Maintenance of lost weight and long-term management of obesity

I, along with every other person with serious weight issues, have spent the vast majority of my life being told my weight management problems are exclusively a personal failing, and I’ve been told that by the vast majority of people around me, from parents to teachers to doctors and multiple governments.

Yes, there needs to be more compassion for everyone, but don’t think for even a second this very minimal and nascent sympathy from society is at all widespread.

High alcohol tolerance is perceived as a very macho, hence good and desirable, characteristic.

Fat is just fat.