I have struggled with being overweight. I like food so much it is hard for me to stop eating sometimes.
I can imagine ! I am overweight as well.  Are their any specific diets you have followed in the past ?
I have tried many different diets. Once I lost 30 pounds on a ketogenic diet. Then I gained it back the next year, lol.
Yes, I have on occasion had more body fat than optimally healthy. Excess weight is not good for us. I gain weight just by smelling food !
I remember how much better I felt when I was an ideal weight. You are right that extra weight is harmful to us.
It's not just the adults that are overweight. I've noticed in shopping malls (people watching of course) that CHILDREN as well are overweight at tender young ages...
Yeah, I think a lot of times the parents are to blame for that. Too much candy and sitting at home will make any kid overweight. In my case I didn't gain weight until I got married.
Yes, lack of exercise, and lifestyles contribute to the majority of overweight persons.  I'm just old, fat and happy lol
Well, at least it is a problem we can fix. No one is born overweight lol.
Overweight
Being overweight or fat is having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is especially common where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary.
, excess weight reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese. In 2013 this increased to more than 2 billion. Increases have been observed across all age groups.
A healthy body requires a minimum amount of fat for proper functioning of the hormonal, reproductive, and immune systems, as thermal insulation, as shock
octogenarian with an interesting literary past. But that was not to be, despite a lifetime of diets. It was however a state of affairs which made me write a good few novels with overweight, plain women as their heroines. I’ve always been on their side – they are the unseen majority." 
In September 1946, when she was 15, she returned to England with her mother and sister. She recalls: "I was a literary groupie from the antipodes...Not that I had any intention of being