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The Noom Mindset: Learn the Science, Lose the Weight
Noom's first-ever (and only!) official book!
When it comes to setting and achieving your goals, how you think influences what you do. Whether developing a sustainable relationship with food, jump-starting a new fitness routine to shoot for a certain number on the scale, or tackling a health issue, mindset is key to meeting your goals-but it can also often be the most neglected element in any attempt to change behavior. While you might know what you want to do, the key to success is understanding why you want to do it, and how you make a plan that works for you in the long term.
The Noom Mindset, created by the leading digital health company that has helped millions achieve their weight and health goals, deconstructs habits around the core drivers of body weight: what we eat and how much we move. You'll discover how your habits around eating and weight management are impacted by your own self-confidence, stress, habits, lifestyle choices, and the rollercoaster of motivation (yes, it's supposed to go up and down). Best of all, you'll learn skills that can be applied to any behavior you want to change, habit you want to break, or life you want to create.
This book is an instruction manual for achieving sustainable lifestyle changes plus many other health-related outcomes, including weight loss. With The Noom Mindset, you'll learn how to:
-Cultivate a growth mindset
-Master the forging or deconstructing of behavior chains
-Overcome thought distortions
-Generate meaningful internal motivation for staying focused on your goals
-Create changes that stick
Based on more than a decade of research and experimentation, Noom has helped millions of users succeed by employing the mindset tactics that this book teaches. Written with an emphasis on self-awareness, goal-setting, and self-experimentation, The Noom Mindset provides powerful tools to help you reach your goals, your way.
When it comes to setting and achieving your goals, how you think influences what you do. Whether developing a sustainable relationship with food, jump-starting a new fitness routine to shoot for a certain number on the scale, or tackling a health issue, mindset is key to meeting your goals-but it can also often be the most neglected element in any attempt to change behavior. While you might know what you want to do, the key to success is understanding why you want to do it, and how you make a plan that works for you in the long term.
The Noom Mindset, created by the leading digital health company that has helped millions achieve their weight and health goals, deconstructs habits around the core drivers of body weight: what we eat and how much we move. You'll discover how your habits around eating and weight management are impacted by your own self-confidence, stress, habits, lifestyle choices, and the rollercoaster of motivation (yes, it's supposed to go up and down). Best of all, you'll learn skills that can be applied to any behavior you want to change, habit you want to break, or life you want to create.
This book is an instruction manual for achieving sustainable lifestyle changes plus many other health-related outcomes, including weight loss. With The Noom Mindset, you'll learn how to:
-Cultivate a growth mindset
-Master the forging or deconstructing of behavior chains
-Overcome thought distortions
-Generate meaningful internal motivation for staying focused on your goals
-Create changes that stick
Based on more than a decade of research and experimentation, Noom has helped millions of users succeed by employing the mindset tactics that this book teaches. Written with an emphasis on self-awareness, goal-setting, and self-experimentation, The Noom Mindset provides powerful tools to help you reach your goals, your way.
Readers Top Reviews
Lizzie
First and foremost, The Noom Mindset should probably not be called a diet book. Yes, hopefully it will help you lose weight (after all the subtitle for the book is ‘Learn the Science, Lose the Weight’ ) but the principles in the book seem like they can be applied to more aspects of your life than just your weight. I honestly think most people will skip over the opening section of the book, and I won’t blame. While the information how on how the Noom company came to be is certainly interesting, I think most people are going to want to dive into the science of Noom that will help them understand why they’re doing what they’re doing, making goals, and mastering motivation. I’m just getting into myself so I have no major results to report. That being said, as I was reading this I thought of one of my friends who I haven’t seen in a while but has battled weight most of her life and is always looking for something new to try. (As many of us do.) And she laughed when I said she might want to pick up the book when it releases. She said she’d been using the Noom app for the last two and has already lost about 30 lbs. Needless to say I’m thrilled for her and her success has me hopeful I might see similar results. Of course with any type of self help book you'll only get out it what you're willing to put in to it. I’d like to thank Simon Element (an imprint of Simon and Schuster) and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review an eARC of The Noom Mindset.
