Link Love and a Friday FREEBIE!
Fri, Jun 6, 2008
First, a check in: how was your week & how did this all pan out?
Make any strides in silencing the negative self chatter within? Have any AH HA! moments?
We’d love to hear about them if you’d wanna share. You never know when *your* Ah Ha! moment mightcould be just the trigger someone else needs to have theirs.
On to the links.
This first one more falls under a like and not a love for the MizFit, but there are some good tips there nonetheless.
Im confident most of you would say SKIP THE FAST FOOD. PERIOD. yet, living in the real world, it’s best to be prepared. (oh, and number 8? Id say ditch the entire thing. We (the royal) can add in extra good, complex carbs later if need be).
In keeping with Tuesday’s Tips Post, here is more than you’d ever wanna know with regards to what baking soda can do.
Who knew it was such a wonderthang (marianne? I know you did.)!
Got even better baking soda tips? hit us up in the comments, please.
This next link is to a blogger I really enjoy (even if perusing her blog inevitably has me heading for the kitchen).
Since this is LINK LOVE and not MizFit Yammer Time I shall let her post speak for itself—please to scroll down to the intuitive eating part.
The first line of description for this product says it all: Take your “conscience” along on your next trip.
What does MizFit say? Click. Read. Laugh. Think “at one point in my life I so would have wanted that.” Reflect on how you’ve begun to set yourself free from the scale which binds. Curse its creators. Move to next link.
The silly link.
The MizFit would personalize anything and EVERYTHING if she could link (please to also see this).
Please to enjoy & dont let your boss catch you (if by BOSS you mean Toddler Tornado—–which I do.)
LinkLastly, a gift for your body. A healthy food clean eating link. Voila.
They had me at what’s fresh in my area PLUS shopping guides, recipes, and tips.
And now for the freebie.
People, Im a smarter, wiser MizFit than I was a few months ago. Remember the Great Propel Debate of ’08? (how could you not? some of us are still recovering.)
I learned that day how passionate people are about their water.
Me? Ill admit to mixing a fair amount of flavor (flava?) in with my plain ole regular water consumption.
Ill admit to really, really enjoying the infused variety as a treat (Ive been known to say “everything is better with a touch of pure cane sugar” too.) .
As a result I was all over OWater’s generous friday freebie offer of a mailing a sampling o’infused flavors to the MizFit winner of the week.
HOWEVER, since I now know the Bumbling Band far more intimately, I also requested that—-should the winner shun the sugar—-we have the choice of a sampling of the SIMPLY WATER (with natural fruit flavorings/electrolytes) as well.
It’s the winner’s decision (and no. you dont have to tell the Band what youre getting. that can be between you and the OWater peeps).
We’re all about freedom of hydration choice up in herre.
You can be entered to win for the low low cost of a comment below.
Tags: baking soda does WHAT?!, better fast food choices, intuitive eating, negative self chatter, OWater, portable scales
Jeez, you’re up early! Oh, wait…I am too.
awwwwww i feel so honored to be mentioned on your blog… i am blushing
LOVE the toddler tornado comment ha… way too cute…
the baking soda link is awesome!
have a great friday!!
I know I should go find out all the great things I could be doing with baking soda… but I’m guessing, like vinegar, many of the things baking soda aids in are CHORES!
Hate the chores.
And since I’ve been known to drink Evil Diet Soft Drinks on occasion, I will cast no aspersions on another’s beverage choice. Some of us need the flavah.
How do people have time to take pictures of their food when they write about it? I’m too much about the eat. But I like the simple heatlhy stuff she showed. Will have to spend time next week when I’m free free freeeeee from the chains of public education.
Mizfit, you always have the best links! I’m loving the Epicurious and the OWater. How have I never seen these things?
Perhaps, Gena, because you have a life?
I adore the random trendstuff.
Happy to enlighten you with the mishmash (& sometimesTRASH).
M.
Oh my a night owl like me…I actually slept but still feel crappy tired this morning. I love epicurious and all your links..so cool!
A little flava on the water wont hurt…sometimes we need a little variety in life ya know! OK off to take care of me for a few minutes then off to the gym to spin my life away for an hour!!
Everyone, have an awesome weekend! Hasta Luego amigos!
I adored Love of Oats’ take on intuitive eating–it’s something I really want to implement in my own life. Unfortunately, my intuition love peanut M ‘n Ms…
I want the Fruit Rollups! I would write on them, “Do not eat this. It is mom’s.” Maybe with a nuclear symbol.
