Table 4.

Topics of feedback.

Number	Topic	Frequent words	Quotes from online posts
EFa 1	Dietary information	Eat, food, meal, drink, breakfast, lunch, dinner, water, protein, cook, sugar, and hungry	“For a quick snack, I love to grab a stick of beef jerky from the convenience store or dollar store. Lasts a while, is fairly cheap, has between 100-150 calories, and fills me for a while”
EF 2	Compliment	Amazing, good, people, work, gift, great, job, fit, love, really, wow, congratulation, and nice	“A nice change! Inspiration for people like me going through this! :D”
EF 3	Consolation	Feel, hope, hard, lose, year, motivate, lb, month, keep, think, life, and change	“I am right there with you...But whatever, tomorrow is a new day, approach it just like you have been before this weekend. You know what you have to do and you know you can do it because you have done it before. Just put your head down and keep going!”
EF 4	Reddit bot	Post, question, answer, /r/loseit, automated, contact moderator, guide, bot, and thank	“I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subReddit] (/message/compose/r/loseit) if you have any questions or concerns.”
EF 5	Health information	Weight, calorie, scale, loss, diet, exercise, muscle, body, deficit, count, burn, lift, and measure	“Alcohol can dehydrate you in the very short term which will show up as weight loss on the scale, but typically a body reacts by then retaining even more water until it feels that it is sufficiently hydrated.”

^aEF: feedback on emotional eating behavior