After many years on Weight Watchers, Laura Beck argues that "the vast majority of dieters, Weight Watchers, and calorie restriction diets like it, just aren't long-term effective" – they tend to miss the structural problems that affect us all:
WW is outmoded, they don't get it, they're trying to stay modern with their new features, but they're living in the past. The company started in 1963 — WW being the future of health in America is like IBM-Packard being the future of home computing: they tried that shit, it didn't work, and the world has moved on. The future isn't about size shaming and obsessive control, it's about enriching lives and staying healthy.
A commenter objects:
This article really irritates me. Like a lot of Jezebel articles, it INSISTS that health is possible at every weight (get real – it just isn't) and IMPLIES that anyone who seeks out a lower weight is just kidding themselves that they can do it, are reprehensibly vain, or of some lesser echelon of intelligence because they wish to be thin.
(Image: Award-winning French Weight Watchers ad via Copyranter)
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