Return Of The Scale

Overweight People vs. Not Overweight People

This revelation came to me when I was at the gas station getting a soda with some friends. Two of us were dieters and one wasn’t. Along with my soda, I got some junk food because I said, I was “already splurging, I may as well,” which the dieter agreed with, but the non-dieter thought that was funny because they would think if I was having a soda, I shouldn’t have the junk food. – Not exactly the best way of telling the story, but the point is, I was thinking backwards.

I have been observing people for the past few years and I have noticed that overweight people and always on a diet, or talking about their weight or worried about their weight. Thin people aren’t. Of coarse, this is a generalization, because there are thin people who are obsessed with their weight and overweight people who don’t seem to care. In general though, it seems like people who don’t struggle with their weight are more in touch with themselves. They don’t eat certain things because they don’t feel well when they eat them, they know when to stop eating, and they choose healthy food because they know it will make them healthier or they like it.

Overweight people eat for reasons other than hunger. I rarely know when I am actually hungry. I eat because I think I am supposed to or it’s time, or there is food in front of me, or because I decided I am going to splurge or treat myself for whatever reason. I usually eat very fast and don’t really taste my food. I eat a large portion too, because I don’t really pay attention to myself when I am eating. I try not to talk about my weight to other people that much, but I am always thinking about it. And, unfortunately, at home I talk about my weight and failed plans a lot. I make a lot of my choices based on my weight. I would say that I am obsessed.

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