Do you tell people you had weight-loss surgery?

I am just a really private and "mysterious" person. You could ask people where I work to list 2 personal things about me and they would struggle coming up with something. 

Understood.  Privacy is a valuable thing.

Hi!

I think it depends on your personality. My brother was very open about his journey. I have told only a few people.  My manager knows that I will be out for surgery, but don't know the type of surgery. In my opinion, it's no one's business. Good luck on your journey! 

Thank you for sharing your perspective.

I plan on telling anyone not very close to my I'm on a doctor supervised program designed for me with medical help period. Not a lie not an invasion of my privacy. 

Thanks and good luck.

I think it is a personal choice. Once you start losing weight everyone will be asking you how you lost the weight. I got so sick of this question. I understand it but people I didn't really know would ask and they all want details. So, get ready for the questions.

Thank you.

So many people think diet and exercise alone work well if you really try, because they know someone who knows someone who lost a hundred pounds that way.

I wonder how many of those people that think they know someone who did that actually know someone who had WLS and is hiding it. (Probably a lot!)

I agree - there would be less stigma around WLS if people really understand that after a certain point it is truly all that works. The problem is no one wants to stand up and take the potshots that are a result of the current existing stigma in order to help it lessen in the future - and understandably so. 

When I took a job, apparently the HR Director said to my boss that she wasn't sure if he should hire me because at my size, I was probably just looking to get the job benefits in order to have weight loss surgery and then leave. I was incredibly, incredibly hurt by that at the time (I was strongly anti-WLS at that point). I also saw people badmouth someone who had RNY at a meeting one time. "She had that surgery, but she's still so fat. What was the point? *snicker*" I was new to the job and wasn't in a position to stand up for her at that point. Granted, she was a horrendous person, but there were many other things she could have legitimately been criticized on (or, you know, my workplace could have stopped being so high-school and encouraging people to talk about others behind their backs... but that will never happen. So glad I'm out of there!).

People can be jerks sometimes.  Thanks for sharing.