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'You look well!' FAT FROM PRAWN COCKTAILS

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MadHattersWineParty · 09/08/2016 14:55

Went to a family wedding at the weekend. Sat opposite my lovely elderly grandparents who I hadn't seen for about ten months. When I first saw them before the ceremony my grandad bellows 'You're looking VERY WELL!! We hardly RECOGNISED you!!'

We had prawn cocktail for the starter. I love prawn cocktail. I joked that I probably could eat it for every meal (I DO NOT) .

I got a little letter from my Grandma today who has written exactly this:

'I see your love of prawn cocktails has caused you to put on a fair bit of weight! We were surprised to see you looking so bonny!'

I bloody well tried to lose a bit of weight before that feckin wedding aswell.

For the record, I am now a 10-12 where I used to be a 6-8 through starving myself I am small boned so possibly don't carry it that well but I'm not particularly short, 5"5. A combination of health issues and getting mightily pissed off with denying myself carbohydrates day after day as put it on. I seriously used to eat hardly anything.

AIBU to think I'm NOT fat, and even if I was, it's not very polite to say I've stuffed my face with prawn bloody cocktails!

sorry. I just needed to rant. She probably thinks I'm eating prawn cocktails for breakfast, lunch and dinner Grin

shuffles off to make prawn cocktail

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2HelenaHandcart · 15/08/2016 14:39

This thread has been a real treat! Thank you all for the laughter.

IndianaJone · 15/08/2016 14:49

Grin fantastic thread!

user1467153197 · 21/08/2016 00:32

My mum who is now 90 always came to us every year for Xmas and new year although I have a brother and sister .She once said as we sat down to eat Christmas dinner that I had cooked for her and my husband and 6 sons " O I love how you can put weight on and not care about it"
That made for a lovely Christmas meal as you can imagine!

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