Well, okay let me address a couple of things.  First of all, I'm sorry that my personal comments that I thought I was sharing with my friends were more snarky and perhaps negative than my comments on Roni's site.  I think it is pretty understandable that someone would use a different tone when she is talking to a few people who know her really well and with whom she shares a point of view than when she is talking to a website full of people who have a completely different viewpoint.  

Roni, I'm sorry if this difference in tone made it seem like I was being less than sincere with you on your site and in our email discussion.  I meant everything I said to you and your readers and I absolutely do wish them all the best.  I have a radically different view from most of your readers when it comes to body image and which goals are worthwhile and which goals are not, but as I said in my previous post, just because we disagree on some fundamentals doesn't mean there isn't common ground.  

For the readers of Roni's site who chose to comment here, I appreciate that we disagree as well on some of these fundamental ideas but again, I wish you every happiness and I hope the efforts you are making pay off for you in positive ways.  I understand the impulse to get negative, especially if you feel like I am attacking this person  you look up to or this idea that you have based a lot of your life's effort on.  I pointed to my blog so that you could see that we have some things in common, not to somehow insist that I am all happy and that everything in my life is perfect.  I certainly have just as many (if not more!) insecurities as the next person, and while I am pretty sure that dieting and weight loss as a goal is not right for me, it certainly doesn't mean that I think I have everything figured out.  

Anyway, I hope everybody feels like they got to say their piece.  If not, feel free to comment below.

Carrie