My family is threatening to give up on me if I don't change my eating habits and weight. Why are they doing this?

My doctor got in my face and called me out for not following the diet plan and exercise. My aunt bluntly told me I don't give a damn about myself and the only thing I care about is whatever I put I my mouth and not watching it. She called me out on my lies and dragging my mom's depression along and Im an adult and I should be blaming myself and she is done arguing with me. She had tears in her eyes because I'm stuffing myself getting fatter. My older brother even said im being selfish for not listening to them and they give a damn but I'm ignoring their concern and kept studding myself with junkfood an now I have type 1 DIABETIES. They threatened to give up if I don't do something. I'm 5'11 and 326lbs. Why is my family being tough on me? I'm just a child. Well 29.

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curiosi · 61-69, F

Elizabeth Gilbert posted this on her blog..................The other day, I asked my dear friend Rayya Elias (who wrote the memoir "Harley Loco" about her years of heroin addiction) if — looking back on the pain and suffering of her life — she could imagine any scenario under which she could have gotten clean and sober earlier. I was imagining that maybe if she'd been sent to the right rehab, or had found a more kindly therapist, or had been told just the right words of encouragement by a wise former junkie, or had been rescued by the right family member…maybe she could have spared herself years of addiction and pain. Rayya's answer initially shocked me, and then made perfect sense. She said: "The only way I could've quit drugs sooner would have been if everyone had abandoned me sooner."