Gaunt?

The in-laws have come to stay for a few days. My father-in-law was very complimentary about my weight loss but my mother-in-law said I looked gaunt. Gaunt? Hardly. I look normal with a rather porky tum and large boobs, not gaunt!

I think that perhaps she has normalised obesity. She herself is perhaps slightly overweight at most but my father-in-law, sister-in-law and many of her friends are far more obese than I was when I started. Maybe she sees obese people around her so much she sees that as normal.

As a society I think this is happening more and more, especially where I live in Lancashire - pies, curry or fish and chips are a normal dinner here! A slim person walking around town is the exception not the rule, even the kids. I only noticed this when my dad who lives in north London came for a visit and commented how many fat people there seemed to be in town, I looked and compared it to my parents neck of the woods and it was true that the average weight seemed far higher in my little town. Maybe that contributed to the way I let my weight creep up, it did not look out of place.

Anyway my BMI is 24 which I think is healthy NOT gaunt so I'm not worried.