I'm out of here.

Obviously very one sided encouragement, never bothering to read anyones posts and find out what their surgeries were about sounds less like lending support and more like just preaching her views.

I agree.  I HAVE seen her reply to other posts... Just not nearly as frequently as she posts her own (too Pollyanna-ish for me) encouragement and positivity posts. I know that there are some people, though, who like to read them (just not me).

No matter what the cir****tances, however, I hate to see someone quit ANYTHING rather than just educating themselves. Education is power.

As a licensed Counselor and Psych PhD, I also hate it when people trust "coaches" -- who have no (or very little) special education or training and often do what is legally restricted (in most states) to those with mental health training and licenses -- and end up worse than they were before.

Anyone who advertises themselves as a certified anything needs to have both passion (often sorely lacking in many in-person WLS support group leaders who are paid by the bariatric hospitals and/or surgeons groups) AND education, because people naturally assume that they have both.

“Every person has the power to make others happy.
Some do it simply by entering a room --
others by leaving the room....
What kind of trails do you leave?”

-- William Arthur Ward

Best of luck to you!

"Lastly, I leave you gentlemen now, and you will write it, you will interpret it. That's your right. But as I leave you, I want you to know -- just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more, because gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

(It makes me feel old to realize how many people here would have no idea who said this if you removed Tricky Dick's name, LOL.)

I once had an interview for a teaching job for a Sixties course, and was interviewed by the guy who had already been teaching it. He had never heard of Agnew. Looked at me like I had two heads when I mentioned him.

And he was born when?

He was a little older than me, so hecwas born 1956 or so. About college age during Watergate and the resignation. And a history teacher. Teaching the sixties.