What's Eating You?

There is a saying. "It's not what you eat but rather what's eating you." It's an attempt to put meaning to why people are fat. Folks used to think that people were fat because they were lazy. Then Oprah attempted to change that by attaching some inner emotional turmoil as the reason. Today on my favorite web page that I read every Sunday (www.postsecret.blogspot.com) a woman shared her secret and it was this "I am eating myself to death because I don't own a gun." That is a turbo-charged version of my own reason. I am fat and getting fatter because part of me just doesn't care.