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I am less than a week out of gastric bypass surgery. Just wondering what people say when people ask what surgery you had. All my family and close friends know.

Hw: 342

Sw: 291

Cw: 279

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I just tell people I had Weight Loss Surgery. If the discussion goes further and they ask which kind, I'll tell them that I had the Bypass.

I was back to work in three days, so no one ever asked if I had surgery. Everyone who knows me sees me eating very conservatively and working out regularly, and I'm losing about 8 pounds a month, so it's steady.

If anyone ever asked, though, I'd tell them the truth.

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@@liza1180, somehow I think that you're asking whether people reveal that they've had bariatric surgery as opposed to, say, heart transplant or tonsillectomy. Is that correct? Or are you asking, as some have interpreted, which of the bariatric procedures people have had?

The only people who knew up front that I had surgery at all knew that it was bariatric (lapband, specifically). I did tell some who weren't privy from the start when they asked about my weight loss. Others only heard that I'd been eating differently to lose weight.

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