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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Keep in mind that even non-doctored photographs of fit people are often taken in the context of using dehydration, pump, some alcohol, posing, lighting, or all of the above. I've been as lean as 9-10% body fat and still didn't really love how I looked if I just stood in front of a mirror with my body relaxed (not slouching, decent posture, just not flexing). At that weight, I could produce photographs of myself that looked strikingly different from that real-life impression by coming back from a run dehydrated, having a drink or two, knocking out some pushups, turning at an angle, and flexing. Not fitness-model tier because I'm less muscular, but still way more impressive than walking around.
Meanwhile, my wife says I always look basically the same. Shrug.
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