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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Exercise generally sucks for weight loss. thin people tend to eat less, that is were the thinness comes from, not the exercise. i remember i did 50 miles of hiking in a week, lost a pound, which was within the noise. i did 16 days of consecutive hiking, minimum of 2-3k elevation day each hike, scant weight loss. getting omicron soon after did it though, lost 7 pounds even though didn't feel that sick.
Yeah, exercise only works if you do lots of it every damn day. Appalachian trail through-hikers can get lean as fuck, but that's not 16 days of hiking, more like 160.
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