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The Psychology of Being Fat: How We Arrive Gradually, Adapt Quietly, and Discover That Losing Is Not Gaining in Reverse

The Psychology of Being Fat: How We Arrive Gradually, Adapt Quietly, and Discover That Losing Is Not Gaining in Reverse

Miller, Keith Lawrence

Paperback

Diet & NutritionAddiction & RecoveryGeneral Psychology

ISBN13: 9798194959853
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 26 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Most people do not wake up and choose obesity. They arrive there incrementally.

Five pounds gained. Three lost. Four regained. A larger shirt. A photograph avoided. A promise to address it after work becomes less demanding, after the children are older, or after the next crisis passes. No single moment feels decisive-until the body has changed and the person living inside it is still carrying an earlier image of who they are.

At twenty-seven, Keith Lawrence Miller believed that leanness was primarily evidence of discipline. As an amateur bodybuilder, he had trained his body to extremes and judged people whose bodies appeared less controlled. Then work, family, stress, aging, changing routines, ordinary meals, and repeated regain gave him a perspective he could never have acquired from the outside.

The Psychology of Being Fat combines candid memoir with evidence from psychology, neuroscience, metabolism, and obesity medicine. It examines:

- how gradual weight gain becomes psychologically normal;

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