I love the sketch in Little Miss Jocelyn with the obesity nurse and her range of charts- very funny.

When we went to the States a few years back we were amazed to see so many hugely overweight people, and I mean very large indeed. I have rarely seen this here.
It is not very hard to qualify as ' obese' in the UK with the one size fits all ( Ha ha) BMI charts which dont really adjust for muscle or bone type. I know women who seem thin to me but who are deemed obese or overweight. But them I am probably deceiving myself about a lot of things...