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Originally Posted by esammy12
The exact same thing happened to me. I was 100% compliant and the coach would literally yell at me at the top of her lungs that I was cheating and that they were going to "fire" me from the program. She yelled for 20 minutes once - going in to a long explanation that I probably needed some mental help - because she had just started seeing a therapist for the first time in her life and now she was a convert - and then when she had me good and angry - she took my blood pressure and then started yelling that if I didn't try harder on the diet - I was going to have a STROKE!. I left there shaking and crying. She was a horror. I left her a few months later and I wish I hadn't tried to go on my own. It didn't work. But at the time - I thought anything was better than her.
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I would have slapped her silly and quit her ON THE SPOT.
No One has the right to do that to anyone else!! If you can't encourage and support someone, then you have no business being a coach. It is entirely possible to help someone be accountable AND encourage and support them at the same time. Kindness can go a heckuva long way, and belittling someone is NEVER the way. We do enough of that to ourselves. I am sorry that it did not go well for you on your own, but you were right -- anything was better than her. I think you would have ended up feeling worse about yourself than ever. This just steams me.