Think that would stop the horde of locusts in this house? No, I don’t think so either.
Great links, Miz….
Must go check cows, but I’ll be back (I know – thanks for the warning!)
Here’s a baking soda cleaning tip that’s super easy: Put about a cup of water and a few tablespoons of baking soda in a glass bowl and place it in the microwave. Heat for about 4 minutes and LEAVE THE DOOR CLOSED for another 3-4 minutes. Open door, wipe the inside of the microwave and it will be sparkling clean and free of nasty splatters with very little effort.
Thanks seekatyrun!
I totally needed that tip.
M.
plenty of aha moments, but the chatter continues so i do my best to try to ignore. however, my new little “shut up and do it” mantra is working just dandy (dandily?).
my mom is the baking soda queen…i still have nightmares about it’s 10000000000000000000001 uses.
love the oats blog, makes me feel all warm & fuzzy.
Owater how I love thee.
You satisfy my thirst quenching needs
You make me smile when I am in need
You make me full when i’m on the verge
of succumbing to a crazy splurge.
Please, O please, come home with me
I promise you will be happy.
I don’t even care you make me pee
because you will always be a part of me.
I have so many Explorer tabs open to peruse now I won’t get any work done today!
Oh Fitarella, how SAD that the MizFit rolls with the random number generator for the winner
that said, you brightened my morning——although that doesnt come with any fancy prizes.
M.
Had my biannual flight review yesterday!
Got rode hard and put away wet!
Loved every sweaty moment
VERY COOL, Dr J.
Will we get a post on it?
Video?
Snapshots?
A drawing?
An interpretive dance?
M.
Being the non-domestic that I am, I am now in love with the baking soda page! Thanks too for the intuitive eating blurb as well. Am still completely fascinated with that. And I’m up for a Dr. J interpretive dance!! Woot, woot!
awwwww, that’s prize enough for me
The Bag Lady loved the baking soda link – she knew most of those, but has been looking for a way to get rid of rust, so now must try the cut potato and baking soda trick!
She was saddened that the fresh food map was only for the States. Oh well, she’s pretty sure she knows what’s fresh locally….at least, in her own garden!
Great poem, Fitarella!
BL, I thought the same thing about the map——*there’s* a website for a member of the Bumbling Band to launch!
http://www.therestoftheworldsfreshfoodinseasonmap.edu
M.
Still working on the silencing the negative chatter. I imagine it will be a work in progress.
I like the personalized soda. I don’t drink soda, but I’d have fun carrying around a personalized brand of water! That might shake things up a bit at the next exec. meeting I sit in on!
I really like the map of in-season foods. Yep, asparagus is definitely the “in” food right now, and farm-fresh asparagus absolutely delicious!
Love for the oats… kinda creeped out by the fruit roll ups but wishing I still drank soda because now you have me Jonesin’
I don’t do fast food often – mostly when traveling or to satisfy a craving. But when I do, I always feel a little better about Subway than the others. Thanks for killing that. LOL
I’m hit and miss with the flavored waters. Love some of them and only like others. My fav I can never find in stores. Fruit2O has apple and it tastes like actual juice of an apple was added not the fake apple flavor but I can never find it in a store. A meeting I used to go to quarterly always had it and it exists on the website but I must be the only one who would buy it in the store.
Need to read this post three times to get everything.
Love Owater. Thought you people would never touch it. But , it’s only sugar, no chemicals are added. So put me down for the contest! I’ve actually asked my local market to carry it, but, haven’t seen it yet. Say Hi to Amy M. for me.
The mini traveling scale is so cute! And totally ridiculous. If I started toting a scale around with me everywhere I went I would become concerned for my mental state VERY quickly (although its so little and cute that maybe it’d be a lot less scary for some people?).
The Epicurious site looks very interesting, I’ll have to check it out. And you know us all so well in regards to the OWater!
I HEART baking soda. Thanks so much for the link- I knew it was an awesome product but I didn’t know it could do THAT many things!
I’m so behind on my MizFit reading lately. I do love me some Ah HA! moments and try to stifle the neg self talk all the time.
I have more thoughts, but I feel guilty about letting the wee one watch Barney (I hate thatfreakingpurpledino) while I internet.
One quick (totally off topic question). If I joined a chi chi gym on 4/30 and they STILL haven’t set up my first (and FREE) training session, should I bag them, with lots of rumblings about bad customer service and how they should refund my money?
Priscilla? 3 thumbtyped words:
Squeaky
Wheel
Grease
M.
hey! the first link is the blog network i will be writing for!
i love link day. its my favorite.
