People Look at me like I'm an Alien!!
Hi Guys! 
Well... heading towards 10 months out of surgery and life has surely changed quite drastically in less than a year. Although I'm trying to hold at my present weight of 180 lbs., it seems that I cannot keep from losing more no matter what I do. I refuse to start drinking milkshakes or enter into some old habits that got me obese to begin with.
That being said.. it's not a problem in my head.. but you get tired of people telling you to stop losing weight and to START EATING! For God's sake! I am eating! Whenever I am hungry, I eat something. Sometimes a pretty good sized portion too. I rather like being in this predicament... but I get tired of people looking at me like I'm from outer-space because I've lost so much weight and have gotten into great shape practically overnight. Alot of people say I don't even look like the same person... and I simply tell them that that was the whole idea behind the surgery! 
Anyway, no regrets! Lovin it! ... and suddenly I'm turning chick's heads again like 15 years ago..damn that feels good!
Anyone who has doubts about surgery... just know that the path you're on without it is only going to lead to an unhappy life and an early death. It's scary, but anything worth having is a gamble!
Take care guys! The Beast!
Well... heading towards 10 months out of surgery and life has surely changed quite drastically in less than a year. Although I'm trying to hold at my present weight of 180 lbs., it seems that I cannot keep from losing more no matter what I do. I refuse to start drinking milkshakes or enter into some old habits that got me obese to begin with.
That being said.. it's not a problem in my head.. but you get tired of people telling you to stop losing weight and to START EATING! For God's sake! I am eating! Whenever I am hungry, I eat something. Sometimes a pretty good sized portion too. I rather like being in this predicament... but I get tired of people looking at me like I'm from outer-space because I've lost so much weight and have gotten into great shape practically overnight. Alot of people say I don't even look like the same person... and I simply tell them that that was the whole idea behind the surgery!
Anyway, no regrets! Lovin it! ... and suddenly I'm turning chick's heads again like 15 years ago..damn that feels good!
Anyone who has doubts about surgery... just know that the path you're on without it is only going to lead to an unhappy life and an early death. It's scary, but anything worth having is a gamble!
Take care guys! The Beast! 
I'm not as far out as you and haven't lost down to being a normal size yet, but I already get some funny comments from people too. Today I went over to where my wife works and her boss says, "Hey boy, I wish I could lose as much weight as you have. What have you lost 50 -60 lbs?" Now this ol' fart is about 5'7" and probably weighes 190 and ought to weigh about 150. I tell him, "If you lost as much as I have, you'd just be bones in a coffin. Be careful what you wish for." So he says, "How much have you lost anyway? 50? 60?" I tell him I've lost about 130 and his response is, "Oh **** I don't need to lose that much." I wanted to say, "No **** ya scrawny bastadge." But my wife's trying to stay on his good side. So I humor him.
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking....... If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
Yeah... instead of the weird looks and silence (but you can tell they have a hundred questions), I'd rather they ask me anything they want to know about the surgery and my weight loss. I'm very open about it because it's been so successful for me.
I AM getting tired of the question "But how do you feel?" (said in a tone which implies that they've heard that nobody ever feels good again after having bypass surgery) .. as though I'm not suppose to feel good because I had the surgery to lose the weight. I tell them ..."How do I feel? You mean campared to when I was almost at 300lbs., with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and using a CPAP machine every night to sleep" Taking 5 medications a day and too tired and depressed to get out of bed in the morning?" How do I feel compared to that? Pffffttt!!!
Amen Bro. I get that how do you feel question a lot. I usually reply with the question, "Compared to what?" And they usually make reference to my old life. And I tell them, "Hell, I felt pretty good when I weighed 450. But I was toting around the equivalent of an average sized teen aged girl back then that I know longer have to tote around. And by the time I'm through I'll have shed the equivalent of an average sized NFL linebacker. You piggy back a teen age girl around with you every where you go all day tomorrow and then dump her the next day and we'll get together and do a compare and contrast. I feel great." I guess the word out on the street is that gastric bypass patients are unhealthy and feel like **** all the time.
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking....... If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
Here in Ontario, we buy our booze at an LCBO govt store only. So last Friday I'm browsing thru the vintage wine area and I had to move my little shopping buggy over to allow a nice looking blonde to get her own cart by me in the somewhat narrow aisle.
As I turned back to the shelf, I suddenly thought that maybe I should move the cart closer to me so that I wouldn't block the aisle at all - so I quickly turned my head just to check out how much aisle space was left....and I caught that blonde checking out my butt!
GOD DAMN I love being thin! Those wasted decades on the couch at 400+ lbs have NOTHING on being ass-gawked at the booze store!!!!!!!
Live long..and thin!
Jim
"Live long..strong....and thin!" Boner 
I find myself checking out alot more ass these days too... only because I know they're looking just as hard at me as I am of them!!!
This surgery is the only option for alot of us! I come from a fat family... though I've fought it off hard during my teen years and several times through adult-hood....but it always won in the end. I see the Bypass as the only thing that can put me on a level playing field against the genetics I've been dealt.
So now I'm thin and wear 32-34 pants... do alot of push-ups and road-work, and am basically the talk of the Fire Dept. in which I work. I know people admire me for what I've accomplished.. wheather or not they admit it. The stares I get by co-workers makes me uncomfortable at times.. but it's to be expected I guess. They just don't ever see people change so much so fast....
This surgery is the only option for alot of us! I come from a fat family... though I've fought it off hard during my teen years and several times through adult-hood....but it always won in the end. I see the Bypass as the only thing that can put me on a level playing field against the genetics I've been dealt.
So now I'm thin and wear 32-34 pants... do alot of push-ups and road-work, and am basically the talk of the Fire Dept. in which I work. I know people admire me for what I've accomplished.. wheather or not they admit it. The stares I get by co-workers makes me uncomfortable at times.. but it's to be expected I guess. They just don't ever see people change so much so fast.... 
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