Dreaded Holiday Visit

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crazyredhead182

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OK, my grandparents aren't the fuzzy loving grandparnts everyone wants to have. THey are brittish and prim and proper and cold. BUt despite this I love them. I have never really bad fat, but I've always been on the larger size of skinny until recently when I gained a good 15lbs, pushing me into overweight (accoriding to BIM). My grandmother has always made comments on my body and weight more or less saying i'm fat.
Since they are getting older they can't travel as much and haven't come to visit us in a while so for an early christmas present my parents paid for half my trip to see them in a couple of weeks.
I am DREADING THIS visit soo much because i fear my grandmother making comments about my weight, which i have been extreamly self consious over. and thinking about it is stressing me out, causing me to emotionally eat, not helping my weight at all, and i'm sure when i'm down there the same thing is going to happen, making my grand mother make more rude comments.
anyone have any suggestions on keeping my eating at bay in my grandmother's presents.
 
I think saying something to your grandmother regarding her comments is just as important as watching your eating.
have you lost weight? if so, you could say, "I've lost (insert number of pounds) pounds actually" if she says something, or even make a bit of a joke about it, like "you should've seen me a few months ago, I was much bigger haha".
try to catch her offguard and take the bite out her comments. or maybe you could talk to your parents about it if you don't think you could deal with your grandmother that way?
good luck with it, its never easy dealing with people like that.
 
The mean and nasty part of me says just beat her to the punch... 'Hi Grandma! Wow, have you put on a little weight?' But the nice part of me knows that I'd never have the guts to do it. :)
 
maybe you could get her by herself for a bit and tell her (nobody loves her) that her comments are too much for you.
 
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