Excuses Excuses... So I posted a comment in someone's post before about a co-worker who can't hold a conversation without getting out of breath.  Well today he's in the kitchen eating a homemade "healthy" meal made up of 95% sauced up rice and 5% veggies from the freezer section that is large enough to feed two normal humans.  He's conversing with a female co-worker about how being so sedentary at the workplace has made him gain his weight.  I'm listening as I'm making my lunch, but don't say anything.   He then goes on to explain that he started spending 25 minutes walking at the gym and how he's going to see all these trainers in the upcoming month.  The female co-worker proceeds to praise him for his efforts.  I roll my eyes because the female co-worker and I sit the same amount as him and are both healthy, but I continue to listen.  There's some back and forth dribble and great places to walk outdoors and fat co-worker basically shoots every suggestion down with stupid excuses like: It's too hot during the afternoon. Every time I try that it rains. There are so many wild animals out that early in the morning. The commute to get there is just too long. I don't have time after I do _____ after work. Finally, I chimed in, "Can I just say something?"  My face was red because I've never said anything to anyone about their weight before, but I was annoyed by how quickly my co-worker shot every suggestion down.  "Yeah sure!" said the female co-worker.  The fat co-worker sort of blankly stared at me.  "Well, I hope you know that losing weight is like 80% diet and 20% exercise.  You could actually not exercise at all and still lose weight."  I see the female co-worker get a little uncomfortable, but nods in agreement, which I take as a "yes, I was enabling our fat co-worker because I didn't want to hurt his feelings."   The fat co-worker then tells me, "well it isn't that easy for me..." and I cut him off and say, "I know you're diabetic and I have plenty of friends who are diabetic and are perfectly healthy.  One doesn't even exercise regularly."  He snapped back with, "well no diabetic doctor would tell you that's healthy," to which I replied, "my point is that your diet is the biggest key here."  The female co-worker has stealthily made her way toward one door to exit the kitchen but is very timidly listening to the conversation that is ensuing.  The whole time she stands there in silence, gently nodding at everything I say. "Well, there's another thing too.  Insulin makes you gain weight," he quietly chuckled.  The female co-worker takes that as her cue to leave and says, "well guys, I guess I should get some work done."  I was so frustrated at that point because of my fat co-worker's denial that I simply said, "yup." and walked away.   Had the female co-worker not have been one of the VP's of our company, I might have been a little more truthful to the sack of shit that blames his shitty lifestyle and diabetes for his excessive 200+ pounds. tl;dr: Fat co-worker bitches about weight gain.  Shoots down all suggestions for exercise.  Too stupid to attribute it to gluttonous eating and blames diabetes and sedentary work environment instead. /story