Does this fur make my bum look fat?

So, my cat, Gabriel, is on a diet. He has been since December. The little porker has gone from weighing a mere 8 pounds when we adopted him 4 years ago, to weighing a hefty 16 in December. No matter what I do, that darn cat just keeps packing on the pounds. I've restricted his food to the point that he's complained to the local chapter of the cat union that I'm starving him. That didn't work. I've played cat games with him, which isn't exactly easy. Have YOU ever tried to get a cat to exercise? It's like asking a dog not to eat his own poop. It's statistically impossible. But I try because I don't want Gabe to end up with all sorts of health problems as he gets older. Still, nothing has worked.

So my vet had another idea. Apparently, the new line of thinking of veterinarians is that cats----especially lazy indoor ones like mine-------eat only wet cat food. Dry cat food has too many carbs, and lazy cats like mine can't process them properly, leading to weight gain. It's called the Catkins Diet. Seriously. I know, I know. I laughed my butt off when the vet referred to it as this, because I never thought I'd see the day cats would have their own version of the Atkins diet. So I started him on canned cat food, feeding him only enough to make a 12 pound cat happy---which is his goal weight. Needless to say, after nearly 4 months of this, Gabe has gained another pound. :(

At this point, I'm ready to try my own kind of diet. I call it The Connor Berg Weight Loss Plan. It involves putting Gabe and Connor in our spare room (which has no furniture---hence no place for Gabe to hide) and letting Connor chase him until he loses at least 3 pounds. At this point, it couldn't hurt!