not the first time i've heard it...

So can anyone tell me why people find it necessary to tell you that you will gain your weight back and be heavy again someday. It's like your under a microscope and probably will be forever now that people know you have had WLS. It happened to me again today. First they tell you that you look good and then they tell you about all the folks or stars they know that have failed. I'm not dumb and I know having weight loss surgery is not the magic pill forever. Why do people think you have this unrealistic idea that "poof" everything is easy and perfect and your skinny from this day forward. Believe me it scare me too and I decide what goes into my mouth still. This surgery just put me on the same playing field as other healthy people. It gave me a chance to move and become healthy. Weighing 300 + pounds I could not move beyond a normal busy day without crashing or popping a pill to get through the rest of my day. This was about way more to me that just being skinny. MUCH MORE! I just didn't have 20 or 40 pounds to lose, I had 130 + pounds to lose. I have to keep moving and eating healthy to maintain. It's just a tool, and if in 5 years I put on 10-20 pounds so what. That is not as nearly as bad as being 300 pounds. And we know in 5 more years without surgery I was heading back to the 350 pounds like I was in my late 20's. The more heavy I got the less I could move. So what if Carnie Wilson and Al Roker has put on a few pounds, that does not make there surgery's a failure. But people sure want to tell you about that bad news. I myself have spoke and read about many others that have maintained there weight for years within 5-8 pounds of there lowest weight. We don't talk about them do we????????????

This was not the first time I've heard it and I'm sure not the last, it just made me kind of grumpy and got under my skin today.

grr

I've been under a microscope my whole life cause I was fat... I just want to live and not be judged anymore, but I'm not so sure that can happen.