view the rest of the comments
Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
and then trying to quit energy drinks gets you super addicted to sparkling water!
sparkling water and coffee for me
RIP your (and my) teeth
Unflavored sparkling water is less acidic than saliva so it’s probably safe for your teeth. Citrus flavors seem to be very popular, however, and that probably increases the acidity?
I think they’re referring to the coffee lol
This is not true. saliva is like a ph of 6-7, carbonated water is 3-4. Maybe more alkaline mineral waters balance out the carbonic acid, but plain sparkling water doesn't.
Whether it actually matters for the teeth, I guess idk, it's probably better than soda or coffee, but I've always been told lots of acidity, especially slow sipping, is bad
YouTube lied to me. Back to the search for a guilt free indulgence.
Naaaaah this needs to be studied bc I feel extremely watched rn.
I drink la Croix, when I wanna splurge I grab Aura bora