Message from "The VSG princess". Serious Rant.

Oh I was waiting for your comments on my "new tattoo and leather spikes".  I am pretty sure you smiled a bit at the visuals of that. I think Lizanne would also want to join our gang, what do you think?  She might have to lose that gorgeous feathery hat of hers, but I am sure she would like to play too.  :)  Lee, I so wish you lived closer.  I would love to go out and dance with you, we would have a blast. 

L'Shanah Tova to you too. 

 Love you sweetie. Keep on rocking!  

LOL, I'm totally in! Come up and the three of us can go to SF, grab Frisco and turn some heads!

Seriously, Elina, you ARE VSG royalty in the very best way. You are one of the reasons I stick around the bit I do, and you are so generous with your help and advice, though I know it gets exhausting and emotionally draining. Thanks!

Lizanne

 One of the best things that I ever adopted what the perspective/attitude of:  "It is not my business what others think about me!"   It is freeing!

I really, really love that quote. 

I also love this one:

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. --Oscar Wilde

I'm late getting to this discussion, since weekends are family time and I try to stay unplugged a little more than during the week. I wanted to weigh in, though (no pun intended) on this thread because I too enjoy your posts and find hearing from the vets in general, and from you specifically, immensely helpful as I embark on this journey to a new, healthier life. I can't recall a post where you have belittled anyone or acted like you were the end-all-be-all of VSG surgery information. What I have seen is you offering stories about your journey, yummy recipes, and words of encouragement to folks at times they needed them. The number of responses here from people whom you have personally helped are a testament to the impact you have on folks here.

Tina, thank you.  You know in the end, the best any of us can do is just to do a bit more good than bad, and that's what I hope I am doing here.  Sometimes I am not sure I am really helping, but then this post of mine really brought so many kind remarks out, it really touched me.  Thank you.

 I don't care what people eat. I just wanted to tell you that I was in a bad place yesterday, and you had true words that I needed to hear followed by kind supportive words that I also needed, and that's what matters to me. Thank you :) 

I also don't care what people eat.  I do care that people find their happy peaceful place around food and really, around life in general.  Yes, this place is about VSG and weight-loss, but really, we are all just trying to find our way to our goals, personal, weight, life goals.  It is easy to offer genuine support to you, you deserve it, we all do.

I didn't mean it to sound like you care what people eat, I know you don't. What I was trying to say is that when you helped me yesterday it wasn't even about food. You just wanted to help me and I could tell that and it meant so much to me. The interesting thing to me is that if I typed any issue into the search engine, I could come up with plenty of people who have gone through the same thing, but sometimes it's just not about that. Sometimes you just need to hear someone say it to you, and it's obvious to me that you understand that.  Everyone has their own journey and you helped me with mine.