Kurbo By WW (Weight Watchers) Negative Reviews

Kurbo by WW (Weight Watchers) App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Kurbo by WW (Weight Watchers) app received 61 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Kurbo by WW (Weight Watchers)? Can you share your negative thoughts about kurbo by ww (weight watchers)?

Kurbo by WW (Weight Watchers) for Negative User Reviews

✓ Horrible (sucks)I know stuff like chocolate is bad but cheese peanut butter and yogurt that’s not right I guess I should only eat veggies I mean this could mean something to adults but this is not for kids kids shouldn’t have to worry about eating cheese candy maybe but not cheese this is crazy 😝 (trash).Olivie12?Version: 3.1.5

✓ Horrible messageI first perceived myself as “fat” in 5th grade and was then exposed to the whole good vs bad food notion by my parents in their attempts to help me feel better about myself by loosing weight, in 5th grade. I developed and have been struggling with anorexia since eighth grade and I am now a junior in college. This app is disgusting and dangerous to young children like I once was, the first few pounds you lose feels good , but next thing you know you’ve lost 30lbs without even realizing it, your menstrual cycle disappears (or heck some of the young girls may not even have theirs yet) you can’t go out to eat with your family, your heart rate is so low your body can’t fall asleep because fear of not being able to wake up, and your quality of life doesn’t feel worth it. It’s important to teach children about balance and listening to their bodies, but this app telling them red foods should be restricted is such a dangerous mentality. Sure not everybody who diets develops an eating disorder , but anorexia has the highest mortality rate among mental illnesses for those who fall victim..Melllisssaa07Version: 3.0.1

✓ Don’t let your kids use this app!As a registered dietitian, I urge you not to use this app. Not only does the American Academy of Pediatrics discourage weight talk with kids, but kids are GROWING during this stage of life. The idea of making BMI-percentile loss a goal is unethical. In addition, I can’t begin to tell you how messed up it is that “make my parents happy” is an option for your goals. What?! Beyond that, this traffic light system is incredibly flawed. Peanut butter, cashews, chia seeds, applesauce, and more than 2/5 of an avocado all show up as red. Are you kidding me?! Parents— I know you want to protect your kids from all the pain of living in a larger body in diet culture, but as an eating disorder dietitian I can tell you that THIS APP IS NOT YOUR ANSWER!!!.Eating Disorder DietitianVersion: 3.0.1

✓ Apple: Delete Kurbo nowHummus and crackers are “red” items - are you kidding me?! This app is going to do nothing but increase levels of anxiety, fear, guilt and shame around food. Kids, with their developing minds and bodies, are a VULNERABLE population that need to be protected, valued and encouraged. Weight Watchers and Kurbo (NOT a health organization) are using diet culture to prey on children and parents for their own billion dollar+ gain. Disgusting. Appalling. Evil..Alyssa008Version: 3.0.2

✓ Harness Body Shame to Make MoneyWW is not interested in people losing weight. They want to rope people into a lifelong cycle of dieting (eating disorders) and this app is simply an attempt to get ‘em younger..DaniellescrutonVersion: 3.0.1

✓ It’s a toy.Measure portions in anything but grams? No options for different doctor prescribed diet modifications. This is a very expensive toy. I have already found better. Delete..MrmleducVersion: 3.0.1

✓ DISAPPONTINGThe magnitude of risk that this app & this line of messaging poses is beyond dangerous & puts users health at risk..AllaboutthatcakeVersion: 3.0.3

✓ NOT Recommended by Registered DietitiansThis app from WW is a DIET- it is NOT nutrition education. I don’t care how you package it- it’s not teaching kids nutrition information; it even tells them that 1% milk is a “yellow light food”. Kids, on average, do not drink enough milk and most do not get the recommended amount of calcium. Now they are going to encourage kids to not drink it?! This app teaches kids about earning foods based on the exercise they’ve done, tracking everything they eat, and encourages them to lose weight with before and after photos. This goes directly against recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations to NOT push weight loss for children. Again- this is NOT an educational tools for kids to learn about nutrition. This is a DIET focused on weight loss. The research is overwhelming that putting kids on diets leads to disordered eating and full blown eating disorders. It also sets them up for weight cycling (which has detrimental health consequences) and subjects them to weight stigma (which again has health consequences). This app is not acceptable for children and parents should not allow their children to use this!.ZepFan77Version: 3.0.4

✓ LimitationsI’m 167 cm or 5 feet 6 inches tall. Only allows between 90 and 120 cm tall. Plus I’m 34. The app didn’t restrict age..Dboyd107Version: 3.0.1

