This week, I open up about my struggle to maintain my weight. Whether you agree or disagree with the prevalence of these new weight loss drugs (I’m conflicted myself as I’ve talked about before), one thing we can all agree on is that we should remember to be respectful and compassionate about other people’s stories. I’ve been beating myself up for almost my entire life for not being skinny enough—I look at so many other people in my life for whom remaining thin looks relatively “easy” and concluded that the problem is ME. I’m WEAK, I thought. I need to just be MORE disciplined, MORE strict, MORE accountable. Reading the studies I discuss above really helped me to feel… SEEN. Maybe it wasn’t just ME. Maybe it’s not that I’m weak or lazy or undisciplined. Maybe it’s because it’s FREAKING hard. Even if I ultimately conclude that weight loss drugs are NOT the answer (for me), what I find extremely disturbing is how casually people dismiss the hardship of maintaining a healthy weight. Just...