Last month, my life turned upside down.

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, I suddenly found myself experiencing excruciating pain in my head, loss of vision + feeling in the side of my body, confusion and the inability to speak. Fearing that I was having a stroke, my husband rushed me to the ER, where I spent hours having CT scans, MRIs and multiple tests run while I fell in and out of consciousness.

We have a weight problem on our hands.

But it isn’t the one that will be fixed with a GLP-1 or the next quick-fix fad diet.

It’s the one where individuals are discriminated against - both consciously and unconsciously - based on the size of their bodies.

Informally noted as the second Friday of January, 2026’s Quitters’ Day has already come and gone, and with that, the majority of individuals’ resolutions.