✓ AppalledThis app seta children up for eating disorders, body image struggles, and mental health issues. It is irresponsible and unethical. Please pull this app..Sovinsky08Version: 3.0.1

✓ Do not download this app 🛑This app is unethical. Decades of research shows that dieting predicts weight GAIN and EATING DISORDERS. CHILDREN are born eating intuitively and should NOT be taught track everything they eat. Their bodies are growing and changing and even the American Pediatric Association now recognizes discussing weight and diets with children is actually HARMFUL and advises against it. Weight Watchers is attempting to make millions by roping the next generation of people to buy into the MYTHS of diet culture. Do not use this app. Instead educate yourself on RESEARCH and teach your family to find joyful ways of moving their body and learn to listen to and feed their bodies in ways that feels good. Teach them to love and accept the natural shape of their bodies and that what matters most IS NOT their weight. I think the worst part of this app is that it tells children they can “make your parents happy” by eating less. This is like handing an adolescent an instruction guide on how to develop a life long eating disorder and it is deplorable and unethical..Lisafighting171717171717171818Version: 3.0.2

✓ Predatory garbageCan you imagine being 8 years old and turning down a piece of birthday cake at a party so you don’t over-do it on your “yellow foods?” Can you imagine not having a second helping of avocado and going to bed hungry, all in an effort to “make your parents happy?” Can you imagine saving your “red foods” only to end up binging, causing you to spiral into a sea of doubt, guilt, and self-loathing? Can you imagine following this plan for months, losing the weight, and then gaining it all back plus 20 or 30lbs? Can you imagine the burden of such failure? After 20+ years, I finally understand that I wasn’t a failure and that there was never anything wrong with me. Not only did I just gain more weight, I also developed Binge Eating Disorder, and now I have to meet with a therapist weekly to try to undo the damage. WW didn’t help me make better choices; it just made me fear my own appetite and value the way I looked over my own health. Being a kid is hard, especially in the age of Instagram and the Kardashians. All this does is perpetuate the fat=unhealthy cultural garbage we’ve been fed since birth. First you came for our moms, and then you came for their kids. We will not let you harm our children. How can kids become who they’re meant to be when they’re focused on being the smallest versions of themselves..KKeeps85Version: 3.0.1

✓ Sad. Dangerous. Please please just listenIf you are focused on the obesity problem and you think this is the solution, please take a moment to educate yourself. First I’d like to say that I’m jealous of you- you are blessed to not have had to deal with disordered eating or seen it in a loved one. If you had, you would understand why this app is not the solution. This is not how you teach children to have a healthy relationship with food. Good/bad food (red light/green light same difference) can lead to all sorts of disordered behaviors: not just anorexia (!!) but also binge eating, etc (of course eating disorders are all unique). Not to mention, the targeted age group is already EXTREMELY vulnerable to mental health problems & especially eating disorders and disordered eating. Did you know that out of all mental illnesses, eating disorders have the highest mortality rate? Now you do. Please please please please get rid of this app so we can teach our children to take care of themselves physically & mentally in ways that do not lead to life-threatening illness..DjjdjdjsVersion: 3.0.3

✓ Diets don’t work.. in adults or children..This app is promoting disordered eating in children, anyone educated in the area of nutrition would understand this. At the same time though, even if we ignore that fact and just look at diets in general.. 98% of intentional weight loss is regained by the 5 year mark. This app is setting children up to think their worth is in their weight, just for them to regain any weight lost and cause self hate. Not to mention children need to gain weight during puberty, its impossible to avoid and telling a child any different is setting them up to hate their bodies..Court53577431Version: 3.0.1

✓ From someone recovering from disordered eating:Run away from this app as fast as you can. If you want to be healthy, this is the worst possible thing that you could do. If you want your child to be healthy, cook good meals for them and teach them how to love themselves unconditionally. Do not fall victim to money hungry corporations that couldn’t care less about your child or your child’s health. You’re smarter than that. To the kid that’s about to download this app: it may seem like the answer to what you’re going through right now, but it’s a trap. It will make everything worse in the long run. Be a superhero and tell this insidious villain of diet culture that it can go fall in a black hole thank you very much..ManibusoptimeVersion: 3.0.3

✓ DisgustingAs a registered dietitian, I am DISGUSTED that someone thought this app would be a good idea. It’s one thing to promote dieting and restrictive eating in adults, but CHILDREN. Shame on you and anyone who downloads this app for their children. Diet tracking at a young age sets them up for a life of dangerous, disordered eating..Bmk0123Version: 3.0.1

