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  1. What kind of noodle am I? How about the macaroni noodle – a little bent, and hollow in the middle (wait! that would be my wife describing what’s in between my ears…).

    Sounds like an awesome book! Thanks for the introduction to it!! (and to the author – very cool!)

  2. Great vid Miz! I love the excerpts, sounds like a lot of lessons waiting to be learned in that book! Can’t wait to read!

    As for the Pasta Noodle– I think I’d have to pick Fusillini since its all curly q and without direction because I love it when life takes me in all different directions, plus you can get them in tons of zesty colors!

    WOOT! Happy Monday!

  4. I haven’t seen that blog before or heard of the book.

    Thanks for the review!

    I think I will pass on saying what noodle I am and just order it LOL.

  6. I was lucky enough to win a copy of Diet Girl’s book long before its US publication, so I don’t suppose lightning will strike twice in the same place!

    Can’t imagine myself as a noodle. You know what, I don’t really like pasta very much. Or bread either. I’m a freak, because when I get carb cravings it’s for green vegetables. Or chocolate, whichever.

  7. I bought PQ’s book for the Quaker Chicago gig. Mine is autographed and encased in glass. Well, maybe not. Were I to win, i’d donate it back.

    I’m rotini: a little twisted.

  8. Pick me!
    I promise that right now I will go and check out that blog and I need some motivation.

    I am a limp noodle.

  9. When is you book coming out MizFit?

    You need to stop promoting everyone else and get a book out.

    just my .02 (does that mean I wont win now? LOL)


  10. GO STEEEELERS!!!!!

    oh yes.

    I meant: you all are so creative this morning.

    GO STEELERS.

    xo xo,

    Miz.

  12. How have I missed that book before?

    (have a mentioned how I look forward to the monday videos??)

    I am an uncooked spaghetti noodle.

  14. HELLO! This books sounds fabulous! I think I would be tortellini. Its small but spunky and theres some good stuff inside 😉

  15. I’m with commenter #9 on wanting your book Miz but I still want in on this giveaway too!

    I am cheese ravioli.

    Why? I have no idea.

  16. I’d have to be angel hair pasta. My hair is, by far, the best thing I have going for me physically. Unfortunately, it never retains its shape and quickly becomes a jumbled up mess.

  17. I am a whole wheat rotini with lots of ridges 😉 I have more substance than meets the eye and I enjoy soaking up all those priceless moments(..the sauce ;)….)and keeping them close…….no matter how insignificant they may be to others

    I need to get this book 😉 now!

  18. good gosh you all never cease to amaze me with your creativity.

    (Slaps foreheard that she didn’t think of the angelhair comment….)

  19. Generally, I am wagon wheel pasta as I’m either moving closer or further away from my goals! 🙂 Today I am Rotini pasta as I am wound quite tight!

    The book looks great. 🙂

  20. Hmm…Not a huge pasta person but I want this book!

    I would be linguini. It is sorta flat, regular and normal like plain old spaghetti but it adds that extra zing to the right recipes because it has a little more area to handle the sauce better. I strive to get better at taking whatever comes to me and making it better.

  21. It doesn’t matter what shape the pasta is; I’m homemade and cooked al dente, and I throw whatever yummy veggies, meat and sauce I can find on top.

    I play a variation of the “fatter than me/you” game. It’s the “fitter/stronger than me/you” game. I like to check people out and think “Oh, yeah, I could definitely take him in a fight.”

  22. I need to read this book, MizFit.

    Or at least get to her blog and start from beginning and see how she lost the weight.

    I have never heard of the Queen.

    I am definitely a limp noddle like #8

  24. I like to check people out and think “Oh, yeah, I could definitely take him in a fight.”

    we are sisters from another mister.

  25. Love this review *and* the intellectual glasses, Mizfit!

    I am every pasta. I’m flexible, my shape varies, and I enjoy being saucy 🙂

  26. Loved the book when it first came out. Loved the MMF video. Loved being read to. Could you get the Lonely Donkey or whatever book GW was reading the morning of 9/11 and read it right side up for us?

    Loved her book! Admired her journey. She takes up space in the world.

    I would be radiatore because they are named after the shape of radiators which pack heat and with menopause, I pack heat too. Plus if you say radiatore with an Italian accent, it is a beautiful word. That’s me, hot and beautiful. ha!

  27. Books sounds great! I must read!!

    I am Pasta Mista! – one day Fisarmoniche, another day Torchietti, one day Castellane…depends on the moon

  29. Sounds like a great book!
    I would have to be whole wheat rotini just because it is all twisted and kinda fun looking.

