I'm currently entertaining the thought of going on an anti-depressant. I'm aware of what are good eating habits and what are not. I used to love to exercise everyday. Feeling hopeless and depressed can be an important reason for a woman's difficulties with managing her weight. Eating healthy, low fat food, and exercising are essential to maintaining a healthy weight, but it is difficult for some of us to initiate these things when we are depressed.
Weight gain is a common result of depression.
A woman might ask herself when she began gaining the weight, or when she stopped enjoying exercise. The weight gain probably coincides with an emotional event, or a raised level of stress. For many women eating can become both a source of comfort, and frustration. It is a way in which we might respond to stress, and a way in which we might literally feed our low sense of self-esteem. It can become a viscous cycle in which a woman feels elf conscious because she is overweight and in turn responds to this feeling by overeating, or by avoiding exercise.