For many weight loss surgery patients, it takes a while after surgery before people notice something’s up. If they don’t know about your WLS, they may not realize you had it or that you’re trying to lose weight until you’ve lost such a big chunk that they can’t help but notice how good you look.

One reason not to tell a lot of people is that a lot of us are secretly or not-so-secretly afraid right at the beginning of the WLS journey – what if it doesn’t work for us? For some, we just don’t want to share our personal details with outsiders who may not understand why we made our WLS decision and what we’re going through to lose weight and get healthy.

For whatever reason, people may not realize you’ve lost weight until you’ve lost a lot. It may be a couple of months after surgery before anyone notices. It can even get a little discouraging for a while if you think nobody’s ever going to notice your hard work.

But then it happens. One day, someone asks you if you’ve lost weight…and after that, you may get asked all the time. It sure feels good…at least, to some of us. Others are shy and don’t like any comments, even the most innocent, on how we look and act.

When was the first time someone noticed that you lost a lot of weight? How did it make you feel?

Interesting…quite a wide spread! As I’d thought, a lot of you lost a lot of weight before anyone noticed, but a few of you see to have gotten comments pretty quickly. I guess it has to do with the way we carry our weight…or maybe how observant our friends and family are! The nice thing is that notice and compliment or not, it’s our weight to keep off!