What’s your name (giveaway post)?

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Dizclaimer: This post was totally written ahead of time.  As in WAY.

As in Ive not even left for BlogHer yet let alone experienced the bloggin’ mayhem which I’m certain was Chicago.

That sleep-deprived post comes tomorrow.

Until then—a question from you:

I’m curious, where did your name come from? I get it: Miss. Fit but how did you pick it?

To my surprise people frequently ask me this question.

My intent was a play on the words: Miss. Fit & misfit (Im more the latter than the former. hang out with me in real life and you’ll quickly agree).

And yes.

I went through many, many incarnations before settling on MizFit.

My favorite and the one which received a resounding NO WAY! from friends and family? SISYPHIT.

Get it? Because staying fit, healthy & balanced so resembles the myth of Sisyphus?

Yeah.

They didnt like it either.

At all.  The most vocal of the bunch repeatedly stated it reminded her of a venereal disease (I have classy friends.).

That’s me.  More misfit than Miss. Fit.

Now you.

How did you choose your blog name?

If you’re not yet blogging but use an alias when you comment—- what made you select that?

(and did you, initially, select one which closely resembled an STD as I did? Please to normalize for me in the comments.)

(awkward segue. embrace it. I know it’s why you love me.)

Originally I’d planned to merely give a shout out of thanks to the folks at V-Trim and be done with the giveaway.

I was just gonna cut & paste the cover, share how they appreciated all your comments and state how they contacted me about giving away a copy of the Eating Well cookbook.

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Oh, and they offered to send me one.

And I freakin adored it.

What had I expected? A cookbook with a handful of recipes Id actually attempt and a few I might pass on to more motivated-in-the-kitchen friends/family.

What did I recieve? A cookbook, a journal, a workout guide, grocery shopping tips, sample menus, fantastic exercises for working through emotional stumbling blocks with regards to healthy living, amazing photographs of the foods I *will* actually attempt to create, ideas for ways to overcome emotional eating, tips for squeezing in exercise into hectic schedules….

You get the idea.

I was entirely blown away by the book.

Call me MizCynic but Id expected a VTrim promotional piece & received a comprehensive seven step program guide to getting healthy & staying that way.

(*insert sappy music here & a montage of MizFit skipping through a meadow with her Eating Well book*)

And no.

To clarify: Much to my chagrin They’ve neither hired me nor am I getting paid for this endorsement *and* you need only to comment to be entered to win.

**cue confetti**

(Winner announced tomorrow. USA & Canada only)

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Comments

  1. I’ve actually been thinking and trying to remember my exact process since I had to throw out my blog name so often this past weekend.

    I chose my blog name after I decided I know longer wanted to be tied to either location or my size. When I first began I blogged under “Losing in Memphis” but switched to “A Merry Life” because it represented the end result more than the process (well, process too). It is a constant reminder of my daily and long term goal of living healthy and being happy with who and where I am in life. Sometimes I debate on changing it because of branding, but I never will because it has a lot of personal meaning. Plus it plays off my name which is fun since it is a personal blog.

    (And don’t count me as an entry for the giveaway – I would not use a cookbook except to kill bugs or for another improper and wasteful use.)

  2. Lol I like it… but I love MizFit (the name and the lady)… I picked mine because I was pretty much always “vegging out” on the couch, I mean I picked games for the kids I took care of that meant the least “off couch time” but I traded it in for “vegging out” in the kitchen and raiding the produce drawer on the regular

  3. I chose my blogname/pseudonym because it described me at the time, but also by making those words a part of my identity, they were words other people couldn’t use against me because I’d already claimed them. Sort of a pre-emptive strike.

  4. Hi I am Nancy and I have no blog and zero creativity!

    🙂

    I, too, am fascinated by the names people choose but mine is pretty damn self explanatory 🙂

    hope the conference was fun Miz!

  5. I…am…Yum Yucky. And so glad the domain for “TasteBuds.com” was already taken because that was a bad first choice.

    I chose Yum Yucky because it sums up the good, the bad and the ugly of fitness and food.

    Now what’s for breakfast???

  6. What a great idea for a post. Well…..when I was in 6th grade we got AOL. My dad was working with me to try to figure out a screen name and we some how came together and thought itzybitzy because I have always been really tiny. My dad mistyped the name and my screen name became itzybizy. A lot of my friends started calling me Itzy and its just kind of stuck 😉

  7. I am totally changing now and shall use an “alias” 🙂

    I have really wondered before when people comment how on earth they came up with their names (Baglady??) now I want a cool one too.

    I for one love SISYPHIT!!

  8. I get asked why “Iateapie” for a website name too – especially when it has to do with dieting – I don’t remember!!! I think I went through a lot, remembered the movie “American Pie” where it was a nickname for the fraternity – and went with that. Plus I have a funky sense of humor 🙂

  9. Ok, I love the sisyphit name… but then we’d have to call you Sisy instead of Miz… hmm..

    Anyway, I knew I wanted to call my blog “what’s for dinner” but “whatsfordinner.wordpress.com” was taken. So I did “I Made Dinner” and it kinda stuck…even though i write about eating out too.

  10. I chose Fitarella for a few reasons…it reminded me of Cinderella and how she transforms physically into a princess, transforms back and then is finally able to live being herself and be loved as herself. Too loaded? Maybe. But it has a lot to do with growing up overweight and then “transforming” later in life. Another reason is to me it just sounds sassy & fun and I had visions of walking on the treadmill drinking pink champagne 🙂

  11. I am officially ToHerHeath.

    Shall I start commenting like that?

