The phrase 'has been overweight' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a person who is currently overweight but has been overweight for a while. For example, "John has been overweight since his teenage years."
25 Minutes, and It's Done Ms. Gofman has been overweight for almost as long as she can remember.
Sometime during each meeting, Ms. Evans usually shares something of what she calls her own "checkered past" -- she has been overweight since childhood, weighing 166 pounds in sixth grade -- and she carries along a picture of herself, pre-weight-loss, as a regular prop.
But our Insiders Plus portfolio has been overweight on energy for 18 month, and it has done spectacularly.
Hannah, 24, says she has been overweight for as long as she can remember.
Alan has been overweight since he was 6 years old and never experienced a day without ravenous hunger.
A further identified indicator, regarding referral to a weight-loss programme if a person has been overweight for 3 years or more, would be less feasible and desirable, due to greater difficulty establishing the denominator population.
She had been overweight, too, had high blood pressure and suffered from depression.
GATES: If Chris Farley had been black do you think he still would have been overweight?
I'm average in looks but have been overweight for years.
As a young girl, Rebecca had been overweight and overly furred, with a mustache, thick arm hair, heavy brows; other children had called her Ape Face.
She had been overweight and frumpy until her senior year of high school, when she started dieting, and Mr. Schiavo was her first boyfriend, her family said.
