Family Reunion

Well, the reunion that I was dreading was this past weekend (Sept 1).  All in all, I think it was a success. 1:  My father -- who hadn't seen me since July of last year, was absolutely floored with my progress.  I had downplayed what I was doing in my phone conversations with him.  The compliments flowed freely -- he called me "slim and trim," something that never came out of his mouth to describe me; he told me I had done him proud, and that my mother would be amazed to see me now (she died in 1995). 2: One of my distant cousins barked at my father for not introducing the two of us.  He went on and on about how if he had seen me on the street how he would have tried to talk to me, not knowing we were related.

3: When I called my aunt to tell her we were coming (it wasn't much of a surprise after all ) I specifically requested a medium T-shirt.  I got there and ended up with a 2X.  I floated in it, of course. 4:  On Sunday night (after driving all day) I dragged all my oversize clothes into my living room and sorted them by size.  I then bagged them and made postings on my local Freecycle (www.freecycle.org).  I got responses right away and as of now only my 12-16 pants are still in the house. I guess mentally I have made the commitment that this is how it's going to be.  If I start gaining weight back, I have no big clothes to fall back on and will have to replace everything again. 5: Best of all, I remained on program the entire weekend.  Yes, I had Wendy's on the way down, and yes, I had a nice plate at the reunion, but I made sure to track everything.  I even brought my portable DVD player and had a Turbo Jam workout before getting dressed for the reunion. I'll post a pic of my dad, my big shirt and me soon.  Thanks to everyone for your support!

Hi Dee!  I'm so happy for you that things seem to of worked out well at the reunion!   Sounds like you enjoyed yourself, and didn't really fall far off your plan! I just looked at your August pics...Dang, you LOOK totally fantastic, just GLOWING!  Hey, I know your ticker says how much you lost, but may I ask how long it has taken?  Again, I MUST say how great you look...Many congrats!

Hi!  I got serious about losing at the end of June 2004.  Over the next nine months I lost about 12 lbs just exercising.  But I started WW in April of 2005 and that's when things started happening.

Yay!  I am so glad that it went that well for you. You were kinda worked up, and it's great that everybody rose up for you.

This is the first time I have ever looked at your photos. Holy mother of pearls girl you look fabulous!  I mean I looked at your before and now WOW! You go girl. You are a bean pole lol. You look great! Keep it up and I am glad everything went well at the reunion!

Dee, I'm glad the reunion went well.  You look totally smokin' hot!  I am so proud of you.  Congratulations on all of your hard work! 

Dee.... My Soror... Good Lawd.... You are a brickhouse!!!!!!  ***singing the Commadores***   You look like a different person.... in those pictures.....  WOW!!!!!  I am so proud of you and admire you for you dedication.... and your success....   I have a leopard print shirt.. that I used to love... when I saw myself in a picture of it... I retired that bad boy... because I thought I looked like an elephant in leopard skin...LOL    I am happy the reunion went well... I know it had been on your mind.... but you showed up and showed out!!! Diva

Thanks, soror!

You are truly an inspiration...WORK IT GIRL!  I'm assuming you no longer go to weigh****chers and have probably adopted some of the things you learned there into your everyday life in order to maintain your weight.  Don't stop posting just because your a skinny minny. Brenda

Thanks! Oh, I still go to meetings.  I need to lose about 15 more lbs to meet their goal (to be a Leader if I so choose) and 20 for my personal goal.  I plan to keep attending even after I make Lifetime. I don't think I'll never refer to myself as skinny -- I am the same weight now that I was at age 11 and no one called me skinny then.