I don't think that anyone meant to offend you. They were trying to be informative. This forum offers a lot of support to people, but generally when someone thinks a certain way of dieting is unhealthy they speak up. That is great that you are trying to fight obesity, but just like being obese is unhealthy so are many of the diets done to lose the weight. Either way you are endangering yourself, you might as well do it the healthy way, be able to work on your eating patterns and be gaurenteed to lose the weight and keep it off. I do wish you the best with your weightloss journey.