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Wellness Wednesday for January 28, 2026

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).

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I want to get a LOT of broccoli this time. Eating it without oil or cheese, just salted and microwaved is just fine for me and it's very filling.

One method of preparing broccoli I'm very fond of: boil it in salted water for five minutes, take it out, then pour a little vinegar and soy sauce (also sesame oil if you like) over it. Delicious and fairly lo-cal.

I now intend to read that book FtttG linked about attachment theory.

I hope you find it useful! I'd offer to send you my copy, but I already lent it to my uncle who's complained about some of the same issues you have.

It's literally Tennis Replacement Theory, and tennis players on the internet are not happy about it.

bahahaha