Giving up smoking was easy. Sorry if that sounds smug, but it was. The trick was not smoking every time I wanted to, until I didn’t anymore. A hundred, maybe a thousand small acts of will power. However, for as long as I can remember, I have not been able to do that with overeating. And while food lacks the doomed glamour of other addictions, it has something the others don’t. Necessity. When I gave up smoking, I did not have to smoke 3 times a day. When I visit friends, they don’t put out bowls of cigarettes to welcome me. In 2025, as I approach 50, I thought about whether my inability to manage my weight is destroying the planet. Let me explain...

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