✓ Tracking Food/Calories and Promoting Weight Loss is NOT the Solution!This app is horrifying. The fact that WW would promote such an UNHEALTHY mindset toward foods to CHILDREN is ridiculous. My earliest memories of my eating disorder was punishing myself over eating cake as a 5 year old!! Why?? Diet culture. The foods in different traffic lights are RIDICULOUS and this takes out so many factors like actual ACCESS to fruits and vegetables. Want to solve a problem? Start there WW. Not with a terrible app causing unhealthy mindsets toward foods. And at the time of this review writing one of the featured high star reviews states that anorexia and not eating is not the only eating disorder. You’re correct. And binging and purging (bulimia) is directly correlated to FOOD RESTRICTION. Which is what this apps traffic light system will encourage you to do. To run like hell from whole food groups. Instead, run like hell from this app..AEA88Version: 3.0.2

✓ HorrendousPubescent children naturally gain 30-40 pounds to help their bodies develop. This app encourages a “good and bad food” mindset and dieting for children as young as 8 years old. EIGHT year olds shouldn’t be focused on dieting and restrictive eating. And if your child is obese, or you complain about children being obese, then it is your own goddamn fault for failing as a parent. Children as young as eight years old shouldn’t be introduced to diet culture and hate their bodies. You will be responsible for life-threatening eating disorders and I am utterly disgusting by the dumbass who created something so terrible for innocent children. You should be ashamed of yourselves..Oniichan!1!1!1!1!Version: 3.0.1

✓ DISGUSTINGDo you realize that this is an app to encourage CHILDREN to diet. It says things like peanut butter and cheese are “red foods”. Are you kidding me? Is this where our world is heading? You should be ashamed of yourselves. It’s culture like this that adds to the prevalence of eating disorders, self hatred, and broken relationships with food. PLEASE DON’T DO THIS TO YOUR KIDS!.AbbeyTateHaasVersion: 3.0.0

✓ Are you kidding me???This is BEYOND harmful. Children and teenagers do not need to be taught to “control” their eating. Study after study by scientists, medical professionals, and registered dietitians have proven that dieting, calorie counting, and teaching children to pursue weight loss leads to eating disorders. As a 27 year old woman who has struggled with disordered eating for almost 20 years and is still working through an eating disorder, this is absolutely horrifying. Children need to be taught to trust their hunger and fullness cues. When they are told to lose weight and are used as “before and after” pictures, it continues to correlate that they will not be loved or good enough until they lose that weight. Childhood is a time for growing and learning to love and trust your body. Shame on weight watchers for praying on young, impressionable minds..YLroxmysoxVersion: 3.0.1

✓ Shame on youAbsolutely despicable app. Incredibly worrisome content supporting disordered eating and interfering with critical growth and development years in a child’s life. Shame on Weight Watchers and Kurbo for profiting off dieting and weight cycling which has been proven to more problematic for health than weight itself..BBQ-ueenVersion: 3.0.1

✓ Shame on Weight WatchersTargeting kids (as young as 8!) to diet and lose weight is disgusting. Weight watchers should be ashamed of themselves. Dieting and restriction leads to binging and eating disorders, especially in kids. How about we say f* diet culture and just let our kids just live their lives? You realize that it’s actually HEALTHY for kids to gain weight, as these are their growth years. If they don’t, it’s concerning. We were not all made to look the same and have the same body. Let’s build our kids up and not make them feel bad for not looking like what society expects. This is a disgrace. Let’s not pass our disordered eating onto our kids. This app should be removed and people at WW should be fired for even considering this was a good idea..Sjb4Version: 3.0.1

✓ DamagingThe idea that you should even teach children that some foods are “bad” and some things are “good” is completely wrong and is not supported by any dietitian or nutritionist worth their salt or any medical professional that works with children. This is absolutely promoting diet culture, fat shaming, and is grossly negligent. Children develop at all different rates and all different sizes and shouldn’t be spending those developing years being taught that food they choose to eat and how they nourish their body is wrong. As someone who grew up completely self-conscious about her body size and who had a mother that constantly dieted, if I had had access to an app like this I would’ve 100% developed a diagnosable eating disorder. This is a horrible app and should be pulled immediately. It is irresponsible, damaging, and dangerous to the health of children and families..TJM4111Version: 3.0.1

