You know, ultimately I think the reason this annoys me so is because I am so hard on myself if I gain a few pounds and since I know my family history of diabetes I try to take care of myself - I workout hard most of the time (I have had a lull lately but I'm slowly working out of it) and I guess it just bugs me that people complain when there is an out. It's like they either take what they think is the easy way out (starving) or they quit all together.
We all know it's not easy to workout. I know too that I'm accustom to working out hard primarily because of my military days...had I not gone through that though, I may never have made it even to the level I'm at now, and I've said in other posts that I can't hardly do BBC, so I'm not close to being an expert, nor am I in the best shape I can be in.
The other side of my annoyance is that I feel sorry for people in these situations because to me the seem trapped. I've done what another poster said though...I'm done giving advice or discussing it with them. I'm taking to just changing the subject. That keeps me from being frustrated too.
This is a delicate subject though - I sincerely hope I didn't offend anyone - I would never want to do this. Probably deep inside my frustration over this subject comes from my own personal issues more than anything else. ;(