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This is a blog about being an Ultra Processed Person with obesity, and, hopefully, how I sort that out.  Inspired by a recent read:  Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food ... and Why Can't We Stop?  Dr Chris Van Tulleken. One of the twin doctors. I'm a bit of a fan... My name is Donna and I have many parts of the body that human women shouldn't have as well as missing a couple of bits we should. Let's go with the missing bits first: 1. Womb 2. Ovaries 3. Cervix 4. Most of the thyroid. Well it's there but it's shit. I did used to have these things but my body is very typically my own body. You know the saying "your own worst enemy"?  You can go round being an über perfectionist, making things really bad for yourself and then you stress yourself out, give yourself more problems? Well, my body literally gave me more problems.  Four years ago I grew a one stone 'fake baby' uterine tumour (extremely rare, extremely weir...