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Originally Posted by teahoney
I understand how you feel tealeaf but most of the posts started in the mini-goals forum are not even goal related just NSVs similar to yours. So don't be afraid to use that forum just because you don't like the wording. I would have loved to read your housecoat story and anything else ya got.
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All the more reason to have just a general success story forum, to my way of thinking. The fact that people are using the mini goal forum the way we used to use the success story forum just illustrates the need for it.
I know that this might make me sound pretty hard headed, and I apologize for that. It's not a case that I am afraid to use the goal forum, more that I don't as a form of protest. I don't just dislike the wording, I have very strong feelings on this issue.
I think that people who are trying to get fit are put under too much pressure to have goals, which usually take the form of "Lose X pounds by X date". This is fine and dandy if they hit that goal, much less so if they don't. "Hey, I said I wanted lose 10 pounds by July 4th; I've only lost 5. I've failed!" Um, no. Losing any weight is not a failure. But how many people just get discouraged and give up when they don't make a goal? Judging from what I've seen on the time I've been on this board, a goodly number.
Equating the idea of success with the concepts of goals is just plain wrong and hurtful, in my opinion.
I also don't see the need for this from a stylistic point of view. There is a forum for those who have hit main goal. There is also a Maintence forum, for those who have hit goal and now want to keep the weight off. I don't see the need for both forums. I mean, who wants to hit goal and then gain it all back?
I can understand that the admins don't want there to be too many forums, and I am definately on board with that. There is another diet support forum I go to that has so many forums that it's hard to find what you are looking for, or remember where you might have posted what. But getting rid of a popular forum to basically introduce redundancy just doesn't make sense to me.
Ok, I've rambled enough. Thanks for the encouragement about the house coat thing. Somehow, I never really considered that I might shrink out of my old ones!