So you seem like the kind of person who would rag on a person for being fat, but also here you are ragging on them for trying to find a way to lose weight. You can’t be both. And you sound like a complete asshole, btw.

Thank you for systematically and intelligently responding to all the jerks in this thread who have no idea what it’s like to struggle with food and weight issues.

This comment is wild. No long-term-viable weight management strategy involves not being allowed to have gravy on Thanksgiving. The bizarre idea that weight-loss necessarily involves restricting to the point of “4 oz of turkey and a little corn” actually fuels a lot of health issues in the US.

It’s a totally valid complaint to be p*ssed off that a very expensive technology isn’t working. Jezebel threads are often about people venting about all kinds of crap and other people being kind to them. It’s basically part of the unspoken, understand Jezebel constitution or something.

I just wanted to tell you, I like your comments on this post. Choosing to make a lifestyle change can’t be easy, and the details you’ve given about how the app works make it clear that the app only works when you commit to it, and I can imagine how frustrated I would be as a paying customer when the product went…

The whole point of the app is so people ARE accountable for the food they eat and can keep track of it. It’s an important tool that members pay a lot for. There’s no reason for you to be ugly about it. People trying to lose weight are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

Maybe you should be a little more understanding. Weight watchers allows you to eat the foods you like but in moderation. If you budgeted the points for pumpkin pie, then there’s nothing wrong with it. But without the app working, it would be much more difficult to keep track of it which is why people were upset. You…

WW totally let's you eat the pie, but makes you accountable for serving size. If you plan for it, you can have anything you want.

The comments on this thread are really making me upset. I feel like people are shaming people for being upset about losing functionality of an expensive product at a time when they need it most. People on this program are working hard to lose weight and it’s hard enough to do especially at Thanksgiving. I don’t think…

You clearly have no idea why this app is helpful. It’s not just about writing it down. Did you even read the article?

I had my baby when I was 16 and was promptly thrown out of school. My wonderful dad ripped them a new one, told them to go fuck themselves, enrolled me in independent study and I finished my last two years while I was pregnant. I got my bachelors degree when I was 24 though! My single dad is the absolute best.

No amount of sex ed or birth control would prevent teen pregnancy altogether. No birth control method is 100% effective, even with perfect use.

I don’t know.. some names are just stupid. This doesn’t just apply to black people’s names. Watermelondrea is awful. Come on. And so is Kayden or Kayleigh or any of the cutesy K variations out there.

And with the y, I really wanna pronounce it “Sci*-moan-EH”, not Simone. It is all wrong, man.

If you don’t want it pronounced that way then don’t put the accent on it. Accents are not lace doilies, they don’t just dress up the letters, they change how they sound.

What I always wonder about these types (I am also lumping in the “I don’t use shampoo” people here), is do they not exercise? Or are they not sweaty people? Like, I have fine blonde hair, so daily washing is my usual jam, though I can stretch it out a day if I use dry shampoo and haven’t worked out. But the minute I…

I have literally never heard of taking the diaper with you to dispose of at home. Wrap it up and toss in a bathroom or outside trashcan is what all the civilized people I know do. Some use dog poo bags too, but most don’t. Uncivilized people just leave them in the parking lot, unwrapped, and unbagged.

This is insane.

In Bangladesh women chose sex work over work in the garment industry. In many places there is a less desirable work than sex work. Is was U.S. centric, and glib, but illustrated a great point.

‘Amnesty proposes that “consensual sexual conduct between adults—which excludes acts that involve coercion, deception, threats, or violence—is entitled to protection from state interference.”’