Mental health can affect weight, mental illness can increase the occurrence of comfort eating,  anxiety, and depression, and various psychotropic medications all have the potential to contribute to weight gain.  From my own experience, as I talked about in my opening blog post, I know that mental health can absolutely affect weight. I gained about 40 pounds over the last year, that I am almost positive I would not have gained if my mental health had been better. Normally I am pretty good about monitoring my weight and making sure that it doesn’t get too out of hand. However, over the past year, I just ate whatever I wanted, whenever…