Im out, People. A rhyme’y send off…

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Please to leave your comments below regarding all the fab ways you live heart healthy 365/52.

The winner will be announced tomorrow via TWITTER.**

USA only (I know…) so should a nonresident win s/he may pick another commenter to receive the treat.

Stuck for a comment? Go here, read her blog post, think of a way she (and the WHOLE Bumbling Band) can refind their motivation this weekend and share that.

Seriously.

We can all use some inspiring in these EARLY DARK & GETTING COLD days.

**coming soon? TwitterGives. I shall twitter a question & the first emailed response I receive is the winner. Im nothing if not one to deliberately & consistently distract your from your work day. That’s the way I roll, People. You can thank me later.

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  1. HAHA…Miz…you guys always distract me from work. If I am not blogging, I am reading blogs or watching Roni’s latest video.

  2. Don’t forget your mittens MizIFromtheSouth…

    And have a blast (I’m sure you’ll be warmed by the many people you meet!)!!

    So…I live heart healthy by biking, by running, and mostly by chasing my kids…

  3. I love how, in my mind, the Toddler Tornado allowed me to slumber late this morning & I got up, grabbed my carry on and dashed to the airport like the Mama-On-Vaycay I am soon to be.

    no such luck 🙂

    thank goodness for my coffee (cooled with coffeecubes & sipped through a straw quickfast so as not to make my teeth yeller).

    Miz.

  4. Twitter Gives, sounds cute!

    I live heart healthy by really limiting salt in my diet. I believe that any dish that can be seasoned with salt can taste just as good or better if you replace the salt with some kind of spice. This, of course, from the non-cook:) (sometimes I like to pretend I know what I’m talking about).

    Can’t wait to hear how it all goes!!

  7. I (try) to live heart healythy by avoiding foods with HFCS, enriched and partially (or totally:) hydrogenated oils. You’d be amazed at how good you have to eat when you cut them out!

    I walk…but, will probably have to start doing workout videos soon…it just is dark too darn soon now!

    Have a great time in Chi-town 🙂

  8. I run and do not eat McDonalds.

    true story:

    last friday night we ate a lot of sugar up in herre (if by WE you TOTALLY mean *me* as the Ren Man was working late and I did ration the Tornado’s intake).

    last friday was Halloween.

    this monday? I backed up the candy and threw in the car and when we hit McD’s drive through for some milk/apples I HANDED IT ALL OVER TO THE CASHIER.

    when I drove through again yesterday (milk again. dont ask) she said they now call me the CANDY LADY.

    Miz.

  10. Dear Candy Lady,
    I’ve recently been doing more short bursts of intense cardio rather than long steady state runs and rides on the bike. It’s made a huge difference in my fitness, and so hopefully, my heart is in better shape as well.

    I also enjoy plenty of healthy fats as I love nut butters and eat some everyday. Oh, I must add that although it’s low in fat, I am loving the PB2 I recently ordered. I fix a little bowl of it every morning. Dip spoon in PB2…dip spoon in oats…stick in mouth. Heavenly!

    Have a wonderful time in Chicago. Stay warms and learn lots. Can’t wait to hear about your trip.

  11. That’s a cool idea giving your candy away!

    I have rediscovered my love of swimming. And I’ve noticed that I’m a little less buoyant since I’ve lost weight! Though I still have to be careful due to opposing flotation devices! LOL (think boobs and belly)!!

    I’m not eating fast food as much. Like once a month or once every 6 weeks. Sounds good then after I eat it, I think what the heck, and I have a stomachache!

    Trying to get more sleep!

    Have a great trip!

  12. wait. I DONT UNDERSTAND TWITTER!!

    it’s really simple. head to http://www.twitter.com and check it out.

    THEY explain it far better than I can with my thumbs.

    dont wanna do that? too freakin confusing to go there and FOLLOW MizFitOnline?

    look up at top of the page and it show all the TWITTERS right there as well…

    Miz, who is probably going to cave and add the READ MORE because there is far too much scrolling down to do up in herre

  13. Living in a heart-healthy manner? You mean we aren’t supposed to smoke cigarettes, drink lots of booze, eat a high fat diet and get absolutely no exercise?

    Oops.

    🙂

    Have a great trip! How I wish I could be there with all of you!

  14. I walk most mornings with the dogs, even in the dark. Will do that this evening since my morning-walk-mojo has disappeared. I go to the gym and do circuit training as well as cardio and the best HIIT I can manage at this stage of the game. I read labels. I cut down on fast food. I eat consciously – think before putting on plate and in mouth. It’s like work, but I feel really good these days.

