Three questions:

I started reading "The Best Life Diet" by Bob Greene. In his book, he says before you can start losing weight you have to understand it. He has you answer three questions, so I am going to use this blog to do that.
#1: Why are you overweight?
So, duh, I eat too much. But, I'm supposed to dig deeper than that. This might hurt a little bit. Ah...the truth....:( Why am I fat? I have abused food. I feel like a drug addict or an alcoholic. When I am sad, I use food to ease the sadness. When I am angry, I turn to food to have someone (or something) on my side. When I am depressed, I turn to food. When I am happy, I celebrate with food. It becomes a vicious cycle, as my weight leads to more depression, sadness and anger..and also guilt. In the past year, I even started eating in secret, so no one would see. I started to not like myself very much, and maybe I didn't think I deserved to be skinny, or believed in myself enough to actually think I could get skinny...so why put forth the effort? There's no rehab for my food addiction. There's no government funded programs for me. My addiction is accepted and even encouraged with Super Sized Meal Deals! I wonder how long detox takes and how bad it feels? It's scary to me. There, that's why I'm fat.