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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Not sure if anything I said last week was at all helpful but some more stuff to add: alcohol is really bad for you. I think we all are aware of this, but we mostly kinda ignore it (minus the whole "a glass of wine is fine" thing that more recent research has called into question).
It makes it harder to lose weight, it fucks with your sleep, it causes multiple kinds of cancer, your liver is robust but liver problems are one of the worst ways to die, one of the few things that can very easily kill you withdrawal, etc.
It can certainly be worth it, but health reasons to stop can be pretty motivating, and it's relatively common, even with more mild to moderate use, to find that cutting it out makes you feel a decent amount "better."
On a pointless academic note: alcohol withdrawal can last for multiple weeks but that's rare and would be vanishingly unlikely to apply in this case (5 days is a reasonable rule of thumb however).
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