For the next five weeks, I’m sharing 5 Big Exercise Tips That Will Keep You Fit For Life. I created this for midlife women who have already made the commitment to making regular physical activity a part of their life for the rest of their lives, as well as for those who have already begun to take the smallest action toward regular physical activity and want to make sure they are able to stick with it.

“Me Time,” AKA “self-care” doesn’t have to be expensive or take a long time. In fact, I believe “Me Time” works a lot like exercise, in that it’s cumulative – it’s not so much about what you do once in awhile, but rather what you do over time that counts in the long run.

I came home the other day to a fire truck outside of my building along with all my neighbors huddled outside. As I picked up my pace to approach them, I immediately asked what happened and thankfully it was just someone who pulled the fire alarm.

Back in the day, we used to think that you had to exercise at a low-intensity and a long duration in order to burn fat. This means that unless you’re willing to start taking up jogging and eventually be able to finish a marathon without stopping, you simply don’t have a chance of ever being fit and thin.