Has anyone chosen NOT to tell others?

I have chosen not to tell others about my decision to have surgery. Now 8 months out it is very apparent that I have lost weight and I am getting a lot of questions and comments and I feel a little dishonest that I don't tell the "truth", but instead try and brush off comments or say something vauge, but true, like "I eat less and workout more". I have chosen not to tell because I feel it has been a very personal decision and one of my "change" goals for myself was not to be such an open book and just spout out everything about myself. Well it's hard. I feel like I'm being dishonest. If a MO person asks me I am VERY CAREFUL in what I say to not mislead them that this was all "my doing". Quite frankly I'm also getting sick of the questions and sometimes rude comments I keep getting. It really makes me angry too. I mean they say things like "You look anorexic", as if that's a compliment! At other times people will say things that imply that I looked HORRIBLE before. It just all makes me sad. OK, I'm rambling a bit, and maybe this is all some sort of hormonal rage, LOL, but I'm getting sick of all the questions, I'm trying not to feel like I'm lying when I'm just keeping my personal life and decisions to myself. If one day someone flat out asks if I had the surgery, I"m going to be so mad that I blurt out something nasty to ask a dreadfully inappropriately personal question of them. Thank you for listening to my vent. Any thoughts or feelings that you might share would be greatly appreciated.

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