Warning: Your food label could be lying to you!
This wasn't a case of people being mean or attacking in my opinion. There was an assertion made that a company was willfully and dangerously lying about the content in their products and that they could cause serious harm.
I think I led the charge in saying IF YOU ARE GOING TO SAY THAT...back it up with actual information, not just your personal experience. While valid, your personal experience does NOT = this product is dangerous. Further follow-up is warranted. There aren't a lot of companies still that even care about WLSers as a market and alienating the ones that do with potentially libelous statements does not necessarily help that fact.
This, apparently, was mean. I think Hala and I are past that. I just now know not to use any of my connections with bariatric companies to intermediate in such situations anymore.
And all God's children are happy.
Those are the facts.
RNY Gastric Bypass 1-8-08 350/327/200 (HW/SW/CW). I spend most of my time playing with my food over at Bariatric Foodie - check me out!
So that is not to say that there wasn't any meanness. I just do not believe in my heart that said meanness happened here.
I hope Hala knows that she is a valued member of this board and that her experiences resonate with a lot of people here, me included. We are cool. And I hope that any thread wouldn't prevent her from openly sharing experiences in the future.
RNY Gastric Bypass 1-8-08 350/327/200 (HW/SW/CW). I spend most of my time playing with my food over at Bariatric Foodie - check me out!
on 8/20/12 9:35 am
I however got some personal comments from people *****ally like you who got really nasty toward me, some started in the public comments on the post and then some followed with PM.
I realized that I got way involved in the issue and backed away. Block the really aggressive ones. One day - they will understand - and they will get it. Karma is a *****
I still believed that the said company was dishonest - or at least careless - I was not the only one who had reaction to their products.
To this day I have not got even a word of apology from them. Sure - they refunded money for the product that I did not use, but only after you got involved. and it was not a lot - considering. But I never got "sorry our product made you sick" ... but that would be admitting that there may be something wrong with them.
And I do believe that if their product was tested independently - it would show what I was saying. This product is going to make some people really sick - like it did to me.
But then my body is supper sensitive to carbs. I learned a very valuable lesson. "Don't trust commercial product". Now I test all food on me on empty pouch in the morning (the time when I am the most sensitive to sugar - carbs).
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
If that was true, then everyone on this forum needs to IMMEDIATELY stop drinking pure water, eating cooked fish, and drinking milk. THIS MINUTE. I react negatively to the prima-donnas that come on here (again, not Halaa, who I love!) who think their reality is everyone's reality.
I remember one person who logged in, and posted about 50 messages in about 10 minutes. There was NOTHING on the page but this person's personal thoughts on EVERY FLIPPING THING they ever ate or drank, and a personal analysis on each.
I still consume crystal light. Without it, I'd dry up into dust and drift away.
~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!
Please don't stop posting your experiences. They are valuable!
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
There are a lot of foods that I can't tolerate post op RNY - but a lot of they is just "mine issue". It makes me mad when product is advertised as safe for post op RNY and it is not.
BTW: the other similar product - the no dairy so-Delicious ice deserts - in some health food stores (like WF, or TJ) also have more sugar and carbs than on a label - as tested on me. 1 small serving raised my BS way too high and made me dump.
Like this:
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Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
yea... except that do not work for us with carbs or sugar. I feel that I absorb 120% of sugars nd carbs. Or more.. Now fat and proteins - that I malabsorb...
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
