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Welcome to how to. You've got questions, and we find the people with the answers. I'm Carval

Wallace. Well, believe it or not, that part of the year is sneaking up on us again, New Year's,

where people commit once again

to changing their lives and reaching their health goals. For many of us, no matter how much we

really mean it on January 1st, oftentimes the changes we make don't last throughout the year.

They're too ambitious or just too drastic. Sometimes it's just that old habits,

habits that we've been practicing forever, are hard to get rid of. And if you want to make a real

adjustment, an adjustment that lasts, it has to be realistic and it has to work with your life.

But like, how do you do that? Well, that's the question faced by today's listener, Sandy.

I'm a former college athlete. I've always played field hockey and gotten immense joy from

team exercise settings. Now as a busy health care provider and a mom, I'm really struggling to

figure out when I can put exercise into my day.

Sandy works long shifts as a physician's assistant and is the parent to two young children.

So time is a big hurdle for her, like it is for many of us. But on the other side,

there's also pressure, like pressure to be productive, to be fit, to push herself.

So between the obligations on her energy and the stress of failing, the feeling around exercise has become unchill.

I am so not a morning person, and so that always feels like the natural place to try to shove exercise.

Right.

That's when the motivated people like really get up and get after it.

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