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qathran t1_je15g7g wrote

Reply to comment by Vq-Blink in LPT Request: How to stop over eating and have more control over my diet? by Vq-Blink

My therapist explained that outside of some specific medical diagnoses that cause one to be chronically overweight, if you're holding onto weight for a long time, it's not an eating problem or an exercise problem, it's an emotional problem. Using food for addiction/dopamine is a common way to self soothe and a psych professional can be very useful to identify underlying issues and get past them.

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applebeesknees18 t1_je1m1mf wrote

Every body is different. Some people's norm weight is heavier and others' are lighter. I agree that for some people food has an emotional component that could use the guidance of a therapist, but some people are just heavier and that's fine. There could be no exercise, eating, or emotional problem- just the way their genes deal with the food they intake. It's unfair to look at every bigger person and assume they haven't worked out some "issue" that thin people have "worked hard to overcome." Most of the time it's just genetics.

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Skyblacker t1_je2rmzk wrote

Every fat person I know eats their emotions. And every skinny person I know loses their appetite when stressed. So I suspect that weight in either direction is a stress response.

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