I understand that what people say is sometimes hurtful, but honestly, nothing anyone can say to us is as hurtful as what we say to ourselves. "You can't eat that because you're fat", "you should run five miles because you just screwed up", "You should stay home and run because your friends wont like you when you're this fat, don't eat tomorrow, then you can go out"

I completely agree that we dont need someone to judge us, we just need someone to listen. But am i right when i say that it's hard to talk to people that dont understand how it feels? Personally, i find large support groups to be helpful. I think there's always going to be something that offends someone else when talking about a serious subject like this but sometimes you just need to talk about it and if you can talk about it with someone who can relate, i feel like it's easier to open up and get things off your chest.