I've always understood "fat chance" to be ironic, so I'm sticking to my preferred chance being morbidly obese
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"fat chance (of that happening)" is always sarcasm
So the answer is "massively overweight"
Morbidly. I.e, seriously and not ironically fat
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I can only ever succeed if the odds are stacked, that says something about me but I'm not sure what
Well since BMI is a horrible metric for anything it really doesn't matter.
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Oh no problem, buff baddie that’s gonna work out.
"The chances are in-shape and visit the gym at least 3 times a week"
“There’s a dad-bod chance of that happening”