Question re weight loss

Do you tell all if they ask how much weight you have lost? I tell friends and people who are close - people who are supporting me and know my journey, but I got asked by 2 co-workers this morning how much I'd lost. I'm not close to these people and felt uncomfortable with the question as it then gives them information to be able to calculate how much I was before, which I am still embarrassed about as no-one realised how much I was as I 'carried it well' - even my PCP!!! Am I being silly/over sensitive. BTY I didn't tell them how much I've lost.

I always have. But lately i'm getting kind of tired of the questions. I appreciate it when people notice but I've been kind of awkward lately responding. BUT yes so far I've always said how much i've lost. Its the wow, you look great comments that I have a hard time with. But then again, I've never been good at taking compliments. Mandy

I squeal like a pig but then I'm very very open, almost to a fault. You do what you are comfortable doing it's a personal thing! Hugs, ANDI

I used to tell people proudly until one day I went to the Gap. I was using my credit card and the woman asked for my driver's license. She looked at my license and said that was not me. I argued with her and said it was, so she looked and said this picture was only taken in March and I could not have lost that much weight. So, I told her that normally my keeper/family locks me in a closet and only lets me out when I promise to obey and they very rarely feed me, hense the drastic weight loss. She was so dumbfounded she let me go. It does not bother me most days when people question my license, but she just bugged me. But, it is fun to make up weird/interesting stories when people ask me such personal questions. Maybe it would be fun to start telling people that we lost an elephant penis (or whatever) it may be. Danice

Ha ha ha Roflmao That is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny

i think it depends on my mood. This weekend was our yearly christmas breakfast on our street before the big christmas lighting ceremony. I dont see all my neighbors every day except at christmas. When I went to the breakfast I got a lot of ooh's and ahh's. They asked how I lost so much weight and how much I lost. I did tell them I had wls, but at first I noticed I felt a little uncomfortable with it. I think its because I am getting closer to my ideal weight range (160 now- goal 135). I love the way I feel and look (with clothes on..lol) and I love the way people are saying wow you look great, but I think I have to be honest about my surgery when they ask how. I know a few people who did ask me how I did it.. I told them, "I got serious about loosing weight." I felt comfortable with that.. cause it's true.. you cant get more serious than wls.

for me it depends as well. I tell my family and some close friends . but otherwise I just say I have been working out and watching what I eat and have lost allot. In other words "I'm not telling".

I am right there with you Ruth. I don't like to tell "acquaintances" how much I have lost because you can see them doing the math in their head. A lot of times I just say, "I've lost quite a lot of weight." I've found that it is easier for me to share how much I've lost & how I lost it with heavier people than it is to share that information with people who have never been overweight. I certainly want people who are struggling to know that there is a way to get off the diet treadmill, but a lot of naturally skinny people just don't "get" it. The ones who never knew me overweight treat me like an insider now, & I realize even more now just how much a lot of naturally skinny people dispise the morbidly obese. Sometimes I fight back to "enlighten" them about the struggles & misconceptions of the MO, but sometimes I just don't feel like arguing about it anymore. It just makes me sad & mad because I'm not one of "them"- I do not believe the lies that they believe. Some of them do treat me different when they find out that I took the "easy" way out. Whatever!!! Sorry for rambling, Darlene

Ruth I have been having a hard time with the amount of weight loss also. Ive lost 120 lbs and I can literally see people trying to calculate that or the amazed/frightened look on their faces. I got a lot of this this past weekend at a church dinner. Its nice that people notice and want to say I look great but skinny people who never have struggled just dont get how personal it is. I have lied to a few and just said, I eat less and work out more and leave it at that. I m not embarressed about wls but I also dont feel the need to hsare with everyone! /you are not silly - but I read some of those jokes you received and they are! I hope that made you laugh!!!! Kathryn