

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Regina Rodríguez-Martin

Mexican American. Chicagoan. Generation X. Relishes questions of human behavior. Nobody’s mother and nobody’s wife. Blog: https://www.reginachicana.com.