AndreaRomance
This is a useful book that provides a concise overview of the process of changing mindset and habits. There's nothing new or groundbreaking here, but the information is provided in a way that's easy to read and understand. It's the kind of thing that would be good to read as a reminder every year. Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.
SamAnneliese Burgess
Easy, positive, and enjoyable read, but I expected more of the book to focus on food science and psychology than how much of the book is about topics beyond food. Also on page 98 (of the Kindle version), the 3rd time it mentions "grapes" I think that is a typo and the word should be "raisins."
TAP
I have been Nooming for a couple years, but no longer pay for the app. I found this book to be a good review and a good opportunity to re-establish a new YBP, as mine had certainly changed from when I started NOOM. Also, a lot of new info in the book. Glad I bought it.
Careful Shopper
What a wonderful way to remind yourself of everything that you learned during your Noom membership! If you haven't been through the Noom course, this is probably too much of an "info dump" to successfully digest all at once. I highly recommend the course. It really works if you are ready to do the work!
Short Excerpt Teaser
Chapter 1: You Rule: Your Role in the Change You Want to Make 1 You Rule: Your Role in the Change You Want to Make
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
-Anonymous
We suspect (since you are here) that there is something about your life that you would like to be different. Maybe you would like to get back to a healthy weight, where you felt so good in your body. Maybe you would like to get fit, or break some bad habits, or feel better, or just feel more like yourself. Maybe you know what you need to do, but you're having trouble doing it; maybe you're not sure where even to begin. Maybe you've already made some positive changes, but you want to make sure they stick.
Whatever story brought you here, you are in the right place, because Noom is all about helping people make changes. Our methods may not be like the ones you've tried before. We don't throw a bunch of rules at you, control what you eat or how you work out, or even say that you need to change at all. Instead, we approach behavior change from a psychological perspective: What do you want to change about your life, and why do you want to change it? And why haven't you changed it already?
We're all about the why of behavior. Knowing your why is motivating. According to self-determination theory, or SDT, people are most successful at meeting goals when those goals relate to their innate psychological needs, especially autonomous motivation. Autonomous motivation is about doing something because you've decided to do it for yourself, and because it is consistent with your personality and values. Making that connection between why and your inner reasons for making a change-reasons that come from you, not from what someone else tells you that you should do-will, according to SDT, increase your motivation and make you more successful at achieving what you set out to achieve, whatever you decide that will be. This is what we here at Noom believe to be true based on the research we've done, and what we have seen in our most successful program participants. Understanding your why is an integral part of our program. In fact, "Why?" is our favorite question. Why do you make certain decisions, have certain thoughts, or form certain habits? To begin answering this question, we help you develop your self-awareness and learn how to experiment on yourself. We love experiments, as you'll soon see! Our entire program is rooted in experimentation, and everything we implement is rigorously tested. Experimentation is key, not just to how we run our company and develop our curriculum but to how you can quickly and efficiently figure out what works for you. "We've purposefully optimized Noom to maximize learning speed via experimentation," says cofounder and president Artem Petakov. "Experimentation is how I figure out what works in my personal life. It's how we figured out what works for Noom. And it's how you can figure out what works for you."
But we don't experiment just for the sake of experimenting. We base our experiments on research. We pull from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and a lot of other psychology concepts we'll introduce you to along the way. We teach you how to identify and change destructive thought patterns that keep you from reaching your greatest goals, achieving your biggest dreams, and having the life you want for yourself, but the way we show you how to do this is always based on the evidence. We're here to help you reach your goals your way, rather than trying to make you do things our way. There is no one right way to do anything because everyone is different, so we help you pay more attention to your own body and tune in to your psyche-because that is where all the answers lie. You just have to access them. Noom doesn't give you a program. Noom gives you the tools to access the success "program" that's already running in your own brain.