    I want to be on the way toherheath (my health :)) and am going to start a blog soon.

    Can’t wait to her about your weekend.
    I kept checking to see if you’d posted 🙂

    I need a life I think.

    Tammy

  12. I’m game for that book! From your description it sounds great 🙂

    A reader actually suggested “Balancing Act” as the name for my new blog when I switched over from the old one (Trying For A Tri wasn’t really applicable once I finished my triathlon!). I really liked it because I often feel like living a healthy life is often a balancing act with all the other madness that goes on in life. The name was taken though, so I changed it to The Great Balancing Act. Also the name of a stellar Canadian indie band 😉

  13. I love this question…actually have not ever been asked it so here it goes.

    I signed up over at sparkpeople.com a few years ago and wanted to see a positive mantra each time I signed in, thus the IamSucceeding was born, and I truly was(am again) so hubby said to run with it and surround myslef with all the positive. SO I did and there ya go….IamSucceeding!

    Welcome back, hope you share all the wonders of blogher with us and maybe just maybe I will get to next yeasr as it is in NYC!! 🙂

  14. I’m baaaaack.

    Picture post tomorrow and more BlogHer thoughts on friday.

    Panel went fantastically and the whole conference was amazing. I LOVED meeting so many readers!

    Funfunfun.

    Off for coffeecoffeecoffee

  15. I chose my blogging name thinking I’d only be blogging for a short while and for a specific reason. I chose MCM Mama because I’m a mama and I was training for the Marine Corps Marathon. I’ve continued blogging way past the event, so I’ve been considering a name change but have yet to come up with anything.

  16. I totally got (and liked) Sisyphit… very clever.

    Eating Well is my favorite food magazine, I would LOVE that cookbook!

    I got my blog name because a year ago, we moved from the city to the country and I’m a Mom. Not too clever but it suits me! Thanks for the give away!

  17. Hooray, you’re back! Can’t wait to find out all about it.

    LOVE this idea for a post, because I’m finding the explanations for blog names & handles fascinating!

    I can’t remember exactly how I picked Crabby McSlacker, but I definitely wanted to emphasize that even lazy, grumpy people like me can take charge of our health and fitness even if it seems like a huge pain in the ass.

    I do, however, remember googling to make sure there was no other “Crabby McSlacker” or “Cranky Fitness” out there. So two and a half years ago, typing in those search terms would have gotten you no hits. Now, if anyone were to start using those names I’d be very, very steamed.

    And yes, I suppose my name suggests a venereal disease too! I would guess even lazy crabs are still something you don’t want to catch.

  18. ok.
    OKAY.
    I was one of the ones who told you NOT to use that name.

    I’m sticking to it 😉

    Love ya Miz.

  19. Oh and are you bring me treats today?

    What swag did you haul home?

    I have no shame 😉 I’m asking…

  20. I just started following your blog…and am enjoying it 🙂

    My blogging name is a combination of two things. I loved the character Ayla from the Clan of the Cave Bear books and at that time, I was training for an ironman triathlon…so I put them together and go by ironayla. I am not currently in ironman shape anymore, but still like what my name means to me.

  21. I think I read the story behind your name way back when I first starting reading your blog. I think I have to go with your fam as I like Mizfit better than Sisyphit!

    I would love the eatingwell cookbook considering I love their mag.

  22. Hiya Miz!

    I wanted to say how much I enjoyed meeting you this weekend.

    The panel was fabulous and you all are the real deal.

    I wasn’t certain if you’d be the same offline as on and I wanted to drop by and announce YOU ARE!

    Much love from Kansas,

  23. My name was easy – at the time my plan totally consisted of the South Beach Diet and my name is Steve = South Beach Steve. Now the plan has changed a little, although I still follow the SBD pretty closely, but the name has a little bit of a catchy ring to it IMHO.

    Although the book looks great, I am sure there are others here who would use it more. Please leave my name out of the drawing.

  24. 😉

    I am a reader not a commenter and this is my first comment.

    No need to enter me to win I just wanted to add my *lurker self* to the mix.

  25. LOVE the MizFit name, always thought it was quite clever! My story — coworkers are on average, 30 years younger. It does make me feel ancient but not in a bad way. I’m doing the same work in spite of a former 3-pack a day cig habit. I joke about going to the prom with Abe Lincoln, etc.

  26. I don’t have a personal blog, but love reading them. Yours is catchy and I enjoy your posts. Thanks for the chance to win.

  27. My online moniker is ‘dropdeaddusty’. It comes from when my mom and I were hiking in the wilds of Wyoming, and my boots were covered in dust (actually all of me was, I think there was a drought at the time) and she looked at me and said ‘You’re drop dead gorgeous even all dusty!’ She was such an awesome mom, she passed away in 2000 and I still miss her a ton.

  31. It took me all of 2 secs to come up with my blogging name/commenting moniker…cause Im a red head (naturally) and occasionally cool (dont laugh…it happens)…and I use to be 38…sigh.

  33. When I first joined twitter I had no idea what my “name” should be. I came up with Jen_da_bookworm ~~ easy enough – my name is Jen & I am a bookworm. haha!

    When I was trying to come up with a blogname I used bookworm in every possible scenario but settled on Bookworm on a Mission because that is what I am – on a mission – to learn & become healthy.

    As you know I am switching formats soon and have been rethinking the whole name thing. I have settled on “Jen in Real Life” because this is so Real!! and we need to remember that that can mean good, bad, ugly, clean & gross! Life is messy, life is real! I havent figured out what my new slogan will be but I will remain “REAL”!!!

    peace & luv,
    jen

    PS So glad you are home safe & sound & that you had such a great time at BlogHer!!

