why do ppl over eat?

Answer 1

Various reasons.People who overeat are usually very preoccupied with issues of food, eating, and weight, bouts of eating are an attempt to manage other hidden issues. That is, as a overeater, you use food to cope with stress, upset, emotional distress, and other problems (i.e., depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem). However, the negative feelings blocked by the overeating
are only momentarily avoided, as you inevitably feel guilty and shameful about the overeating.
Overeating generally has a gradual beginning, often starting in early childhood when eating patterns are formed. It usually starts very subtly, when a child turns to food whenever they were upset. Over time, you learn that food in fact will soothe the upset feelings. The destructive pattern continues as you do not learn to trust that feelings pass and that you are capable of self-soothing without food.
Like someone with bulimia, when you overeat, you usually try every way you can think of to stop. Often the attempt at control takes the form of rigorous dieting or living by inflexible standards of eating. While strict dieting may help intermittently with the weight gain, in the long run it doesn't do anything to remedy the emotional reasons for the compulsive overeating. Moreover, restrictive dieting is so depriving that it creates a situation of compounded desperation to eat. Therefore, dieting often backfires and just perpetuates the compulsive overeating.
Compulsive overeating has only recently come to be taken seriously and straightforwardly in our culture. Prejudicial impressions remain very strong. With this kind of disordered eating, people are often stereotyped as lazy and gluttonous, or, at best, as having too big an appetite and lacking in willpower or self-control. Your pain is then overlooked not only by yourself, but also by other people.
Recovery is completely possible for overeaters through a gradual process of lifestyle change and with the help of others. Along with the medical, psychological and nutritional assistance helpful to anyone with distorted eating habits, oftentimes groups such as Overeaters Anonymous are very useful.

Answer 2

Well, mood does play a role in eating disorders, as does stress. However, people sometimes overeat to make up for some emotional necessity they are lacking and do not truly understand.

Answer 3

Prader Willi Syndrome???

Answer 4

Stress.
Depression.
Or if they lack that hormone in them that tells them they've had enough and are full. Alot of people arent born with this hormone so they dont know when to stop eating.

Answer 5

It's an addiction. And because people stop listening, and then forget how to listen, to what their body is actually telling them with regard to food. Most overweight people do not even recognise that they are full, until they are absolutely stuffed.

Answer 6

Boredom.

Answer 7

Because they eat too quickly and it doesn't register that you've had enough. I must try to eat slower, but is there enough time in the day to eat slower.

Answer 8

All answers before are right. Insecurtiy and lack of self esteem and lack of ambition are some others.

Answer 9

Boredom, Comfort, who knows?

Answer 10

lack of selfcontrol, depression, OCD, thyoroid problems, bad metabolosm, selfdistracting behaviour problems...etc