it might help, too, to think about the issue of "permanent way of eating." This is the first weekend of the rest of your life, a life in which many many people will be eating piles of junk food all around you--food which will keep you fat or make you regain all the fat you lost on LC if you go back to eating it. You'll slowly build strategies to deal with the carbs that are all around us; since you're going to have to deal with it forever, you don't need to do it perfectly and without struggle this weekend, but you want to learn something, right?

Family dynamics change slowly, but it's possible that with your leadership, a year from now your family will be spending a similar weekend hiking, cross-country skiing, volunteering with the homeless or special Olympics, or something else that does not center around food. How do you get there? Slow steps.

I wish you luck and strength with these first steps this weekend!