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).
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Notes -
November goals went okay: girl said no, but everything else went well.
December goals
Make space for weekly strength and mobility exercises. Have a five minute stretch routinue in the morning and a 6 minute core routine that I do three times a week. Goal is to get core up to 5x a week and increase the length to 12 minutes (1 hour total) and make room for about 10 minutes of stretching throughout the day. May look for little strengthening activities I can do during work too on breaks.
Getting things done has made me realize that I often don’t prioritize what’s actually important, but rather what I can do quickly to check off the to-do list. Need to work on making a note of the priority of certain things so I actually do them with higher frequency
No more sports nutrition. Not only is it expensive, but it’s probably not healthy. I can fuel long runs and workouts with stuff like watermelon juice and homemade baby food. Save gels for races when it matters.
I've been really liking diluted maple syrup with a little salt for this purpose, if you're interested in branching out.
This is a good idea to add to the watermelon juice. I've been finding the watermelon juice to be well too watery. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised: it's in the name.
More options
Context Copy link
More options
Context Copy link
More options
Context Copy link