Mike Carruthers

Everybody knows that.

But putting it into practice and sustaining it, that is a real challenge.

Here with some really great advice to get you and keep you motivated is Jacob Sager Weinstein.

He is a writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and on HBO and the BBC.

And he is author of a book called Be Healthier Now, 100 Simple Ways to Become Instantly Healthier.

Hey, Jacob, welcome to Something You Should Know.

Thanks for having me.

Glad to be here.

So before we get into the specific advice, what is the general outlook, your philosophy?

What are you saying to people about getting healthy?

But the goal is what?

To be healthy is always a journey?

Or, I mean, obviously you can't stop, but what does it mean to be healthy?

So how does someone decide what to do first and what to do that will actually sustain them, that will allow them to keep doing whatever it is they're doing so that they do become healthy?

What I've noticed is that a lot of people, and I've done this in my life too, dabble in healthy.

They

Buy an exercise bike, ride it for three days, and that's the end of that.

Or they start walking after dinner for a couple of weeks, and that's the end of that.

And then they don't really do anything else.

They just decide exercise is not for me and give up.