My friend Mary has put a lot of weight recently. I've told her she should give eating chocolate, but she won't listen. The trouble is that she spends too much time at home, doing nothing, just messing [?] and she always ends in the kitchen, her favourite room.

Poor Mary, she just can't help it. She know she has to cut on sweets and stuff like that, but it's easier said than done. She should at least go for a walk now and then to burn some calories, but even that is proving too much for her - I think she's becoming a couch potato.

Last year, she decided to go on a diet just before the summer. I suggested she should take some kind of exercise, to help her lose weight quickly, but she wouldn't have it. She said exercise was not her thing and it would be counterproductive anyway, because she wanted to take weight, not build her muscles.


I'm not surprised. Trust Mary to come with any excuse to get of doing anything. She's always been like that.

In the end, she was on a diet for a couple of days and then she went to her old routine - stuffing her face all the time. I've given hope already. She will never change.