The retraction of "The Comment"

Several months ago, when I was just beginning to lose weight, my dear, proud, German, unfiltered, mother made a rather disturbing comment to me. When she discovered how much weight that I wanted to lose, she simply said these words to me; 'If you get down to the weight you want to be, you're going to have a lot of loose flesh... because you are H-U-G-E'. Now, first of all, I want to say, that yes, for the most part my mom and I have a good relationship. I love her, and I am aware of the level of love that she has for me. It is not doubted. She just says what she wants, and when she wants. Sometimes, without thinking it through,( obviously!) Anyhow, when she came to visit today, she told me that I looked great. She's actually been saying that pretty regularly lately. And let me tell ya, she is not one to hand out a lot of compliments, to anyone. Anyways, she wanted to see my stomach, ( I know, weird). She wanted to see my stomach because it has gotten considerably smaller. And I know that she was curious about my, 'loose flesh'. She focused her attention to my torso as I lifted up my shirt, and she looked pleasantly surprised as she said, " I was expecting to see a lot of loose flesh, but you're in good shape." All I said was, 'Thanks mom, I've been working out hard five days a week, and drinking LOTS of water'. I was vindicated!I felt victorious! And you know, I wasn't even tempted to say, "See, told ya so!" So, to me, that was like a comment retraction, that was about as close to saying she was wrong as I'm probably ever going to hear. : ) But she's my mom, and I love her.