How has your complusive eating harmed your life? Include at least five ways.

The question asks to list at least five ways that compulsive eating has harmed my life:

1. My health - although I feel like my health has improved at one point it was totally a slug; couldn't walk, could perform even mundane task without becoming breathless; high blood pressure and onset diabetes.

2. My relationships - my eating has added to my weight and my weight has made me unattractive; being unattractive has made me lonely.

3. My ego - I like to think of myself as I was when I was in school - young and energetic, but I know I am not. That knowledge has taken its toll on my self-esteem and therefore how I think of myself. I often feel that I can't succeed so why try.

4. my finances - because of the lack of self esteem I haven't tried to find employment. Being unemployed has required me to use funds that were earmarked for retirement. Using those funds has impacted my taxes, my belief that I can eventually retire - of course I suppose I am retired but it won't be comfortably.

5. my family - I don't feel that I have been able to provide for my children in a way that will make them feel less threatened by the things that they will face in their lives, both financial and socially. Although Vickie is happy and doing well I think she is living on a shoestring and may very well have financial problems in the future. Stephanie hasn't shown any interest in getting an education or a more satisfying and better paying job. Should I as her parent take responsibility for that? Or is that the sign of being a co-dependent? Yet I know that if I were in a better place financially I could be a help but at the same time that isn't what she needs.

And what does this have to do with my overeating issues? I know that there is relationship although maybe not as direct as the question implies.