are there really that many obese people out there???

[Anonymous]

or are these all 'vanity' orders for semaglutides.

[Anonymous]

Many of us actually obese people are having a hard time getting the drug because of all the vanity prescriptions.

[Anonymous]

2/3 or 70% of American adults are overweight or obese accd to BMI.

[Anonymous]

Go to other states. I think in the DMV people are much more fit than the rest of the country. I don't want to pick on the midwest or south, but nearly everyone is obese. And obese is just 30lbs more than your ideal weight.

[Anonymous]

More than 20% of American teens are obese. It’s bad out there.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Why do you ask?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More than 20% of American teens are obese. It’s bad out there.

I bet our elementary school is higher than that.

What was shocking looking at my class pictures from my elementary school ages was how skinny everyone was! I always felt like the chubby kid, but I'd be below average now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to other states. I think in the DMV people are much more fit than the rest of the country. I don't want to pick on the midwest or south, but nearly everyone is obese. And obese is just 30lbs more than your ideal weight.

Yes, I think people sometimes have this idea of what obese looks like, but someone who is 5’7” and obese at 195 is not going to look that huge, really (especially if your mental image is 300+).

[Anonymous]

I think many people who are obese are in denial and think they are just a little fat. I have seen this in a lot of my family members.

[Anonymous]

You might be surprised at what counts as clinically obese. At 5’8” and age 19, I was borderline clinically obese at 150 pounds. This was taken during a college exercise course.

But yes, Americans have a weight problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to other states. I think in the DMV people are much more fit than the rest of the country. I don't want to pick on the midwest or south, but nearly everyone is obese. And obese is just 30lbs more than your ideal weight.

This is incorrect. I’m 5”6. To be obese, I’d need to be 186+ lbs according to the BMI chart. “Ideal weight” I guess is subjective but my personal ideal weight is 125-130 lbs and just googling “ideal weight female 5”6” I got a chart that says ideal weight would range 117-143 lbs. so by either measure 186 or “obese” is 40+ lbs above my ideal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might be surprised at what counts as clinically obese. At 5’8” and age 19, I was borderline clinically obese at 150 pounds. This was taken during a college exercise course.

But yes, Americans have a weight problem.

This is like 1/2 of the problem with Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might be surprised at what counts as clinically obese. At 5’8” and age 19, I was borderline clinically obese at 150 pounds. This was taken during a college exercise course.

But yes, Americans have a weight problem.

What on earth are you talking about? Clinically obese for someone 5”8 is 197+ lbs. 150 lbs at 5”8 isn’t even clinically overweight for that height let alone anywhere close to clinically obese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might be surprised at what counts as clinically obese. At 5’8” and age 19, I was borderline clinically obese at 150 pounds. This was taken during a college exercise course.

But yes, Americans have a weight problem.

By what metric? Certainly not BMI, because those numbers result in a BMI of 23…. Did you have some sort of body composition test?

[Anonymous]

The most obese states:
West Virginia
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Ohio
Alabama
Indiana
Delaware
Kentucky
^^in all of these states, 37-41% of the population is obese