Overeating is defined as eating when not hungry or past the point of satiety. Most people don't realize they are eating
more than they need to until they become obese and suffer health problems. The majority of people overeat from time to
time but it becomes a problem when it happens regularly.

That is a great observation and gets the problem of overeating into a nutshell. If we only ate when we were hungry then we would not be overweight. I saw on one of those programmes about losing weight someone saying that they did not know what it was to feel hungry, they never got to the point where they actually felt those hunger pangs. We do not let ourselves get empty before we start eating again!!