Why I'm on a diet at 43

The ethics of losing weight in 2022 are complex...and the judgement heaped on those who do it, unforgiving. But have we got it all wrong?

I am on diet. Except I don’t call it that nowadays because the word diet is suffused with shame and pity, and dieters are now basically akin to someone who abuses small animals. So instead, when I turn away desserts and glasses of wi…