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The Art of Picking Your Perfect Lunch

Like Duolingo, but for The Art of Picking Your Perfect Lunch. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

26 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Louie the Lunchbox
The Art of Picking Your Perfect Lunch
with Louie the Lunchbox
26
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in The Art of Picking Your Perfect Lunch

  • Biological hunger cues
  • Specific cravings vs hunger
  • Emotional hunger targets
  • Low blood glucose symptoms
  • Identifying hunger signals
  • Physical hunger requires caloric intake and nutrients
  • Habit-based or mental hunger can be addressed with non-food interventions
  • Distinguishing the onset and nature of physical hunger versus emotional cravings
  • Identifying biological signals of true physical hunger
  • Hot food increases core body temperature
  • Cold food helps lower core temperature
  • Eating speed affects satiety
  • Hot food leads to earlier fullness
  • Temperature and thermal regulation
  • Hot food and satiety
  • Energy expenditure for cooling
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives The Art of Picking Your Perfect Lunch the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Listening to Your Inner Engine

You just finished a full meal an hour ago, but suddenly you feel an intense urge for a chocolate chip cookie. What is this?

Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.

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Where The Art of Picking Your Perfect Lunch takes you

Stop staring at the fridge and learn how to build a meal that keeps you energized. Discover how to balance flavors and energy levels to beat the afternoon slump.

  1. 1

    Checking Your Energy Needs

    • How Hungry Are You Really?
    • Choosing Between Hot and Cold Food
    • The Secret to Avoiding the Afternoon Nap
    • Quick Bites vs. Long Breaks
  2. 2

    Building the Perfect Plate

    • The Power of Protein
    • Why You Need Some Healthy Fats
    • Adding Color with Vegetables
    • Crunchy, Soft, or Chewy Textures
    • Sweet and Salty Balance
    • The Magic of Sauces and Dips
  3. 3

    Deciding What to Make

    • Using What is Already in Your Kitchen
    • The Five-Minute Sandwich Hack
    • Turning Leftovers Into Something New

3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

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The Bestie

The Art of Picking Your Perfect Lunch is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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