    See you in Chi-town.

  15. aww….Miz!!!!! Have a GREAT time 🙂 My recipe for heart health is cardio 5 days a week ……..sometimes more, a little olive oil every day, flax via a muffin most days, fish twice a week, oatmeal for breakfast most days, and a couple tsp of Metamucil for a little kick 🙂 I am hoping my heart is in much better condition now than it was 6 months ago when I had a diet of cookies, coffee, and my exercise plan was a big fat NADA!

    BE safe 😉

  16. Yesterday I walked to the bank.
    This morning oatmeal will fill my tank.
    Today I will also head to the club
    and workout like crazy to reduce the flub.
    Have a great time in Chi-town, I wish I could play.
    But I’m serving dinner for 12 on my guy’s special day.

  17. Hi Miz!
    I hope you have a great time! We talked a long time ago about doing a guest post, and I know you were super booked back then, but I would love to do it! Let me know if you can schedule me in sometime!!
    🙂 Thanks so much! I love the Mc D’s and candy story, that is priceless!
    Ali

  18. But I’m serving dinner for 12 on my guy’s special day.

    FIVE YEARS CANCER-FREE, PEOPLE.

    Marianne & Mizter Marianne? Im so happy for you and THRILLED that you wont be with me because of *why*

    hugs to him,

    Miz.

  19. I’m about to bite into a whole grain English muffin for my breakfast before running out to do a squillion errands. This weekend is a “girls’ getaway” that my heart SO needs, and will include red wine (perhaps a smidge too much…) and hiking in the mountains. Yeay!

  20. The steel ground oatmeal for breakfast has been my change from the oversized sausage, egg and cheese sandwich on a hard roll. I really can’t believe I existed on those for many a morning meal.

    Bag Lady cracks me up with her booze and cigarettes, but a beer a day is OK from Charlie’s point of view.

  21. Exercise bike minimun 20 minutes/three miles a day, up and down the stairs six times each morning, and have been trying to learn to run though it’s too cold the last few days. Oats with flax in the mornings.
    Heart Healthy? I had congestive heart failure last year and dang near died. My current heart goal is to get off the beta blockers and stay off.

  22. I had congestive heart failure last year and dang near died. My current heart goal is to get off the beta blockers and stay off.

    wait, WHAT?!

    I had no idea. dang Quaker Peeps for not shipping outside the USA!

    now I wanna prod you to ADD to yer upcoming guest post…

    Miz.

  24. Cute poem! I run and lift and walk and elliptical and cadio dance and Turbo Jam and yoga…whatever I feel like on a particular day. 🙂

    And I just can’t get too into Twitter…I’m like the loser kid who doesn’t get it. lol.

  26. betty? sometimes I do it for the wrong reasons ( to look good in an outfit!!)

    until I can do it for the right.

    MY HEART.

    (does that win?)

  27. run, bike, swim (when i have a pool). oh, and bodypump! (i love my workout buddies so now i am in love wiht this class) And eat good for me food!!

    miz, did you really say you went to mickey-d’s for milk and apples??? they sell that at the store you know… 🙂

    have fun in chicago!! wish i was there with y’all!

  28. I dont not get twitter either so I just read it here.
    now I need to get it if I wanna win, yes???

  29. The store?!

    What is this (fingerquote) store (unFQ) of which you speak?

    (And sadly I use the ‘Donalds as a time killer before Mommy & Me Spanish and after MizMama starts to lose her mind.

    some days it’s the best 2.00 I spend.)

    And Bea? Twitter really is SIMPLE *but* there’s no need as you point out.

    Read here.
    Sign up if you want.

    *Sporadic* gives where the first to email me wins—–not all 😉

  30. Reading the “secret diet blog” it occured to me how many lives are interwined through your blog. Since we all realize our weight, health, and fitness are really just proxies for our mental health — it really is amazing.

    Have fun on the plane.

  31. I love your rhymes.

    I love being distracted during the day (dare I say it’s the only think that keeps me from going completely postal?)

    I don’t love that for some reason Twitter doesn’t seem to like my BlackBerry. 🙁 Or vice versa.

    What do I do? Well, I try to do some form of cardio pretty much daily. I do eat oatmeal pretty regularly, and I take a fish oil supplement (enteric coated! Cause I so don’t love the backlash, if you take my meaning.) and I try to avoid bad fats. I eat my almonds and my whole grains…and in fact, I try to eat as cleanly as possible, as consistently as possible.

