Ok so I got a call from my friend today asking me if i checked my email. She had sent me a link for Zetacap a diet pill that is "supposed" to be WLS in a bottle. She has a client that swears it works. So i asked her ok so what do you do take the pill for the rest of your life, she said no you stop taking it when you reach your goal weight. Now I know as will many of us LTB that is not possible, there is no magic pill, there is either WLS or diet and exercise or both. I think she has these subtle was of trying to tell me not to have this surgery, because i am bigger than her. I think she does not want be to be smaller than her becasue then she would be the biggest one in our circle of friends. Sad but true, but i love her anyway.

(in my best Scarlet Ohara southern accent....)

AS GOD AS MY WITNESS I WILL NEVER TAKE ANOTHER DIET PILL AGAIN

heh...I love your Scarlet accent!

I feel the same way about diet pills. Never again! However, there have been times when my restriction has been not so good and I have almost taken a half of a leftover RX diet pill (phentermine?) but haven't yet. I keep them on standby because I am totally not against doing what is necessary to keep hunger at bay and boost my metabolism with a little synthetic energy.

Not sure how this Zetacap works, but I saw something advertised when I was Googling Lap Band and it was some drug that fills your stomach so much you can't eat. Sorry, they didn't get my money. I have spent enough!

I'm sure your friend is worried about you. Any friend would be. But noone wants the spotlight on them for being the fattest one. You can psychoanalyze her all day but it won't do you any good, nor should her point of view be anything more than part of a puzzle for you. It shouldn't be a decision maker unless you agree that this WLS is not for you.

Some friends of mine passed along some diet info (herbal pills and a program) before I had my surgery. It wasn't a message to say "don't do it" just something they happened to find and passed along just in case. I said 'thank-you", read it all, and went for surgery They continue to be very supportive, even if neither of them would make the same decision I did.

I'm happy with my band. It's working. I'd do it again. But I don't recommend it. I pass along info and tell my story. Should someone really want to know, I'll tell them. Otherwise I just do my thing, live my life, slowly shrinking. Someone else will have to buy the magic pills!!!

I used to take orlistate... I felt the same way...do this for the rest of my life and loose 30 lbs or do what I really needed and loose what I need to be healthy.

As for the friend thing... I have quite a few of them that I lost because they were not the "thin" ones anymore... My loss... but it was really theirs. I did not do this for them. so I can't help how they feel.

I read about those, and I'm sure they work about as well as everything else that I tried. I tried one thing that didn't advertise being 'bypass in a bottle' but the idea was the same. Take this before you eat, and it will expand taking up room in your stomach and you wont eat as much. We can see how well that worked, lol.

Banded and very happy here