so weightwatchers released an app for kids - a diet app for kids (!!!!) down to the age of eight (8) years old.
this is literally an app that is supposed to have children track their food intake, and their energy output, every damn day, with the purpose of them losing weight. it does before and after photos, and uses this system that is a “stoplight system”, so bad foods are red, medium is yellow and good is green.
when you sign up you have to put in your goal and one of the choices is “to make my parents proud”.
this is basically an app designed to shame children, and indoctrinate eating disorders into them.
what the hell is wrong with people????!!!!
also, apparently oprah is supporting this shit so screw her.
i am so damn mad. this is child abuse, and the weightwatchers cult is making money off of it.
here’s a petition to have the app taken down
I want every fucking fool who’s like “kids being obese is bad for your weight” and “omg it’s teaching kids good eating habits” to know that ¼ people total who diet end up with eating disorders. Ppl with eating disorders will tell you they were not being healthy or in a good place. This is not a good thing. This is not a healthy thing. Obsessively counting every bit of food you eat is literally not good. Also you people are all fucking evil assholes for pushing that on kids and thinking it’s a good thing.
PREPUBESCENT CHILDREN do not need to be told that they have to starve themselves for parental approval.
How the fuck is this controversial?
I may have responded to this before, but as someone who was forcibly put on my first diet when I was six, here’s what it gave me:
- A profound sense of being ‘not good enough’ in the eyes of my parents (and later, the rest of the world) - A blow to my self-esteem that I’ve never really recovered from - A horrible relationship with food - A horrible relationship with my mom - A complete lack of understanding of which foods are “good” and which aren’t (every diet we tried claimed something different) - An utter inability to understand, recognize, and regulate my own hunger - A completely fucked metabolism that wants me to eat any chance I get because “we may not get another chance” - A lifelong struggle with severe obesity - An eating disorder that has followed me well into adulthood
Here’s what it did NOT give me:
- A “thin” body - Good health
This is fucked on so many levels. Fuck the hell demons who thought this was in any way a good idea.
