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Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

I stand by what I said; someone who is overweight doesn't "not know" that they're overweight, and certainly someone who is obese (as you say obesity is a diagnosis - which is not the same as overweight) knows that their weight is "not healthy". The only reason a doctor needs to mention it, is to tell them that it's affecting their health in a specific way (e.g. diabetes, their joints, heart, high blood pressure, fatty organs) or to make sure that they're aware that it puts them at higher risk of those things.

It’s a catch-22 situation when someone needs the medication to control their symptoms of some health problem or other but the medication makes them gain too much weight, which isn’t ideal if they’re already overweight or st least close to it. Sometimes it’s more the inverse of what you’re talking about and it’s having those conditions in the first place that put them at higher risk of being overweight, because medication can cause that side-effect.