Why am I fat? Because my self-esteem is crushed.

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's about being a broken human being. It's about being self-destructive. Why be healthy when you feel worthless?

But what if... I'm not saying it's like this for everybody, but I know from experience it's like this for me... what if, just like drinking alcohol can affect your emotional and mental state, eating food that's bad for you can, in fact, make you feel worthless? Not just because you ate the food and you've been taught to feel guilty about that, but because we're really just a bag of chemical reactions when you get right down to it, and it turns out that chemical A results in neurological state B?

For my money, the chain is: the type of food we eat directly affects our emotional/psychological state, and that state then affects how much of the food we continue to eat, which then leads to the weight gain. It's like no one can take just a little heroin, you know? And why bother to take less heroin when you feel worthless? But if you could really break the cycle and were taking no heroin at all...