Interesting essay on fat acceptance and diabetes. How the latter can shake up the former... and how one person sorted out the muddle. Neat.

In August of 1996, I was diagnosed as a Type II diabetic. After recovering from the initial shock and disappointment, I went about the task of adjusting my life-style to deal with this disease.

Some of the advice I got, and some of the arguments I read, encouraged me to try to lose weight. I considered them. I really did. I had embraced the idea of fat acceptance before this. I believed that for most people, losing weight was an ill-considered and dangerous preoccupation. But, this was a special case, wasn't it?

Wasn't it?

After a great deal of consideration and research, I decided that any attempt at weight loss on my part would be an enormous mistake. I'd like to share my reasons for this decision.