https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-if-doctors-stopped-prescribing-weight-loss/

The waiting room at the Mosaic Comprehensive Care Clinic in Chapel Hill, N.C., is as generic as any doctor's office except for a framed sign by the door. “No Wrong Way to Have a Body,” it says, above an illustration of different cacti species. The second anomaly of this primary care practice is what is missing from the exam rooms: there are no scales. Louise Metz, the clinic's owner and founder, keeps just one on the premises, tucked in a back hallway. Most patients never even know it is there.

Erin Towne, 37, who has come in for her annual physical, does know about the scale; she will stand on it during her examination so Metz can check whether she is continuing to restore her weight after recovering from a restrictive eating disorder. But only Metz will see the number. Towne, a mother of two who works in IT at a local university, is tall and slender, a runner. She wears a long sundress and hunches slightly as she sits in one of the exam room's armless chairs. The chairs are designed to support heavy people comfortably, and not so long ago Towne would have been grateful to see them. This willowy body is still relatively new to her. In January 2017 she underwent bariatric surgery, and she lost 160 pounds.