7 Healthy Habits for Getting Into Shape at 40

There comes a day when you realize you can’t continue as you once did — devouring all your favorite calories, couch potato-ing it for hours on end, up for three days and recovering for one, and still look fresher than a crisp ironed shirt straight out of the dry cleaners. And then, it dawns on you: you should start getting into shape at 40.

The question is, how? It’s not like your metabolism is what it once was, let alone your motivation. Plus, your running shoes are somewhere at the back of ...