One of the things I did to take back my health was follow Jeffrey Fox’s advice to “do something hard alone”: I chose early morning runs. Just one of the rewards.

Just shared this excerpt with a friend confronting the colon prep demon for the first time: “High-intensity training makes me tough. And speaking of tough, I simply must share my colonoscopy prep story—yes, really! This… 

Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health: I learned to be comfortable with the discomfort I felt from breaking barriers (going farther, going faster, going out when I didn’t feel… 

Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health: explore adamancy. How often had I declared that “I don’t go outside once it gets cold” or “I don’t go outside if it’s… 

I learned from taking back my health: #9: I learned to overcome psychological barriers: if my goal was to run one mile, I started feeling tired at three-fourths of a mile. If I wanted to… 

Momentum is everything. Every day I drew a star on a calendar for something good I did or something bad I avoided. Seeing the stars add up was the wind in my sails. The BAD… 

Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health: #7: I can do anything for 15 minutes (working on a hard project), or longer (giving up cheese and candy for Lent, a… 

Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health. #6: I can always “just hang on”: fighting the the temptation to gobble down a Krispy Kreme, finishing a jog when I feel… 

Sharing the Top 25 things I learned from taking back my health: #5. I was still as determined at 60 to walk as I was at 2. The desire to forge ahead never leaves us.

Sharing the Top 25 things I learned from taking back my health: #4. I have a reservoir of untapped energy. If I felt I couldn’t take one more step while running but saw neighbors sitting…