I've found it's best just to never bring up someone's appearance unless it's a compliment or it's a hygiene/work issue. Otherwise commenting on appearance seems to never actually help especially if you aren't in a close relationship with the person.
I've had close friendships with all different races and sizes of people, when asked how I can be so close with a group of people that are different racially or body figure wise I respond with that I never ever comment on the differences. Hanging with a group of overweight people I would never bring up anything on the topic, with a group of african americans race never came up once in 4 years. The thing is being considerate, you want to get someone overweight in shape buy them some healthy food and drive them to the gym otherwise it's probably better just not to say anything most of the time.
With certain things it's ok like mentioning if someone is missing an obvious social cue or something like that but otherwise I say keep it to yourself. So Thor is overweight maybe? Actually help him with support or stay silent, I don't see any other productive use of efforts. Saying someone is just lazy might actually be true but it doesn't help, it makes things worse. If you tell someone over and over they are one thing they will start to believe it and more and more resemble that feature, by criticizing something you only reinforce it most of the time especially if there is no support or plan towards a solution.
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