Together. Finally.

A few weeks ago I bumped into a friend at the grocery.  She glowed. She radiated energy. She exuded happiness.  After I begged her to share She told me why.  I asked her to come here and share with you, too.

I’m 45 years old and my face has been broken out for over 9 months. 

I’d been to my dermatologist and have tried a myriad of topicals and antibiotics.  Nothing seemed to work.

I started wondering if my skin issues was hormone related so I decided to venture out of what I would call the main stream doctors and went to see a health and wellness doctor.

That decision took me on a journey I would have never imagined.

I was excited to have the blood work done and get on bioidentical hormones that are specific to what my body needs.  In addition to the hormone testing they offered an ALCAT test which tests for food sensitivities.

I thought, “why not?” since my insurance covered it.

 The results were eye opening. 

On the hormones I was low in vitamin D, low on testosterone levels, and low on T3.  I was prescribed vitamin D drops, testosterone cream, progesterone, and a low dosage of thyroid.

The ALCAT results threw me for a loop (MizFit note: There is more information on precisely what that test is here. It’s very interesting…to this misfit at least.)

I am highly sensitive to iceburg lettuce, oranges, cocoa/chocolate, and garlic.  The test results also listed foods in which I’m moderating and mildly sensitive.

It was all so overwhelming.

While I had all this information I didn’t know how to apply it.  So I decided to try a detox program my doctor had available through his office.  It changed my life.

The detox program was only 28 days and told me exactly what to eat for each meal as well as snacks.

It avoided dairy, breads, sugar, and alcohol.  I liked the fact the program includes meal replacement shakes for some meals.  That made it easy.

Also, I was buying produce and meat at the grocery story I had never tried or prepared before.  I always knew I needed to eat more fruits and vegetables, but I didn’t know how to realistically incorporate that into my daily routine.

The 28 day detox program told me exactly what to eat so I didn’t have to come up with a meal plan on my own.  That’s exactly what I needed to change my eating habits. 

I feel better than I have in a long time.

I have more energy.  I think more clearly.  I lost weight and inches around my middle area.  My libido is higher than it’s been in ages.  And the length of my period has cut in half.   My acne is getting better. It still isn’t where I want it to be.  But what was the impetus for going to the health and wellness doctor benefited me in so many ways I wasn’t expecting.

I have to admit after the diet I celebrated with an individual stuffed pizza and a few glasses of wine–but that was a treat.  It’s not my norm. 

Through the detox diet I have learned how to plan healthier meals and snacks for my family.

I feel good about what I put on my husband and 6-year-old daughter’s plate.

I can feel confident I’m giving them fuel for a healthy body and healthy mind.

It’s definitely an investment and takes commitment to change eating habits.  But it’s so worth it.

My mom used to tell me, “You are what you eat.”  She’s right. 

Sounds crazy.

It IS a little misfit’y crazy, but this misfit firmly believes it works.

Three simple steps to thinking yourself fit until you ARE the fit person you will soon be (power of positive thinking).

Create your story.  What would FitYou eat, drink, read, think, DO each day?

Tell.Everyone. They may think you’re a misfit–but letting friends know the YOU youre working toward is a key step.  It helps your PEEPS start seeing you as the fit person you will soon become.

Respond as the Fit You would.  Before you do *anything* pause and ask yourself: how would superfit me respond to this situation?

Want more?

Click on over to Sears Fitstudio to read the rest.

Happy with whatcha got here?

Join me in a Fake It Till You Make It Tuesday.

Whatever your “faking it” aspiration might be.**

**That’s your heads-up Austin. I shall be wandering our fair city faking and pretending behaving as I imagine a super successful authorwoman would.  Now run and get me a pen, pleaseandthankyou? Ive got book signings to attend!!

***comments are closed because I want you to GIT TO LIVING.  GIT TO THINKING ABOUT YOU.  And yes.  Git to the faking it…

It’s already been everywhere, but just in case you missed it.

It’s verging on offensive but all in good fun.

Please to enjoy our FitFluential spoof of Sh*t Girls Say with a quickfast cameo by the Tornado (here’s some Huffington Post info on the trend, too).

And yeah.

I do laugh so much of what *I* spoof I actually do. 

Hello Chia! Greetings lottsa envelope protein when I travel!

Now that I think about it, I guess it’s also an “allow myself to SPOOF myself…”  video as well.

Hmmmmmm.

Ive emailed 7 of you (six winners plus one because I’m feeling so GRATEFUL this morning. And happy. And excited.) for your address to mail the above pictured treat.

Sans, Star of David carrying case of course : – ) .**

I stole borrowed that from the child for the photo.

**I read in Fast Company mag. that people who do this : – ) are typically a decade older than those who do this : )
I shall forever think of that each time I do this : – )

I’m quite confident someone with more tech skills than I (yep that’s a shoutout to you Ryan!) could figure out how not to have ginormous photos & how to intersperse text between pics.

Alas I’ve not yet mastered the wordpress Android app. so it’s bigpicbigpic wordwordword.

You’ll have that.

Onward.

I was MizFitUpAtCrack for the flight yesterday.
It was early even for me.
I was tired.
I was messy.
I was soon obsessed with purplizing the ends of my hair when I spied the photo (above) in my seatmate’s magazine.

(Any hair stylists out there? This is a bad idea, yes? I want. I want.)

Flying to NYC was uneventful.

The cab ride to the hotel was fraught with events.

Suffice it to say I had the pleasure of riding with a cabbie who was experiencing his very first day on the job.

The ride involved a little panic attack (his).

Pulling over, sitting and panicking (again him).

Examining of google maps (me).

Being wholly unable to read a map (him).

Phone calls (me and him. with him pressing his phone to my ear and asking me to speak to someone who did not speak English. Or Fitness).

Tears (him).

Lots of reassuring (me to him).

Eventual tipping (again me to him though it should probably have been the other way around).

I finally made it to the Hilton (shoutout to the *hard* to locate Stone St. Doubletree!), unpacked my newly procured winter garb (photo above) and set out to find me some Kelly Olexa.

And the fitness center.

Not in that order and *not* to workout (as evidenced by the streetclothes photo above).

We headed out into the cold and forraged for food.

And then headed back indoors and forraged for Fitfluential people.

And then ate.

Again.

And talked.

A lot.

To be continued.

I promise it gets more exciting…

The Tornado and I love to sing this song as a duet and she insists my shutting up during on singing the “Ive had six cups of coffee so IM REALLY QUITE AWAKE!!!” line.

She has no idea what coffee is—-but she knows mama likes.

Im off to play in NYC…

Pictures & video and otherstuffs to come.

A while ago I jetted off to LA to speak on a panel about branding, blogging, and making your passion your income.

(I know. That last piece was an attention grabber for me, too.  I learned a TON while sitting on the panel which is the reason I want to share…)

One of you I was swamped by requests for a link to the panel, but had assumed it was something only available with a virtual ticket to the event.

Blog World was gracious enough to allow me to share the recording and I encourage you to watch it when you have the time.

There’s lots of helpful information shared by panelists and interesting audience questions addressed as well (and yeah. my name is misspelled. you’ll have that. a lot.)

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Email me (mizfit08 at yahoo dot com) and I shall connect you with yer SEXY  BACK prize.