My parents are fat as well, my mother doesn't accept it - wants to "lose weight without changing anything", yet rejects any advice she has asked. Honestly I am saving money for the sole purpose of expecting my parents to die, or slowly die, in the next decade. They are overweight and smoke. They are dying in a short time frame. My grandparents died from bad genetic luck and extensive smoking. It's funny you mention "not that fat", My fat roommate discussing women (in a derogatory manner he doesn't grasp) and in a way where he considers "an average normal girl" who is fucking obese. He's not a blob, but he is by definition obese and thinks obese is something else. The skew within society is unbelievable and now a pro-fat movement is gaining social acceptance, it is infuriating. My hope is that this century will look back on obesity as we view smoking.