  34. I picked mine to remind me I wanted to try to lifestyle change to the best of my ablity!

    Would love to win.

  35. My blog name? I saw all the clever blog names out there and after being stumped for oh, 10 minutes or so, came up with “forty-something’s weight loss journey” figuring as I was a few weeks from turning 45, it would be good for a while! It did bother me that blogger wouldn’t accept the apostrophe in the web ID. Yes I was a journalism major, lol!

    My user name is me…I added the “B” a few months ago when another Shelley would hit your comments earlier than me.

  36. My blog name/pseudonym kinda evolved. When I started blogging, my blog name was Weight 1 Day, and my pseudonym was Minke369. A few years ago I was turned on to Marine Biology by my biologist daughter, and wanted a name to reflect that, but in the process, also chose an animal which I felt related to me.

    I chose a small whale. 369 represented the weight at which I started the blog.

    After a while, I began to resent associating myself with a whale. I also was beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel… and believing that I’d really come to goal. I changed my blog name to Fabulous @ 50 to represent that. As I continued to blog Fabulous@50, I realized that there was already a lot of fabulous to me, and to us all, and that we’re often so fixated on our weight and our weaknesses that we don’t see the GOOD that’s in us all. I decided that I was NOT a whale, and changed my pseudonym to Fab Kate. I was ready to use my real name, Kate, but there are a whole lot of Kate’s in the WL blogging community, and I needed something to distinguish myself…. and discovering and uncovering my inner fabulousness, the choice seemed obvious.

  37. I love the name Mizfit!

    Mine was pretty easy, since my business name is “Nutrition by Eve” so I just added the wordpress to it. Nutrition by Eve was formed since I am an RD and started a nutrition counseling practice. I wanted to have the work Nutrition in it, and after collaborating with friends and family this one got the most votes!

  38. Hehe–I like this story 🙂 For me I knew I wanted something about the word inspired or inspiration, and then I thought it would be kind of sassy to do a pop word like “thin.” I somewhat regret it now and have a completely love/hate relationship with my blog name!

  39. We chose A Weight Lifted because we liked the play on words, too. Most people will likely think we’re talking about lifting weights, but while lifting weights can be part of a healthy lifestyle, we’re really talking about lifting the burden of weight worries and low self esteem that comes from them.

    Great meeting you in person at blogher, Miz!

  40. I’m a gemini getting fit = Gemfit

    And my blog name came from a moment of “holy $#%^ I need to pick a name NOW?” Really, not much thought.

    I’m in the process of setting up another blog and thinking a bit more about the naming this time.

    FYI I REALLY REALLY want to win this book!!!

  41. Hellooooo . . . I HATE coming up with titles for things. In fact my hubby and I wrote a song together for our band and the title of that is called ‘I couldn’t title papers.’ Soooo . . . blog. I wanted something cute and catchy that fits my personality and somehow by some act of a greater being “Shrinky Dinky” popped into my head . . . 🙂

  42. My blogger name is my name. I chose my blog name, because at the time, I was more interested in heels than sneakers, did my makeup every day (even going to class in college), and could have passed for a girly girl if it weren’t for the fact that I could be found in the gym between classes, either ellipting or lifting.

    And I became really skilled at cleaning up so that no one would know.

  43. Hey there MizFit!

    Frame by Frame was not the original name for our movie review site. We started with FreezeFrame. That’s what we used when we were just on our local radio station here. But, when we added the blog, wrote our first book, and started adding radio stations where we review, we quickly figured out we needed to change our name.

    FreezeFrame, you see, was a direct steal from the J. Geils Band song, “FreezeFrame”. We used to use an excerpt from the song for our theme song. But, when we went to a broader base, we knew we had to make a change. Well, actually, had a couple ideas if we stuck with the “FreezeFrame” name. We could either not ask permission and wait to be sued for copyright infringement. Or ask for permission, and probably have to pay a lot of money to use the name and music.

    Obviously, we didn’t like either choice.

    As a result, we started thinking about a new name! Since it’s movies, we came up with “Frame by Frame” as a name. It’s a play on words of course for the “frame” in a movie. This is also when we came up with Lloyd. He’s our film guy that’s also our logo. The name Lloyd comes from “celluloid”. Get it? 😉

    So, now you know how we came up with Frame by Frame!

    Dr. Rus

  44. I chose No To the Deuce because I don’t want to go over 200 lbs. It’s a take from the movie There’s Something About Mary – Matt Dillon refers to a girl as being “a deuce, deuce & a half.” I don’t ever want boys referring to me that way.

  45. LOVE learning all about the meaning behind the names.

    Some of yours have had me *so* curious…

  46. The Goat’s Lunch Pail – Husband and I hike in the mountains. When we’ve made it up an especially steep pitch we call it “earning our goat legs.”
    Goat stays in my mind.
    My blog is a mixed bag of whatever like a dog’s breakfast. I thought that too obvious, but wanted something to suggest a bunch of different items cobbled together. Who’d eat anything? And so the goat’s lunch pail was filled.

  47. So glad that the conference went well! Looking forward to hearing aaaalllll about it.

    “Living Healthy in the Real World” was just randomly plucked from midair as I couldn’t think of anything else but really wanted to start a blog RIGHT NOW. So I figured I’d use it as a temporary name until something better came along.

