People who haven't had WLS

Does it though? In your opinion?

There are some things can't be known except from experience. The fear and anxiety leading up to surgery, pain and physical changes to your body post-op, dealing with comments and concerns from family and co-workers post-op, body dysmorphia issues, and just plain old support from someone who has been where you are now. You'll notice I don't post regarding these topics regularly.

What I dispute is that experience alone imbues anyone with knowledge of things that ought only be gained from scholarly sources and NOT from experience, such as anything regarding the statistical liklihood of anything or the best post-op supplementation regimen or other things that can only be determined by research. There are some post-ops like yourself who have spent significant time looking at research and letting it inform your decisions and opinions, but there are many who have not. It is people *****ly on their personal experience to make them experts in an area where a single person's experience is clearly insufficient, people who think the plural of anecdote is 'data', and who are threatened by research that I find frustrating.

I totally agree with you on this one. There is always new research coming out, most of which I read and consider.  But there is something to be said for living the life.  Most people do it correctly, some don't - which is mostly what I take issue with.

I have to agree with you on this one Pat.  Well said.

Karen i am reader creeper on OH and this is one of the funniest things i have come across on here in awhile. Thanks for the giggle (but its sooo true )

haha

Well, glad I could amuse you.  Please post more. :)

I was reminded and responded in my previous thread about healthy carbs, that there is a danger in reading and listening to advice from anyone you don't know so cannot trust. Important for folks to not take advice from just one person as well...Good advice from us:  just two people...

just because you haven't met someone face to face doesnt mean you don't know and can't trust them. Some of the people on this forum i have not met face to face, but do trust

That works for you Monica, but not for me I guess...I think I need a 'physical presence' to establish a rapport and then trust...

Yeah, we're all different, thank goodness, otherwise this would be a boring place. I generally get a sense of how truthful people are by consistencies in their postings. I may be a bit too trusting, but its got me this far.