Welcome back! Now that it's Sunday there's a rash of posts here.
I want to apologize publicly to you if I sounded rude yesterday. I was heading out with my bf and I saw your post and responded quickly. I've been misunderstood before when I speak very quickly which is why I said I didn't want to be rude, but I wanted you to know why people might not be posting right away so you wouldn't feel bad.
Like I told you in my PM, the people here are awesome and they are very supportive. I know what you mean about RL (real life) friends not understanding--after all most of them don't weigh over 300 lbs. so really, how could they understand?
Most of my friends and family try to understand and be supportive so I guess I'm lucky in that, but they just don't "get it". It's so hard trying to get healthy and lose weight. It's not just an issue of eat smaller portions or exercise more although let's face it--that is EXACTLY what we have to do to meet our goal of losing weight.
Most of us are probably binge eaters who need some kind of counseling to deal with whatever issues we have. Like I tell my friends--You can't get to over 300 lbs. without having some serious issues. I eat to push my negative thoughts and emotions down so I don't have to deal with them and the people I know in RL will never be able to "get that". *Sigh* Enough of this introspection. I'm very glad you decided to come back. You'll like it here.