What do you tell people?

[liza1180 16]

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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[Airstream88 361]

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.

[reinaf89 13]

Agreed with airstream. I tell them the truth. I'm not ashamed that I had it. I needed help, and I did what I could to get that help. I will never be ashamed of something that saved my life.

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[Vinasu 621]

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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[Victoria Bontempi 14]

Everyone knows all of my business. It actually really helped to have so many cheerleaders and a wide support system.

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[WLSResources/ClothingExch 3,444]

@@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.

Edited January 12, 2017 by WLSResources/ClothingExch