  31. Want to read this SO much! How dare your naughty country keep it all to itself. Although …we do know the difference between irony and coinicidence…. so I guess we don’t lose out completely in the literary stakes 😉

    Think I might do an international Amazon order come payday….

    I don’t think I’m pasta at all. I’m THE SAUCE.

    TA x

  32. My daughter’s exclusive pasta choice is Ziti, so in celebrtion (today is my birthday), I will be a Ziti noodle.

    I came here from Jeanette’s wonderful blog. She is the real deal…smart, funny, full of heart and soul.

  33. I LOVE that last line you talked about. I realized at the 10k that I’ve stopped doing that too, because instead of comparing myself to girls around me, I found myself saying to myself “I want THAT ass” (sorry for the word but I really did think that) when I saw a girl standing next to me warming up for the run in some fantastic spandex leggings. And for the first time, it wasn’t envy or “I’m fatter than her” or anything like that, it was just, “that’s the butt I want”. Turns out, she was the overall winner of the 10k. how ironic!

  35. Great kick off to the book tour! I love her site, and agree with everything you said, Miz. Her way with words and honesty are wonderful, and I’ve got to get my hands on a copy of that book!

  36. how are people so insightful first thing in the morning? this book sounds great. it did make me think that struggles with weight aren’t really that, they’re struggles. life is full of them, and we all have been there from time to time. so many lessons to be learned, and work to keep them “present”

    noodle? i like dragonmamma’s response, but i haven’t yet made my own. so, umm, ravioli? stuff it real good.

  37. Many thanks to you – first, for stopping by my blog and listening to my whinin! I am doing better today. Realized if you wanna play, you gotta pay – so a 5K today it is! Second, your statement hit me ‘what we want is within our grasp, we just have to work for it AND FOCUS’!! Thanks, just what I need to hear, today!

    I do read Pasta Queen’s blog; she is terrific. I feel like I AM HER! So can relate. Haven’t read her book, though – looking forward to it!

    And for the pasta…hmmm… so many to choose from! I am Italian, so it’s been a staple in my life and have basically tried them all!! But, if I have to choose, I’ll go with ravioli; Sometimes round, often square but full of good stuff on the inside 🙂

  38. I used to read the PastaQueen blog. Don’t know why I stopped – she’s a true treasure.

    What kind of noodle am I? Probably the down home macaroni noodle. Nothing fancy, but able to be dressed up to something yummy.

  39. Cooked angel hair: I take up more space than you’d think (or am I the only one who’s put some of that stuff on their plate, only to be stuffed to the gills and still have what looks like all the pasta still on my plate).

  40. That sounds like a great book. I’m definitely going to add Pasta Queen to my Sage feed because I’m in a weird place, motivation wise, and I can use all the inspiration I can get.

    I would be a spaghetti noodle because, I’m nothing fancy to look at, but I’m pretty versatile.

  41. I love Pasta Queen’s blog and book. I caught her blog when she was at the tale end of her journey and reading her archives was amazing. Seeing how much weight she has lost helps me believe that anything is possible.

  42. Hey Miz.

    Love the video as always.
    I hadn’t heard of Jennette before.

    Will look at her blog!!

  44. I would be couscous because, on the outside, I may look like a grain, but I am a pasta at heart. And all the little bits of me come together to form a whole that is greater than the sum of my parts.

    I have been a reader of Jeanette’s for a long time, but I haven’t had a chance to pick up her book yet. I’d love to give it a read!

  45. Great face time!

    What pasta am I? I haven’t a clue– don’t particularly care for pasta. (or white potatoes or bread. Talk about a freak in the US food nation).
    When I tie myself up in my own world, I’m an uncooked pasta.. rather stiff and easily breakable.

    But when I concentrate on looking outward at the world around me, I’m soft but strong and able to carry my weight in saucy challenges.

  48. I’d love to read her book. I’ve visited her blog a couple times and she seems really awesome. Very much enjoyed your review of the book.

    I’d be a whole wheat spaghetti noodle (basic but healthy!)- the one that falls onto the floor as the pasta is being scooped onto plates.

  49. Rotini reporting for duty and adding screw the book MizFit you need a tv show.
    Love your videos.

  50. If I were a noodle, personality-wise, I would be spatzle. I have sort of a split personality(ha!). Sometimes I seem to be made round and then at other times I am quite irregular.

