I play football, and aside from training 2 times per week and a game on the weekend, I do very little in the way of actual exercise. Though I walk a decent amount as I rely on public transport. My diets ok, but not great, my daily sausage roll morning tea will attest to that.

So I disagree that it always takes hard work. i also know lots of skinny people who have atrocious diets, but are skinny. I also know of many people who eat really well, much better than me, and exercise regularly, and are still overweight (though usually not obese).

Moreover, many studies have now proved that being 10 – 13kgs overweight has little to do with extra health related illnesses, and in many cases decreases some illnesses. In particular, Cardiovascular disease is more likely to correlate to your waist size than your weight, so if you are within your BMI, but hold weight around your waist area (which many post-partum women do for example) you are more likely to have Cardiovascular disease, than your heavy but smaller waist sized counterparts.

FTR, overweight/fat/chubby is very different to obese and morbidly obese.

I also assume that those ‘strong inner qualities’ that DanielR speaks of, aren’t spelling, grammar or sentence structure.