✓ Can’t believe this is actually a thing.Let me start by saying that I’m all for healthy eating and people being aware of what is going into their bodies, however, this is not the most ideal way of doing it. This app is just an eating disorder/body dysmorphia waiting to happen and it’s especially worrying that it’s marketed towards children, who are extremely impressionable. This type of obsession is the reason people have body image issues when they grow up, why I have them for example. Like I said, I fully support healthy eating, but that should be up to the parents to encourage, not an app that assigns traffic light colors to different foods, instilling the idea that if you eat x type of food, that you’ll gain weight and be “ugly”. Being exposed to different diets as I was growing up did so much more harm than good and this app is definitely not a step in the right direction!.JacquesV93Version: 3.0.2

✓ Eating disorder instruction guide.After 35 years of disordered eating, I can tell you this is one of the most harmful nutrition apps I’ve ever seen. It flies against modern data on health and nutrition and cognitive and cultural relationships with food. This is a health risk to children and boarding on abusive..StellababeVersion: 3.0.1

✓ Shame on weight watchersI grew up with my parents costantlt trying new diets. At every holdiay the adulta at the table would discuss what they were avoiding, portion control and points. So when my lifelong desire to loose weight bloomed into anorexia nervosa, I just thought I was just doing what every adult in my family was compelled to do. My grandparents tries weight watchers when i was 5 or 6 and my parents followed when I was 12 and are still doing it. So my anorexia was ww-esque. I didn’t skip meals but rather shaved off little bits from here and there and copied my parents “portion control” strategies. Same thing when I relapsed 4 years later. I am recovering and living at home with my ww parents this summer has been a minefield. They comment on everything they eat. They comment on what the other and even my sister and I eat. They talk to strangers about what they eat. Ww is just one company in this multi-million dollar industry but they are directly responsible for my eating disorder and my parents’. I want my childhood back. I can’t imagine the dammage explicitly encouraging a child to do this would do. Shame shame shame..DaughterofdietersVersion: 3.0.1

✓ So harmfulTargeting a already fragile age group of pre-teens to young adults with an app that reinforces internalized fat phobia is inherently wrong and this app is encouraging disordered eating. Attaching moral value to food will teach a child or teenager that eating “bad” or “red light” is wrong. This will simply lead to chronic cycles of dieting and eating disorders, both of which can lead to lifelong health issues that cannot be reversed no matter how many green light foods they eat. Parents should never encourage their child to use an app like this. If you’re worried about your child’s health see a healthcare professional that doesn’t encourage dieting of any sort. Or do your research to find out what healthy eating really is (there’s a place for EVERY food). Yes this is easy and accessible but it WILL do more harm than good in the long run. Period..Pambam143Version: 3.0.1

✓ Don’t downloadBreeding ground for disordered eating and eating disorders.GdhshdgVersion: 3.1.5

✓ Good app but shouldn’t be advertised towards children.I’m a college student and personally love this app because I can track what I’m eating without adding a calorie count to it. Last year I tried calorie counting and it restarted my eating disorder, but this color-themed system reminds me to not eat unhealthy snacks 24/7 at school. I personally like this app but I do want to stress that weight loss and diet-type apps are not for kids!!! growing children should not be counting their foods. Let them grow! Don’t instill a diet lifestyle in your children. I went on diets as a child and it turned into an eating disorder. Please be safe when using this app!.Enzobenzo7Version: 3.0.1

✓ Created disordered eatingPlease do not let your kids go on this app. It creates disordered eating habits, and triggers a very impressionable group of individuals that are still GROWING. Where will the damage end Weight Watchers?.HerunpopularopinionVersion: 3.0.1

✓ Do young people need diets? Hint: noIf you are a young person wondering how to eat healthy, STAY AWAY from anything trying to sell you a restrictive diet, including this app. Especially before your twenties, your body is growing- it needs you to eat nutritious food, not suppress your instinct to eat. If you’re worried about the food we eat, ask your lawmakers why fresh, flavorful, nutrient-rich foods are more accessible to the rich or why your school lunches aren’t better. Ask why adults are encouraged to work so hard that they don’t have time to cook for our families. Ask why so much food goes to waste in “delevoped” nations while so many people go hungry. There are a lot of challenges to face in our relationship to food. This app is not going help you face any of them..Austinrunner2015Version: 3.0.1

