i was talking with a co worker in another dept. come to find out she is a trainer and really talked bad about the surgery and i should of seen her first and iwouldnt of had the surgery. and how she has clients that were a size 22 down to a 6 and the surgery was a bad idea. made me feel like i really did something really bad. i hate ppl like that. it really upset me. i told her i did everything she began to chestise me for not trying harder and how i could of done this without the surgery. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

After a lifetime of struggling with my weight and hating myself as a result of that failure. The sleeve has given me my first opportunity of freedom. I was telling a friend tonight I feel free of the control food has over me. With every other diet I would go to bed so hungry and miserable thinking and missing food. I am not hungry now, I am not a slave to that and I felt like a weak, unlovable, uncontrollable, awful person. I am gaining my self respect back. Your co-worker may know about exercise but she does not know about losing weight because if she did she would understand how much deeper this issue is and never have said what she did to you. I thank God for this surgery.

I would have told her about the surgery just because I feel that she is ignorant. We are statistically MUCH more successful and who in the heck has money to pay a trainer for the rest of our lives?

For me, it's not the exercise - it's how I eat. The exercise keeps me fit, but it really has a tiny affect on my weight. If it were mostly exercise, I would not have lost the weight. I need the restriction period.