Thanks, I try not to be mad at my Parents for raising me to be pretty fat, because they themselves are very fit and athletic, as are my two brothers. It was mostly that they let us eat as we wished, and when I was young that was a lot more than I needed. If they had restricted me I might have formed a grudge and may not have resolved my problems on my own, so in some ways I'm glad they let me figure it out on my own.  Also, thanks for agreeing with me. The only reason he even started the tangent was because we are studying prefixes and suffixes and one was "Gastro" meaning stomach. The example he used was the surgery and that is what led him down his road of lies.