That's how you build a life you love. We can show you how to shift painlessly into a calorie deficit that will lead to weight loss, how to have more fun moving, or how to feel calmer or more energized. Whatever your goal, we will always encourage you to ask "Why?" and we will always let you take the lead. We're just here to hand you tools when you need them so you can set goals that are in line with who you are, and so you can stay motivated, inspired, and reassured that science is in your corner. You know yourself better than anyone else ever could, so while it's your life, your plans, your goals, we're in your corner. Because we trust you, and we want you to trust yourself. Because we believe in you, and we want you to believe in yourself. Because we know you can do whatever it is you decide you want to do for yourself.
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Nothing changes if nothing changes.
-Anonymous
We suspect (since you are here) that there is something about your life that you would like to be different. Maybe you would like to get back to a healthy weight, where you felt so good in your body. Maybe you would like to get fit, or break some bad habits, or feel better, or just feel more like yourself. Maybe you know what you need to do, but you're having trouble doing it; maybe you're not sure where even to begin. Maybe you've already made some positive changes, but you want to make sure they stick.
Whatever story brought you here, you are in the right place, because Noom is all about helping people make changes. Our methods may not be like the ones you've tried before. We don't throw a bunch of rules at you, control what you eat or how you work out, or even say that you need to change at all. Instead, we approach behavior change from a psychological perspective: What do you want to change about your life, and why do you want to change it? And why haven't you changed it already?
We're all about the why of behavior. Knowing your why is motivating. According to self-determination theory, or SDT, people are most successful at meeting goals when those goals relate to their innate psychological needs, especially autonomous motivation. Autonomous motivation is about doing something because you've decided to do it for yourself, and because it is consistent with your personality and values. Making that connection between why and your inner reasons for making a change-reasons that come from you, not from what someone else tells you that you should do-will, according to SDT, increase your motivation and make you more successful at achieving what you set out to achieve, whatever you decide that will be. This is what we here at Noom believe to be true based on the research we've done, and what we have seen in our most successful program participants. Understanding your why is an integral part of our program. In fact, "Why?" is our favorite question. Why do you make certain decisions, have certain thoughts, or form certain habits? To begin answering this question, we help you develop your self-awareness and learn how to experiment on yourself. We love experiments, as you'll soon see! Our entire program is rooted in experimentation, and everything we implement is rigorously tested. Experimentation is key, not just to how we run our company and develop our curriculum but to how you can quickly and efficiently figure out what works for you. "We've purposefully optimized Noom to maximize learning speed via experimentation," says cofounder and president Artem Petakov. "Experimentation is how I figure out what works in my personal life. It's how we figured out what works for Noom. And it's how you can figure out what works for you."
But we don't experiment just for the sake of experimenting. We base our experiments on research. We pull from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and a lot of other psychology concepts we'll introduce you to along the way. We teach you how to identify and change destructive thought patterns that keep you from reaching your greatest goals, achieving your biggest dreams, and having the life you want for yourself, but the way we show you how to do this is always based on the evidence. We're here to help you reach your goals your way, rather than trying to make you do things our way. There is no one right way to do anything because everyone is different, so we help you pay more attention to your own body and tune in to your psyche-because that is where all the answers lie. You just have to access them. Noom doesn't give you a program. Noom gives you the tools to access the success "program" that's already running in your own brain.
That's how you build a life you love. We can show you how to shift painlessly into a calorie deficit that will lead to weight loss, how to have more fun moving, or how to feel calmer or more energized. Whatever your goal, we will always encourage you to ask "Why?" and we will always let you take the lead. We're just here to hand you tools when you need them so you can set goals that are in line with who you are, and so you can stay motivated, inspired, and reassured that science is in your corner. You know yourself better than anyone else ever could, so while it's your life, your plans, your goals, we're in your corner. Because we trust you, and we want you to trust yourself. Because we believe in you, and we want you to believe in yourself. Because we know you can do whatever it is you decide you want to do for yourself.
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