Ope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Ours was fantastic. Spent the better part of the week at my brother's home. The hustle and bustle of getting ready for the holiday was exhilarating. Wednesday, my godson was off from work. We woke up early, went to pick up the pies and then I took him to a pancake house for Breakfast. Being on liquids, i just sipped my Water, while Jace drowned his chocolate chip pancakes in syrup and dunked his bacon in the syrup. Afterwards, we went back home and he performed for me. He is 10 and musically, gifted. Played the drums for a while, then got on his piano and played Bach and Chopin for me.

Anyway, yesterday, we all decided to go shopping. We ended up at Tarjay boutique, and my sister in law said 'Laura, we need to find you some pants, yours are unbelievably baggy on you. Grrrr, now starts the stress. Number one, I didnt want her to know my pants size is 24, number two, I hate clothes shopping. I look like a bum in everything! Ok, so she says to me 'get in the dressing room, Jay and I will bring you stuff to try on. She said 'MAKE SURE YOU COME OUT AND SHOW US BEFORE TAKING ANYTHING OFF.'

So she says What size do you need? I honestly didnt know so I figured I lost some weight, maybe a 22??

Kim and Jay start marching from the clothing racks to the dressing room with jeans. The first 2 pairs Kim brings are size 18.

I said 'kim, i will NEVER fit into these. And to make matters worse, they were skinny jeans.

Imagine my surprise when they fit! I was absolutely blown away. I came out of the dressing room all timid like and embarrassed...and when they saw me in them, they started whooping and clapping and telling me how wonderful I looked. I felt hideous. I am 51 yrs old wearing skinny jeans and felt ridiculous. Jay and kim told me how great I looked and convinced me to buy 2 pairs.

I started purees on Thanksgiving so I was petrified to get on the scale today. Felt like I gained 20 lbs now that I am eating. I was sooo surprised to see I lost another 4 lbs since Tuesday. But I stll went back to Target this morning and returned both pairs of jeans. I still cant juatify sticking my old carcass in clothes made for younger women. No matter how good they said I looked. Besides, they are family, they're supposed to say things like that.

Ha! Said my godson was off from work instead of school, he is only 10 yrs old!

Wow..I am 55 and I try to wear skinny jeans all the time...My legs are sticks and the skinny jeans don't look as bad as regular jeans..

Your family is not going to send you out looking bad..They love you and only desire the best for you..TRUST them a little..and enjoy the ride it is only going to get better..

Your thinking with your fat brain instead of celebrating the NSV that you can enjoy right now.....Come on your doing great!!!!!!!!!

I'm 53 tomorrow and I love skinny jeans!

Yes I do know what you mean. I never wore pants that hugged every inch of my lower body before so it felt weird. Besides, i think they installed carnival mirros in the stall I was changing in, because I swear I was looking wavy and out of sorts!

Well you might not want skinny jeans, but the fact is, you still went from a size 24 to an 18!! That's fantastic and very fast. So celebrate that, in whatever style of jeans you want--as long as they are an 18