YET: You're Not There Yet

Every weight-loss app is a cheerleader. Streaks, confetti, "Great job!" for drinking water. Encouragement is pleasant, and pleasant is easy to close and forget. YET is the opposite. It is blunt, funny, and relentless. It does not congratulate you. Its entire personality is the distance between where you are and where you said you would be. HOW IT WORKS Set a goal weight and a date. Pick a before photo. Then YET sends that photo back to you every few hours, with a line about the gap, until the photo stops being true. Tap the notification and you land on one screen: your photo, the number, and two buttons. Log a weigh-in, or dismiss it and wait for the next one. ONE RULE YET is hostile about the gap, the excuse, and the clock. It is never hostile about your body. It will not comment on how you look, and it will not call you names. Weight numbers are reported as facts, including when they…