I am 19 but will turn 20 in April. I got sleeved Dec. 17, 2013 so a few days.

I will be starting school on jan. 21. I just wanted to know techniques or ways you told them about your surgery. How did you feel?

It's not very savvy but I just told.

When I went out to eat and somebody asked about my weird eating I would just blurt out I had weight loss surgery on such and such a date.

Then answer all the questions they had about it.

I don't shout it from the roof tops but at the same time it is part of what I'm going through so It would and does come up in conversations

I'm struggling with the issue of who to tell and not tell about my surgery. I really don't want to hear other people's ignorant opinions and judgements so I had decided not to tell anyone, except my sister and a close friend. But now with Christmas next week I don't know how to handle all the questions about my eating at the big family get-together. I just had surgery earlier this week so I'm on a completely liquid diet. There will be nothing at Christmas that I will be able to eat and all sorts of tempting goodies I would rather avoid. I'm thinking about not going and just telling my family that I'm sick.

I didn't tell my in laws and I was super nervous about all the questions I was going to get at Thanksgiving. It's funny how sure I was that EVERYONE would notice that I ate next to nothing and not one person out of 12 said a word. HA!

Because I've lost so much, I have told them that I am doing high protein/low carb but not a single peep was made about my teeny portions.

If you don't make a big deal of it, no one else will either. I am 7 months out and no one has mentioned what I eat that doesn't know and I go out to eat, to parties, to business conventions, etc. all the time. Funny that.

Well, you are over 18 now. I felt no obligation to tell anyone. I told my wife and my sisters-in-law as they were watching my children as I traveled for this procedure to Las Vegas. A couple days before surgery, I told my Mother. That was it. I felt it was nobody's business as to the decisions I make as it relates to my body.

I did this because I did tell one other person. A neighbor, who then went on and on asking why I couldn't do it on my own, why I was looking for the easy way out, I wasn't fat enough for WLS ... on and on. I decided she didn't need to know the details of my personal battle with my weight and neither does anyone else.

After I got to goal, I did start telling a few people who asked that I had a VSG because I figured they wouldn't be able to criticize since it obviously worked for me. Plus, at that time, I was so much more informed about the whole process and what it meant to me, I could better answer any comments they had.

Do what you feel is right in your heart. Trust in yourself. You will find the answer that is right for you.