That Is Why You're Overweight

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

The Allmusic review stated: "Some of this stuff hits, some of it misses... all of it suggests that Harris' curiosity and impatience had him flailing around in search of a direction".[3]

All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated

1. "It's All Right Now" – 3:56
2. "Why Do You Hurt Me" (Harris, Bradley Bobo) – 4:19
3. "Flowers" – 4:59
4. "That Is Why You're Overweight" (Harris, Sara Harris, Yvonne Harris) – 7:25
5. "Tryin' Ain't Dyin'" – 7:30
6. "Live Again" (Ronald Muldrow) – 4:18
7. "Ooh" – 2:49
8. "Exempt" – 7:37

• Eddie Harris – tenor saxophone, electric piano, vocals
• Ronald Muldrow – guitar, guitorgan vocals
• Bradley Bobo – bass, 6 string bass, vocals
• Paul Humphrey, Terry Thompson – drums
• Buck Clarke – bongos, percussion, tambourine
• Calvin Barnes – drums, percussion, vocals
• Marshall Thompson – percussion (track 5)
• Bob Ramey – rhythm synthesizer (track 1)
• Muhal Richard Abrams (track 5), Bobby Lyle (track 2) – electric piano
• Odell Brown – organ (track 5)
• Lou Gonzales, Joe Romano – trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 2, 4 & 8)
• Burgess Gardner, Frank Gordon – trumpet (track 5)
• Steve Galloway (track 5), Al Hall Jr. (tracks 2, 4 & 8), Maurice Spears (tracks 2, 4 & 8) – trombone
• Delbert Hill – baritone saxophone, oboe, bassoon, tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 4 & 8)
• Willie Henderson – baritone saxophone (track 5)
• Edmund Lee Bauer, Sol Bobrov, E. Zlatoff Mirsky – violin (track 5)
• Bruce K. Hayden, Harold H. Kupper – viola (track 5)
• Karl B. Fruh – cello (track 5)
• Vivian Harrell, Marilyn Haywood, Mary Ann Stewart, Stephana Loeb, Karen Patterson, Nancy Shanks – vocals
• Gerald Lee – arranger