EVEN THOUGH I NEVER WIN THE FREEBIE.
Love the personalized soda. I got my husband personalized ketchup for Christmas last year (don’t ask.).
I love baking soda, too. However, just yesterday, I learned that vinegar makes a handy solution for loosening wall paper glue. Who knew?
busy morning…..will catch up on all that great info later! just wanted to get me entry in!;) i do love me a freebie!
LOVE IT Dara. Got the personalized Heinz for my nephew
M.
Ok, I gotta say that IF I find myself at the fast food joint, and it’s rare, but IF, I am there, it is probably because I am hungover and nothing cures a hang over like fries. And life is not worth living if you can’t have the occasional bag o fries. I don’t like to eat at places where I just know that the surly kid behind the grill is spitting into the food… Baking soda is for chocolate chip cookies!! Does everyone but me already know that frozen trail mix is awesome? Can you kinda tell where I’m at today?
“O” Water? Really? Is it THAT good???
“O” Water? Really? Is it THAT good???
(that’s it, people. no other comment. that COMEDY GOLD stands alone)
M.
Baking soda is Awesome!
Great Blog….Have a great weekend!
Oh gosh I have to chat about the negative chatter within. And then you asked about Bikram. Ok, these are TOTALLY related. I swear on Sweet Baby Jesus that Bikram is the ONLY time that this type A girl can stop ANY chatter within. I was going to blog about this later today.
Happy weekend.
jessica
I had no idea that baking soda had so many practical uses! I will definitely have to try some of that Owater.
Oh, and the negative chatter only gets to me on my longer runs, so I’ll let you know how that goes when I do my long run this weekend.
*hangs head in shame*….the negative chatter has run rampant all week
I hope to do better over the weekend.
Intuitive eating comes naturally to babies and kids, then we teach them to eat 3 X day and stop listening to their bodies. When my kids are hungry, even if it’s an hour before dinner, they eat. It can be something small and healthy such as a piece of fruit or some mozzarella, but eat they do.
I am trying to do the same myself.
Not fair, got the ears hidden in your image! Whatyouhidinthere, sister?? You a good flyer?
You think there is a big difference between the goal of being strong and fit, which I think is the way you, I, and many of the mizfits think, and the whole lose weight-lose weight thing, don’t you? One of the many reasons I like yours and TGFE site, is the focus is on fitness!
I love freebies! Sign me up!
Must clean house. No time to read the other (insightful, I’m sure) comments. So just: Hi everyone!
I’m going to be battling with the mean thoughts all weekend, so any happy thoughts you could send my way would be extra-helpful.
Off to scrub the house (and perhaps try some peanut butter with strawberries. I’m thinking it might be a fun taste treat).
Oh, and you can leave me off the drawing. Not for any noble reason. I just don’t like most sweet drinks. It’s a blessing and a curse (I literally only drink plain water, a little almond milk, and about two pineapple juices a year).
Baking Soda is a necessity in our house! It’s amazing and requires little scrubbing time on my part. Anything to keep from doing housework.
Negative chatter. Be gone!
I never knew baking soda could do so much!! Thank you for putting this out there. I am going to give some of these a try.
D’you know, I’m odd…I just can’t drink the flavored waters. I love my plain, boring old water…though I am picky about brands, if it’s bottled. Mostly I filter it at home as I’m trying (with nebulous success) to limit my plastic-bottle useage…
As for the negative chatter – I’ve been making a concentrated effort to switch the negative to positive and it’s working at least to some extent. My outlook has been way more positive and I’m dealing with the stressful situations a lot better. I think that’s huge, considering that stress is probably the biggest obstacle to living healthy, at least for me.
So thanks again!
V.
I wonder how they taste? I’v been doing really good with the no sugar thing.. including all the modified stuff they hide LOL
This is Amy from owater. BK, just wanted you to know we make two lines of owater… and our unsweetened owater line contains no sugar (no fake sweeteners or coloring either), it’s just pure water, real fruit flavor and electrolytes. The flavor is bright, but not sweet — more like having a piece of sliced fruit in your water.
Our other line is infused owater, which does have a little bit of pure cane sugar — but again, no fructose or fake sweetners, so it doesn’t have that syrupy sweet taste and it is lower in calories than all the fructose-laden sports drinks.
So whoever wins the Friday Freebie, just let us know which you want to try or we can send a mix of both.
Love the “ode to owater.” And hi back to Rachel M.
thanks again!
Amy
To the previous commentator with comments like that Jesus you!