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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My rule of thumb is: am I okay with talking to her if challenged? That is, I am willing to smile if noticed and to give a sincere compliment about her shape, her form or the weight she's moving, or give some honest form advice if asked what I'm looking at, but do I want to engage with her or be seen engaging with her?
For example, there's a woman at the local gym about my age that can hip thrust some serious weight, but she used to wear a bodysuit so tight she could only zip it halfway up her rack. It projected such dangerous levels of thirst that I purposefully avoided looking in her direction during breaks.
Basically, if you cannot follow Isaac Asimov's advice and stare boldly and confidently, don't stare.
Judging by his auto-bio, Asimov would be so, so cancelled these days. I am in no way woke and no prude, but some of what he describes make even me think "dude, really?!" Maybe he was so good he could pull it off, but I don't think anybody really could pull it off now, especially in the circles he was in.
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