I think being fat would be kinda hard for most people, even if they aspired to it.

For one, most (sustainable) food is unprocessed (albeit mutated) - no added sugars/corn-syrup. It's also more fibrous, making it more filling for less calories.

Second, food is not available in excess for most of the Commonwealth. You have to earn the right to eat in most places, especially since a lot of the food is too infected or irradiated to safely consume (regardless of how mysteriously plentiful Fancy Lads is after 210 years).

And three, physical activity would be much higher post-apoc. Whether you're walking long distance as a courier or scavver, doing manual labour as a farmer or mechanic, patrolling as a guard, or actively hunting the wastes - you don't have the luxury of sitting in one place waiting for pizza to be delivered.

The only place I think you'd see more hefty people would be in functional vaults, since they one, are stocked with Pre-War resources; two, have mechanically-/computer-controlled growlabs designed to support their population; and three, will include professions that don't expect much physical movement (most notably, desk jobs). And I do remember seeing a man in 81 that met that expectation.

People in FO4 are not fat because Raiders kidnap the fat ones, use a type of liposuction on them to extract their fat, and then turn it into homemade soap. Now if they would only use the soap...

Are you sure? I seem to have a kitchen stocked with food.

Plus, have you seen the calories in Mirelurk cakes? My goodness, goes straight to my hips!

McNamara is plus size. Nowhere close to being fat.

There are in fact fat people in fallout 4. And I must say. It took me back.. Or I had to pause as i just could not get over it.

She's all kindsa woman.

Fat people were eaten up. Makes ghouls and deathclaws fat and happy.

Lucas the clothing vendor is pretty much a fatty. Laugh every time I see him because he's so out of place. A survival culture is typically not on the rotund side. Being a chubbo would be the exception I would imagine. Not only that, I'll bet those few exceptions are the trophy bucks of the super mutant hunt.

Whenever I encounter him, he's always sitting down.

Yep. It's like the old joke- you don't have to run faster than the deathclaw, you just have to run faster than yer buddy, Fat Freddy.

Yeah, he's worn out hauling that big --- around I would imagine. LOL.

Speaking of Lucas, I've seen him, and felt like I've had to save him, in more random fire fights than I can remember. I swear the dude follows me around. Probably makes sense since I'm his best/only customer.

Guy that walks around the main room of vault 81 is a fatty boom boom haha. he's the only one I've noticed so far tho

I've seen like two fat people. Both are in that Vault with all the hard working people. Think it was Vault 81 or something.

Also-

Being eaten by cannibals.

They should last a week for an average waste lander.

For a family of cannibals with 2 children, 3 to 4 days.