    I try to do a lot. It doesn’t happen every day, and it hasn’t been happening very consistently lately, but I try. 🙂 And in the end, I guess that’s what it’s all about…?

    V.

  34. Working out 5 days a week! I am in the process of coming up with a “plan A” and “plan B” so I have no excuses!

    Have fun in Chicago!

  35. I laugh that I just walked in on Ren Man and TT watching this video and she was yelling THAT’S MY MAMA!!!

    totally.made.my.morning.

    fame & fortune? who needs ye?

    Miz, who is wondering if it’s ‘wrong’ that she totally adores how TT now leaves a room and says: I’M OUT PEOPLE.

    I wonder where she picked that up front?

    *scratches woolcapcladhead*

  36. On a daily basis I avoid unhealthy fats and eat oatmeal. Lots of oatmeal. Too much oatmeal. I think the Quaker Oats Company puts crack in their Old Fashioned Oats. Despite that, I do what I can to keep the abdominal fat in this old jelly belly to a minimum.

    Have a fantastic weekend!!

  37. I workout (running, biking, ellipticizing, stair climbing, weight lifting, stretching) at least 5 days a week, and I eat oatmeal almost EVERY morning! I love oatmeal!!! 🙂 I like to mix chocolate protein powder and a little peanut butter in plain quick-cooking oats. YUM!

    Also, my cholesterol went down 50 points in two years!!! It was 200 total, and now it’s 150! The only things that I really changed were eating oatmeal and exercising. I’m 26 and at a healthy weight, so I was surprised to have borderline-high cholesterol. Just goes to show that we really can take health into our own hands!

    Have fun at the oatmeal party!!!

  39. have an AMAZING and safe trip, miz! wish i could go!
    heart health- reducing stress! i’m working on it…
    happy friday!

  40. I eat whole grains as much as possible. Just posted about that on my blog today actually.

    Looking forward to meeting you on Sunday. Have a safe trip and you’ll definitely need that jacket this weekend.

  42. Oatmeal with flax for breakfast for me.

    I’ve been feeling down lately, I might make my vision and gratitude boards this weekend.

  43. Am I following you on twitter because I don’t remember ever seeing a tweet from you. Are you following me? (debroby).

    I live heart healthy by eating clean, including oatmeal most mornings.

    I do cardio hard enough to challenge my cardio-respiratory system.

    I try to get enough sleep (with the time change, it ain’t happening. I HATE Standard Time!).

  44. I so want to win the oatmeal package….
    Ummm… heart healthy? I try to eat 90% non-packaged food, lots of fruits and vegies, whole grains, fish weekly, flax added to stuff. I work out 4-6 days a week. But one thing that I think is REALLY important for my heart? I try to find happiness and joy in all facets of my life and limit stress.

    Have a great trip Miz! (Although I don’t envy you going to Chicago this time of year! Brrr!)

  46. As you know, I am learning to love me some runtime. I say learning because it hasn’t always been love but it’s getting there. I’m up to 5 1/2 miles now, just shy of my impending 10k and all that cardio’s got to be makin my heart happy. Which is a huge leap from my barely one-mileness from just a year ago. I also love me some oatmeal, I try to eat as clean as possible and except for a little (hopefully planned) treat here and there, I keep free from the bad bad fats.

    And maybe a little red red wine.

    Have the best time ever on your triptoquakerness! Love the rhymes!

  47. I run.
    I don’t always eat the most healthy, but I’ve been doing a much better job lately than usual.

    As a result, I’m the only one in my family that isn’t being treated for high blood pressure.

    Have a great trip! I wish I wasn’t going out of town to a Christmas party this weekend, I could drive up and join the blogger meet-up.

  48. LEAH?? I was also unaware. You poor stick, that must have been awful 🙁 Guest post is good news, please please!

    Hope you have a rocking time in Chicago Mizfit! You should get some earmuffs, they would look AMAZING on you. Hmm… Mizfit earmuffs… sponsored by Quaker… it’s all falling into place.

    I stay heart healthy by eating right and exercising and trying not to bore everyone else to tears with it. I have a funny heartbeat so I take extra care!

    TA x

  51. Lots and lots o’ cardio – have two 1/2 marathons and the Avon walk next year so will be out pounding the pavement! Plus – never smoked (yay!) and try to eat healthy. Not always easy but I do try…

  56. Happy and safe travels! Enjoy all your late-night carousing, too!

    Heart healthy: fruits + veggies + beans + fish + flax + whole grains + nuts + running + a heapingheaping dose of daily love/gratitude/gratuitous hugs = happy heart.

