Linz - can I just ask one cheeky question - and you certainly don't have to answer it... just maybe "think on it"?
Are you ok with the fact that you may never again be able to eat a blow out meal, say, at Christmas? That's what I couldn't get my head round, when WLS was suggested at one point to me - in fact, while losing my weight, I was asked several times whether I had a gastric band!
Re your diabetes... if you were to lose the weight "naturally", might there be incidental benefits to your diabetes too? (or not!)...
Just a couple of things which popped into my mmind