Coffee can be a healthy part of your diet. Studies show that drinking coffee every day lowers your risk for diseases including heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers, but some bad coffee break habits can minimize the benefits. If you’re thinking of getting an espresso machine rental for your coffee needs, here are some bad…
30 Quotes to Give You Strength For Your Next Workout
Keep these motivational quotes around for inspiration and strength during your next workout: “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” ~ Zig Ziglar “I have failed many times, and that’s why I am a success.” ~ Michael Jordan “If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it…
10 Ways to Add Chia Seeds to Your Diet
Chia is all the craze and for good reason: this simple seed packs a nutritional punch. One serving will help you reach your daily vitamin intake; chia seed are chockfull of omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, iron, magnesium, vitamin C, and potassium and have twice as much fiber as flaxseeds (per ounce). But what can you…
Announcing Lift for Android
Lift is now available in the Google Play store for any Android phone or tablet. Download Lift for Android now. This is a fully functional version of Lift: coaching plans, simple goal tracking, community support, and reminders via push notifications. Here’s what it looks like on my HTC One (I’m loving the phone and Lift…
The Quantified Diet Project: Find the Healthy Plan That's Right for You
The diet industry is broken. Lift is going to fix this. Everything people think they know about diet is contradicted somewhere else. What diets work? What does it even mean for a diet to work? Weight loss? Long term health? Enjoyment? We’re working with researchers at UC Berkeley to answer every question possible in the…
What's a Coaching Plan?
Now you can help others reach their Lift goals by writing a Coaching Plan. Anyone can create a plan at this link: https://lift.do/plans/new Coaching Plans give you daily instructions to help you reach your goals. A lot of times, you know what you want to achieve but don’t know what steps you take to get there.…
10 Habits of Happiness
Search Amazon.com for books about happiness and you’ll get 33,001 results. But you don’t need to read a book to find happiness. Here are ten popular and easy habits that can give you a positive boost: 10 Habits of Happiness Smile: Move your muscles into a smile to encourage the same positive emotions that make you smile.…
Habit of the Day: Write Three Positive Things About Today
We were surprised last year when the Write three positive things about today habit doubled in participants in one day after Lifter Zack Shapiro blogged about it. The habit now has over 1,450 members: My @liftapp habit “Write three positive things about today” doubled in participants today. Got featured on @Lifehacker! http://t.co/glOg1oXy — Zack Shapiro (@ZackShapiro) January 15, 2013 What compelled…
Habit of the Day: Make Bed
Did you know that a small habit like making your bed can help you get through life’s rough patches? One Lift user, Dave, told us last week that making his bed helped him recover from a divorce: I’m 30 years old and have been going through a particularly ugly divorce (I suppose they’re all ugly). When I…
Lift Groups: Reach Your Investment Goals
Wouldn’t it be great if we all had a little more time and money to do the things we enjoy like taking a bike ride, spending time with family, taking a trip? If so, check out the Reach Your Investment Goals group that Betterment created on Lift which encourages you to do just that! Betterment’s…