Are you overweight? That's okay! This book embraces body diversity as it is, celebrating the many forms it takes. Everyone has their own unique weight curve. Being overweight is just as complex and varied as life itself! It can be healthy or unhealthy, beautiful or less beautiful. What is it really? How does it feel? What do the facts say, and what do those affected say? How does our society and your environment react? And above all: How can you best cope with it yourself? This book is not another weight loss guide, nor is it a critique of what overweight individuals do wrong, or a one-size-fits-all solution for the so-called ideal body. Internist and diabetologist Veronika Hollenrieder draws on 25 years of medical practice experience, allowing the people she has advised to share their voices, and explains the latest scientific findings on being overweight. A completely new approach to this topic.