What about when not losing is not an option?

[Guest guest]

Good Morning All,

I’ve had this questioning bouncing around in my head

the past few days. I’ve ordered Bacon’s book, have read

Intuitive Eating and the various postings on here about accepting our bodies

and understanding that we may or may not lose weight. And, for the

moderately overweight people around here I applaud that. But what about

for the 330lb 31 year old with Type 2 Diabetes? If I don’t lose

weight I’m going to die very prematurely. Logic tells me that if I follow

this process and live within what my body really wants it’ll make itself

very clear that it doesn’t want to be 330lb and request food in

quantities that reduces its size. But, knowing I’m living inside of

a ticking time bomb makes it harder to accept my size than it would if I was

just dissatisfied with my appearance. I don’t mean to diminish the

concerns of those who are less overweight than me because I know weight is a

very emotional issue for many people.

Jon