I'm so excited about attending the seminar on 9/17 so I told a couple of co-workers and wow, I wish I would have just kept it to myself. My good friend had bypass and is so happy, I want to be happy and healthy like her. My co-workers started on me how I could just do it on my own and one has known me for 6 years and knows I can't. I just let them talk and kept quiet. Then at lunch I went for 2nd's and there she went telling me how if I just didn't eat so much I could lose weight, again, I didn't say anything.

Now I don't want to tell anyone else or my family. I don't want to hear neg remarks when I'm so happy to get started. I'm not even sure my insurance will approve me and I'm stressing over that already, I don't need to have people trying to talk me out of it.

I tell everyone about my band...even strangers.

I haven't had problems with negativity. A few people thought I could do it on my own, but after a while they became excited to see me dropping the pounds and one is even interested in the surgery now.

I told them at work the other day that I need their support and if they had to fake it, then fake it.

Well, now there ya go!!! :embaressed_smile: :cool2: :w00t: :tt2: