New Yorkers are obese? Says who?

Who you calling fat?

About 1 million adult New Yorkers are obese, but nearly two-thirds of them don’t think they are, according to a study released last week by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Among the obese, who account for about one in five New Yorkers, only 39% described themselves as “very overweight,” according to the report.

Two percent said they were very underweight; 1% said they were slightly underweight, 16% said they were just right and 42% said they were slightly overweight. New York City’s adult obesity rate was 20% in 2003 compared with 23% nationwide in 2004. The national average has nearly doubled from 12% in 1993, the report said.