The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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I think it's one of those things that's obviously not literally true but is true in a practical sense for most people trying to lose weight. See the spike in gym memberships at the beginning of the year; if you think that joining a gym is going to provide sufficient motivation for the amount of exercise required to not diet, then I have some swampland in Jersey to sell you. I get the impression that these people don't particularly enjoy exercise but are forcing themselves to because they know it's necessary. Contrast that with people like you and me who exercise more because we like it and who look forward to it and it's much easier to just knock off a 20 mile bike ride after work without really thinking about it. I recently had to take a group of 14 year olds on a 50 mile bike ride to finish a merit badge and these kids were clearly wiped out by the end. One said he'd never do that again. Meanwhile, I'd do that same ride on a random Saturday for recreation. Given that diet has a bigger impact on net caloric intake than exercise, saying that you can't outrun your fork is a good rule of thumb for most people.
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