Question for everyone! Please answer honestly!

Please answer these questions in your reply: 1. What type of surgery did you have? 2. How much weight have you lost? 3. How long ago did you have your surgery? 4. Do you find that people treat you different, now that you have lost the weight? My answers: 1. RNY Gastric Bypass 2. 94 pounds 3. 4 months 4. Yes, I feel like people are much nicer to me now that I have lost the weight. I just think that people treat me different. Titania

1. What type of surgery did you have? lap gastric bypass 2. How much weight have you lost? All together from the liquid diet -- 63 lbs.  -- 47 lbs. since surgery 3. How long ago did you have your surgery? May 23, 2007 about 4 months 4. Do you find that people treat you different, now that you have lost the weight? No one ever tells me that I look different, and I don't feel really different. I'm not working right now, so I'm really not out in public a whole bunch, but I don't believe I would be treated any different because I don't look any different.

My answers: 1. RNY Gastric Bypass 2. 133 pounds 3. Almost 4 years  4. And I do not think people treat me any differently.  Maybe because of my outgoing personality and great family support, I never felt that I was ever treated badly.  I must say though as a single woman, men definitely treat me different.  It makes me take a step back and think if I was still 291 pounds would he still speak to me???? That is my only problem. 

1. RNY gastric bypass 2. 93 lbs. total (13 lbs. pre-op) 3. Jan. 22, 2007 4. Yes and no. The people I know treat me the same. Strangers seem a little nicer but that might be because I'm a little more outgoing (I always was outgoing), but now I feel less like I want to be invisible. We have to be very careful not to put all of the blame on others if we're treated more nicely after surery. Have you ever noticed the difference on people's faces when you look at their "before and after" pictures? That's what the world is seein and reacting to. Does that make sense? Jen

RNY...but i havent had it yet No Pounds Loss because i havent had it yet Not even a Post-OP day because i haveent had it yet I WANT PEOPLE TO TREAT ME DIFFERENTLY...LOL Oh, but one day, i will have all the answers to all these questions Dreamz

1. RNY Gastric Bypass 2. 130Ibs  3. 11/08/06 11-Months 4. No I get treated the same

Thanks so much for the honesty you all have sharing this information with me. I think that as I have lost the weight I have become more outgoing and less of a wall flower. I think that is why people treat me different. I find that actually I like being thinner, because people can see the real me -- who has always been there. I am so glad not to be the wall flower anymore! Thanks for the answers! Titania

1.  What type of surgery did you have? Lap RNY 2.  How much weight have you lost?  Pre-op 19lbs, Post-op 101 lbs. 3.  How long ago did you have surgery? 4/23/07 5months and 1 week 4.  Do you find that people treat you different, now that you have lost weight?  No I think people treat me the same.  I really was not treated unfairly.  They are commenting a lot about my weight loss though! Roz

LAP-BAND 30 LBS  3 MONTHS I KNOW PEOPLE TREAT ME DIFFERNT, AT THE GYM NOT MANY PEOPLE WOULD TALK TO ME I WOULD SEE THEM STARING AT ME, NOW THEY ARE FRIENDLY BUT I DON'T GIVE THOSE PEOPLE THE TIME OF DAY!!! I KNOW THAT SOUNDS CRUEL  BUT I'M DON'T HAVE TO TAKE IT ANYMORE I AM THE SAME PERSON WHEN I WAS FATTER!! AND I'M NOT REALLY A MEAN PERSON GUYS.

1. What type of surgery did you have?Lap RNY 2. How much weight have you lost?114 preop, 78 pounds since surgery 3. How long ago did you have your surgery?May 7th 2007 4. Do you find that people treat you different, now that you have lost the weight?Somewhat mostly everyone is aobut the same, very supportive about the weight loss. Sometimes it is embarrassing how much compliments I get.