✓ Harmful and must be bannedWe have decades of evidence suggesting that dieting behavior is the most powerful predictor of developing at eating disorders / disordered eating behavior. Dieting behavior also predicts higher weight and health concerns that have been linked to weight instability/ weight cycling. This app encourages kids as young as 8 to engage in harmful behaviors that are more likely than not to lead to ill health-mental and physical- for a lifetime. The food: Why is skinless chicken a “yellow” food? What about whole grain bread? Almonds?! What, exactly, do you then propose a child eat?! The “motivation”: If a child selects the option to engage in this diet to “make their parents happy,” it should RED FLAG them. Maybe even connect them to a hotline to report the psychological abuse they’re enduring. ANYTHING BUT allowing them to continue the diet. The lies: WW has written boldfaced lies in its FAQ page. The app is not safe. It directly contradicts position statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical and research groups about the harms of child dieting. Parents, please listen to us, the MDs and PhDs who have spent decades rigorously studying this issue. Do not use this app, and please do not allow your children and teens with tech access to use it on their own..ErinVTVersion: 3.0.1

✓ IrresponsibleChildren are born intuitive eaters. We steal that gift from them when we tell them which foods are good or green and bad or red. Foods such as avocado are nutrient rich and provide healthy fats and should not be limited or avoided if someone enjoys them. There is something called habituation and the more a child is exposed to a food- like cupcakes- the less they are going to want them. If you tell them a cupcake is bad or a red food, psychologically and biologically, the child is going to want that food even more, binge on that food when it’s available, and then feel guilty for eating it. This app is setting kids up for a lifetime of disordered eating behaviors, as well as increasing their risk of developing full blown eating disorders. Kids are more likely to develop an eating disorder than diabetes. Bodies come in all shapes and sizes and should be celebrated, not controlled. This app is irresponsible, dangerous and needs to be pulled..A. C. 81Version: 3.0.7

✓ DisgustingThis app is ridiculously tone deaf and couldn’t miss the mark further if it tried. WW has been ignoring what has been obvious for decades: DIETING DOESN’T WORK!!! Intentional weight loss is not sustainable in the long term and fat does NOT equal unhealthy. I had a WW enthusiast mother who taught me to diet and I was a believer in the program for decades, even achieving “Lifetime” membership in 2012...but now I see how much money and time and brainpower I wasted. I am so grateful I found Intuitive Eating (a book written by Tribole and Resch) and started practicing before I taught my children that their body signals can’t be trusted. Children don’t need diets, they need grown ups who model healthy relationships with food and their bodies and don’t equate their weight with their worth. Dieting is the CAUSE of the obesity epidemic, not the solution for it!!!.ChsyogaVersion: 3.0.3

✓ This app is the weirdest thingI downloaded the app to try it and mess around with it, and I could have WINE as an option. They also said a lot of things were bad foods, like corn. You can also have 107 red foods in a whole day. Please don’t download for your kids but if you’re curious or something go ahead and fool around with it! It’s kinda fun to fool around with it and not use it seriously, especially because it’s a bad, stupid app..Galactic_GirlVersion: 3.1.5

✓ This app is disgustingPromotes a culture that can snare kids in and lead to devastating eating disorders. Do not recommend. It appears healthy and pleasant but in reality, promotes more unhealthy behaviour than anything else..=noneVersion: 3.0.1

✓ NOT RECOMMENDEDAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and many health care professionals from pediatricians, registered dietitians, nutritionists, and eating disorder specialist have all spoken about why this app could lead to disordered eating behavior. Children should not have to be preoccupied with thinking about the way their body looks, obsessing over food, and feeling “good” or “bad” because they ate something the app told them not to. The app doesn’t have your best interest in mind. It is not accounting for food availability, income, or medical dietary needs/restrictions. Do not let it dictate what is “good or bad”. If you decide to use this app, you (the adult) use it as a tool for guidance on what you can add rather than take away. Acknowledge the “reds” and that they are okay. Consider ways you can add “green” without moralizing a food or restricting it. There is a fine line between kid-friendly nutrition education and promoting disordered eating behaviors, I believe this app crosses it..NayChan92Version: 3.0.1

✓ MehMeh.BananyDracoVersion: 2.1.5

✓ Can’t input proper night.This app doesn’t have a choice to be taller than 120 cm this seems like an oversight many people are taller than 3’ something..LisalacroixVersion: 3.0.2

