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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

In this episode of The Minimalists Podcast, Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus attempt to answer the following questions:

What is one thing you always thought you wanted, but then, once you got it, you no longer wanted it?
How do you gradually declutter your home?
How do you explain greed in our society?
What do you do with old photos after you scan them?
How do you deal with the natural pulling away from friends with different values?
When is The Minimalists’ documentary coming out?
What charities do The Minimalists support?
Do The Minimalists gain any money from their website?

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Everything That Remains contest: answers and winners
Essay: Someday
Event: 3 Caffeinated Days with The Minimalists
Video: Pack Like The Minimalists
Essay: Life Is an Acquired Taste
Challenge: 30-Day Minimalism Game
Book: Some Thoughts About Relationships
Book: Minimalism
Essay: Packing Party
Photo essay: Practical Minimalism Tips
Free meetup groups: Minimalist.org
Movie: Minimalism
Study: Some Primates Share, Others Are Stingy
Challenge: Scanning Party
Essay: Favorite Clothes of a Minimalist
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“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ~Arthur Ashe

Whenever I go see my Rolfer Jennie, I look forward to the wisdom she shares with me. As a Rolfer and Bodyworker of twenty-five years and an expert in the mind-body connection, she has it by the bucket-load.

Recently, upon visiting her, I fell into my old familiar trap of wanting to be ‘fixed’ or perhaps wanting her to have a simple answer for me with regards to some tension in my inner leg that had been progressing (even though I’m fully aware things are never simple with the structural scoliosis in my body).

So as we began working, and she pinpointed several things that were going on, I said with a sigh, “I’m just going to have to continually bring my attention to different areas, aren’t I? My spine is never going to just be pain-free or without other problems cropping up that are connected to it?”

And she replied with the crystal-clear clarity that Jennie always does.

“Darling, you start with where you are. You always start with where you are and work from there no matter what stage you’re at or how much work you’ve already done.”

And this really couldn’t be truer, not only for our health, fitness, and what’s going on in …

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Tortillas being made at the El Milagro plant in San Marcos, Texas. The FDA is weighing whether to allow fortifying corn masa flour with folic acid, aka vitamin B9. The FDA currently bans the practice, but researchers say adding the vitamin to corn masa could help battle higher rates of severe neural tube defects among Hispanics.

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One of the great public-health success stories of the past couple of decades can be found in your cereal bowl.

Since 1998, the Food and Drug Administration has required that breakfa…

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“You are perfect just as you are and you could use a little improvement.” ~Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

A few weeks ago, I had a day that I felt like an utter failure.

I had eaten junk food even though I was trying to get healthy. I’d skipped out on going to the gym for no good reason. I forgot to call my parents even though I promised them I would. I didn’t meet my daily writing goals and ended up watching two movies I’d already seen.

In other words, I slid into a lot of bad habits all at once.

I think we all know the feeling you get after a day like that.

I was spinning out of control, losing hold on everything I’d managed to build so carefully over so many months.

My grip on order felt slippery at best, like trying to catch a determined fish with your bare hands. I remember sitting down on the floor and just crying, full of the shame that comes with letting yourself down.

The worst part? It was the third day in a row I’d felt this way. It was the third in a series of days in which I’d gone to bed feeling like my life was falling apart on my watch.

I felt like the ultimate letdown, consistently messing up something that I knew was in my control. It was my life! Why was I having so much trouble getting a handle on it?

Th…

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If you’re a bro, the chances of you hating cardio are pretty high.

You avoided the thought of cardio for the past few years, only to realize you have to stop to catch your breath after climbing a few flights of stairs.

Not only does this make you look like a jackass, but think about how your girlfriend feels every time you have to stop for a breather. Do you want to be panting like a fat little pug? That’s only cute for dogs, bro.

Don’t worry. I’ve got you. 

Enter Battle Ropes

Here’s a video with 36 of my favorite battle rope exercises and 6 new conditioning workouts that I designed for you to try:

Workout 1

A1) Ultimate warrior slams (36) —left

A2) Diagonal slams (35) — left

A3) Ultimate warrior slams (36) —right

A4) Diagonal slams (35) — right

Perform each exercise for 15 seconds. After A4 rest for 60 seconds. Repeat 4x

B1) 1-arm plank wave (17) — left

B2) spread eagle waves (15)…

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We scoured through hundreds of weight-loss studies published in the past year and identified the top five most surprising, helpful, and actionable tips that could help you reach or maintain your healthiest weight in 2016. The main message boils down to this: Small changes to your lifestyle don’t have to be difficult or time-consuming, and can still yield big results. Follow this useful advice and you could be a pound slimmer within the first week of January.

1. Eat a bigger breakfast and a smaller dinner.

This summer, a review study in the journal Biochimie answered long-standing questions about meal size and timing in relation to weight: Australian researchers found that eating a bigger percentage of the day’s calories at or before noon aids weight loss. Likewise, eating more than a third of the day’s calories in the evening doubles obesity risk. A healthy adult shouldn’t need a lot of calories later in the day, unless you’re working a night shift or exercising heavily.

Grazers who eat small meals throughout the day may also want to reconsider their plan. Researchers debunked the myth that eating less and often may increase metabolism and control appetite. In fact, frequent snacking may actually cause weight gain when it leads to eating more calories than you need for the day’s activities.

2. Drink a glass of water before every meal.

Nutrition experts have long r…

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Join in for this 15-minute workout that will ignite your abdominals and strengthen your core musculature with a few simple exercises. The efficacy of this workout relies on your commitment and focus, as well as proper alignment. Listen closely to instructions from Pete Egoscue, the founder of the Egoscue Method for alignment-based pain relief, to get the most out of your workout. This series of planks, pushups, abdominal crunches, and core walks are all familiar postures, but are sequenced here for maximum results.

Related: A Core-Strengthening Yoga Sequence

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Our food-obsessed media landscape has proven fertile ground for word play. There are now new words to describe every food niche or gastronomical preference.

Can’t stand little kids running amok in your favorite Korean fusion restaurant? You might have bratophobia. And you could be a gastrosexual if you use your cooking prowess to attract that new special someone.

In his new book Eatymology, hum…

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Add to the title of this article That will Simplify Health and Fitness, Lead You to Your Goals, Allow you to Sustain Them Long-Term, and Help You Become the Best Version of Yourself.

Because that is what health and fitness should do. It should empower you. It should make you feel good about yourself. It should reduce your stress. It should make your life infinitely better.

To ensure that happens snuggle into your favorite chair, grab a beverage, and settle in for a while so you can devour the 7 most empowering and popular Lift Like a Girl articles of 2015.

Here’s to you reaching your goals and becoming the best version of yourself!

7 Most Empowering Lift Like a Girl Articles

In no particular order …

You’re Not Your Diet. You’re Not Your Body Fat Percentage. – Society attempts to define our self-worth based on our body shape and size, but these things do not define you.

13 Ways Women Can be MORE, Not Less – This may have been the most popular article of 2015. Health and fitness should build you up, not break you down. Choose to be more with these empowering 13 suggestions.

7 of the Best Bodyweight Exercises You Should be Doing – If you want exercises and workouts you can do a…

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Interested in being more active this new year? Here’s the secret: to make exercise more fun, turn it into a social outing.

You guys know I’m all about this – and as I was looking through my photos from the past week wondering what to share today, I realized a lot of them had one big thing in common: they were social fitness dates! There’s no better way to make sweating fun, trust me. Give it a shot! Here’s what I’ve been up to on the fitness front over the past week.

New Year’s Eve

I spent the morning of New Years Eve working, then met up with my friend Heather for a walking date!

We strolled for about an hour, cha…