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 feel this, as someone who is occasionally sanity-challenged (more on that coming next Wednesday!). Long story short, depending on my mental state my appetite will either be excessive (if bored/depressed, enough to be your average overweight American) or nonexistent (if anxious) such that I'll barely or not eat for a few days and only really notice when I wonder why I'm suddenly so tired.
When I was in my early 20s I had some life circumstances change (escaped abusive mother for good) and suddenly switched from being awfully depressed to suffering from PTSD and lost 70lbs in ~18 months without really trying while having picked up an awful drinking problem (aka 1-1.5K calories a day worth of cheap beer). People were complementing me and asking me for my secret; I was just mostly living on cigarettes and beer (Fun fact: Natty Ice is a bit more calorie efficient for the alcohol content than Michelob Ultra.).
The craziest I've pulled (again, thanks to a wild mood swing) was losing 25lbs in six weeks.
I'm presently falling (okay, kind of already there) in love with a woman way out of my league and think I have a chance so once again my appetite for things that aren't alcohol barely exists and I'm dropping weight without trying.
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