My brother Pat made a trip from his home in Denver to see my Mom for the weekend and to attend a high school friends wedding. We kept the weekend pretty low-key with lots of time floating around the pool and catching up, except for the first night we caught up over a bit too much wine!

Mom, Pat and I were chatting it up in the shallow end of the pool the next morning with me sitting on the steps and Mom and Pat floating around. I told Pat I would be the designated driver to the wedding because all the wine I had consumed the night before was counter productive to my weight loss program. I said “I have been doing pretty well at losing this excess weight I am carrying around but I need to stay committed.”

My Mother stopped, turned to look at me and said ” I never noticed that you were carrying extra weight but now that you pointed it out I can see that you are carrying more than you should.”

Thanks for the confirmation I thought and we laughed and I said “I guess I should have kept my mouth shut!”