My answer to Maria's article (re-post)

Thanks for explaining...although you did have to because you owe me or noone else an explaination, but I think I understand a little more now

Maria has a habit of posting anything that will validate her hatred of the band.  She has been successful losing with it, but does not attribute any of her success to her banding...says she lost thru DIETING ALONE!!!  What we all get is that, yes, we are dieting and our band is supporting us in doing so by keeping the hunger pangs away between meals.  

The article was about results of a study that is old and used to support the anti-band posts all the time.  It ended in 2003 and the surgical techniques used today are different and the bands evolved since then as well.  The article was more of an op-ed than citing facts (other than mentioning the study).

I have Band Bashers, Passive Agressives,  Negative Nancy's,  Users, Religious Zealots, Profiteers and Choir Preachers on this sight blocked.  It has made my life on this forum so pleasant.  Like I tell my son, "if you keep dwelling on your negative past, you can't get on with your great future".   How miserable it is to be so negative and try and make everyone else negative.  Then these people always wonder why life has dealt them such a bum hand.   They haven't figured out all the negative energy around them makes life a bummer.  I don't like these people and want nothing to do with whatever venom and vitriol they spew.

You are so right, Evil Twin!  Some people just don't get the concept of "like begets like".  That said, there are one or two scarey people here who actually feed and thrive on negativity.  Their negative posts elicit excited responses which just fuels the negative poster's agenda and psychotic ramblings.  They're best just ignored - and no better way than with the BLOCK button.