I don't think you're over-reacting at all. I also think that him/her being obese wasn't the only "signal" that your mind picked up on - It might just be the flag you were consciously aware of.
My personal belief is that people are intuitively very accurate; especially when sizing up people. Even if a person wasn't obese, if my intuition told me that this person wasn't living the level of vibrancy/level of life than I want in someone who's giving me advice, then I won't be taking advice from that person.
If the person was obese, but you got the sense that this was a powerful, successful person, would your "judgements" have still been the same?
That said, I've found most career counselors to be useless. If their counsel was any good, why are they making 40K a year working for the school district? (By choice or accident?)
My 2 cents.
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