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Its hard to watch a loved one gain more and more weight when theyve been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Losing weight may save eyesight, a limb or a life, but that may not make sticking to a diet possible.

Sadly there are too many stories of losing a loved one who needed to lose weight to save their life literally needed to lose weight to save their life. It seems hard to understand how a disease that puts ones life at risk and could be reversed or at least managed by weight loss, isnt motivation enough for successful weight loss. No matter how much they tried to get their family member to lose weight to save their life, they couldnt do it.

Threats dont work. Dire predictions dont work. Anger and disgust dont work. Bribes dont work, at least not long enough to make a difference. There is something that can make a difference. Its empathy.

Empathy isnt sympathy. Being empathic is feeling with the person. Sympathy is feeling for the person. Empathy can empower. Sympathy can further disable. Sympathy is accepting the condition is permanent. Empathy is knowing how hard it is to lose weight and understanding the challenges the other person faces. The understanding is how you can help them overcome them.

Empathy is experiencing another persons condition from their perspective. In other words, you open up your mind to imagine yourself as if you were them.You feel what they are feeling. Its not, if I were you. Its I am you.

Before you stop reading this because you think its a bunch of psychobabble, let me put the theory of empathy into a practical application.

Sympathy

Empathy

Empathy isnt about pity parties. Its not joining somebody in their despair. Its understanding their condition and using that understanding to work with them, where they are, to move forward. Its helping somebody decide what they want, how they can get it, and getting assurance that they can and will.

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