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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Thanks for posting this. I could've written it word-for-word myself. Beer certainly adds to the waistline. A girl (well, woman now) I've known for years a month or so ago playfully whacked my belly a few slaps before I could do the requisite tensing up of my abs, and it became clear to me that I had started to form a spare tire around the midriff --I, skinny man since birth. That, along with asides about my beer gut, my sudden ability to recreate this scene with ease, and some weird inflammation issues that I suspected were related to chronic drinking, and I was inspired to give it a rest.
I was mildly irritable on day one, but after a few days I only noticed the positives. I haven't quit drinking entirely --I had a beer the other night and was quick to realize how low my tolerance had become (or how high it had been before). Anyway good for you. Let's keep this up.
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