Stop looking for a short cut to healthy

There is no quick fix.

There's no singular workout or supplement that will give you amazing results in six weeks or fewer and demand only 15 minutes or a brisk shake of your shaker bottle per day.

This might seem like a weird statement, coming from the creator of a newsletter that gives quick tips for building healthy habits. But there's a difference between quick tips and quick fixes.

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There's no denying:

Do a few of the 5-to-15-minute movement snacks or workouts or actions I (or an influencer, or a friend) recommend every day for a month, and you will feel it.

• If you did pushups from your countertop while you waited for your water to boil, they're less challenging now.
• If you set your phone or book aside at dinner and just focused on chewing, tasting, and fullness cues, it's getting easier.
• If you stopped doomscrolling til just before lights-out, you're falling asleep more quickly.

Each of these is a huge win for your health and none of them—individually or together—"fixes" your wellness.

There are benefits to each thing we do for our well-being. When we do those things consistently, every day/week, they have an even bigger benefit.

But there's no one-size-fits-all, high-speed, single-step answer to our health. And honestly—why should there be?

It's outrageous (and maybe even insulting) to think that these incredible bodies that move us and rest us and grow us ought to be so simplistic that after months or years of ignoring them we can just pop a pill or speak an affirmation and poof, we're solved!

I'm not telling you that what you're doing isn't worth doing. I'm not saying you need to manhandle an extra 90 minutes into your hectic days to go hard at the gym.

I'm saying your body—that singular, phenomenal, wacky, seemingly unpredictable, shaky, smelly, aching, tired body—is the only one you've got, and you owe it to all it's been through and all it's going to go through in the future to make an effort.

If that effort starts with just 10 pushups a day from your counter, or adding kale to your smoothies, or watching two episodes of Only Murderers in the Building instead of three—you are doing great.

Don't stop there.

Keep growing your ability to build healthy habits, so your body can keep growing.

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