How did your friends and family react to your decision to have your surgery?

I've told a few of my friends and they are supportive but they just can't relate to me, especially my other overweight friends.

Did you experience this too? How did you deal with it?

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The only people I told are the ones I live with...and I wouldn't have told them if I had a choice.

I only took two days off work (Wednesday surgery day, the day after, Fridays are work- from- home for the entire office, back on Monday), so no one at all suspected I had surgery of any kind. They just see me watching what I eat and exercising.

I hate discussing my private life with anyone not involved in it, so for me silence has been golden.

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@@Vinasu what surgery did you have, the sleeve or the bypass?

I'm thinking i might try to do something like that. My surgery will be sometime in december.

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I had the bypass. I was really fortunate that I was otherwise healthy and heal quickly, and I had no complications. I'm now 70 pounds down, I look and feel great, and no one at all has assumed I had WLS.

I'm not ashamed of it; I'd tell if asked, but my office is very much focused on weight and appearance (I work in media), and all discussions center around Crossfit and what everyone is eating. I do not want to be the center of discussions for months or years.

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