Thank you! It’s been nice hearing from other people that got it, I was afraid I had somehow done something horrible without realizing.

I have rarely seen threads spiral as quickly as they do on this particular blog. I commented above trying to offer a perspective and some gratitude for the author’s honesty...only to see her be really rude to you for no apparent reason other than she is angry about how well you understand the calorie-transparency laws…

writing in caps doesn’t burn calories.

For real though, she was not being “rude as hell”, she wasn’t trying to make another woman feel stupid for no reason (?!?!) and her comment was well-intended and coming from a place of experience.

I am so confused about the tone of your article and your comments together. Are you a nutrition and exercise expert so…

OMG THIS: “Exercise is one of the things that reminds me what my body is capable of, and why it’s valuable no what it looks like. I can proudly say fuck a world that wants me to have a 25-inch waist; my core can support 60 minutes of swings with a 50lb kettlebell and hold me in a headstand for minutes on end.”

No. I understand some people think comments like mine are obnoxious. That isn’t like, an objective standard, though. As you can see from the many people who don’t think I was obnoxious at all and completely understand what I was saying. If you’re willing to accept that some people are sincere (EVEN THOUGH there is a…

Thank you! Yeah, that’s exactly how I read it too. I clicked on this expecting a “I’m not an in-shape bride and I don’t give a shit” article, and I wouldn’t have had anything at all to say about that. That is fine with me. But Lauren sounds like she’s pretty unhappy with her current routine, and would like to change,…

Thanks. Yeah. That’s pretty much exactly what I was saying, but I should have known that the “never comment on anyone’s exercise or eating habits” rule would hold, even in a post where someone offers up their exercise and eating habits for discussion.

No, I meant that completely. If she really IS happy with how she feels and looks, and she’s adopting this cranky, malaise-filled confused tone as some kind of rhetorical device she thinks the internet will like, then why should she change anything? But she sounds unhappy and vaguely ashamed of her exercise and eating…

This comment thread has really spiralled out, hasn’t it? I personally read your comment as an attempt to cheerfully offer up a practical solution to the problem of feeling crappy and confused, since the overall tone of the article was definitely “bemused at both how one loses weight and whether or not to take weight…

I disagree, it honestly did sound like a plea for that. The author feels crappy about doing some crunches on a daily basis and then eating high cal food and not losing weight. We’re telling her what to do not to feel crappy, but it seems that she just wants everyone to say “It’s okay to feel crappy and continue eating…

Wow- she was a real bitch to you for no reason at all. I wouldn’t revert to anything if I were you, just vow to never read this bridezilla’s (crap) writing again! ;)

I often hate-read Lauren Rodrigue’s ridiculous wedding posts and I’m not surprised to see that she’s rather catty in the comments. I understood what you were saying and didn’t think you came off preachy, for the record.

You’re a 100% right! Great reply.

The good news is, there is no way to do 135 crunches a day correctly, if by correctly you mean “in a way that will make a goddamn bit of difference,” particularly given your diet, so I think you can probs relax about them. The only restaurants in New York required to post calorie counts are chain restaurants with…