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Coming Soon: A Month of Little Steps to Health and Fitness

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Soon it will be January. And you will be seeing 40 kabajillion posts on resolutions. And most of those will be about major life-changing regimens to get healthy.

I'm here to tell you, my friend. Major life-changing regimens are tough to stick to. I've learned a long time ago that some of us (ahem) need to ease into new habits. Drink a glass more water a day. Take the stairs. Et cetera.

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So next month, BlogHer's sharing 31 tips on little things you can do to make your life healthier. Charlotte Hilton Andersen from The Great Fitness Experiment will contribute her little steps. So will BlogHer staffers and contributing editors. And we want YOURS, too!

If you have a post about a small step you've taken to get healthier -- whether it's a quick fitness hack that gets you more active, or a health issue you've learned to attack while it's manageable, or a shortcut to better nutrition -- we want to hear about it.

Here's what to do: Log in to your BlogHer account and write up a blog post containing your tip.  Explain why you started doing it, and how this small tweak to your day has led to big changes (or even small changes!).  Then email Mel with the link to the post to tell us it's there so we can feature it. (You can also ask her any questions you might have by clicking on that hyperlinked email address.)

We'll be shining a spotlight on your posts on the BlogHer.com homepage, and around the BlogHer publishing network. We're also sending out a weekly email roundup of the week's tips.

And actually, let me introduce you to Mel who will be rounding up the small steps and sharing one a day.  She's a contributing editor at BlogHer, and a maker of resolutions she never keeps.  This year, her only resolution is going to be to introduce small, sustainable steps rather than make sweeping changes.  

Enter your email below to get to the sign-up sheet for BlogHer's Health & Fitness newsletter -- we won't sign you up for anything until you confirm on the next page. You'll get the weekly Little Steps newsletter in your inbox in January, and other health and fitness advice we think you'll like later in the year. (And of course we won't sign you up for anything else. We're good like that.)

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tracylcartmell 5 pts

deeply. abidingly.

Tracy L Cartmell

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Melissa Ford 5 pts

Just imagine where you'll be by 2020 if you keep this up? :-)

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

JennaHatfield 10 pts

I subscribed (of course). I have some healthy goals for the new year that are an extension of my successes (and, uhm, failures) last year. I really, really enjoyed getting healthy last year and hope to continue on a path towards a healthier me this year!

Contributing Editor Jenna Hatfield (@FireMom ( http://twitter.com/FireMom )) blogs at Stop, Drop and Blog ( http://stopdropandblog.com ) and The Chronicles of Munchkin Land ( http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com ). She is a freelance writer and newspaper photographer.

Melissa Ford 5 pts

Absolutely -- it's small moments that take us away from health so it makes sense that it will be small steps that will bring us back.

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

Nobody wants to be Ethel 5 pts

Little steps are how we all got out of sync in the first place. Little steps are what we need to add the positives back in our lives. Your blog is a good beginning to jumpstart. Self acceptance is the goal and it takes time to get there...longterm months or years to get where we need to be.

Patty

Melissa Ford 5 pts

Hey BarbD--

If you have a great tip, write a blog post about it as you would any post on BlogHer. But send me the link (my email address is in the body of this post) because we'll be choosing some of these posts to feature on the front page of BlogHer (hence why they need to be posted on BlogHer--so I can move them to the front page).

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

BarbD 5 pts

I'm a little unclear about where we're supposed to post fitness comments -- on the Great Fitness experiment site? Somewhere on BlogHer? Thanks for clarifying!