RE: SCARED AND CONFUSED....
Hi all i am back home from my first time visit with my parents... as most know i was scared to death bc i didnt know what my parents would say about my 143 lb wt loss... i didnt know if they were gonna turn me away or cause me to have a breakdown... i was so lost... they hadnt seen me since before surgery and it was really scary gettin off that plane and seein there face... so here goes this is what happened....
I got off the plane and my sis was waitin for me... i knew that she was gonna be surprised considering she was all for all that i had done... When she pulled up she was amazed bc well i had lost a lot more since she had seen me... and it was great to see her mouth drop. We then drove to her house where my parents were... i walked in and my dad said abbey wheres Amanda??? i just looked at him and laughed bc he was callin me Abbey( abbey is my 17 yr old niece...) I said dad its me... he then turned to look again and he was so proud... i saw thears wellin up in his eyes and he said wow you really look great ... and he stood and hugged me... for the first time since i was young he put his arms all the way around and had room to spare... i then went to the garage where my mom was and she said abbey do you have all ur dirty clothes out here so i can wash them ... i said mom all my clothes that i brought with me are clean... her mouth dropped ... i took a spin and said well what do you think.... and she said that it was a good thing but she was going to have to get used to it... You have to remember that the last time i was at this wt i was in 4th grade... so they have never really seen the REAL me or what i was suppose to look like. Both my parents for the rest of the night just kept starin at me... not in a bad way but in a WOW way... for the rest of the wk they watched what i ate ...every bite that went into my mouth... but they were learnin my new way of life... they took lots of pics but i never jumped into a pic... bc the rest of the family wont see me til August so i am hopin that i can surprise them as well... And i do have to say that it was soooo hard not to jump in those pics bc i am sooo proud but my parents cant keep a secret at all... So all in all i had a great time the first day was a little strange bc they were getting to know the real me.
As for my niece i finally wear a smaller size then her... i can fit into a size 12 jean... she was a litle disturbed by that bc she has alway been smaller then me... so now she says that she has to go on a crash diet... so in a wk i taught her how to eat... Its not that she is fat she is in a 17 jr jean. She doesnt quit understand how i weighing 205 lbs and her weighing 170 lbs, how i can be in a smaller size then her... maybe its bc i have no butt ...
So if ur goin home to meet your family for the first time after a major wt loss dont be scared and DONT be alarmed if they spend all night starrin at the new you... they are gettin used to you just as you are gettin used to urself....
manda
~143 lbs
Well judging by the way you talked about your family it doesn't suprise me that they were happy and bewildered. It is a new thing and since you've basically almost never been this weight they were getting to know you all over again for the first time.
I have a dilemma like that. One of my sister's is thinner then me this I know and I know she has to weigh less. However she is like 5'4-5'5 and I am 5'8 so when she told me she was in a 14 and they just fit her and I am in a 12 and they are getting loose I just couldn't really get why. I guess it is a height difference or something. Since I am taller I can weigh 30-40 pounds more and be in a smaller size. Either that or I am missing the boat some where a long the line.
I hope the reunion with the rest of your family goes just as great.
Shannon 
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