"We're about moderation"
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A diet brand insisting "We're about moderation" is a neat little PR magic trick: it sells restraint as a lifestyle while running on the logic of cravings, insecurity, and repeat customers. Jenny Craig’s four-word line reads like a calming hand on the shoulder, the verbal equivalent of soft lighting and a tasteful beige palette. It’s also a preemptive defense. In a culture that has grown suspicious of punitive diet regimes, "moderation" functions as reputational insurance: we’re not extreme, we’re not cruel, we’re not the bad guys.
The intent is disarmingly simple. It widens the funnel. If the old pitch was discipline and deprivation, this one is permission with guardrails. You can still eat, still socialize, still be "normal" - just within the boundaries we help set, conveniently through packaged plans, points, portions, and approved choices. The subtext: you don’t need to change the system that made you anxious about your body; you just need better behavior inside it.
Context matters because "moderation" arrives after decades of diet backlash: celebrity before-and-after culture, tabloid body policing, and a growing body-positivity movement that makes shame less marketable. The line borrows therapeutic language without the therapy. It suggests balance while quietly maintaining the premise that your body is a project requiring supervision.
It works because it flatters the listener as reasonable and mature, not desperate. "Moderation" isn’t a goal; it’s a brand persona. The promise is emotional: you can pursue transformation without admitting you’re being sold transformation.
The intent is disarmingly simple. It widens the funnel. If the old pitch was discipline and deprivation, this one is permission with guardrails. You can still eat, still socialize, still be "normal" - just within the boundaries we help set, conveniently through packaged plans, points, portions, and approved choices. The subtext: you don’t need to change the system that made you anxious about your body; you just need better behavior inside it.
Context matters because "moderation" arrives after decades of diet backlash: celebrity before-and-after culture, tabloid body policing, and a growing body-positivity movement that makes shame less marketable. The line borrows therapeutic language without the therapy. It suggests balance while quietly maintaining the premise that your body is a project requiring supervision.
It works because it flatters the listener as reasonable and mature, not desperate. "Moderation" isn’t a goal; it’s a brand persona. The promise is emotional: you can pursue transformation without admitting you’re being sold transformation.
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