Are happy people skinnier, details below?

[jennifer_bloom]

When I’m depressed, my appetite is big, and when I’m happy I lose my appetite and get full very quickly. I remember at my old job, I ate 2-6 times more food than I do when I’m happy.

[Bricealan]

Mood affects eating habits, no doubt about it. Think about 'Comfort Food"! I don't make a habit of buying Comfort Food, for the reasons you allude to above. I stay, or TRY to stay thin, 135- 140 pounds and Iam about 5'8. It is a 'struggle and depression is a key factor to overeating, in my humble opinion, and it becomes a vicious cycle, and when you gain weight, you get more DEPRESSED.
mood swings are really troublesome.

[Bricealan]

Jennifer, as a P. S to this and a THANKY YOU for MHO, I DO find that a Hard Yoga, workout, helps with depression and mood swings. The hard work-out does lower, rather than increase my appetite.

[Waldoe]

I think its called "eating your emotions"... pretty common

[love_conquers_lust]

I think race and gender play into it to a degree. So does Kleiber’s law and fat content of a given individual. Smaller organisms have higher surface areas for their mass so they tend to stay cooler in the summer, but they also get colder in the winter. Their metabolic rates tend to be higher per pound, but their total energy output is smaller than that of larger animals. This explains why women complain of having cold feet, why they don’t move as much as men, or why they have a higher fat content.

Yes, depression does stimulate appetite. That’s why winter weight is a thing. That’s why there are so many holidays in the winter months. You look around, crop fields aren’t sown, leaves have fallen off trees, there’s no green. It looks dreary and dead. So, we eat to store calories, get fat, and insulate against the cold. The depression also causes us to do less because it conserves energy. This is kind a primitive model, harsh way to live, and it’s hard on the body. That’s why we live in dwellings, why we preserve food, why we have clothing, why we burn fuel for heat, why we congregate in groups on confined spaces to make multiple organisms serve as a larger, efficient one to conserve heat. <-This is also the essence of why cities are so efficient when it comes to supporting multiple people.

Nowadays, we have food available round the clock in climate controlled residences, at least for now. So all the depression can be self-imposed.

[CaptainSmartass]

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