Two questions for sleevers

1. Almost 4 weeks out and no problem with sugar, however I do not crave it anymore.

2. I have told everyone and their brother. Partly because I was very sick with Diabetes and everyone knew I was really struggling and partly because I am so happy. I have not had one single bad reaction. Since I have been off folks from work call/text/email to see how I am doing. They had a no carb party for me on my last day. Everyone has been very very supportive. And my skinny ***** friends can't wait to go shopping and turn me into a skinny ***** lol.

Sugar has never and still doesn't bother me, BUT foods containing heavy milk fat send me running to the potty sometimes. I can eat small amounts of ice cream, but stick with sorbet. Cookies, cake, pie all slide right on down without issue. I avoided those foods completely through my losing stage and early on in maintenance, but at 2.5 years out, I eat anything and everything.

Super heavy buttercream icing can make me feel woozy if I eat too much of it. Luckily, I was never a sweet eater pre-op. My trouble foods are chips, pretzels and crackers.

I've always been open about my surgeries. I truly believe that the stigma and stereotypes with WLS would be less if people were open about their choices and stood up to bullies. I was judged being fat so I didn't see in anything positive coming from me hiding it or lying by ommission by stating "just portion control and exercise" as the "plan" I was following. I'm a pretty smartass/sarcastic person so on the rare occasion someone made a craptastic comment, I was always prepared with good comeback to shut them up.

1.  I was badly diabetic before my surgery, so I never had sugar anyway.  My dietitian is emphatic about avoiding empty calories, so even if I could I would still be avoiding sugar.  My meals right now consist of only protein.

2.  I told my boss, HR person, and project manager what I was doing.  They also knew why.  I have never once received anything except their utmost support.  Don't feel embarassed or ashamed of doing what you need to do to take care of yourself.  You should be proud of yourself for taking this necessary step.

Next week I am going to fly to a christmas party with coworkers.  They will notice that I am 40 lbs lighter.  I don't plan on lying.  I am proud of the progress I have made.

No adverse reactions to sugar except that after eating I get the crash

And I told everyone I know that I was having the surgery. They were gonna know that I lost a ridiculous amount of weight in a short time and figured it was easier than having to field all the questions one at a time.

I can eat small amounts of sugar but too much and I get nauseous and so I avoid eating too much or too often.  I will treat myself occasionally.

I told my boss that I was having surgery didn't get into specifics but they all know now because of weight loss lol they didn't have any problems just had to fill out the paper work for the time off. :)

Thank you everyone for the responses!  I loved phred's advice to tell people I am getting a sex change operation. Haha that would shut people up.

I will play it by ear as far as who I tell, I don't mind being open to people if they ask me how I am doing it, but pre-surgery I don't feel the need to offer up what type of surgery I'm having. Usually people just think of your "insides being hacked up" and why would you do that? type of thing.. I also do not need the negativity going into it. Once they see how well it works maybe they will be open to it.

Also thank you for the responses regarding sugar. It is interesting how different everyone is. Sugar is such an addictive thing. When I am off it, I don't want it, but if I have one tiny bite then I just want MORE. I have always had a sweet tooth and I guess I am hoping to either just not be hungry and crave stuff, or to not be able to handle sugar well (though I do not want dumping) to help me stay on the straight and narrow. It is such a slippery slope, I can be off sugar for months and then say "i'll just have one tiny bite of cake for this person's birthday" and then it does make me feel crappy, but then my body is like "more please?" Or maybe it's my brain, because I'm pretty sure my body doesn't need that crap.

Anyway I plan to stay the hell away from it currently and after surgery. At least until I'm at goal, and hopefully forever. That stuff is the devil. But so delicious.

Enough rambling. Thanks again everyone!