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ALBERT - If I am obese in this life, is my spirit a normal size? Will my resurrected body be obese also?
JOEL - According to the Book of Mormon in the resurection the body will be changed so it is no longer subject to disease or death (3 Ne 28:30-40, Alma 11:44). Since obesity can be caused by some kind of disease or metabolic disfunction or even a psychological dysfunction, it is possible that condition could change for the better after we are resurrected.
Brigham Young said, "At the sound of the trumpet of God every particle of our physical structures necessary to make our tabernacles perfect will be assembled, to be rejoined with the spirit, every man in his order. No one particle will be lost." (Brigham Young in a sermon delivered in 1875) ("The Resurrection," Elder's Journal, July 1904, p. 153)
Joseph Fielding Smith said, "The question is frequently discussed ... whether or not a body will come forth deformed, if deformed in this mortal life; or with some part missing, such as if a limb, or other part was lost while in mortal life. The answer has been given in the most emphatic and positive manner in the scriptures. The mortal body will not grow in the grave, for that is contrary to nature. So each body will come forth the same stature as when laid in the earth. Children will rise as they were laid away, but after the resurrection their bodies will grow to the full stature of their spirits. Deformities will be erased and in the resurrection will be made whole."
Joseph F. Smith said that the resurrected person will "be the same person we knew... in our mortal existence, even to the wounds in the flesh. Not that a person will always be marred by scars, wounds, deformities, defects, or infirmities, for these will be removed in their course, in the proper time. Defects will be eliminated and men and women shall attain to that perfection of their spirits, to the perfection that God designed in the beginning."
You can interpret that as you will.
We have been told that our spirits have always been in adult form even when we were babies in this life.President Joseph Fielding Smith said:
“We were all mature spirits before we were born; and the bodies of little children will grow after the resurrection to the full stature of the spirit,” (Gospel Doctrine, pp. 455-56.)
One might ask what does a perfection of our spirits look like as Joseph F Smith said? What if our bodies were obese from childhood as a result of genetics and not disease or metabolic disfunction? Does our adult and perfected spirit also look obese to match what our mortal bodies look like? If we were obese all our life will our bodies change some time after the resurrection to a normal size?I don't know. But in the next life we somehow will still be identifiable to those who know and love us.Regardless of how our bodies look when we are resurrected and are exalted, we will be perfectly happy with what we have and there will be no harsh judgments because of it by God or others or ourselves.
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