Strength Moves For Steadier Hormones
Muscle is where most of the glucose you eat gets stored, which makes it the one tissue worth protecting in your forties. Eight moves, no gym, and none of them are about burning anything off.
Read moreDaily habits
Morning, midday and evening. What each part of the day sets up for the next one, and where a single change is worth more than five.
One Steady Day, Hour By Hour
What a day looks like when the energy holds. Morning to bedtime, with the reason for each part, and the two hours that decide most of it.
Read moreIt Was Never Willpower
Two separate things are happening when a craving arrives at nine in the evening, and neither of them is a character flaw. One is in the food. The other is in how your body is reading its fuel supply.
Read moreWeight Is Usually The Last Thing To Change
Three weeks in and the scale has not moved, so you are about to stop. Here is what changes before it does, and why the number is the slowest instrument you own.
Read moreWhy You Wake Up At 3am
Awake at ten past three, not worried about anything, just awake. If that happens most nights, the reason may have less to do with your sleep than with what you ate at seven.
Read moreThe Worry List
One page, a line down the middle, four minutes at the kitchen table. The smallest thing on this site, and the one people come back and tell us about.
Read moreFive Healthy Habits Worth Questioning
Five things you were told to do that are working against the thing you wanted. None of this is an assessment of you. All five were sensible advice aimed at a different problem.
Read moreRunway To Land The Plane
Your head nods on the sofa at half ten and you are wide awake by 11:40. The problem is usually not the bed. It is that nothing came between the day and the bed.
Read moreStrict Is What Causes The Binge
The Tuesday night that undoes the week is not a character problem. Rigid rules produce the collapse that follows them, and there is a version of this that does not break.
Read moreWhy Cutting Carbs Can Wreck Your Sleep
You changed how you eat and started waking at four in the morning, wide awake and warm. That is not a coincidence, and it is not a reason to give up on the change.
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