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  • What’s Your Sport? Here is a fun little tool from the UK’s National Health Service. It says “Olympic sport” in the title (I think it was developed as part of London 2012), but it’s really about exercise more generally. This tool asks you some questions about your interests and invites you to do a couple…

  • Yoga Modifications for Larger Bodies Yoga is a wonderful practice. It’s easy to do in lots of different settings. In most cities, there are classes readily available. It offers a range of activities from simple beginner movements to remarkable feats of strength and balance. Almost everyone who attends a yoga class for the first time…

  • Building Yourself Up and Tearing Yourself Down This t-shirt celebrates the classic post-race free food for the participants: a table loaded with bananas. Sometimes they have bagels, too, usually several different flavor options. But more races are offering post-race parties with beer, and some are even organized around true junk food. The Krispy Kreme Challenge,…

  • If Plan A Doesn’t Work, Stay Cool Sometimes Plan A isn’t the right plan. Or it’s a good plan, but you’re not ready to really commit to it. Or the basic idea is a good, but it needs to be adjusted to work well for you. That’s OK. Just keep working on it. Ask yourself…

  • Don’t Panic — It’s Just the Holidays Darya Rose at Summer Tomato has a nice list of recommendations for sticking with your healthy eating habits throughout the holidays. Here are the basic ideas — go read the post for terrific tips on how to implement them: 1. Don’t panic. 2. Pick your battles. 3. Plan…

  • Is ANYTHING Good for You? In an article cheekily linked as “10 types of diet books that prove you can’t eat anything,” io9 notes: “What should you cut out of your diet to be more healthy? Everything. According to the most popular diet books on the market, there’s barely a food on Earth that’s safe…

  • Use What You Have Available I’m not 100% sure what this raccoon’s plan is, but sometimes we have to improvise when we want to stay active. It’s not always obvious how to get started, though, so take a look at Mark Lauren’s bodyweight training. The sales pitch is a little aggressive, but Lauren’s You Are…

  • Nudge Yourself into a Sound Grocery Strategy Feeding America worked with Cornell University to develop a nudge-based way of presenting food in food banks and pantries — putting produce and recipe ideas right up front so that it was easy for people to make the right choices. Your local grocery store has its own priorities…

  • Getting Ready for Thanksgiving If you are making a new commitment to healthful eating, Thanksgiving might be the biggest challenge of the year. Halloween candy can be tough to resist, but the prospect of tables groaning with comfort food — and cooking plans that seem to be designed to guarantee a week of leftovers —…