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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I’m personally very close to the position most of my fairly long lived grandparents and my great grandma thought about things, which is that most of this is just weird overthinking of systems that work just fine without needing to fuss over the very fine details of nutrition and exercise. Maybe you’ll add a percent or two to your longevity, but that’s it.
The best advice they gave me was simply to eat homemade and less processed foods, three reasonably sized meals a day, and make half of your plate veggies. As far as exercise, while they did move around a lot, it was mostly going out and doing active things with friends or to simply enjoy life. It wasn’t a thing that was quantified, it was a childhood spent skating and dancing and playing sports like baseball and football or swimming. I don’t think people need to reach perfect Vo2 to benefit from exercise. Just going out and doing active things for fun should be plenty and because they are more fun they’re much easier to stick with. It’s much easier to get off the couch and play in a community soccer or baseball league or go dancing.
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