Hello, welcome to Maintenance Phase, the show where we sit in a circle and make you feel

bad about yourself.

I really thought you were going to be like, the show that you don't need like a food

scale for. The show with points free. These are all better than mine. Do we want to do this

again? No, yours is much more to the point. That is the function of this. We will talk

about it. I am Michael Hobbs. I am a reporter for the Huffington Post. I am Aubrey Gordon.

I am an author and columnist and fat lady about town. And for the last three episodes

we have been awkwardly piping in, canned audio of Aubrey talking about our Patreon, which

we recorded exactly from the episode and is like extremely evident from listening to

those episodes. But this time we are going to do it organically. We are doing it live.

So we are on patreon.com slash maintenance phase. We also have t-shirts on t-public. You

can find both of those links much more easily if you go to our website, which is maintenance

phase.com. Or continue just listening for free. That is also chill. Yeah, totally. Do

what you want. And today we are talking about Weight Watchers.

The Behemoth. The Leviathan. Yeah, we are going to talk about formerly Weight Watchers

now, WW. Oh yeah. So Mike, talk to me about like what do you know about Weight Watchers?

Okay. So my understanding is that it is sort of like a support group for people trying

to lose weight. So you go there on every Wednesday or something and you get weighed in and

you have, I guess like weight loss goals or whatever. And then you talk about weight

and weight loss and your efforts and what's going well and what's not going well. And it's

sort of like bringing other people along on this emotional roller coaster that everybody

goes through when they lose weight where it always works at first. And you project this

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