    …and then as a little bit of time went on and my blog developed, I realized that it was the PERFECT name for what I wanted my blog to be. Did the name make the blog or the blog make the name? No idea but I’m happycontent about it 🙂

  49. I, for one, love the myth of Sisyphus (so many modern day parallels, really!). But yeah, it is a little close to syphilis. And MizFit is perfect!

    My name? The really creative “Charlotte” happens to be my real name. I’m awesome:)

  50. mostly when i comment i use my real name, though i do have a nickname i use for other instances “vacancy” i got it in my sorority because i was always crashing on others couches

  51. Ummm – the Bag Lady is my REAL name! 🙂

    Actually, I started using it because of the shopping bags that I designed and created and have been selling… well, that used to sell before the economy tanked! Sigh.

  52. This is long…but a good one (well, at least *I* think so!)

    For many years I was a yo-yo dieter searching for something to end the diet cycle, overeating, binge eating and get me back on track so I could look better, feel better, and be slim. I spent YEARS eating low fat, low calorie, “healthy” foods. But I would lose weight, then gain it back. Then diet. Lose weight. Gain it back…you know how that goes.

    I tried eating all the “good” foods and hated every minute of it. Eventually, I’d get so fed up that I’d eat half-a-gallon of ice cream, then feel guilty and beat myself up. Then I’d spend the next weeks (or months) punishing myself — I’d be back to eating my diet of cottage cheese, saltines, carrot sticks and salad.

    Then…it would hit me…

    I’d tell myself I deserved a chocolate chip cookie. So I’d eat one. Then two. Then three…before I knew it, half (or the ENTIRE) box of cookies would be gone! I’d feel so good eating the cookies — then feel so BAD afterwards.

    The Guilt. The Shame.

    And so would begin more days & weeks of eating right and “doing the right things.” But then the “cookie monster” would come back and so would the yo-yo dieting. This roller-coaster was causing me so much inner pain…

    Then I lived and worked in FRANCE. It was there I learned how to enjoy food — all food — and not gain weight. Not only that, my attitude towards food changed and I no longer stressed about it. I learned how to enjoy it, without gaining weight AND without losing my mind.

    I learned how to take pleasure in food and Eat Without Guilt (even if I ate a few cookies). If anyone knows how eat and enjoy life – while staying healthy and slim – it’s the French!

    When I returned to the U.S. after living in France, one thing I noticed was
    how women would comment as to why they were eating, especially if it was
    a “forbidden food.”

    For example, they would be eating a snack and say, “oh, I didn’t have
    breakfast this morning.” Or, I’d be at a dinner party and a woman would
    accept dessert and say, “well since it is Saturday night, I might as well
    splurge.” And this one I’ve heard SO many times, “TOMORROW I’m starting
    my diet.”

    It just seemed so strange to me. Why were women constantly making
    excuses or reasons as to why or what they were EATING? Why were women
    eating with so much GUILT?

    I then realized that *I* used to be the exact same way!! But after spending YEARS working on myself, my mindset and my relationship with food — I knew I could help OTHERS and save them years of frustration, self-destruction and pain.

    I saw one of my life’s goal was to help other women with body issues and find a healthful relationship with food. I wanted to help turn their beliefs and attitudes towards food around and bring passion back into their lives.

    I became so passionate about it that I studied nutrition, left my corporate
    job, and started my own nutrition business. I wanted to help women lose
    weight, be healthier, feel better about themselves, and EAT WITHOUT
    GUILT. Hence the name.

  53. Beeb – family nickname. Website – well, it seemed like a good idea at the time….
    I’ve just found yours though and don’t think you’re a misfit at all. Miss FIT – definitely!

  54. When I started my blog, I thought of debby’sweigh–because it was going to be about my weight loss, and I like to have my own way. But then I realized that was essentially the same as my first ever and favorite blogger that I read–lynnsweigh.

    So then I though of debbyweighsin, which I still really like–the subtitle is ‘thoughts on weight loss and life,’ which pretty much gives me permission to write about any topic that I choose to write about!

  55. Sisyphit? It sounds like your a sissy trying to get fit! Glad that was vetoed!

    As the eternal pessimist, I used to be Sighs of my Life. No longer blog, so it’s gone. No cute names now.

  56. SISYPHIT – love it! MizFit is probably easier for most folks to remember though. Even getting the reference, I’d be likely to mess up when typing… Sissyfit? Syssiphit?

    How much fun it is to read about everyone’s name?
    Mappchik is an accidental name. I’m a cartographer, so have been known as “MapGirl” to friends and family for years. By the time I got around to making it a web persona, there was a financial blogger who’d already snagged the name. “MapChick” was also gone. If you notice the first part of the comment about my typos – Mappchik was only supposed to have one “p”… Oops.

    As for the cookbook, count me in on the drawing, please?! I’m constantly trying out new – hopefully healthy – recipes on the kids, all in the effort to add to the number of meals they’ll eat which do not include macaroni.

  57. I had a close call not with a blog name but with naming my daughter. At the time my last name began with a D, & I REALLY wanted to name her Veronica until my dear mother pointed out the obvious problem with the monogram. Later, I married a guy whose initials are RAT, making mine ET (& he has to pay the phone bills….).

  58. I chose “losing it and loving it” because as far as my weight loss goes, I’m losing and loving the feeling. Not too exciting and I probably should have used a different name but that is what I went with and so it stays LOL

  59. This is a really good question.

    I didn’t put much thought into other names, to be honest. I knew I wanted it to include my lobster placemats (because at the time, they were all that I was using and could afford). I think I went through several variations with boyfriend Bill and he actually coined the “On a Lobster Placemat” thing.

