KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2 -- Happy New Year! It's the start of a new year, and once again, it is easy to feel tempted, almost pressured into "watching" your weight, fixating on numbers like calories and grams of protein instead of the only thing that should matter when eating: am I enjoying this?

It's no longer just your nosy relatives telling you that you've put on a couple of pounds.

It's also that oafish guy you went to school with who's started a diet of only meat and offal and won't shut up about testosterone, and that anorexic content creator who intersperses 50 pictures of her at the gym with increasingly depressing bowls of yoghurt and berries.

We've replaced enjoyment with guilt, and outsourced it to our social media feeds.

This y...