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Table 3 (Quotes)

From: "Obesity" and "Clinical Obesity" Men's understandings of obesity and its relation to the risk of diabetes: A qualitative study

Obesity and excess weight

1.1 "I have always had this sort of stigma, obese people being sort of round shapes with legs" (Mark, line 35–36); and, "Very large waist, you know, very, very big arms at the top, not so wide at the bottom, just looks oversized or inflated, somebody whose general appearance looked like an inflated balloon". (Jim, line 39–41).

1.2 "to me obese is, is not what I am [BMI 32], its basically these people who are a lot larger and basically, fat, I mean where you can actually see physically not a lot of muscle, so stocky and things like that, so to me obesity is that." (Jack, line 18–21)

1.3 "but I think it is somebody who maybe is too overweight to do any sort of normal physical exercise and by that would mean, if you are too overweight that you can't run or jog" (George, line 31–33)

1.4 "I mean, I am overweight, but I wouldn't say I was overweight you know, ...(Chris, line 39) I probably look better than I did a few years ago when I was less weighty you know, because I have filled out etc you know, because I mean for years I was always 11 1/2 stone, until maybe about 5 year ago and then I just you know, the thirties start and I just went "poof", so either like you know I see myself much nicer ..." (Chris, line 53–57)

1.5 "...I suppose maybe it's not directly answering the question. What I don't think is a normal look, is when people strive to be stick thin and, well it's slightly different for men, but for women, strive to be a size, sort of two sizes smaller than what they actually should be... " (Peter, line 39–42)