And one wonders why there are so many misconceptions about how the lap band is really supposed to work and its real purpose.

Uhm.. don't see anything offensive about it. Think it's rather clever really.

I was just noticing yesterday on the 6 hour road trip to my band doc how billboards these days try to cram way too much message on there, and then a lot of them didn't even make sense!!!

There was one that said--

"Big bang theory??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" -God

And it was advertising for a Fybromyalgia (sp) group.

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Another one "A parent who hosts, is a parent who loses the most".

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What do these things even mean?!

So yeah, a nice to the point-- do you eat too much, get the band! Does the job.

As for surgery on billboards, they're very big in Alabama.. haven't seen a lapband one, but there's a crap load of cardiac surgery billboards around here (which I found odd, who looks at a billboard for that info).

And Realize is all over my Tivo lately. At the bottom of every screen it says Wanna Lose Weight? Realize Band can help (something like that).

I don't get the fibromyalgia thing, but the other one I take to mean that if a parent hosts a party for teens that has alcohol, they risk losing a lot.

LMAO @ Sandiego! I do not offend easily myself, but that billboard SUCKS! It would be nice to know exactly how many people went to those doctors after they saw that billboard. I am sure they were pi$$ed when they found out you can't take bites like that after you get banded. So maybe you can hit them with false advertisement ;o)

The board confuses me personally. The guy doesn't look heavy and neither does it look like he is on a diet. He looks like he is eating to his heart's content and a "diet" never entered his mind...ever. If you want to remind me of the pain of a diet, I would think more of a tiny, tiny portion of food with a person staring at it and frowning, because they are starving and it isn't enough for them : / Where with a lap band, it would be. Yes, diets suck. But cramming food into your mouth is not dieting. Or are they actually trying to say that is how you will eat once you get a band? That's an outright lie >>;

Edited May 20, 200917 yr by Fae