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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75-85 is higher than average for a healthy adult, and I'd generally recommend cardio to try to improve it, but it's "worse than the median", not "infarction at any moment".
What was up with the tachycardia surgery, though? If you've had doctors looking at the problem before and recommending surgical (ablation?) treatment then you should probably ignore general recommendations and ask your GP or cardiologist about your specific situation. The answer might be "yeah, you're physically normal now, the general advice applies" or "yeah, exercise, but in your case it should be lower intensity for longer times", but there's a tiny chance of something like "oh, shit, we need to take another scan" that you'll never learn from a rando.
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