Why the need to bring people down who are in shape?

Ok, I will agree to disagree. But I have one last question for you.

If I went onto your success story about Yo and posted the following-

"It is unhealthy for women to be at this low of a body fat %. You do not have to train like this to be healthy. There are better ways to do it." And I posted 3 large pics of my friend who has an awesome body, but has a softer, less muscular physique.

Would you consider that to be an appropriate comment to leave on a SUCCESS thread?

Just to note, that I WOULD NOT post this comment on your thread. I am only using that as an example.

It is unhealthy for a woman to be sub 12% body fat for a significant time I'd agree. At her current body fat level she is above critical bodyfat levels, she is at a healthy level. You would be incorrect.

...I also am tired of people expecting everyone who is trying to get in shape and or get healthy that they want to look "ripped". No, that isn't everyones goal. We are all individual and we all have our own vision of beauty.

The expectation isn't that everybody wants to be "ripped". The expectation is that if you don't like the way somebody's body looks, don't say anything at all. If I click on somebody's success thread and see that they've lost 50 pounds, but most of it was muscle mass and they now look like a skinny, saggy, droopy mess, I don't post "ewww, skinnyfat, I'd NEVER want to look like that!". I hit the 'back' button on my browser and go find another thread. A lot of other people do the same, based upon what I've seen in the success threads, because the vast majority of the people who respond are congratulatory and positive. That's not always the case when somebody is "ripped" and/or muscular - some people have a seemingly irresistible compulsion to offer their two cents about how it looks too "masculine", or that it's unappealing, or some other negative comment on some part of the person's anatomy. That's the double standard Jojo referred to earlier in the thread. Instead, how about you hit your freaking back button, leave the freaking thread and go offer a more positive opinion to someone who's "curvy" (still fat, in other words) or skinnyfat or whatever. I'm sure they'll appreciate your input much more than the person whose parade you just rained upon.

This is from Yo's latest thread:

"I think she looked lovely before... now she looks, well, very mucsular I suppose. I guess that's what you were aiming for."

This is also one of the comments that you deemed negative.

All that woman was stating is how she looked good before, and now she looks more muscular, and maybe thats the look you were going for. No OMG Ew she's ugly.. nothing like that.

Just unsure of what you are aiming for, and why you would want to do that when she looked good before.

So my last comment before I go, is stop getting so defensive and actually read/think about what people are trying to say. It would probably save you a lot of headache and energy.

Why is there anyone commenting on a success thread negatively about how she looks full stop? I see it on no other success threads?

Is it OK for me to say well you look slightly less fat than before, if that's what you are looking for?

And its not just thread, its any thread with a shapely woman in and often the same for men.

So stop looking at just one thread and concluding you know everything to which I this thread applies.