With one Christmas down and one to go, we’re heading into the silly season of New resolutions — when gyms make bank on new membership sales and dating apps book more server resources as many folks fall deep into the winter blues.

It’s time to get back in shape — how long will it take? Hello, Millennials. Join us Gen X folks (and, yes, your nemeses — the Boomers) in the “older adults” end of the pool. If you’re anywhere in your mid-30s on up, you lose fitness at up to twice the rate of a comparably fit 20-something, and it doesn’t get any easier from here on out.

Fear not, the NYT has your back: The Gray Lady has recently run feature after feature asking andexploring everything from how to rebuild fitness to what your ideal retirement age might be based on the current state of your health.

The tl;dr: Save yourself the 700-word slog and just (a) accept that you’re out of shape and (b) that the only way to get to where you want to go is to … get started. Gradually. “When rebuilding your fitness, start by setting a goal of working out for a certain length of time each day, without worrying about your strength or intensity […] Once you can comfortably walk or jog for 30 minutes a day for two or three weeks, you can start increasing your pace to a run. If you want to return to lifting weights at the gym, start with a lower load and then gradually add more.”

FEELING OLD? Don’t worry. Someone will still love you, no matter how wrinkly you get.

Yes, even if you’re 39 years older than your (intended) spouse / SO / hookup. That’s the take-home message from The age gappers: They say they’re happy. Why is it so hard to believe them? in New York magazine’s The Cut.

The story is all over the dumpster fire that is our social media and seems particularly popular among recently divorced people (men and women alike) of a certain age.

And yeah, it can get a little creepy: “19 Year Gap: Jessica Moss, 42, a creative director, and Kevin Hardesty, 61, a videographer, live in Los Angeles. They met 23 years ago while working at a film-production company — he was an executive, and she was a summer intern. From the first time they spoke, they say, there was electricity between them. Jessica thinks it has to do with a past-life thing.”

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