site banner

Wellness Wednesday for November 9, 2022

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:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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).

3
Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

I've been exercising most of my life... For health, for sports, for physical therapy (A LOT of physical therapy).

Exercising is pretty much the endless strengthening of the weakest link. Take your time, listen to you body, and be kind to yourself when you do hurt yourself (Low WIS + CON is a helluva combo: I strongly relate to this, lol).

One thing I did notice was that fasting was harder without the cardio.

I find the same thing with myself. I always assumed it was because I was forcing my body to burn reserves... I mean, if I had any food in my stomach, I would cramp up, etc.