Dieters say they’re being shamed for losing weight

Isolated for months in my upstate hometown, I spent the pandemic baking, overeating and gaining about 20 pounds above the 190 I weighed in 2019.

And while I eventually trimmed my 5-foot-11 frame down to a svelte 175 — a three-month process I began after returning to the city in March — I was reluctant to share my progress on social media, for fear of offending anyone.  “Weight loss isn’t for everyone, and I’ve never had the ‘perfect’ body, but I’m down 20 pounds,” I first tweeted in mid-May — two months after I scaled my diet down to about 1,200 calories per day and set a goal of at least 10 hours of weekly exercise.