After they talk about their day, they often times will talk about their emotions. The other users will generally respond to these messages with lots of encouragement and hope. The subscribers will not hesitate to bring in other problems other than Weight loss. The theme that runs through this mailing list is one that is very positive. I didn't read one message that was not supportive.
Respect is also extremely important here.
The next place that I found evidence of a presence of Weight loss supporters was through dejanews . I searched under Weight loss support and resulted in 525 messages. The results are at search results . I read quite a few of them. The theme was similar to that of the web pages and the mailing list except that the environment was different.