  60. I am Andy.
    And that’s my name 🙂

    Glad to see you are back safe and sound and I look forward to heading about the weekend.

    was it exhausting? exhilarating?

  61. I chose my name (dianas body journey) because i wanted to get my body healthier and not just diet. But, if I’d change it it’d be body mind and soul journey 🙂

  62. Like you I chose a blog name that’s sort of a play on words, although I’m starting to think it’s a tad obscure. Morfit is actually my first initial and the first five letters of my last name, it’s also a play on “more fit”/”morph it”. So yeah. It may not work, but it stuck ^_^

    Can’t wait for the recap post!

  63. I chose “Sandwiched” because it describes my current season of life: I’m a mom to an 8- and 5-year-old, and just under 2 years ago, my mom moved into town. Let’s just say she hasn’t aged well, and her younger 3 siblings have already died of heart disease and diabetes complications. Mom is a 70-year-old cardiac and kidney patient with myriad other ailments.

    So, not entirely willingly, I became a member of The Sandwich Generation. Within 6 months of Mom moving into town I was in therapy and on antidepressants from the stress.

    I started the blog as free therapy; I liked the idea of journaling but didn’t like the fact that it’d stay in a notebook forever. And I found when I blogged it, I repackaged the stories so that it was less moaning and wailing and more “Can you believe what happened to me today?” Which made me look for the humor in my situation and in turn, made me appreciate my life and blessings so much more.

    For now, the name works; even if Mom kicked it tomorrow (God forbid), I still have my aging 79-year-old dad and my in-laws.

    I am working on starting another blog with a girlfriend centered more on healthy living with a spiritual point of view. It’s at http://sohelpme.wordpress.com. The idea is that we’ve tried so hard to lose the weight and be healthy, and haven’t been as successful as we’ve liked on our own. We need help: “So Help Me, God.”

    As an aside, the movie scene that inspired the title was from Monsters, Inc., where Mike sings about Boo: “Take that thing back where it came from or so help me…so help me!”

    The Twitter handle I picked to go with that account is @sohelpmekath. My real name is Kathleen, and all my close friends and family call me Kath. It’s a reflection of my desire to make the new blog as real as possible.

    And thanks, Miz! I’ve been agonizing for weeks as to where to start with the new blog, and I think THIS might be my very first post!

    I was SO excited to meet you at BlogHer, and your panel was great. Excited about the new blog your started (http://watrd.wordpress.com/) too!

    By the way, am I the only one here who reads cookbooks like they’re steamy romance novels? Just wonderin’.

  64. I’ve been called spunkysuzi since i can’t remember when so i went with it 🙂
    My daily nosh just came from me being english and that’s what i call food!
    Boring but real.

  65. I’ve changed the name of my blog a couple times. It started out “Fit by Fifty.” And then I realized I was in this lifestyle change for good, not just to reach a birthday at a certain weight.

    “Lee” is my middle name. I’ve never liked it much but I’m accepting of it now & even learning to like it.

  67. I picked my alias (Daria) because I loooove that show and because Daria and I share some character traits. I picked my blog title (Summer of the CSAs) because I looooved Wilson Rawls’s books when I was a kid (Summer of the Monkeys, Where the Red Fern Grows) and it’s a good description of what I’m blogging about.

    And for the record, I like Sisyphit. 😉

  68. Originally I considered, “Some doctor will see you now,” but it ended up as “Dr. J,” I’ve got editors, you know 🙂

    Yes, I like the “Mizfit” name very much!

  69. I love Eating Well magazine so would be so excited about that cookbook.

    I started my blog (and chose my blog name) in a fit of self-loathing. My motto was, “I love food, and hate my body.” But that has transformed so much in the months since I began my blog. Now I can say that I am STILL a foodie, I still love food, but GOOD sorts of food, and I am developing a deep love and appreciation for my body which I never had before. So happily the name still fits, but the intonation and the feeling of it is so different.

    Thanks for asking, it gave me a good moment of pause.

  70. I picked mine based completely on my obsession with my red kitchenaid mixer. It’s a food (really, more baking) blog, and it made sense to me to pick something that was central to my baking. That was definitely my mixer.

    Of course, I have several other names and blog titles now, and in the past… but there’s no need to get into all of that!

  71. I picked my URL because I like alliteration. I call my blog “Losin’ It” because I’m trying to lose weight, which sometimes makes me feel like I’m losing my mind, so it works both ways. 🙂

  73. I don’t have a blog, but my name is what my family has called me all my life. Everyone thinks it’s funny coz it’s sounds so hick, but I’m used to it! (and I don’t think I’m hick, but I do live in OKLAHOMA) The Eating Well cookbook looks like a great tool that would help me as I’m working on this healthier lifestyle gig!

  74. Haha, I love the background music and skipping through the meadows… it really got me emotional for a second 🙂

    Well, my blog name came from my church back in Cali. All the women’s events or groups are called the SHE community and within the community they have SHE heals, SHE exercises, SHE dessert nights… ect. So, I decided with She-Fit… a community for girls that want to get fit and healthy 🙂

  75. My blog name is “shut up and run.” I came up with this because there were so many people around me who talked the talk constantly about wanting to eat right and to exercise, but never followed through. I have found that the most success comes from just doing it and not overthinking it. Hence, the name. Sometimes the way to move forward is to do things even when we don’t entirely feel like it…

  76. You are so funny… 😉 I can’t wait to hear all about BlogHer!

    My blog name is pretty boring, but it says what I want my blog to be: a journal of my attempts to live life as well as I can.

