Food for Thought

The last few weeks there have been numerous blogs on the woes of restaurant eating and how it's contributing to the obesity epidemic due to the huge portion sizes of everything.

Now, more than ever with our economy in a slump we might think it's even more important to get good food deals, so when we "supersize" our food order, we feel like we are getting a great bargain. But, is it really a good deal:

• if we spend hundreds of dollars trying to lose weight on every new diet book, pill, or plan that comes along?
• having to take numerous medications (which can be costly too)?
• spending days in hospital care for heart conditions and/or diabetes?
• having to keep buying clothes a size bigger?
• going to therapy every week because we no longer have confidence in ourselves because of the weight we have gained?
• spending precious time fretting about our weight/health issue?

Readers have I missed anything here? What are some other "costs" of overeating?