Daily Post--6/27/08

Has your weight loss affected your kids? And, if so, how?

My littlest is only 3 years old. She hasn't said anything about my weight loss. My 9-year old son - also battling a bit of a weight issue - has noticed and makes comments about how good I look. I worry though cause he is more focused than ever on his weight...it bothers him that he can't lose some and the scale has become somewhat of an "evil" doer to him. Aside from the fact that he also has Aspergers Syndrome where he can obsess very easily I worry greatly that this may be a not so positive effect on him.

Well I think my teenage son is more proud of me to be around. For example, there have been many times when he tells me that kid at school said they couldn't believe that I was his mom cause I look young or that kids says that I am so skinny from the last time they saw me. Also, he is so proud of himself that he can put his arms around me and pick me up.

No kids, but my nephew was shocked when he saw me at Thanksgiving.....his comments to my mother were **** grandma, you ain't kidding that she has lost weight!!! To me that was the greatest compliment ever. He had not seen me since my surgery and I was down 100 pounds by then.

My daughter hates the fact that we wear the same size clothes, she's 19. My son loves how much energy I have and the fact that I have a life now. He's 22. He used to tell me all the time I needed a life and needed friends and to get out of the house and off the couch. Now, I think he misses me because he's always asking where I am and when I'll be home! LOL! (or maybe, he just wants me to cook for him!!LOL)

My daughter actually wears a larger size shirt than me and she absolutely HATES that. But, when packing for 4H camp last weekend, she was happy that she can wear my shorts as she needed another pair to make it through the week! LOL Lea

Isn't that funny!!!?? She doubled her wardrobe...I keep telling my daughter that, but she won't have any of it!

They are so happy for me. My daughter seems a little jealous over the fact that I have to go shopping, but what's a girl to do! I have started to take her with me, but she has clothes that fit.....

I think that my daughters (22 & 27) are very proud of what I've finally been able to accomplish. I don't think they wanted me to have the surgery in the first place. They would tell me that I wasn't that big (260), or that they loved me the way I was. I later learned that they were extremely afraid of me going through the surgery and not waking up. After it was all over and they realized that I was going to be okay, they seemed to be happy for me. My oldest daughter has lost about as much weight as me, but she did it on South Beach. We're in about the same size and we talk a lot about hanging skin and other effects of the weight loss. My youngest daughter sees me inputting my food into Fitday and weighing/measuring out my portions and thinks I'm a little obsessed. Oh well, if I am, so be it. I'm very afraid of regaining the weight, so I do what I have to do to stay on track.

no but my grils are excited that I am really close to their weights now