Matt Ryder turned down a client's weight-loss request because of the price, then watched him gain more weight over six months. Ryder regrets not warning him directly about the health risks, arguing that professionals have a duty to give honest feedback even when it's uncomfortable, before a client's choices cause real harm.
And I remember this big fat dude came in. He's like 50 kilos overweight. He's like, I need to lose weight. And I was like, you need this much weight loss, it's gonna cost this much money. And he was sort of like, oh, yep, sweet. I'll get back to you and I'm gonna go think about it. I saw him like 6 months later and the dude was like 70 kilos overweight. And I was like, that was just my inability because that person had shown the glimmer of motivation, right? Because he was there, right? He was there. My job was to create the argument of, hey, how about you do something to not die as fast? And I couldn't do that. So I was like, ah, fuck me. That's on me. If someone is doing something that is antithetical to what they want, then you should tell them and they should have the opportunity opportunity to either, oh, I'll course correct, or like, well, fuck it.
