I appreciate your story and look forward to your documented journey. I can relate to you not wanting to tell your co-workers and respect that. I think you're going to be stressed by telling lies, you'd be better off just saying "I can't talk about it" or "I don't want to talk about it". That was suggested to me here by more seasoned sleevers. I just went through the lie thing, or not actually telling lies but withholding information. The stress of that was bothering me to the point that I actually found myself crying over it. I'm 56 years old and live a private life, so everyone asking "how did you do it?" was the dreaded question of the day. I would just say, calories in, calories out and daily workouts. Which is not a lie, but it bothered me not telling all. I have a friend/ acquaintance that told a story about another bypass friend who down right lies and and she was offended by it. I told her it was an individual private matter. At the beginning I told lots of people, but after a few negative responses, I decided to stop making conversation out of it unless it's a person that I know would sincerely benefit from the surgery and my experience. I have found that this web site is the safest place to air your feelings and people are typically non judgemental because we're all dealing with the same thing.

Again, try not to put yourself in a stressful situation by lying because it compounds and the stress will give you unnecessary stalls and sleepless nights which has no benefit at all. The best of luck to you. I look forward to the "clean apartment" video. :-) This upcoming surgery has already put a skip in step and you're making positive changes.

Thank you for your comment! I agree with everything you say. And will probably take your advise.