S2 EP7: The Weight Watchers App For Kids

The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

Constantly Varied Gear

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Rachael & Kelsea discuss the new Weight Watchers app aimed at 8-to-17-year-olds and talk about what kind of message this app sends to children and whether it’s healthy for them to use.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

The Weight Watcher’s app aimed at kids
How the app works
Goals offered in the WW app
Setting children up for failure
Talking about the weight epidemic in the context of self-confidence
Weight loss as a business
Keeping weight off
Yo-yo dieting
Women’s relationships to the scale
Teaching children to love their bodies
Modeling love for your body to kids

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0:00.0	And I think you brought up a great point before this episode that you said, nine-year-olds,
0:03.9	10-year-olds, they're not making dinner.
0:06.1	Guys, they're not going grocery shopping.
0:07.8	They're not going grocery shopping.
0:08.7	What is this app for a nine-year-old kid?
0:11.2	They don't make their own meals.
0:12.9	They don't go to the grocery store.
0:15.0	Who really is the focus of a child's health at that age?
0:24.6	Music of a child's health at that age. The big question is this.
0:27.6	In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets,
0:32.6	how do real people achieve their fitness goals?
0:36.6	We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health.
0:43.3	Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life.
0:52.3	Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere.
0:57.3	Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast.
1:03.1	Hello everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast.
1:07.1	I'm Kelsey.
1:08.1	The Save Lives is back. I'm Rachel.
1:10.5	We have a pretty serious podcast that we're going to tackle today.
1:15.7	And it is a very relevant topic talking about Weight Watchers just came out, or WW, as we rebranded, just came out with...
1:24.2	Rebranded because...
1:25.7	Because everything rebrands.
	...

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