  78. My blog name is all about balance– have your cake and eat it too… if you eat your carrots first! 🙂 I love dessert (and wine and nachos…) so much, and I knew I could never give them up. So, my diet is all about balance. Enjoying those goodies, but balancing them out with the nutritious stuff.

    Carrots ‘N’ Cake!

  80. Mine is not too exciting. I get up early in the morning and I run. So I’m EarlyRunner. I was kind of surprised it wasn’t taken on Blogger because it’s not exactly creative.

    And I love free stuff. Especially free stuff I might actually use.

  81. My blog name, beginning2tri, was my effort at a play on words. Tri for triathlon, and I beginning something totally new. Actually at the time I started I had absolutely no background in sports, so I was literally starting from scratch…

    Would love the book, I am always hunting down new recipes.

  82. My blog name came from when I worked in awater lab…the organic compound geosmin is the earthy smell that water has when it is full of organics before it is treated. I thought it was a pretty word for such an odd thing…and figured noone but another geek would even think of using it…of course I spelled it wrong when I registered it so not only am I obscure and geeky but also inaccurate as well.

    🙂

  83. This is fun!

    Marste is my real name. Pronounced like “Marcy,” but with a “t” in there. It’s a combination of my parents’ names. 🙂

    My blog name came from a metaphysical interpretation of the “take up your bed and walk” story from the Bible. That interpretation is that we are born into tribes/families that we don’t quite fit with, and the reason for that is so that we can learn more about ourselves. At some point, we have to thank our tribe/family/whatever for being exactly what we DIDN’T need so that we can move on in our internal growth and development with self-knowledge and self-awareness. We learn to “take up [our] bed[s] and walk.”

  84. My name and blog name are really an internal thing for me. Jules is a play on my real name. A Knickname I’ve had since I can remember. It’s me. So i use it, kinda nice being “me” without hiding my real name from creepos in the world 🙂 As for my blog name. I started it as a weightloss blog. But I picked Meltawayjules because in truth not only do I need to melt away the pounds… but i also need to melt away the walls and crap i’ve put around myself. To unhide the REAL me that has become hidden all these years. To become the me I know I am, not the me I’ve let people think I am. So in a away… I’m melting not only physically, but mentally too. 🙂

    I LOVE cookbooks. I don’t buy them though, because they are usually expensive and I just can’t afford them. This one sounds amazing in more ways than one. Would love to check it out 🙂

    Welcome home. 🙂

  86. I found it hard to pick a blog name. Came up with JavaChick because I am a Computer Programmer/Analyst (according to my diploma, though these days we are more often referred to as Developers) and I have been programming in a language called Java for…Um…going on 10 years now. Also, I like my coffee!

    I adore cookbooks. So does Husband. We can kill loads of time, happily browsing cookbooks together.

  87. My friend had started a blog to chronicle her road to fitness and to keep herself accountable. I decided to join her and we quickly became a duo in Body for Life fitness, then in running a Half Marathon, then another (now, she’s going for a full marathon, and I’m waffling around about that idea). I took her blog name, mybodmod, for “my body modification” and switched it around to become mymodbod. See how clever I’m not? heehe

  88. Hey Miz! This is totally off post but did you guys ever end up getting to do the panel discussion on healthy body image at BlogHer? Maybe you mentioned the outcome of that somewhere, but if so, I missed it…
    Just curious!

  89. It is from Anchorman. “I’m kind of a big deal… People know me… I have many leather-bound books, and my apartment smells of rich mahogany…”

    Basically, he is coming off as somewhat of a fraud, though he is a well known guy. I kind of like the irony, because I am not well known at all. My most popular blog before this had 4 readers. And I obviously like the play on “big”.

  90. OK, I so think that book sounds awesome!!!!!!!!!!! I had to get that out of the way!

    Also, I sometimes write posts in advance. I want to do it more cause I get on this computer & never get anything else done!!!!! 🙂

    As for the name of my blog, Truth 2 Being Fit, it was not meant to mean that I know everything or are the end al of info. It was quite the opposite. I just wanted to “intrigue” people to come read by the name of my blog and then let them know that getting healthy & being fit is not a one stop/one size thing. I wanted people to know that there are so many ways to be fit & to not fall for the “you have to do this to lose weight or else” thing. I wanted to share the many paths one can take to get there. After reading other blogs, I was going to focus on food & exercise but have incorporated the other necessary elements like your mind & soul as well…. THX MizFit as you are one that got me going that way!

  91. That book recommend is a breath of fresh air. I love that it encompasses the emotional side of healthy living not just a cookie cutter regime of only diet and exercise. 🙂

    I came up with my blog name, But You Have Such A Pretty Face because that was all I heard growing up and I still hear it today. “It’s such a shame that you have such a pretty face but are so overweight.” “If you could just lose the weight you would be gorgeous.” Yeah, never thought of that. 😉

    Thank you for your inspirational blog!

  92. ohh I am salivating at just thinking about using that cook book!

    Let’s see RunToFinish or RunToTheFinish was something that I came up with when thinking about what I wanted to say in life…and of course I’m a runner. So not only does it speak to my running passion, but it looks to making it to the finish line. Never quitting and enjoying the journey.

  93. I don’t blog but I traditionally use my name if it is available but my lack of creativity. I am always amazed by what some people come up with!

    The cookbook looks awesome!

  94. LOL.. I understood why you chose Mizfit.

    Don’t have a blog. I started using my real name here as I got tired of using different pseudonyms in different places.
    I do have some “other names” in other spaces.

    Don’t need to enter.

    Hope you are enjoying BLOGHER. Have been too swamoped to keep track of tweets or blog posts.