✓ NoI got this app to see if my child would like and it would work. So she Frye’s for about a week and we talked about it, but after that we decide we didn’t like it. It honestly made her feel bad when she” ate to many red foods,” it also doesn’t do anything to enforce when they eat to much. They just tell you and warn you, make you feel bad, but don’t do anything to cut back on to much food. They keep cutting your”reds” but just don’t give a solution when you go over. I gave them a 2 because yes three send kids in the right direction, but they just give them a nudge down the road and hope they do the rest on there own. A lot of people and websites recommend this app, well I don’t, IT DOESN'T WORK!!!!!.Starbucks1234554321Version: 3.0.3

✓ No no noThis app is the epitome of what is wrong with our culture. We should be teaching kids what REAL health is, not to measure it by weight. This is an epic failure of ethics..Scarlson89Version: 3.0.1

✓ This App WILL cause disordered eatingAs an adult who was put on a very similar program at the age of ten, and developed severe disordered eating as a result, I was curious to find out if the issues I had as a child had been changed. Sadly they haven’t and this app just exemplifies the problems with these kinds of diets. This app will cause some children to end up with eating disorders. There are ways for children to learn and develop healthy eating habits but this app is NOT one of them. The red foods make absolutely no sense and the majority of dietitians are baffled as to why some foods are considered red foods. There’s no explanation in the app as to how they choose categories for foods. How is that supposed to teach children to make informed choices? All it does is teach them if Kurbo says it’s bad than it must be bad. I implore you, if you have children, do NOT use this app with them. Seek help from a professional dietitian(something not a single one of their “coaches” are) and have them help you navigate your child’s weight issues in a way that is not going to mess them up for life..Stcrt2484Version: 3.0.1

✓ Please do not use thisPlease please please do not use this app or encourage your children to use this app. When seeing this app release, I was outraged. I paused, calmed down, opened my mind and tried the app for myself. My conclusion is this app is dangerous, propagates weight stigma, encourages a diet mentality and could lead to a poor relationship with food and food intake, disordered eating, or eating disorders. I am in eating disorder recovery, and I confidently say this app would have been devastating to me, had I found it when I was young or in my disorder. A healthy relationship with food can not be obtained, when you look at food as good or bad, healthy or unhealthy, green or red. Labeling food and controlling intake at this minute level is a breeding ground for a disordered relationship with food. Teach your kids that food is food, that their health is not directly related to their weight. Teach them to eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. Teach them talk about what they are feeling, recognize emotion, and healthy outlets for emotions and movement. Show them that they don’t have to live by color categorized foods, a diet and exercise plan, a burn to earn mentality or a number on a scale. And for the love of all things good in this world do not teach them that raisins, Apple juice, pistachios, chocolate milk and peanut butter are food to be afraid of! (All red foods in the app - that according to my plan I was only allowed to have 5 of)..RmummaVersion: 3.0.7

✓ Room for improvementI think that they need to make a few changes. They should make lean proteins green- for example a serving of grilled chicken should earn them a green point, but it’s currently yellow. It’s really only setup so that fruits and vegetables are considered good. They should also make the counseling free or at least more affordable. The app currently isn’t designed to recognize when they aren’t eating enough. For example, you can put in that the child only had celery and water and the app doesn’t flag this. Other apps have the ability to recognize when you aren’t eating enough and send a notification..Annoyed1827489Version: 3.0.1

✓ Dangerous and harmfulAs an eating disorder mental health professional, this is a very very dangerous and harmful indoctrination into diet culture. No child should be counting calories, moralizing food, or feeling like they need an “after” version of their current body. There is soooo much science that shows the extensive damage of both dieting at a young age and under nourishing a body, especially around puberty. WW puts profits and creating life long members who are terrified of food and body ahead of children’s health. Please don’t do this to your kids. Check out Ellyn Satter’s work on normal eating for kids and parents out there - please heal your own relationship with food and body. Don’t pass the trauma down to the next generation. The damage, once done, is shockingly harmful and difficult to undo. A lifetime of denied pleasure and body comparing and checking leads to destructive patterns in love and health..LaerkinVersion: 3.0.1

✓ This is NOT for HEALTHThis app promotes negative body image, fatphobia, and disordered eating + eating disorders in youth. Parents: let you children know that you love them, spend time with them, hug and cuddle them, provide them with a wide variety of foods to eat (including fruits, veggies, grains, proteins, starches, sugars, whole foods, processed foods, etc.), and encourage them to listen to the hunger and fullness cues their bodies send them. Remind your kids that food will always be available to them but that they can eat something when they’re craving it and that their body is healthy for sending signals of what it needs (hunger/fullness cues and cravings). Restricting your child’s food intake leads the body to respond as if it’s in famine, which will lead to binge eating, feelings of insecurity and body insecurity, and weight GAIN. If your fear is that your child will gain weight by being unrestricted, 1st: examine your personal fatphobia and discriminatory mentality; 2nd: read Health at Every Size by Dr. Linda Bacon; 3rd: your fatphobia aside, do NOT allow your child to download this app, because restriction literally causes more weight gain, which is what you didn’t want in the first place..Aspenbliss1Version: 3.0.2

