My Morbidly Obese Friend Hello, I just want to start this with a disclaimer that I'm just getting this off my chest. My best friend, let's call him Bob, is great. He's funny, likable, and tech-savvy. But apart from that there's nothing else that comes to mind. He's very fat, I mean very fat. He's not chubby, he's very obese. He's about 5'7 and 300 or so pounds. I'm like 5'11 and 160 pounds (possibly less, I've been very consistent with diet and have only grown taller). I love him as a friend (no homo), but he's embarrassing to be around. He's not athletic or discernibly good in school, and spend most of his time grinding in video games. I too, grind in video games, but I exercise SO much. He could tell you so much about games and computers, but can't do much physical besides light lifting of my computer parts.It just makes me sad how it's almost like wasted potential. He's recently fallen far behind in School. I only have him in Spanish but he never does his homework and whenever he's asked about what he did over the weekend, he always says that he played video games with me. I cringe whenever he says that because I kinda don't want to be associated with him because of how disgusting he is. I can only imagine how bad he's doing in other classes. Here's where I express my criticisms of his physical and psychological nature. He's very fat, he has double (maybe more) chins, doesn't shave, doesn't fix his long hair, wears pretty much the same clothes everyday, and is an overall obstruction. In class when he used to sit in front of me, it was near impossible for me to get to my seat because he's bulging outward SO much; same thing happens when I try to sit with him on the bus. He has very bad manners and it's disgusting, Firstly because he's so fat he breathes insanely loud, and second is how he just carries himself. I've spent the night at his house a lot and will sometimes glimpse him lifting his shirt and itching his flabs that are decaled with stretch marks. I mean I have SHITTY allergies, but I don't try to make it obvious when I wipe my nose! In all this, he still is a good friend, and I really want him to change, even if I joined him in his exercises as motivation. He's expressed wanting to lose weight in the past, and I want to take him up on it. Wish me luck. Don't ban me for sympathy, that's not what this is. This is me getting my annoyances off my chest and trying to make someone healthy.