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Saw Palmetto Tincture7 Health Tips for Freelance Writers

Since we freelancers pay through the nose for health insurance (and insurance doesn't cover nose injuries due to high healthcare costs), follow these tips for staying healthy on the cheap.

1. Prepare to Live

Spend some time once per week cooking and cutting up lean meats like chicken breast, making hard-boiled eggs, and chopping veggies. An hour or so of prep-time will yield enough healthy salads, stir-frys, and pita sandwiches to last through the week. You can also make healthy meals and stow them in the freezer so you'll always have something good to eat, even when you don't have time to cook.

2. Supplement Wisely

Last winter I went through a period of feeling terribly depressed, and in a moment of desperation I went to a homeopath who sold me a month's worth of vitamin supplements ? for $125. (I know better than that, I swear ? but like I said, I was desperate. She also sold me some tarantula venom, but let's not even go there right now.) I recently interviewed a nutritionist who said that a vitamin is a vitamin, no matter what the price or how fancy the packaging. Some of the pricier vitamins contain vast quantities of certain vitamins. Sounds great, until you realize that our bodies take what they need of water-soluble vitamins like C and excrete the rest, giving you what the nutritionist called "The most expensive urine in town." Fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) can build up to toxic levels if you take too much. So invest a few bucks per month in a basic multivitamin as a kind of "health insurance" on top of your healthy eating, and skip the costly brands.

3. Join the Gym

Many of us penny-pinching freelancers claim that the gym is too expensive. But you can often find deals: I pay $20 per month for a membership at Planet Fitness, and I'm allowed to being a guest every time. I bring my husband, which means that we're really paying $10 per month each. You can also ask your local gym to waive the initiation fee or give you a discount. According to one of my fitness sources, gyms often run membership drives where they'll waive or discount the fee, and they may even do you this favor at other times if you ask nicely. If you're lucky enough to have health insurance coverage, find out whether the plan will pay for part or all of your health club membership. (Oh, and do I need to tell you that after you join the gym you need to actually go there and do cardio and lift weights?)

4. Be Proactive

Get your yearly physical exam even if you have to pay for it yourself, and get all the tests you need at your age. Visit the dentist for an exam and cleaning twice per year. Do breast self exams or testicular self exams (depending on, you know, your gender). If you can't rely on health insurance to take care of you when you get sick, staying healthy is up to you. (Well, it's always up to you, but there's even more of an incentive to stay healthy when you have to shell out lots of cash every time you get sick.)

5. Put the Kibosh on Colas

Y'know how recovering alcoholics can't have even one drink or they fall off the wagon? That's how I am with Pepsi?one of those babies, and I just want more, more, more.

Studies show that even though beverages like colas have plenty of calories, they don't fill us up. When people ate jelly beans before a meal, they ate fewer calories at the meal to compensate ? but when they had a calorie-laden beverage before eating, they consumed the same amount of calories they would have eaten anyway. Sugary drinks like sodas and juice drinks (or as I like to call them, "froot jooces") are expensive and full of sugar to boot. Healthier drinks include tea, seltzer with a splash of fruit juice (I like pomegranate juice), lowfat or nonfat milk or soymilk, and, of course, plain old H2O. I don't like water, so I keep a bowl of lemon slices in the fridge to help perk up the flavor.

6. Stretch

I love stretching. I guess that makes me weird, because I've read that most people skip it. Stretching keeps you flexible, helps you keep stress at bay, and works out the kinks that form when you're sitting at a desk typing words all day. If you don't already have a good repertoire of stretches that you like to do, try a stretch deck.

7. Do What You Love

Instead of cutting out Ho-Hos, forcing yourself to take the spinning class from hell, and making yourself meditate even though you'd rather put spikes through your forehead, try to find healthy things you love. Enjoy baked sweet potato fries, get a massage, indulge in a glass of wine (hey, they're now saying that white wine is healthy, too!), join your friends for a long walk, steal some "me time" and take a yoga class or do a Tai Chi video. Staying motivated is easier when you actually prefer the healthy choices.

Linda Formichelli is a freelance health and business writer and the co-author of The Renegade Writer's Query Letters That Rock! and The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success. She teaches an e-course on how to break into magazines: http://www.lindaformichelli.com/course

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