back in the 80's when weight watchers first got popular my Aunty used to go to the meetings and it was real Marjorie Dawes stuff - everyone was weighed in front of everyone else and if you gained weight everyone would chant 'oink-piggy-piggy-piggy' !!!
Insert incredulous swearing right here !

If you gained you had to stand up the front and sing "I'm a fat little pig and I ate too much I'm FAT FAT FAT!"
This is the sort of self-loathing I was very carefully trained in as a not-very-fat child. It completely ****ed up my sense of weight and health and self image for at least 20 years - and made me even happier to lard my ass up as an act of political/social defiance.

I *cannot* believe this sort of judgement goes on with group approval!!!