actually, I think they are on our side.  In addition to most of those who are overweight and obese, others falling into the overfat category include normal-weight people with increased abdominal fat, and those with a condition called “normal-weight metabolic obesity” — with those who exercise regularly falling into one or more of these categories.  so if you are skinny fat, or just a bit fat but very hight fat body %, you may not be "obese" but you can be "overfat" and as such should reduce your body fat %.