Does anyone else feel weird talking about weight loss attempts????

Thanks everyone! I'm glad that I am not the only one that feels weird. I have so many people that have asked me about surgery. I know that people at work are watching to see "how we do" with it before making their own decisions. I guess what makes me feel the most uncomfortable is trying to discuss someone else's plans on weight loss and KNOWING that I have nothing to offer them. I failed at weight loss...I couldn't do it. So, I just sit there and say nothing at all. I will conquer this battle...I just chose a different means to do it. I am excited about the future. It is FUN to imagine what I may look like in a month, 6 months, a year...I love those fantasies. I don't really feel guilty...I may feel that way one day...I just feel sort of sorry. Sorry that they have to struggle the way they do. We are all struggling...just in different ways. I see the light at the end of the tunnel...I KNOW it will happen. Guess we should find something else to talk about....

I don't feel weird at all. I did have a friend, a good friend I thought who was the same weight as me, same age, we were close friends. Then I had surgery. She was on Weigh****chers. She will not speak to me at all. She did comment one time that her mom lost 100lbs the "right" way and will not return calls, changed her emails, won't respond to written letters. I do miss her. I never bragged about my surgery cause she was jealous of me when we were younger over my boyfriends and I was afraid she'd be sensitive over this so I rarely mentioned it. But now and for over a year now she hasn't spoken to me at all. I miss her. But do I feel weird? Hell, no, I tell every one I see that I've had it. I'm proud.

Hi! I am seven weeks out from Lap RNY and have a group of five friends (three of them morbidly obese) that we go out to eat on each other's birthday and holidays and such. One of them commented to me that I am not as much fun to eat with anymore since I eat my smaller portions and she is still eating enough for two people. She tells me continuously that she wants to lose weight but would NEVER do it the way I did with weight loss surgery. She says that she had friends back in the 80's that had it done and two of them have already died from long range complications. I just smile and tell her that it is everyone's choice about their own health and that I feel my choice was right for me. Mimi, I am the same as you about listening to everyone talk about their weight problems..... I just try to go ahead and say that I definitely understand their struggles and that is why I made this BIG DECISION for myself and have been very happy with the decision.