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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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Your review of the Swiss Water Method is sad. I had heard it's the best method for decaf coffee, and even it falls short. I think it's likely worth something despite that, but nothing really compares to a real cup of coffee.

Sample size of one. Someone else with more experience with decaf will have to confirm. It's always possible that I was unlucky with this particular bag or this particular bean. I didn't buy one of the most expensive ones. Though the one I got was far from 'cheap'. Definitely expensive enough to, one would hope, ensure a sufficient level of seriousness in the production. I was surprised at how 'hollow' it seemed, aroma and taste wise.

Honestly, desensitizing yourself to caffeine might make sense. It means you can drink coffee all day like Grandma.

Hah. :P