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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Note that I'm not strongly endorsing the statins. But your actual doctor probably knows your situation better than I do, and I trust them by default. More importantly, in a way, you can just quit if the side effects are more nuisance than the (small) benefits are worth.
Why not both? Seriously, even if you don't "need" them like someone with someone who is outright obese and diabetic, they'll help. There is no reason to think that you can't also make lifestyle modifications alongside them, and those are laudable goals anyway. You'll almost certainly lose weight, and it'll help the cardiovascular stuff. If your sleep is hampered by something like sleep apnea (which I do not know you have, but is not unlikely), then the weight loss will help with that too. It's easier to exercise and diet if you've already lost some weight and don't feel as hungry. The drugs should be easily affordable for you, you make a lot more money than I do.
If you had to choose between statins and semaglutide on my recommendation, then I would rather you pick the latter. Just talk about it with your doctor, as and when you see them again. If they advise against it, eh, that's fine by me.
'Never waste a good crisis' ?
The weight creates shame. The shame motivates effort. Helps my system hit terminal
velocitywillpower. Thankfully, my mental health is a good place, so I use shame productively.I like the point about GLPs. I'm lucky to easy access to cheap GLP drugs. Then there is story about when the CEO of one of the largest GLP startups tried to sleep with a thinner me, but that's for another day.
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