A good guide in many cases, is what your grandparents looked like when they were your age. As we’ve gotten more overweight and obese, we may think that “obese” is normal.
Another new article shows this:
…we examined obese subjects (N=2056) from the Dallas Heart Study (DHS)… The sample-weight adjusted prevalence of body size misperception among obese Dallas County adults was 8%. Misperception was significantly more common among African American (14%) and Hispanic (11%) than white subjects.