In the summer of 2018, Lisa Robillard left her doctor’s office and walked down the long corridor of a medical complex in suburban Virginia. She’d just had an appointment with yet another physician who could only recommend “diet and exercise” when she brought up her life-long struggle with her weight. Robillard was 11 when she attended her first Weight Watchers meeting with her family, who celebrated hitting their dieting goals by going out for ice cream. Later, when her first fiancé proposed, the ring was conditional on dropping several dress sizes. She lost the weight but, when they split, it piled back on. Now, after 40 years of yo-yoing, she was dispirited.
2018年夏天，丽莎·罗毕拉德(Lisa Robillard)(Lisa Robillard)离开医生的办公室，走在弗吉尼亚州郊区一家医疗中心的长廊上。在她与医生的交谈中，她提起了自己与体重的终生斗争，然而，像她之前的其他所有医生一样，这位医生只能建议她“节食和锻炼”。罗毕拉德11岁时第一次和家人一起参加慧俪轻体(Weight Watchers)的减肥计划，家人外出吃冰淇淋来庆祝实现了减肥目标。后来，当她的第一个未婚夫求婚时，带上婚戒的条件是要降低几个尺码的衣服。她的体重减轻了，但当他们分手时，体重又增加了。如今，在断断续续了40年后，她已经不抱希望了。