Has anyone lost friends due to WLS?

I have a friend who was so supportive of me when I told her about surgery, she is also a big girl. She gave me cards, sent me balloons in the hospital constantly checked on me while I was recovering. The one thing she said to me before surgery was she was afraid I wouldn't want to be her friend anymore after I lose weight. I thought she was kidding. Now, I am 9 weeks out, been back to work for 2 weeks, she works with me and won't talk to me or even look at me. Keeps telling me that she has other things going on. That may be true, but she always came to me to talk about things going on with her. Another friend at work told me that she felt uncomfortable around me now. What is up with that? I am still the same person I always was! I am pretty upset over this for her to think that I would really dump her as my friend just because physically I am changing. She is being really immature! We have been friends for years, now does she think the only reason we have been friends is because we were both fat? Has anyone else ran into this kind of emotional ordeal? I had no idea she would do this. By the way, she is 38 and I am 29, so we're not teenagers.

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