Won't Claire be surprised when she sees what has transpired on this thread!!
Personally, I was offended by someone telling Claire, essentially that was she did was not good enough. Or a 'poor effort' I believe was the terms used. The whole point of this site is to offer support to one another. Isn't it? Well, that to me was not supportive. Have we not taken enough negative flack from others already?
I feel pretty safe in sayng there is not one person here who has been a 'perfect dieter' or knows everything there is to know abuot being successful without making any mistakes. If that were the case, this would be one empty forum.
I would hope if I have a bad day, and like Bex am only in week 4 or myself, so so far it has been easy to be 100%, and I hope to remain that way - but things happen, and people can get caught out. So If and when that happens to me, I would hope to not be told my efforts in the moment were not good enough. If I was told that, I probably would not be as polite as I am trying to be here now.
We cannot judge others by our own standards. What is a busy day for one person, may be a relaxing day for another. What choices we make, our ours, and we own the consequences - being it a portion of 66 quid down the drain, or not getting in to those new trousers for another week. Whatever. It's no one elses business at the end of the day.
Of course this is a site where people want to learn how to change the way the deal with food! That is not rocket science. ANd it is cleary evident that is exactly what has happened to many many successful and inspiring members here. And the point is to offer support, and encouragement. Not to put someone down because they made what someone else interprets as a mistake. Comments about one making too many excuses, etc., should be reserved for the LLC in my opinion, whether or not that person has or has not made excuses.
He or she who presumes to know someone well enough in such a short period of time, in a virtual community, and feels able to tell them what they do wrong rathar then suggest what they might do next time to make it better....well....that just puts me off a little bit. People in glass houses and all that.....
Noone has ever said go eat a meal whenever you want to, and if someone did, if that is enough to drive someone away from a suporttive site like this, I might then question THAT as an excuse.
I have heard enough negative comments in the past about myself, and decisions I have made to last me a lifetime. I do not need a list of positive affirmations followed by a backhanded insult to help me understand why I put what I put in my mouth, and I suspect Claire does not either.
That is my opinion. And my final comment on the matter.
(Now, was that Parent? Adult? Child?
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