Random Poll o' the Week: Non-ops say the darndest things...

" I just hope you don't end up looking like a bobble-head!!"
and
"Don't lose no more weight"
but " Dang you look GOOD! with a lot of emphasis on GOOD! And proceed to show you off to everybody..... along with " show them your before picture........... well dang!!!!!

 A co-worker of mine is about to have RNY in a couple of weeks with my same surgeon.

A different co-worker keeps telling us that:  "I wish they could do a mini-RNY, because then I'd be able to have one."

My much faster and funnier 1st co-worker said, "Since you obviously are saying you're much smaller than I am and she was, I'd like to introduce you to a scale and a mirror."

That shut her up very quickly!! 

That made me giggle out loud!

My favorite that has happened a few times:

How come our friend XXX has gained most of her weight back and you haven't?

Like I'm the fat whisperer or something and KNOW what other people are or are not doing....

I hear this one too.  I usually just say because I didn't have pizza and fries for lunch four times this week.

Most people just canno wrap their head around the fact that diet and exercise play a big part post WLS like the do in "regular" (haha!) people.

I called my surgeon's office for my 6 months follow up appointment and when the receptionist asked, have you had surgery? i replied that yes, I had RNY.  She said, "what?"  I said, I had RNY, you know, gastric bypass.  She said, "oh, gastric bypass.  well, we always use the whole term here."  FACE SLAP.

My cousin, just two weeks ago as I was walking into the kitchen to make us a cup of tea:

"You were so gross before with all that fat."

Please tell me you spit in her cup of tea......

Had lunch with my aunt the other day "Wow we always knew you would be a knock out if you lost weight!" LOL, love her to pieces and I take the compliment from what she said. I get that a lot and then the look on their face and the backpeddaling of "well, not that you were ugly before or anything" comment.

From my mom: So, when you get to a certain weight, are they gonna take that thing out?    What thing, Mom? I had a gastric bypass

Mom again: Are you going to just wither up and blow away or will you eventually stop losing weight?   Nope, I'll just dry up like a stick and go lay in the yard.

Coworker(I know she meant well): You look so HEALTHY. You've lost your weight so SLOWLY, so you don't have that sucked-up look in the face.
Okay, coworker, I didn't think 103 pounds in 8 months was that slow, but to each her own, eh?

Same coworker: I have a friend who's doing it the right way--y'know, with diet and exercise.

Diet and exercise?! why didn't I think of that?

These comments really made me laugh. And in all fairness, I've had so much positive encouragement from mostly everyone that I can shrug off a couple of social gaffes.