✓ DO NOT DOWNLOADNational Eating Disorder Association has issued a warning for this dangerous app targeting vulnerable children. Do not download..Carley111Version: 3.0.1

✓ Do not use this app for kids- pediatric dietitians do not recommendThis app is NOT supported by the AAP or the national eating disorder associations (NEDA). Since 2007 the AAP recommends decreased screen time and has also pointed huge research flaws in the traffic light system that this app uses. Also, with the rise of eating disorder statistics the AAP in 2016 made a statement to NOT talk about weight, weight loss, or food tracking with kids. This app promotes disordered eating by giving kids a red food “budget,” therefore it is limiting these foods. Also, the foods listed in the red, yellow and green categories do not seem to abide by national dietary recommendations for growing kids. This app promotes restriction in growing bodies, and does not take into consideration food access, socioeconomic status, culture or family dynamics. Please DO NOT use this app or prescribe this app to anyone. Instead please: 1. Love, accept and celebrate your child for who they are. Promote positive body image. 2. Focus on modifiable health behaviors that are accessible to your family -joyful movement -adding variety to the diet -increasing water intake 3. Aim to increase family mealtimes 4. Remove any bullying/harassment threats if needed 4. Follow up with needed medical appointments.LahcpVersion: 3.0.2

✓ Pediatric dietitian says noAs a pediatric registered dietitian, I am horrified at this app’s attempt to “help” children lose weight. This goes directly against the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and the National Eating Disorders of America recommendations on how to approach childhood nutrition. Children think in black and white. When a child is out on an eating plan with the goal of weight loss, the message they get is “I will love you when... you lose weight/you look like me/ you do what I couldn’t...” There are many many eating disorder stories that begin with “my mom took me to Weight Watchers when I was ___.” This app out an unqualified health coach in direct contact with your child, making such ludicrous suggestions as cooking your eggs in applesauce rather than butter. Children need to be allowed to approach food in a curious and adventurous way, not by logging every food consumed with consequences waiting for them. If you are concerned about your child’s health, please find a pediatric registered dietitian who can assist you in guiding your family toward balance, both in nutrition and in food enjoyment..LindsayJayneVersion: 3.0.1

✓ This seems confusing.As someone who’s genuinely looking for an app to help me better manage my eating, this didn’t do the trick. The app itself is confusing and difficult to navigate. Also, today I have half of a thin crust spinach pizza ( one of the small ones you get in the frozen section ) and a piece of garlic bread. Though that was the only things I ate today, it gave me an overall bad score for the day. In my honest opinion if you’d like your kid to learn about healthy eating your better off to Employ the “stop light “ tools in your home with a chart and some stickers. Not only is it cheaper then the 130$ a month, it allows you to assign rewards, choose what is and isn’t a red light food, and can be an interactive way to teach kids about healthy eating. I find that rather then red light foods being punishments, they should be used as rewards to encourage the healthy eating. But who’s to know I’m just a kid..PhyscokittyVersion: 3.0.5

✓ Teach Your Children Intuitive Eating skills, not Restrictive ObsessionsRestrictive eating nearly always leads to a binge cycle. This app not only promotes these unhealthy eating behaviors, it’s teaching young children how to fall into disordered eating by applying moralistic values (red vs green) to foods. My brother nearly died of anorexia when we were teens. I struggled with disordered binge/restrictive cycles as a result of observing his battle. This app follows scarily similar patterns to both my brother’s and my disordered eating past. It wasn’t until I worked through intuitive eating with a nutritionist and discovered the health at every size community that I began to appreciate what my body is capable of naturally regulating and providing for itself with food and by exercising. Don’t send your kids down the path of disordered eating for the rest of their lives; guide them towards intuitive eating practices so they learn to tap into their bodies wants and needs simply by listening to it..LurgeenVersion: 3.0.1

✓ Absolutely awful!!! WW should be ashamedI can not believe the marketing genius who decided that this app would be a good idea. A DIET app designed for 8-17 year olds! Food should not be broken down into red, yellow or green. Olive oil, butter, breads, granola, nuts, milk are all listed as red- with a max of 6 reds per day... absolutely sending the wrong message to our children!.DillfinVersion: 3.0.1

