Liz Krieger is a former senior editor at Real Simple, where she covered health, fitness, and general wellness topics. She’s had a lifelong interest in health and fitness—starting with 10 years of gymnastics as a child, then continuing to competitive tennis (high school) and water polo (college), hiking, kayaking or rafting vacations (throughout), and these days, staying fit through yoga and running. Since moving to New York City five years ago, she’s run six half-marathons—and is contemplating trying for the full 26.2 miles some day.

Her interest in health, science and medicine, in particular, has led many friends to nickname her “Dr. Krieger” and seek health advice—a fact which is surely appalling to the actual doctors she’s friends with, since she merely attained a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature (from Brown University).

When not trying out new fitness gadgets and gear, or attempting to make sense of the latest health study or scientific news, Liz battles a fairly entrenched addiction to diet soda and Doritos, a gargantuan sweet tooth, and an inability to be coherent much later than 10:30 pm. She lives in New York City with her husband and their dog, Franny. Thankfully, her husband does most of the late-night dog walks.

Liz has also been an editor at Health, WebMD.com, More, and Allure, and has written for Travel + Leisure, Glamour, Self, Newsweek and Town & Country.

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