Wow I wonder what monastary. The one I go to there are no fat people that I can remember. They only have one meal a day there. This is the Thai Vipassana model.
But it's pretty funny they are allowed to eat chocolate and cheese because of some kind of technicality of it being considered medicine on the "Thai tradition. Most of them have to use their physical bodies quite a lot to climb the hill up to there little cabins and all the work that has to be done. Duriong the all night meditations at the moon phases they will pass around big trays of the stuff.... and of course tea.
They don't have tv there - it's pretty peaceful and lovely actually. Rminds me that I should go up for a weekend soon - I really need it!