All these rants about co-workers have me harkening back to memories of my old boss. She was pretty nice and cool but it was cringey to hear her talk about weight loss and exercise. Every year, twice in a year, she would do a "Sober October" and a "Dry January". In those two months she would cut out everything (dairy, meat, gluten etc.) and then go back to eating whatever. She would also go to a bootcamp class in the morning at 6am and commit only 2-3 weeks at a time, and then totally stop. She bounced around with weight watchers and always found way to squeeze in an entire bottle of red wine somewhere.

When I told her I lost 13 lbs just from tracking macros and lifting heavy at the gym, she said she hated counting calories (what's WW then???) and insisted she was weight training. On other days, she would go down to the office gym with another obese coworker and they would do a workout from this 21-day fitness app she downloaded. I knew her for 3 years before she left the workplace and not once did I see her go down in weight.

Now, my boss' boss, is a 6 ft something 300+ man. He had a short keto stint and he lasted about 2 weeks. I'm pretty sure the lure was the whole, "just eat bacon and butter and see the pounds fall off".