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I was recently lucky enough to have an extended stay in Spain and France -- places where I'm considered large in every sense, both uncommonly tall and pretty darn chubby. At first I noticed the general thinness of the population but I became accustomed to it. Towards the end of the trip I did see one obese woman, and seeing her made me realize she was the ONLY one I'd seen the whole trip.
When I landed back in the States I was amazed by the number of people on a subway car (8 out of 12, I counted) who looked downright fat. Both men and women. Before this trip and being surrounded by people with BMI's probably between 20 and 22, I don't think I would have noticed that all those people on the train were probably in the range of BMI 28-30. I expect that if you had talked to them, most would have said they were overwieght but healthy. Bla bla bla about overweight and healthy. Fat! We need to recognize that we're simply too fat. I can't help but wonder if our national psychosis about being thin has to do with the fact that so many of us are so overweight. If we had a healthy relationship with food and weight, we could stop obsessing about it.
At the risk of sounding smug -- I think Fast-5 is a wonderful method for managing my relationship with food, regaining control, and hopefully even losing some of this darn weight (yes, I'm one of the fat ones).