“It’s cheating” “You’re giving up.” “That’s the easy way out.” These are all common phrases that bariatric patients hear on a regular basis, after battling obesity for what may have been their entire life (1)(2)(13). Unfortunately these hurtful words are more commonly used than one would think; in 2016 over 93 million Americans were considered obese according to the CDC National Center for Health Statistics data brief, and there were 216,000 bariatric surgeries performed that