The message board forums based on amount of weight to lose were eliminated becuase there are sparkteams based on those same considerations, and people are referred to them when registering. Your friend will probably be referred to a team for people with 100+ pounds to lose, and in her same age group, when she registers. You can also search through the list of sparkteams by subject/focus on the main sparkteam page to find some additional options (or tell her to do that).
Hope this helps.
Coach Dean
SILVERPONY 1/30/08 11:50 P
I have a friend I'd like to encourage to check out the site; she's a VERY VERY big girl, and I thought it might be nice if I showed her a forum where many others in her weight range posted. I haven't logged on to the site in a while (fell off the wagon two months ago, gained 3 lbs back but lost a looot of muscle that reverted back to fat, bah) anyway, and when I went looking for that forum, it wasn't there...