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Getting Better One Step at a Time

  • A Love Letter for Your Heart Or maybe more of a roller-coaster ride…? Valentine’s Day is coming up, so how about planning for some intervals-oriented workouts to get that heart beating? (What is a good heart rate, anyway? Why does it matter?) Couch to 5k is a program for people who have no running experience.…

  • The Keys to Success: Action Keeping track of food (and exercise) can be every bit as difficult as you want to make it, but it doesn’t have to be. As with any new area of learning, it helps to start small, reconsider your assumptions, and experiment a little to find what works best for you.…

  • When Comments Hurt Many people who change their eating and exercise habits to improve their health find that the people around them are not as supportive as they hoped. Some find that a partner brings junk food into the house, even after being asked not to, or coworkers insist that “one donut won’t hurt anything.”…

  • Don’t Put It Off Wonderful cartoon from Awkward Yeti — more eating- and physiology-related comics in the Miscellaneous category

  • Your Lost Weight Who hasn’t had this experience? As my mom once told me, “While I was gone, I dropped 10 pounds, but since I got back they’ve climbed back on.” This is a bigger risk if you lose weight abruptly, using a program you find unpleasant. Anyone might want to get out of the…

  • YUKON DO IT This is also the name of an event that holds several road races, but I think this is just a charming one-off. There are a few other Yukons on the road with this addition, too, sometimes from a Nike “Just Do It” decal. Anyway, YUKON!

  • Does Active Logging Work? Active logging (keeping purposeful food or exercise records) definitely works. For people who do it. And that’s the tough part. Food logging is especially emotional, eliciting reactions from “it’s the devil” to “it literally saved my life” — not surprising for something with so much social importance. It’s tempting to try…

  • Clif and Luna The rest of the love story at “Rachel Lives Here Now,” by Rachel Lindsay

  • Getting Ready and Learning More Willpower, motivation, dedication, persistence, these are all fine qualities, but there’s one thing that blows them all out of the water: skills. No matter how hard you want it or how prepared you are to “just do it,” if you don’t know what “it” is (or how to do it!),…