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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A diary in this regard logging calories is helpful. People tend to be bad at estimating caloric intake. There are several apps that can do this, in particular if you're eating what everyone else is eating (MyFitnessPal actually has barcode scanning for many foods). You may already be doing this.
I did a food log about ten years ago going in the opposite direction (i.e. I was trying to gain.) Set a goal weight, the app tells you based on a few metrics what calories you'll need to get there by however quickly you enter. You also enter exercise. I ended up sending my triglycerides through the roof due to my food choices and metabolism, but I reached my goal. I have made adjustments since.
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