Reason #87 I'm glad I lost weight

Funerals. 

You know how family events come up and you realize that you are not going to be able to lose fifty pounds in the three days before the event occurs?

For once, I am not trying to figure out a reason not to go to the funeral just so I can avoid having people seeing me fat.  (Tell me I am not the only one who avoided events because I considered myself just too fat to go?)  The last time we had a family event, I weighed 55 more pounds than I do today.  *Whew*

I'm off for a three hour drive at 7 a.m. . . . and then back home tomorrow afternoon . . . talk to you then!

Comments

[B]

High five to that!

[Kristin]

Reason #88 - no need to fear being inadvertently in a newspaper or TV camera shot. In my work there are occasionally photographers, and sometimes I turn up in a picture (though often it is the back of my head, so the real concern is whether my hair looks stringy). I turned up in the back of a newspaper photo today (http://heraldnet.com/article/20071130/NEWS01/711300056 - picture #3), and I was actually pleased with the picture, though it is very blurry and I appear to be grimacing).

[iportion]

I would always just go

[Poppy]

Can I just say this cracked me up, (which seems pretty insensitive considering that your family event is a funeral.)

But yeah, I hear you. I called a "snow day" last February when we were kind of expecting a blizzard, mostly because I needed an excuse to blow off a good friend's annual Valentine's Day party. We're supposed to wear red, but my cute red dress wouldn't have fit unless I split the seams open.

[Karen]

The catalyst for me to start losing weight was a family wedding. My cousin was getting married. It took me forever to find something to wear. I finally found something that looked half-way decent. My stick-skinny sister happened to be wearing a very similar skirt. My aunt told my sister her skirt was gorgous, then looked at me standing behind her, and quickly looked away. Then I came across an old boyfriend at the wedding who pointed to my stomach and said "I see you have been busy" Unless he meant I was busy eating dougnuts, I think he thought I was pregnant. I was so sick after that, I could not eat the dinner. My sister(skinny one) and Brother in law tried to comfort me by telling me he was an idiot, but it did not matter, I was changing things from then on out. I joined a gym, changed my diet and 7 months later have now lost 40 lbs. Thirty more to go.

[Rena]

I laughed out loud at this, also. I just went to a family funeral in the summer and many pictures were taken. I almost fainted when I saw the pictures of myself. I hope people stay healthy until I can get my act together!! ;)