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KikiSue🙋🏼    22

KikiSue🙋🏼
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Does anyone know of any bariatric Facebook groups that do not have the name “Bariatric” in them?? I’d love to find a closed group that I can join, but don’t want it to show my friends that I’ve joined a bariatric group. Not because I’m ashamed, just because it’s nobody’s business.

One of my friends joined a bariatric group and it showed me a few times a week that she was in it..... EVEN though it was a closed group.

I’ve only told my husband and kids that I’m having this surgery. Have t told my parents or siblings or any friends. I just don’t want the judgement and stigma that comes with it. They won’t care to take the time to educate themselves and realize that it’s still a LOT of hard work on my part. So with only my husband and kids knowing..... I still want additional support with questions or someone that I can connect with.

My surgery should be in September 2018.

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Hop_Scotch    1,634

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Get yourself a different email address and create a new Facebook account and join from there. This is what I have done.

If you join a group on your current account, I think friends can still see you've joined and they may will look to see what the group is about, and even if the there isn't anything related to weight loss or bariatric in the group name, they would easily see what the group is about from the description.

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Bryn910    519

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Were you a part of that group as well? You shouldn’t be able to see anyone’s participate in a closed group; that’s odd. Maybe the admins of that group need to make it secret

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Matt Z    4,140

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You just have to adjust your privacy settings to prevent your activities being shared with anyone. It's all in the settings.

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Matt Z    4,140

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Also, a "Closed Group" doesn't hide user info, only a "Secret Group" hides user info.

  • Public
    Anyone can see the group, its members and their posts.
  • Closed
    Anyone can find the group and see who's in it. Only members can see posts.
  • Secret
    Only members can find the group and see posts.

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Ylime    453

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Yeah the problem with bariatric groups being secret is that they're secret and thus no one can find them to join. lol

Hope you do find one that works for you. Are we not enough??? :)

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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