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There certainly is some sort of pay off but I think it is a bit more complicated than Dr Phil would have us believe.
I beleive that people who eat for emotional reasons probably start out that way due to an emotional trigger. They continue that pattern long after the emotional nedd has passed and now the "addiction" is neuro-behavioral in nature. They still may have not fully dealt with the issues that drove them to overeat but I believe that they overeat years down the road simply out of habit and a type of chemical dependancy. I do not believe this is the reason the majority of people are fat. Most people are fat because they are unwilling to change their lifestyle to one of healthy eating and excercise
The obesity epedemic in and of itself dispels all the quack theories as to why people become overweight. Up until 25 years ago most people were not fat. Now most people are. 25 years ago morbidly obese people were a arae sight but now they are quite common place. The fat lady at the circus is out of work. You see her everywhere now struggling to ambulate or riding in a mobility scooter complete with an oxygen tank and a nose hose.
The cause is multi-factorial but the cure is simple. Eat less and excercise more. The longer people dance around the issue by trying to figure out why they overeat the more difficult it will become for them to change. It doesn't matter why you overeat. What matters is that you stop. Once you do that it will become very clear to you why you over ate in the first place.
Again it is this simple. If you are and adult male you will not be oveweight if you eat no more than 2500 calories a day. If you are an adult female stay under 2000 calories a day and you won't become overweight. Why is that so difficult to do?
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