So Sorry I Read The Main Forum On This Sight Today & Yesterday

It has gotten so vicious and back stabbing on that forum.  Especially from former band failures.  Also people who haven't even had the band, but have failed with other weight loss surgeries, or not failed.  Aren't we all here for the same reason (or am I just naive) for support and to get healthy?  To share our successes and failures.  I thought this place was for encouragement and some fun and some frank talk,  not from what I have read today and yesterday.  It always seems to be the same sickos.  What is their point?  Am I missing something?  Wasn't yesterday a religious holiday, I would have thought maybe people would have been nicer on that day.  So I hope everyone has a good week, month, year. 

The only board I go to now is this one! It is awful over there .LOL   Ughhhhhh.... You are right always the same group stirring the pot . Better to just stay off there and not be triggered by it all.

I totally agree... its so sad to see people bashing something because it didnt work for them. Its a sad situation, that people have to try and drag others down instead of seeking support to dust themselves and move forward. In any case. Im gonna get my band... and im not gonna let the bad things i read change my mind. My decision is nerve-wracking enough!

I never understood why some of them are so hateful and catty... I dont get it.

It takes some big balls to talk a lot of **** on an online forum, through a computer... wow, and to think we're all "adults"????

To each their own I guess...  Some people just get off on hurting others...even if its just by typing words on a computer screen... bullies.. 

And a lot of them say they have an "education." Well they missed the most important part of their "education", it is called common sense and decency. They really should be ashamed of themselves, and so should Obesity Help for allowing this to continue for as long as it has.

Yes...I had a knock down and drag down fight with them yesterday and whew, I survived, I even had Obesity Help moderators to help me...lol, I think I've got some of them to calm down but something NEEDED to be done about this band bashing...and it's MAINLY ex bandsters who are stirring up the trouble and bitter, I thought I would try to clean up that main board and I will tell ya it was a task, they are vicious mean spirited and I honestly think some of them are dangerous..lol

I can't believe people have so much evilness built in their heart and also you have some sneaky ones right here on the lap band board "pretending' to be so nice and helpful to give out advice but ripping newbies off by selling them information that they should be able to get here for FREE...she learned from US VETS...and now selling the info...it's a shame how these boards have gotten....

Nana...sometimes it is better not to STIR the pot....Jean is not sneaky...her book is advertised on this sight (paid advertising)....calling her the "devil" on the MB is not calming things down.

Naomi/Nana...As much as I hate to get into it with you, I have to say Jean is NOT being sneaky. Yes, I could've gotten the info she provided if I had taken the hours and hours she took but I wouldnt have gotten the insight or the ability to put it all into one handy book with everything at my fingertips. Have you even read her book?? Its delightful, helpful and very insightful. Its one thing to read stuff off the board and internet but another thing entirely to have it put into such a readable and helpful book that has saved my neck more than once on this journey. Its a shame you have to keep bashing her.

 No... why should I read her book?  When I KNOW the majority of the stuff she put in there was stuff she learned from US VETS....I overheard someone say and I quote....Per Jean's book,.....just because you can does not mean you should...PLEASE...that was from Nancy D and actually written by the original lap band book author Jessie H. Ahroni,there is laws against plagiarism, I am not the only one who thinks this either.

I dont know all issues... and all history, but just responding to this post...
I am reading Jeans book.  I like it. 
If you have not read the book, you do not know the conotation that the phrase
".just because you can does not mean you should" was used.  
Was is said as an original phrase or was it used as a reference.  Using a line of common sense good advice is not plagarism.
Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work.

That is all.