"I'm going to start eating better this week." "I'm going to start a new diet on Monday," he says on Sunday night, to justify why he is eating hoards of junk food to 'get rid of it' for his diet. "I really want to start eating better," he says to his family over facetime, with a pint in one hand. "Yeah, I'm starting my diet this week so I have to make healthy food for breakfast tomorrow," he says while cooking a large ham and cheese omelette in a pan of butter. "I really want to go to that gym, but I'm just so tired after work," he says. "If you want to go to the gym, I'll go with you. It's easier when you have someone to go with," I say, testing the waters. He makes a non-committal grunt, and continues to eat his second plate of dinner. He never went to the gym. I expected as much. I'm a backpacker, staying in a house with 8 other backpackers. One of them is a fatty. Short, wide, who is always ready to start a new diet. But only on Monday, because that's the start of the week and therefor a good time to start other things like diets. Starting right now? Today? No way!!! I have to eat up all the sugary crap I've bought myself first! Otherwise I might eat it on my diet, and THAT would be bad! (Just goes to show fatties don't think junk food is a bad thing unless you're actively on a diet, otherwise it's just normal food to them.) Every week for the past three months that we have been in this house, he has proclaimed that he's starting a diet that week. He's nearly thirty if he isn't already, so he's probably been saying this for ten years by now. I'm not buying it. He's not going anywhere, he's never dieting. He's just always going to be stuck on the mobius strip of fatness, looping around the same excuses and the same "I'll start tomorrow" justifications. He complains and makes proclamations enough to make the unwary think he's actually trying, but trying is the one thing he's never actually done. He is only one of many fatties I have seen who gets themselves stuck in a loop of planning for a better life, while never actually working on it. I'm going to start calling this phenomenon the Morbidus Strip.