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I have the opposite history: I was able to stop stressing out about my weight when I realized that, no, I really don't prefer the idea of a thin life devoid of cheesecake and fried things to the life I currently have where I eat whatever I want and am yea big. (This calculation may change if I become more than yea big with age.) Making this tradeoff explicit in my head actually helped me uncover a couple of weird self-denial habits that did not make any sense according to any metric (specifically, I was not having all the legumes and fruit I wanted, out of some confused subconscious notion that they were displacing vegetables... but meanwhile I had already abandoned the difficult project of limiting my chocolate intake.)
Throwing in my two cents for the "different things work for different metabolisms" rubric:
Dieting reduces my quality of life. On the other hand, I enjoy exercising. So, although I try to limit myself to eating actual junk food on an occasional basis, I basically eat as much as I want whenever I want, and rely on getting extraordinary* amounts of exercise to achieve the body shape I want. Contrary to what everyone else seems to claim every time this comes up on LW -- that exercise is largely irrelevant to weight and diet is everything -- this works just fine for me. At this point I'm probably about 13-14% body fat and 52-54% lean muscle mass (as a male in his mid-30s).
*Extraordinary by sedentary US standards, that is... around 7-8 hours of strenuous activity per week, plus ~45 minutes every day walking the dog.
Admittedly, I might be able to achieve single digit body fat percentage by really dieting, but it's not at all clear that would actually be healthier, and it would certainly make life less enjoyable.