  95. Love the name Mizfit! Totally suits you and rocks!

    For me, KK is a nickname I have had since I was little. Running Through Life (blog name) stems from the fact that I started running and is a twist on a song from Wicked–Dancing Through Life. Add to that that my life is crazy busy and I am running from one thing to another and there you have it!

  97. Our name happened over WINE of course! We were sitting around thinking why is it that at our ages we have more questions than answers?? Shouldn’t we know it all by now? NOT even close hence “wheresmydamnanser” was born

  98. I am ~Diet Godess~ and I chose that name because I feel like I’ve tried and/or read about every stinkin’ diet on this planet. In the past year I’ve learned it’s not so much a diet that I need follow, but a lifestyle change. It must be permanent to work!

  99. Mine is a bit silly. My weird dad always called me Fig or Figgy growing up (uh, actually still does, come to think of it)–he chose that nickname for me when I was born because he already called my sister Prune and I guess Fig seemed like a good name for the little sister of a Prune. I have embraced my moniker more than she has because figs are pretty cool. I’ve been using Fig in variations of email addresses ever since first connecting to the internet, so it was natural to attach it to my blog. First I was Fitness Fig and then I shortened it to Fit Fig. Of course I like alliteration, as well.

    Now I have another blog and an Etsy shop and I call those Fig’s Frippery. Sticking with the Fig and another F theme.

  100. I love your name – so clever! I’ve never been able to think of something cute and catchy like that, so I just use my first name. BO-RING.

  102. I chose my name because I didn’t want something too cutesy. I wanted something that reflected me and the fact that my blog wouldn’t necessarily be only about weight loss or exercise. For me life is always up in the air because of my job and my schedule. So for me everything changes constantly. It seemed to fit even though I hate change. It’s just something I’m getting used to.

  103. good question. I came up with mine while watching Oprah one day. She was interviewing Beyonce and she was talking about her latest album – I am Sasha Fierce. Beyonce was saying that in real life, she’s really very shy and to do some of her numbers, she has to become another “persona” entirely to be able to have the confidence to pull it off. Sasha Fierce was that person for her.

    That’s how I came up with Lola Fierce. In real life, I always put others before me. The real me, doesn’t care about what I look like and doesn’t make myself a priority…but Lola Fierce – Lola is tough and strong and apologizes to no one. She takes care of herself and doesn’t think its silly to spend time or money on little things that will make her happy.

    I mean, I love myself…but Lola is just an amped up version of me — bigger, (well, leaner), fitter and better. :o)

    Thanks for asking. (I love your name.)

  104. I chose the name of my blog when I was in a hurry one day. I thought I was dying of cancer.
    Thufferin Tuccotash was that goofy thing that one cartoon character always said. Life is full of suffering, and then, laughing and sometimes the other way around.

  105. MizFit is pretty cool, though I certainly can appreciate the cleverness of the other name.

    Mine’s pretty obvious. There are much more “fit” moms than me, no doubt. But to me, “it” is about doing what’s reasonable and possible while keeping the rest of life (relationships, eating yummy food, living simply, having fun) in balance.Not surprisingly, web searches didn’t yield any name-twins either…

    How was the 5k?

  106. I bet you’ve had the best time at Blogher! Can’t wait to hear all about it.

    I chose Shrink to Fit for my blog because that’s what I’m trying to do – shrink myself to fit into the life I see me living. An active, healthy life full of activities that for me at my current size are not comfortable.

  107. I don’t have a blog – I’e tried, but i get busy, forget then a month goes by adn I think “Oh, it’s too late to update something no one reads anyhow.” but now that my girl is (almost) 3 and helps in the kitchen daily, I’m thinking of starting a blog that kind of revolves around hers and my cooking adventures 🙂 I am on twitter though – micro-blogging I CAN handle, and on there I’m The CLJ; CLJ are the fist initials of my husband, daughter adn myself and it also stands for Cheese Lover’s Jessica…9 out of ten cheese lover’s proefer THIS Jessica to all others, is my joke. 🙂

    I love this blog – you’ve really been a great inspriation to sticking with a healthy active life and being a good healthy role model and FUN MOM to my girl!

  108. No blog, but I had to come up with an alias name as I came late to blog-land and everything else close to my name was taken. bj is my initials and there are 5 people in my family. Bella is italian for beautiful and (while I don’t always feel that way) it was available!

  109. I was dancing_lemur long before I had a blog. I was doing some website work for a band/friend, and he suggested I come up with a “brand” for myself to put on the site. Dancing Lemurs are cute, and worked well with a band, so I went with it.

    As for my blog, I explain it on my site thusly: Once upon a time, my friend R-dogg would tell Great. Little. Stories. Since I stole my blog title from that experience, let’s just say this is dedicated to him. Anytime someone tells a story that seems to really have no bearing on anything, my friends call it a Great Little Story.

  110. I’m booooooring. MealMixer is my business blog. Darksnark is my therapy blog – when I actually have time for it, or can adequately cover the identity of the person who has earned my ire!

  112. MizFit is a great blog name, though I read the headline on the post quickly and thought you wrote that you almost named your dog a venereal disease!

    I haven’t figured out a clever blog name yet, so I don’t have a blog. Not sure what I’d write about that I don’t already post about! In the meantime, I’ll enjoy reading your blog and many others from the tweets community. Kyra (in TX)

  113. My name came about due to my extreme clumsiness. My husband (then boyfriend) would often say – “Oh babe, you are so graceful. Graceful like a gazelle. ON CRACK!” Thus, gazelles on crack was born. And then I started running, and now like to believe that I am also a gazelle on SPEED! 🙂

    I’m glad your blog doesn’t evoke any VD thoughts! 🙂

    (Also, I am a whore for cookbooks – which would be a very interesting blog title indeed!)


