You all do have a point about putting it all out there for others. But this board is full of people that have tons of experience in a great variety of things, so I felt someone here may have heard of this "diet" or know someone that has tried it. She is very, very open in discussing just about everything in her life, almost to perfect strangers, so knowing her bowel issues is known to just about everyone in our department, for the good and bad of it. She is just a very sharing person with her personal life. Soliciting other people's thoughts and opinions and knowledge on a subject is how people learn. This board is so full of knowledge, it would be foolish to over look it as a source to bounce ideas off of instead of just reading the companies site and trusting them.
She was talking about it with the others when I walked into work one morning this week, and she asked me about it. When she stated that it is sold as an alternative to gastric bypass, my first thought was that she didn't qualify for gastric bypass, so this would be way too extreme of a measure for her small amount she wants to loose. One of our other co-workers is an RN, and he pretty much told her that is was a bad idea, so I got to googling too! I found a flag on the BBB with a warning stating that the company was suing a customer for posting a bad review of them online. They flagged it stating that when you agree to their "special" pricing, you agree not to be negative in any way, shape or form of their product. This was a flag for me. When I finally got their site to come up, google didn't like their security setting for their website (imagine that), it read like you were "drinking/eating" this silica gel substance to fill your stomach, so you can't really eat that much to cut your calories. Then I read about all the other things you should be doing other than just taking their gel. That seemed like you would loose weight just by doing those things alone.
I know there are other items out there that are sold to "fill" your stomach to reduce what you can eat, but they aren't good forms of loosing weight and will result in weight loss but not keeping it off if you don't change your lifestyle. It isn't about doing it my way, which would be cutting her sugar, carbs and exercising. Those things would do wonders for her since she eats too much of those for a diabetic. She drinks plenty of water at work, so she is making progress there. I guess I'm just concerned about what seems like a scam and something that would probably be very unhealthy for you in the short and long run and wanted to know what others knew about it or thought about it. I'm also concerned that for someone that complains of not having extra money, she is going to toss quite a chunk of change at this for what she really can just do on her own with those changes all of you have suggested all over this board when it comes to quick diets. I know it is her problem and her money, but if we had more information on it, she could make a better rounded decision than what we were both able to google about it.
Thanks for your information and I welcome more. She isn't ready to push the button yet, but not being very good on internet searches, she asked me to see what I could find out about it, especially since their site doesn't have any substantial information from the flip side of the reviews. I'm the kind of person that likes to read a variety of reviews on things before I make a decision, especially on something this expensive.
As for the suggestions by AuntG, those sound like my normal meals. I love oatmeal!!! Your thinking is right up my alley except I do the bigger meal in the middle of the day and a lighter supper.
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