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[quote=Anonymous]We spent Christmas break with my brother in NYC. I see him a couple of times a year but we speak on the phone every week. He's a sweet guy, with a good job, a great apartment and lots of interesting travel. He's supersmart but has never - I really mean never - had any significant partner in his life, at least that I'm aware of. He's always been defensively private about his life, and there's lots I really don't know about him, even though he's just a couple of years older than me. I've long suspected he's on the spectrum, but it clearly hasn't stopped him living a full, and to some, enviable life. Our parents are dead and even though I'm "little sister" I feel very protective towards him. Lately he has put on a huge amount of weight. He's now in his early 50s and I worry about the effect this will have on him. Our dad died of heart attack at 62 - although he was a smoker rather than overweight. For his birthday this year I bought him a Fitbit and he loved it - the tech appeals to his geeky side - and I thought that he had toned up some when I saw him a couple of months later. But I was really shocked when I saw him again just last week - he has put all the weight back on, and then some. I was actually pretty disgusted at times at the amount of food he was consuming. I know that Christmas is usually a period of overindulgence, but his second and third helpings of food, snacks etc was really worrying. 
He's an adult and living life the way he wants - but it really does worry me. Should it? Or is there some way I can nudge him into taking stock of where he is heading?
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