Because you know... we're ALL SO LAZY!

OMG !!!!!!!!!!! people are soooo stupid !! this is one of the HARDEST things I have ever done !!!! ahhhh stupid ppl !!

I could care less about what people think about me and my band! I am happier than I have been in years and they can't take that away from me! We shouldn't have to defend or explain ourselves...I am very happy with my band! YEA ME!

OMG!!! This is why I cant stand some people!!! If these yahoo's would just do some research or take a minute to talk to a bandster they would realize that this is not something for lazy ppl. Sometimes I feel we have to work harder than those who do not have a band. We watch every bite of food, exercise our butts off and go through the same ups and downs and a person doing it "the hard way" as they put it. My best friend told me she didnt know why I was doing this because I could just do it the "hard way". Boy she sure changed her tune after she saw that it is just as hard if not harder to have the band. I dont hesitate to educate ignorant people!!! I would love to meet this jacka** and teach them a thing or two about the band. Life for us is hard enough without all this ignorant crap to deal with. I am proud of what I have accomplished and everyone else who had the courage to seek help in bettering themselves. Ok I am done ranting now......this just really pissed me off.

Because you know... we're ALL SO LAZY!

People like to criticize what they don't understand. It makes them feel like they aren't as stupid as they really are! Quite frankly, I don't give a Damn (can I say that?) what they think of me or my choices!

I'm 5 days post op and it just really got to me because there is NOTHING easy about this. =/

Lol well this ad is whats wrong... They are showing a man eating lots of food, kindda showing that with the band, you will eat 3 bigmacs and loose weight!!! No wonder ppl dont understand! Not only this, bcuz of ads like this, ppl getting bands dont even understand what the band will do!

And as for the comment, really its just a little retard trying to feel powerfull behind his computer screen.. LOl!

Who cares, lets just block this, most of the time it is just jealous ppl. Funny the only 2 ppl against me getting a lapband were my exs!!!! That says a lot no? 2 guys who left me because of my weight, and now it was hitting them that id be skinny, finally:) hehe!

Sad and miserable ppl can be so mean to try to feel better about themselves.

i agree with Elie.....the sign made me just as mad as the person who commented. This band is harder than any regular diet I have ever been on, but I'm willing to continue the journey because I believe it works. If people only knew what we had to go through each day to make this successful!

The ad gets me more than the ignorant blogger. There will always be naysayers against WLS. They are welcome to their opinions, just as I am welcome to have WLS to better my health.

But show someone stuffing his face and say get the band? Ugh, how low-brow can you get. That's not a medical group I would want to trust my life to.

^{With ads like that, no wonder people think so negatively of WLS. Yes, dieting sucks. The ad implies that if you have a band you'll lose weight even when you jam giant bites of... whatever that food is in his mouth. I think the person who designed that ad should have to get banded and then swallow a huge mouthful of bread and whatever is in that sandwich}

And I bet my money on it that a SKINNY person wrote that lol. Clearly, that person has not done their research.

HA!! I like your idea of justice!!!

^{With ads like that, no wonder people think so negatively of WLS. Yes, dieting sucks. The ad implies that if you have a band you'll lose weight even when you jam giant bites of... whatever that food is in his mouth. I think the person who designed that ad should have to get banded and then swallow a huge mouthful of bread and whatever is in that sandwich}

Someone should copy, and send it to Lap Band, and the Realize Band.

Ask them is this there new look in advertisement for the Band.

INDULDGE! AND SEE IF YOU CAN BULDGE.......

^{With ads like that, no wonder people think so negatively of WLS. Yes, dieting sucks. The ad implies that if you have a band you'll lose weight even when you jam giant bites of... whatever that food is in his mouth. I think the person who designed that ad should have to get banded and then swallow a huge mouthful of bread and whatever is in that sandwich}

HERE HERE!!! lol. Sounds great... After 6 days of liquids I would probably enjoy that FAR too much.

I agree the billboard is the problem.

A lot of people are ignorant as to what the band is and how it works and that you have to work hard to have success with it. Even though I did much research before I was banded. I still thought I would lose all of my excess weight in the 1st year without having to work as hard as I have on other diets.

I honestly feel I have had to work harder with the band. I don't regret my choice though.

That billboard only reinforces the negative ideas some people have about WLS.

If only it were really that easy!!