  57. I do lots of cardio and eat very well (usually).

    Have fun in Chicago! May you get to put the big coat away as soon as you get back to Austin.

  58. Have a BLAST in Chicago! I hope you run into Oprah. I wish I could meet you at Panera, it’s one of my favorite midwest guilty pleasures. The cookies and danishes are good, so is the black bean soup…I could go on.

    I keep my heart healthy by living an active life – my bike is my transportation, I walk my dog, do yoga, and do more intense cardio at the gym. When my knee is better I will run again! I don’t do HFCS, hydrogenated fats, or fast food, and I am always trying to do more whole grains, veggies, and fruits. I’ve been interested in incorporating more raw foods into my diet lately. AND I get 8 hours of sleep a night! Now if I could just stop eating these cookies…

  59. Heart healthy living–to me, this means healthy living…..exercise and watching what I eat! Moving instead of siting. Passing on the pie. Eating the veggies. Smiling. Getting my heart rate up. Stairs instead of the elevator. Enjoying the moment.

    (Thanks Miz for the comment on my blog yesterday….anytime you ask, I would be honored to do a guest post!)

    Enjoy your weekend!

  60. A heart-healthy life I am trying to live
    Which is why just to me the oatmeal you should give.

    My mornings are filled with a walk or a jog
    My evenings are bliss as I dreamily blog
    Be healthy, live happy, read labels my friend!
    And sadly now MizFit my poem must end.


  62. Delay
    Delay
    Gelato with TT & Ren Man.
    Wait
    Tuna from envelope while other waiting Peeps gagged
    On plane and OUT!

  63. Have the biggest, best time!
    I try to be consistent in all the above…activity, clean eating, etc. But the best, heart healthy thing is that I live where there is no fast food. And there is outside activity all year long–free.of.charge.

  64. Dang…I hope you are able to blog while you are on your trip…this is going to be a long boring weekend in Germany w/o you 🙁

  65. I live heart healthy
    in all that I do
    From the weights that I lift
    To the veggies I chew

    I drink lots of water
    Get plenty of rest
    Take vitamins galore
    Run with the best

    My heart and my health
    Always on my mind
    So I do what I can
    To be physically kind

    I read healthy blogs
    My fav is THE MIZ
    Cuz with all things FIT
    She is such a whiz!!!

  68. haha yeah! envelope tuna!
    i’m at an airport today as well. i believe i astounded onlookers by throwing away extraneous fried rice.

    also, everyone posts the most hilarious and fun comments here. jut thought i would say.

  69. Sheesh! Finally a second to actually watch your vid (instead of staring at empty space on my YouTube-blocked work computer). First, don’t go with the “read more” option- I prefer the scrolling. But of course it’s up to you. Just my $0.02.

    About the heart-healthy living, I do a lot of little things that add up to big gains. Of course I try to get in a decent workout several times a week, varying steady-state with high-intensity cardio. I also make sure to stay away from saturated fats, and get healthy mono- and poly-unsaturated (you know, the olive oils and the omega-3’s and 6’s).

    I have never ever smoked, and I eat a lot of oatmeal (with flax, like apparently the entire Bumbling Band), and I try to keep my weight within a healthy range.

    For proof: I’ve never had high blood pressure, my cholesterol is exemplary, and my resting heart rate has gone down 10 points to 58 (bpm) since I started running regularly (back in May).

    Have fun in Chicago!! I so wish I could be there, but of course I’ll be there in spirit. = P

  70. It may be simple, but I eat clean and exercise daily. I get a lot of walking in in addition to my daily exercise routine, I don’t smoke, I don’t drink (though I’m sure red wine would be better than nothing), and I get lots of sleep.

    🙂

    Pick me, pick me! Lol. Have fun in Chicag”oat”, Miz!

  71. I am so excited to so many awesome bloggers in one place! Even though I am no where near you guys it sounds awesome!

    I try to keep my heart healthy by eating less fat and better fats (no trans fat and limited saturated fats). I also try not to stress too much.

  72. heart healthy? i try to add nuts to my diet…often that comes in the form of a nut butter…and unfortunately i just found out today that cashews don’t count as one of those “healthy” nuts b/c they have much more sat. fat? shucks, that was my favorite!

    i’m so excited to meet you this weekend!!!!!

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