  114. Dear VTrim Peeps,

    My readers are so awesome.

    May I please have 100+ cookbooks to give away.

    Love and lack of a blogname which refers to VD,

    Miz

  115. Ehh…well I use my real name on comments and such, but I call my blog “Healthy Twists” because the original idea was to take un-healthy foods like chocolate cake or whatever and make a healthy version. My blog has since become much more random and now it’s just whatever I want to post about, but I’m still trying to be as healthy as I can be (as of late, it’s emotional health I need to work on) so I’m going with it.

  117. Quix = short version of Quixotic, which is to be whimsical, nonsensical, etc. Adjusted Reality was going to house the webcomic, game review site, etc etc I was going to have the best site evar!!! I kept paying for the domain name and decided to repurpose it for blogging. It still sortafits because my reality is DEFINITELY adjusted from the norm. 🙂

  119. My alias suits me because I only comment on blogs that are food-related! And my favorite food just happens to be…CUPCAKES! How fitting?!
    I like yours better. More clever. Catchy. It just works =).

  121. hehe, your friend and i are apparently on the same wavelength 😉

    my name came from my desire to join my two newest loves–cooking and triathlon… and come up with a name for a blog i wanted to review and come up with healthy recipes that taste good, too!

  123. I post as Giz – easy, short to type, and I used to carry lots of gizmos on my bicycle for long rides so people started calling me gizmogirl), and I also post as GrowStrong, because that’s what I’m doing.

  125. I love your name and your blog and personality and humor. Need I say more!

    How did I pick the name The Bold Life?

    I’m freakin gutsy, loud and a risk taker. I stand out instead of fitting in and couldn’t fit in if I tried.

    I’m one of 10 kids, 6th from the top and boldly pushed my way out of the middle demanding to be heard even if I had to get in trouble to do so.

    In school if someone bullied me instead of running and crying to anyone I dared give it right back.

    I’m much more tame now and learned how to be a little more classy. (not much more)!

    In fact due to this (taming) and my blog has evolving I’m thinking of changing my tag line and even the photo.

  127. At first I read that as Sissyphit, and I thought ‘Well that doesn’t fit Miz at all!’ Ha Ha! Then I was trying to put into words how I came up w/ Rockin Austin…and then I remembered that my blog is actually ‘Another Leap of Faith’:)

    All through my life (thus far) I’ve made decisions based on my gut-or Faith. Moved to AZ for school based on nothing, but my senior year I met my husband. Got married because it felt right, even though everyone was sceptical, and this year marks our 10 yr anniversary. We moved to Austin, TX after selling our house in AZ, no new house yet and no jobs. Bought a house on the internet, drove down here, found jobs and so far all is good!

    I’ll keep leaping, I’ll keep believing – in me.
    -Rockin

  128. I wanted to emphasize that you can still eat fat and lose weight…in fact our bodies need it. Almond butter is one of my favorite foods – helped me to lose the weight, and helps me keep it off…hence Heather Eats Almond Butter. Don’t fear the fat my friends. 🙂

  129. When I decided to blog about my weight loss it didn’t take me long to decide on the name. I actually based the name on John 3:30, He must increase, but I must decrease. It is my goal to lose weight and grow in my relationship with God.

  130. So… Shannon and I had our great idea to blog, but it took us a while to come up with the name. The night it came to us we had tried to get tickets to watch “Wicked” to no avail, but thought about using something around the idea of wicked, but since we liked the acronym WTF we wanted to incorporate that. Shannon also thought something with the word fabulous since I always say it and… well we think we are pretty fabulous! 😉 We also knew we wanted to be totally out there with the fat word and not skate around calling us anything else.

    So… we came up with Weightloss with the Fabulous Fatties. WTF?! Which has now been shortened to The Fabulous Fatties.

    There is our story… thank you for sharing yours!

  131. Uh… lets see…
    I always pondered the true meaning of “Losing Face”… and when I decided to finally get my shit together to lose weight- I knew I would kind of have to breakdown, unravel, and even reveal all of what I was hiding (cracked pride).

    The other portion is that my ultimate goal is to lose my waist, and actual pounds are not the priority. I started out with a 65 inch waist (5 feet, 5 inches in circumference), and knew that before long it would catch up with me. My waist is also my biggest “zone of shame” with my body image issues….
    SO- Losing some face to lose my waist= Losing Waist!

  132. Blogname? Hefferblog comes from my girlfriends…how we came to call ourselves heffers is pretty well documented on my blog, but the short version is that it came from a bar game and “livestock” was too many letters…so we became heffers (spelled wrong too…go figure).

    Alice is a pseudonym. When my husband and I are being particularly snarky with each other, he calls me Alice (like from the honeymooners) and I call him Walter (I have no idea why). That way it’s Alice and Walter who are being snarky and short with each other, not Cindi and Mike 🙂

    BTW…I love your blog’s name!

  133. I was trying to think of a name for my aol account. I had been to a Christian Camp for a week. I was well on my way to being obese. I knew that I was made in God’s image. I wanted to change how I looked on the outside to fit the image of me on the inside carefully and wonderfully made. I have lost over 193 pounds! Linda

  134. Juice is a play on my initials (OJ), not indicative of my drink of choice. I chose Positively Losing as my weight loss blog name because I wanted to remind myself to keep a positive attitude.

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