My company's main tech guy, has high blood pressure and a waist that just keeps on increasing. Yesterday, he was complaining about his zipper not closing easily. I've told him several times. Cut back on your eating. Skipping a meal or eating something light for dinner isn't going to destroy you or harm you permanently. Few weeks back, his blood pressure shot to 220 on eating pizza from Pizza Hut. His excuse is that high blood pressure runs in his family.
It's not possible to help these people if they refuse to help themselves. Yesterday, my pants were feeling pretty tight. Last night, I jogged in place for several minutes until my feet started to ache a bit. I also did a fair number of squats at least three different times. Today, I was surprised to see that I could hook my pants much more easily. So the exercise may not have burned off a lot of calories during the act of doing it but it revved up my metabolism enough to force it to go into overdrive, burning more calories than usual even during my sleep.