{"id":280,"date":"2009-07-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/07\/what-does-fat-give-you.html"},"modified":"2009-07-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:00:00","slug":"what-does-fat-give-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/07\/what-does-fat-give-you.html","title":{"rendered":"What Does Fat Give You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a query for your day, today&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat is overeating and being overweight giving you?<br \/>\nPlease think about this, in a very insightful, deep way, and share your feelings.  <\/p>\n<p>Post them on a comment below,<br \/>\nthen come back in a few hours or tomorrow and see what other have said.<br \/>\nYou may find some intriguing responses to your thoughts, or someone<br \/>\nelse may have posted something that sparks new insights for you. You<br \/>\nmay learn a lot about yourself, and your motivations for continuing<br \/>\nyour old habits. <\/p>\n<p>I found that for me, being fat was a shield against<br \/>\nhaving to be close or intimate with others. It was protection from<br \/>\npossibly being hurt. That compounded my problems, though, I began to<br \/>\nsee over the long-term. I was overeating in the short-term moment of<br \/>\npain, to soothe my pain, but in the long-run, I was making my pain<br \/>\nworse. This snowballed into a massive obesity <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Health\/Weight-Loss\/Norris\/2009\/06\/Today-From-Norris-What-Do-You-Get-From-Fat.aspx#\" class=\"iAs\"><\/a> problem (400 pounds of misery).<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not easy to look at yourself, and see your problems.  It helps if others are doing this kind of self-analysis, too.<\/p>\n<p>What does fat give you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.beliefnet.com\/1.gif\" height=\"8\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a query for your day, today&#8230; What is overeating and being overweight giving you? Please think about this, in a very insightful, deep way, and share your feelings. Post them on a comment below, then come back in a few hours or tomorrow and see what other have said. 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