Stress

If you are reading this, than probably you are over weight and one of the many people (including myself) that are fighting with that issue.
We all know that food is the direct cause for over weight but eating for most of us has very little to do with food and sustenance.

We eat for many reasons and in many situations, and even if we eat healthy foods, we my eat way to much of them, using food as a source of comfort, a tool to kill boredom and as a depressurise - helping us to deal with all the stress in our lives.
Most of us are unhappy with the way we look, which is one of the reasons we want to loose weight, but this unhappiness leads to self critisism, self judment and self loathing.
Its kind of stressful to be someone you loath, and it is certainly difficult loosing weight if you have no self esteem - because loosing weight takes a lot of motivation and faith in one self - and faith in ones self cannot exists along side of self loathing.
You need to be able to accept yourself, non judgmentaly, in order to make progress.
This is a great article about size and self acceptance, that is really worth the read.

Hat tip A Weight Lifted