Do you give them the total from your absolute highest pre-op weight or just since surgery? I feel like I am saying so much "Well, 30 lbs since surgery, but 43 overall".. How do you answer?

Oh take credit for EVERY. SINGLE. POUND.

You lost it. It counts.

i just tell them my overall loss....to me it doesn't matter what I lost before the surgery only what the total is at this point!

I was sleeved last week. I plan to answer that query with "a lot." My weight is no one's business just as the fact that I had bariatric surgery. When people ask how I lost my weight, I plan to answer, "diet and exercise." In each case, I am telling the truth, but preserving my privacy.

Overall, for sure. You worked hard for every pound you lost; celebrate it

I'm so damn proud to tell anyone, 62 pounds so far, and that is from the start to now. I figure, if they ask, they have notice, and maybe, they want inspiration. .who knows.

Other then sharing on the sleeve support boards, i don't tell people how much i have lost or my absolute starting weight. If i did, I would include my 8# preop loss,

For the first time in my life is say WHEN I lose the weight instead of IF I lose the weight!!!! I'm giving anyone who will listen the entire amount!

I tell people I am eating

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I tell people am eating alot of Protein I didn't really tell many people at work and everyone keeps looking at me asking me if I have between on vacation some people ask me of I lost weight I just say a little it its 25 lbs. my friend said no one really thought of me as big and I don't tell anyone they are not sure what is going on with me

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The only people who are asking are my parents, and I etiher tell them "about" the total amount, or I tell them I haven't weighed lately. They know I do not subscribe to the scale mentality and only get weighed when needed for soemthing else. Often, "abouts" are all I can give. But since I lost it, I report the full amount when I can.

If I know the person is contemplating surgery, I reply just like you - # pre-op and # since surgery. If they are just curious, I just say an approx number.

I don't tell anybody how much I've lost except this board. My ex (still really good friends) can't manage to say the right thing no matter what he says or how hard he tries. Sample comments: "I can't believe you're still losing when you eat so much" -- yea, right, a 1/4 cup of cottage cheese and 1/4 cup of strawberries ... Or questions like "So how much have you lost this week?" especially when I was in a stall. Or that classic: "How much have you lost altogether?" Bottom line is it's nobody's business but mine.

So I just told him it was something we could no longer discuss. I just tell everyone else that I'm on my way to a size 10 and then I'll consider myself "done."

Honestly, even though I'm down almost 40 lbs (from surgery, ha!) no one besides my husband and mother in law have asked how much I've lost. I always tell my mother in law the full amt, but my husband has gone through the entire process with me, so he knows the # I give him is since March.

I am proud of it all i have lost 69 lbs i have worked hard from the begining that was july 23 i was 289 My surgery was in December i was 257 today i am 220

I was sleeved last week. I plan to answer that query with "a lot." My weight is no one's business just as the fact that I had bariatric surgery. When people ask how I lost my weight, I plan to answer, "diet and exercise." In each case, I am telling the truth, but preserving my privacy.

I am open about the amount lost but not about the surgery. I completely agree with you. Saying diet and exercise is truth without playing 20 questions.