Sin, disease... What's wrong with a plain old fact? Are you overweight? Then you're overweight. Are you downright fat? Then you're fat. Religious dogma as

Sin, disease... What's wrong with a plain old fact? Are you overweight? Then you're overweight. Are you downright fat? Then you're fat. Religious dogma aside (as I don't care about it), I'm going to say you're not committing a sin or evil act by being heavy. Barring the adenovirus hypothesis panning out or your having a known glandular issue, I'm going to guess that you don't have a disease. You just have a fact. Are you overweight enough to affect your health? Are you unappealing to the men or women you want to date? Do you just dislike having the weight? Then you have complaints. Do whatever complaints you have bother you more than you enjoy the aspects of your lifestyle and diet that lead you to being overweight? Then you have a problem. Problems can addressed, researched, and analyzed. Problems can even be solved, or at least ameliorated. Mind, it's hard to guilt, intimidate, or infantilize people by noting that they might have a problem - assuming you literally mean "problem" and not as a euphemism for disease or sin...