I shared one perspective before. Let me add another perspective now.. Eating excessive is just like everything else.. How tasting wine is different from being a drunkard? It is somewhat similar to that.. Eating itself is not a sin.. If eating is going to define us as a person, then we have given control over to eating.. That is the problem..
Excellent way of putting it. I would compare this to something else, but it's a subject on which this forum is very divided, but the principle is the same.