
Originally Posted by
Juggernaut
I've never been morbidly obeses but I've always been fat. You use humor, even attacks on ones self, to help fit in or make friends. It can be rough going through life as a fat person, especially when you are young. Heck, I'm a lot lighter now than I was three years ago and I still crack jokes as though I was still fat......well I'm still heavier than most people so it's not much of a streach.
I take it he's been fat all his life? Unless he wants to change theirs no amount of adive or help you can offer to make him change his ways. But I do encourage you to keep reminding him now and then he can make a change if he's willing to make the effort. There are a couple of people here at work I always offer to help out if they ever decide to do something.
Don't berate him if you can help it. To us fat people, food is our closest freind and when down it becomes a crutch. The more depressed, the more we eat, the more weight we gian, the more depressed we get............never ending cycle and hard to break.
Keep tossing him the life saver......he might reach out for it one day.