Am I the only one...

some of us come from a history of binge/emotional eating. speaking for myself, it's not how much i go over, it's why and what that means -- it's symptomatic of a much bigger problem than OH NO YOU LET URSELF HAZ CHEEZBURGER -- that makes me occasionally go into a spiral of feeling ALL the bad feelings.

it's easy to be smug about "not freaking out" if one has a healthier relationship with food. that's great, congrats, etc., but some of us aren't there yet. i don't think there's any need to make struggling people feel even ****tier about their (totally legitimate) feelings than they already do.

While I agree with the general idea of what you're saying and I completely understand where you're coming from, I don't think she was trying to be smug and I definitely don't think she was aiming to make anyone feel bad. I have her added on my friends list and she's never been anything but kind and supportive, even on days when I'm freaking out in my statuses every 5 minutes. So please don't make accusations like that based on 1 post on a forum.

i am not trying to cast aspersions on anyone's character! i'm sure no one here is a puppy-drowning nazi (and in fact are all lovely people, hyperbole aside). but in this particular post, i feel that their behavior was not something to celebrate, and that is what i am responding to. saying that people who post to the forums for advice/support during a time of panic/emotional pain "frustrate/annoy" them is pretty callous, in my opinion, and isn't going to make those people feel comfortable in a place that SHOULD be a safe space to express just those kinds of feelings. just because YOU (general you) don't understand what it's like to freak out when you go over, doesn't mean everyone can set it aside and see it as nbd.

and yeah it gets old seeing the same posts day in and day out, on any topic, but that's when people shut their mouths and scroll past, especially when it involves another human being in distress. not posting another topic about 'who agrees with me re: how those people are like sooooo annoying, don't they have their s--t together enough not to inconvenience the rest of us???? glad i'm not them!' -- yeah, i'd say that's smug, whether or not that's the op's intention (i choose to believe it wasn't, like you, but that doesn't mean it wasn't hurtful nonetheless).

anyhoodle MY intention wasn't to rampage in here and start a flame war, i am just trying to say that maybe this topic was not in such good taste, and maybe there are some shoes out there that need walkin' in before the urge to post such things becomes reality. so that is that. peace!