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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As expected, my body ate itself during my August hike. I hiked the John Muir Trail from Tuolumne Meadows (couldn't get the permit for a Happy Isles start) to Mt Whitney/Whitney Portal in 11 days, which averages to just slightly under 20 miles per day and somewhere around 3,800 feet of accumulated elevation gain per day. Lots of people out there, although I mostly hiked and camped alone because my pace was higher than the vast majority of people. Weather was great, the scenery was spectacular in the second half (too much time in the trees with minimal views in the first half), and I didn't get eaten by a bear (although I startled one and it got somewhat aggressive).
I was eating around 3500 calories/day and lost 18 pounds in those 11 days. The main loss was my waist, thighs, ass, and arms. My dress clothing is a bit baggy now, especially my pants. Back to a rebuild phase...
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