Now VS Then

Looking back at posts, I realized that this board has gotten pretty stagnant. Sept 19, 2010 for example: 12 new posts, the rest were from the previous day with a few from 2-3 days before. Now, we have very few other than what are we eating and Ms Prouty's daily posts...

What's up peeps? Why are we not posting on the Lapband Forum? The other band forum, Realize, hasn't had a new post in weeks, maybe months. It used to get 3/4 a day. Is Lapband surgery extinct?

Good point, Steph. I miss those discussions and questions. How about I start one.

Sue

I remember back when I was pretty much a newbie.  2-3 PAGES of posts new for that day!

 

I also remember when it was hard to read all the new threads! Shame it has changed. It was never a totally calm board! We had our wars - vets will remember the Great Protein Shakes Wars and the surgery wars back then were band versus RnY!

Over time, I have seen people come and go but I think the damage was done when certain things happened which meant large numbers left all at once. 

*A very aggressive and controversial element which made the board intimidating- NOT talking about the current posters who tell their very unhappy stories. A handful of people spent a lot of time telling people they were total idiots to have got banded and even if things were going well now, failure was inevitable. The atmosphere was poisonous.

*stirring by pro-band people! Deliberated provocation

* misinformation by both "sides" (again, not by everyone! By a few!)

* name calling. I am privileged to have managed to have both the pro and the anti band people calling me a liar and s hypocrite.

*the discovery that posts were being published, without permission, on Facebook

* stricter moderation which pleased some, upset others.

 

I think your last two reasons sum it up, but I also think that the band isn't the ONLY non-malabsorptive WLS now...the other boards, including revision are as busy or busier than before.

People are not going to post on this board because of all the arguments he said she said, your surgery sucks, this one is better, sort of things.

If I was a new person that just had surgery i sure wouldnt come to this board,  I will not recommend this board to anybody past or future lapbanders.

The damage has been done and nothing is going to change it.   

This board can be down right nasty and hateful and I mean hateful .  Full of arguments, full of name calling .  Not to long ago you couldnt read a single thread without some sort of fight starting out .

Why would people stick around for stuff like that .  

I come here twice a week to read certain posts and that is all ,  I just dont feel the need to post here anymore with accomplishments or struggling . 

 

Im sure if any of the long term vets see this they will probably say the same thing .  They let this board get out of hand and did nothing about it and this is what happens you run off people.

 

Since the board is so quiet, the newbies aren't seeing any if that.  I think we are staying away for the reasons you stated.  

Hi steelerfan! I have thinking of you a lot lately and wondering how you are doing. Post a little or reply so we know you haven't given up totally.

Sue

 

HI Sue,

 

Im doing good not great but good . Holding steady lol.  I did really good at Disney though. I didnt say no anything ate all the bad foods but within my limits and still lost 12 pounds in 6 days.  I love Disney  lol.  I told hubby I would move down there just to get season passes just to walk around .

I got myself into not doing any Zumba though . I have been to one class in two months :o( .  Just Disney and then three weeks later it was Christmas and we know how it goes.   Once you stop exercising its a witch to get yourself going again.

 I am starting back tonight though and going back Mon, Wed Thurs and Fridays again .  Once I get back into that the food will fall into place. 

 

Food has been okay , I am eating alot of things I shouldnt be eating.   Not being picky like I was right after surgery .   I need to get back into being picky again lol.

Once I start exercising again I will be okay . I work out so hard at Zumba you dont want to blow what you did by eating bad .

Other then that doing really good no complications, no nothing band wise problems just Steelerfan problems not getting her head in the right place to do it lol.