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When I lived in HI, I had a neighbor who weighed approximately 280 pounds, judging by her appearance. I had not seen her in maybe 4/5 months, but when I did....boy did she look good! She had shredded her fat cocoon and was now rocking a much smaller body..probably size 12/14. Now me, being the lifetime dieter that I am, just had to know what diet she was on that caused her to lose so much weight so fast. Now I was pretty ignorant when it came to the wls, so this was not the first thing that had come to mind. So after complimenting her weight loss and engaging in some petty conversation, I asked her what did she do to get her weight off. Her response....wait for it....wait for it...wait for it...her response was Water AEROBICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :blink: What the heck? Was all I was thinking after she responded with that. Did she really believe that I would believe what she had just told me?

Why lie about having weight loss surgery, especially to someone that is going through the same struggle that you once went through? We should not be ashamed to announce to those who want to attain a better health the tools that we have used to achieve that.

Have any of you lied to someone about having surgery, if so, why? I understand that it is your personal decision to share whatever information with whomever you wish.

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WOOPS. Thats what I get for staying up for 24 hours. Apologies.

You could edit it!! hehehe....

Psssst - if you look at the post, he's quoted someone else.

Yeah, I edited that post, I was tired and saw my text with his responce, not realizing that he had quoted my text from someone elses quote... if that makes sense. I sent him a PM too.

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You could edit it!! hehehe....

LOL...... just edit the post to "I agree"

YES yes, I edited too, I'm an idiot. throw all your tomatoes my direction lol.

I can admit when I mess up ;)

It always sucks when you edit but others have already quoted what you wanted deleted :P

Hehehe

Honest mistake no biggie plus PDX is a sweetheart, he will understand

No worries

This thread needed a little laugh anyways

It is so much better than all the hate going on

<3

Happy Early Valentines Lovies

Yes they can!!

Boys go edit your quoted posts :P

I swear there's a cat fight ever minute and what's funny is I'm a psych major! Lol well I thought it was funny......jerks.

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SINCE WHEN???!?!?!?

haha its ok, they dont have to edit, I made a mistake and didn't look at what I was reading close enough. This is actually the first forum site I have used and I havent been on here long so the text quoting thing blows right by me sometimes. Totally my fault, no one needs to take down anything to make me look better. I should have taken my own advice and looked at who was being quoted, because even though it was MY post, it wasn't my post.

I swear there's a cat fight ever minute and what's funny is I'm a psych major! Lol well I thought it was funny......jerks.

I need a beer.

What did you censor Fyre?

Can't the boys edit ???

*burps*

*scratches*

*sniffs fingers*

We can edit stuff. We can be quite discrete........... and stuff

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