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Prolonged obesity will shorten your life.

The results of the Framingham Heart Study of 3457 subjects published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2003, showed the impact of being overweight and/or obese:
Years of Life Lost (YLL)
 
Overweight
Obese
40yr. female nonsmoker
3.3
7.1
40yr. male nonsmoker
3.1
5.8
Smoker female
7.2

Smoker male
(compared to normal weight smokers)
6.7
Smoker female
13.3
Smoker male
(compared to normal weight nonsmokers)
13.7

Additional information published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that same year revealed even greater loss of life years for morbidly obese individuals:
Morbidly Obese
YYL

White men, 20-30yr.
13

White females
8

Black young males
20

Black young females
5