I love this forum. I have been on an Australian one, a yahoo group, and it is run by tyrants. You are NEVER allowed to post a new thread, you MUST go to the General Questions thread and just throw it in there and hope for the best. Which means the first pages never change, the same spotlight hoggers (us normal ones on the site call them the Thread Police) are the ones writing everything, it is boring and you are always getting yelled at! I come home and read my posts and it puts me in a bad mood, and I am sure you are not supposed to get in a bad mood from a gastric banding help site. The "police" are all nasty and judgemental, and Thank God, I am happy I came across this site. I love America! I used to live there, I should have never come home. Thank you guys for being the best!

Sounds dreadful!!!!! I think our freedom of speech on this forum is wonderful!!!!

Mimi

I agree. I assume you are talking about ozband? I get the digests but have never posted. Lately all they seem to do on the forum is band bash, promote the sleeve, fight with each other etc. It is also not set up in user friendly way like this site is. Here it is easy to get updates on the threads you are subscribed to which doesn't happen on the yahoo groups.

But you do have to remember that the info on this site is American and that in Aus we do things differently. Most of our Dr's do not recommend high Protein or low carb, they do not tell us to eat only 1/2 cup of food and our insurance is completely different.

Enjoy the site and hopefully you will get the help here that you are looking for. And if you feel the need to talk to a fellow Aussie feel free to PM me.