Fat people who deny their plus size

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Like many midlife adults, Ken Holmes noticed that the toned abs of his 20s had billowed into a fistful of flab. He blamed long drives from his Sunset District home to jobs as a program consultant in Silicon Valley and the East Bay, together with extended workdays spent deskbound tinkering with software. In his childless days, Holmes would have offset these sedentary periods with frequent punishing workouts. But now with two elementary-school-age children, the gym was relegated to the back burner.

Still, Holmes was taken aback to discover that his weight had gone from being comfortably centered in the "normal weight" zone of the government's weight charts to nudging the "overweight" section. "In my mind I wasn't that fat guy," he says.

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