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Ok, there is a great book (it is HUGE) called "The Success Principles" by Jack Canfield who was co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul.  He has a thing called "overcoming belief with turn around statements"

Here's the process
1. My negative/limiting belief is __________.
2. The way it limits me is ______________.
3. The way I want to be, act , or feel is _____________.
4.My turnaround statement that affirms or gives me permission to do this is ________.

Example:
You say the negative statement "I can't do anything right, nothing I do is good enough, I'm not good enough"
The turnaround statement is " I can do MANY things right and each time I try something new, I learn something and I get better at it".

Book called The Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol says "The subtle force of repeated suggestion overcomes our reason.  It acts directly on our emotions and our feelings and finally penetrates to the very depths of our subsconscious minds. It's the repeated suggestion that make you believe"

I was talking to Sharon the other day about how powerful our subconcious is.  If you feed your mind with the turnaround statements, it will make such a difference at helping you avoid the stinkin' thinkin'.  There was a little commercial on TV that was the perfect example of this and I used it in a talk I did.  I've been needing to find an excuse to upload that video so I will!

Suzy, replace the stinkin' thinkin' with the attitude of gratitude.  Your subconscious brain doesn't know the difference between real and not so feed your brain the good stuff.  I promise, promise, promise this will make a difference.  I'm going to upload that part and get it up on you tube so you can see it.
hugs Y

Suzy, I'm so glad you canceled it because it only brings you down to their level.  That person is an unhappy person and the saying "misery loves company" means exactly that.  I've used this analogy so many times and please excuse me if I repeat myself but I look at it like we are walking a road toward our goal...not goal weight so much but that's part of it.  We are walking toward the thing we want most in our lives and when these little things pop up that are negative and mean you should just walk on by and don't veer off course because you are only allowing them to rent space in your head.  They are either looking for a reaction or they are saying something that they believe will make them popular with others.  Putting someone down to make yourself look better is never a reason to do it.  It is the basis of all prejudice and bigotry.  In my recipe for life I talk about that you never know what someone else's journey is until you walk in their shoes.  Don't we have enough work to do on keeping our side of the street clean than to put someone else down?  Carnie has struggled but you know what?  If Carnie hadn't been so public I wouldn't have had the surgery.  She saved my life because I was truly on my way to finding a way to check out.  The pain was too great.  I had lost my mom and she was the most beautiful, kind, gracious and angelic being this earth ever lost and she loved me no matter what size I was.  I was angry when she was taken and I took it out on myself and I ate more than I ever did and I didn't care if I lived or died.  Thanks to Carnie I am not only alive but thriving and then on top of that I am paying it forward to help others that want to live!  She started this little ripple in a pond that became a wave that turned into a tsunami called Yvonne the weight loss surgery advocate.

The other thing is....when people are cruel and nasty, they don't realize that they are sabotaging their success.  A mean, nasty, unhappy person stresses their body and guess what that does?  It throws your body into starvation mode and it hangs on to every calorie with a vengence.  There are a few that are thin that are mean but I think you'll find that many of the more vocal negative post-ops are not successful in any aspect.  So when you see the crappy, negative stuff....change channels because the moment you allow it to raise your blood pressure, you will hurt yourself.  You can be compassionate by thinking "Thank God I don't have to live in that person's head" and then move on and find a post you can contribute to that is positive.  It works I promise!
hugs, Y