Thoughts about Weight Watchers, the gamification of health choices, and gaming a system

Cut-tagged for those that don't wanna hear it. As always, I want to make it clear that I believe in health at any size, that modern American medicine puts far too much emphasis on weight and, indeed, doctors often miss REAL problems because they just tell people, especially women, to "just lose weight" and their problems will go away, even if their actual problems are cancer or systemic infections or stuff. So, the fact that I'm doing a weight-loss program right now should not be taken as a statement that other people should or should not. Just want to emphasize that.( Read more... )