Figrus Put on half a pound. The latter half of last week i stayed away from the 'support' thread . I found it very demoralising, full of moaners and tales of people cheating. There were a few positive people posting uplifting encouraging messages but the overall theme was very deflating.
I've just gone back and read the whole thread, and I think you are being very, very unfair. What I read was a lot of success stories at the start of the week, followed by people delighting in being able to buy new, smaller jeans later on. And people discussing their struggles with the emotional aspects of eating, for which there was a lot of support.
One or two people - including me - talked about the difficulty of going to events where you have no control over your food. This is a reality of life and while we have to learn to deal with it, it is frustrating and can be very upsetting to have your best attempts derailed.
One poster talked about a slip not meaning the end of the world - which is an important perspective - and there was a bit of debate about this.
There is obviously a lot of glass half full people around. Can we not have a different 'cheat' thread? Didn't biwitched ask them not to post on this one?
This claim totally undermines the contribution of people on last week's thread, where they were discussing some quite difficult issues. Perhaps you do have a glass half full attitude to life. Good for you. Other people have specific and different issues that they want to discuss on a SUPPORT thread. And there was lots of support.
I have asked people before not to post in a gloating way about their cheats, as there was a lot of this on the last couple of Bootcamps, and it can be seriously triggering for other posters. But I have never said that we shouldn't talk about what's happened, why we cheated, what to do about it, how to deal with it in the future.
Charlie, I'm glad i am not alone in thinking that. I thought i might be hounded off the thread for expressing my opinion. But , hey , we're all adults here. Sayra, i wasn't referring to you personally, your pictures were inspiring. It was the overall tone of the latter half of the thread that i found demoralising not specific posters.
If you have an issue with something, please say so on the thread. No point sitting behind your computer silently seething. As you say, we're all adults here. If something offends or upsets you, then why not say so? And, again, I think you're totally, totally wrong about the tone of the thread.