Things can be much worse than with me. At least I am white and there are a lot of fat white people, just as there are a lot of fat Hispanics and Blacks. But not Asians. Asians are normally thin.

I have a colleague, Chris, who is very fat. His fat is outside of this chair when Chris sits. He also has a double chin. So his situation is far worse than mine. But he is doing OK, working, raising a small child with his wife (so, I conclude, they must have an active sex life or at least had had until very recently).

We were in meeting together and we talked about diet while waiting for other people to join. He is on a "caveman diet", but he eats rice since rice is what he has been culturally brought up to eat. He must be an American born Asian person (I am bad telling the specific ethnicities so I am not even trying to guess it) because he does not have an accent. I shared that I eat a low carbohydrate diet which to some extent is similar to the "caveman diet" but less restrictive, and I do not eat wheat to the extent I can help it, but eat rye daily because that is what I have been culturally brought up to eat. You cannot give up eating something that is culturally important to you, we found.

It must be really hard for him because being fat is so unusual given his cultural background.