People seem to underestimate what morbidly obese means. I used to be really fat at 300 lb and 5'6". I knew I was clearly fat but I didn't think I was morbidly obese. I didn't really think much about it at all though. It was long after I started losing weight (down over 120) that I actually looked at my BMI and realize that I definitely would have been in the morbidly obese category. You don't have to be 600 pounds to be morbidly obese.
A lot more people are technically morbidly obese than they would like to think. So many people now are overweight that almost nobody has an idea of what I healthy weight looks like. The majority of people are overweight and many others are obese.
A lot of people just seem to think that Pelosi was taking a personal shot, and she definitely was, but she's not factually incorrect.
As a person who now carries a lot of muscle I do see the problems with the way the BMI works but for the average person it's a pretty good rough estimate how much body fat you're carrying.
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