✓ HHavent started usung the app properly yet but when i was setting it up and asked for my neight in centimetres it wouldnt let me use any number above 120cm? im not 4ft tall😂.ShdhsjsnfjskVersion: 3.0.5

✓ Studies show diets or restriction with food don’t workI downloaded the app and used it. I documented all I ate and was open minded about the process. However, I was significantly disappointed. As a Mindful Eating, real foods based Registered Dietitian this app saddened me. I ate well balanced meals and was given many “red” for foods that are perfectly healthy. As a healthcare professional, I was able to understand the use of a red dot system, however a child or a parent who isn’t educated may not. I’d highly suggest that parents reach out to a pediatric Registered Dietitian to help the family learn how to listen to their bodies and make food choices not out of fear. I understand the purpose of this app but it’s not meeting the mark and may cause long term damage..LadielexVersion: 3.0.3

✓ Setting children up to be weight watchers customers in the futureYes, following the WW plan can work. Kurbo is no different. If you eat less “red” foods, you likely will loose weight. Some people will find value in this, other people will see it as the adult WW plan repackaged to capitalize on child obesity and make more money. If the ‘coach’ is not a registered dietician or psychologist, you may do more harm than good with using this app..RuddocVersion: 3.0.1

✓ UI leaves a bit to be desiredI’m trying to keep track of my 5-year-old’s nutrition and weight, as she was classified as overweight at her last appointment. Setting up the app as a parent, I created her profile but it automatically assigned her my last name even though she has her dad’s last name, and it just named her “Kid1”. I don’t know if I missed something when I made her profile, but regardless, there is no way for me to edit her name. I thought perhaps logging onto the site on a computer would let me edit it, but it doesn’t. So now I’m stuck with a profile that says “Kid1”, no buttons that allow me to delete or add profiles, and a clunky user interface with very limited options, which would be fine for a kid using the app but which isn’t so great for the adult trying to use it. I have used WW off and on, and since Kurbo is an offshoot of WW, you’d think the app would be up to speed, but the WW app is light years ahead. The concept of this app is wonderful. The app layout and features is severely lacking and until it is updated, I will have to find something else to help me track my daughter’s nutrition..Riley JWVersion: 3.1.5

✓ How to give your child and eating disorder in one quick stepDisgusting and horribly cruel. wakeupweightwatchers.LochlanwatersVersion: 3.0.3

✓ Americans are short?120 cm is only 4 feet tall. App won’t let me type my real height!.BibisueVersion: 3.0.1

✓ WarningThis app may come with a life threatening eating disorder that your child will battle for the next 20 years.TovatovaVersion: 3.0.1

✓ This app made me not eatI keep seeing people talking about what this app does to people and not how. Kurbo has a dietary tracking system based in reds and greens. Each week you get a limited number of reds that you can consume. At first this app started out at about 40 reds a week and then continually began to decrease getting down to 14 reds a week. Keep in mind reds can be anything from bread to peanut butter. I was obsessed with getting to only 14 reds a week so much so I would only eat some carrots and cucumbers for lunch and then have a small dinner. Luckily, I stopped before it got too bad because my mom found out about me throwing away my lunch at school. I was only 13 and I can definitely see how this app can cause eating disorders and fat phobia. And to the person that said that the community associated with this app is bad and the app is great should think about other people’s perspectives before saying that it’s perfectly safe when in reality it isn’t..E17-11love3452lifeVersion: 3.1.5

✓ This app worries meThe first thing you see on this app is a little drawing of a street light and it pretty much says “eat more veggies, less meat and bread, and STOP to think before having treats like cookies and whatnot. This isn’t appropriate for children in my opinion. Kids shouldn’t have to think about things like that. I downloaded this app to see what it’s about, and there’s potential for something that could be a good tool for children to have access to info about nutrition. But a simple message of “STOP and think before you eat that cookie” does more harm than good. The real goal should be awareness, education and moderation. I struggled with an eating disorder as a teen and it all started with simply starting to watch what I would eat and my goal was to eat healthier. I counted calories on weight watching apps and worked out as much as I could. And it just kept getting more intense and took my mind away from things that I should’ve been focused on at that age. I eventually got very sick and depressed and I still struggle to this day. There has to be a better way to teach children about healthy eating..Salem rainicornVersion: 3.0.3

Kurbo by WW (Weight Watchers) works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or contact Kurbo by WW (Weight Watchers).