November 20th, 2009 by 
Trevor Johnson
Many people in America are obese. It is easy to look down upon people who are overweight. It is one of the most picked on class of people in America. Who is to blame for obesity is the question. You may jump to the person and part of that is true. But looking at many of the underlying issues of a person\’s weight gain can help us understand the \’why\’ to a person\’s issues with weight.
Depression: If you are fighting sadness overeating can be a sign. Food tastes good and you feel good when you eat it. If you are depressed and want to feel better you will eat more to feel good for a time. You may feel bad about gaining weight but the only thing that makes you feel good is food.
Control: When everything else is a person\’s life is out of control then perhaps the one thing they can control is eating. Even if it is too much they are in control and want to have control over something. It can cause obesity. It can also cause other eating disorders as bulimia.
Learned behavior: If you come from a family where a big bowl of ice cream is the norm before you go to bed and most of your family is overweight it is a learned behavior. It is nobody\’s \’fault\’ per say it is just how your family has learned to eat on a regular basis.
Protection: If a person has unfortunately been sexually abused they may struggle with weight as one of their coping mechanisms. If they can control their weight by how they look unappealing in their eye to others then they feel protected from being hurt in the future.
You can blame obesity on laziness or someone\’s lack of willpower. But we can blame anything on anyone or anything if we choose to and it is easy to do. What is more difficult is to find compassion for an issue and appreciate that someone is struggling at something as much as you may be struggling at something else. None of us are perfect and we need to see other\’s pain to help them heal from it.
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