How do you guys deal with fat fuck excuses? I work as a fitness trainer out of a small gym. I am responsible for building my own client base and sometimes I accept a fatty not only because they tend to give me their money and cancel last-minute or not show up at all, but SOMETIMES I meet a person who genuinely wants to change. So, that should all be past-tense. I am SO FUCKING SICK of fat excuses. For example, I had one client who, if I didn't badger her every day or two to measure her food and get a walk in her insanely busy couch potato schedule after work, she wouldn't bother. I didn't have much hope for her doing anything on her own to begin with (they always sound so motivated at first), but the other day condishuns reared their ugly head. An hour before our session, I get a message: "I just got back from the doctor and she said to take it easy, no heavy lifting." To me, that means, "please modify my program accordingly and I'll see you in an hour." Bitch didn't show up. I sent a message ten minutes into the session time and asked if she was coming, and she said no, I thought you knew what I meant. And that's what gets me - what do you expect to happen with your fat ass if you make every excuse in the book to not do ANYTHING? I used to laugh. Now, after hearing fat excuses on a regular basis for more than three years now, I'm not able to brush it off quite as well as I used to. My clients within the normal BMI range, who have some grasp of proper nutrition and activity requirements, do not make excuses like this. "Take it easy" to them means just about the same as it does to me: "Don't stop doing what you're doing, but you might need to modify for the time being." Aside from unleashing the beast and going all hampire slayer on the fatties that I have to deal with, how do you guys handle these types of excuses?