    Spatzle is a German word meaning “little sparrow”. Sparrows sing. I like to sing, especially when I’m on the treadmill. I would also compare my personality to the sparrow because it’s always moving and flitting about, making one guess where it will be next. Personality-wise, I soar!!!!!!

  51. I’ve not read pastaqueen’s book, but would love to. I do read her blog almost daily though and like what she has to say.

  52. Ooh another book! AND another blog!

    Instead of a noodle, I’d be pasta salad. Sometimes spicy, sometimes plain-jane, but something you can always count on.

  53. I’ve been following her blog but have not had a chance to pick up the book 🙁

    I’d be just a spagetti noodle – straight as an arrow – until I get hot!

  54. you are all too funny. and mamaruns?
    the tornado and I are gonna volunteer our services today…on this day of service….doing trash clean up.

    we shall see what transpires.

    if you hear a woman loudly & offkey’ly singing the CLEAN UP song at the top of her lungs that would be Miz trying to encourage the toddler…

  55. For today, I will have to say I am with #19–Rotini because I am wound so tightly.

    I too, love the Queen’s writing, blog and book!

  56. LOL, how fun! I would be egg-based pappardelle (homemade) because it’s a jumble of ingredients that wouldn’t necessarily taste good all on their own (egg yolks, flour, water), but all squashed together and sliced they become a lovely rich, golden noodle. And it doesn’t really even need anything much to season it!

    (Now I’m hungry . . . thanks a LOT! LOL)

  57. Can’t wait to buy or win the book – sounds like inspiration we can all use. But these comments! The brilliance of the Bumbling Band in the pasta metaphors — just delicious!
    I’d be gemelli, thick and curly and best served family style. Thanks for another great Monday morning post –

  58. I really like Jennette’s book! I read it over the course of one weekend last spring. It really was that good, and full of honest, humble, wisdom 🙂

  59. I love her blog and would love to get my hands on this book!

    I’d be stuffed shells.. They look plain and normal on the outside.. but dig in and there is tons of goodness inside!.. oh .. and with sauce.. because I’m getting saucier every day as work towards my goals!

  62. hmmm. pasta?

    I’m tubular. Some days rigatoni, some days penne, but always, always tubular…as in “That is so totally tubular, dude!” Plus, like me…that term is so totally mocking the 80s.

    LOL

    Oh, I so need that book.

  63. I would be a tortellini, round in the middle and full of great stuff 🙂

    I’ve been reading Pasta Queen for years, love her!!!!

  65. I love what you said about being able to still live our lives and enjoy it while focusing on goals. It’s very true. I think sometimes people are worried that they’ll have to put their lives on hold while working towards a goal, but this is not the case.

  66. Paparedelle! Only because it’s the tastiest kind of pasta I ate in Italy.
    Love Dragonmama’s comment too. I play that game with myself all the time.

  69. You and your videos.
    I’d buy anything I think as I get too distracted by your arms and your lovely glasses.

    The Queen is lucky to have your endorsement.

    I am rigatoni.

  70. ok, I totally want this book! (can I get in on the virtual tour? Jeanette!? Pick me, pick me!)

    anyway, today i am feeling like gnocchi.
    Round and squishy.
    and stuffed with potatoes! 🙂

  71. Referred here from PQ’s blog…I tried to buy her book, but they were re-ordered (sold out…yay!).

    I would be a whole-wheat, wide noodle. A little bit curvy, a good mix of yin and yang.

  72. I like to say, half assed is better than no effort at all. 🙂

    What kind of noodle … hmmm, I think I might go for the stylish bow tie. Now that I got my thin on, I noticed I get a lot more pleasure in dressing better … taking up more space in the world. I can so relate to that.

    Thanks for sharing! I have to go get on her blog.

  73. Hmmmm…I’d be a spinach penne noodle – because they, like my personality and humor – are an acquired taste.

    Yay for PQ!

  74. I love this book. I just did a re-read to gain more perspective at my current size/shape. I’m sure I will read it many more times along the way.

    I guess I would say I would be a gnoshi, but I am striving to be angel hair or couscous.

  75. I hope I win this book–I’m a new follower of PQ’s blog and I like her writing a lot.

    I would be a whole grain rotini (spiral noodle). Whole grain because I’m not too refined, and rotini, because whenever I have momentum, I spiral (hopefully in an upward direction).

  76. I would be penne-tall and with some rough edges/ridges, not curvy. Enjoyed Pasta Queen’s blog. Thanks for the introduction.

  77. Book sounds great!

    I think we’re all the tri-color hat-shaped pasta that’s sold in the see-through plastic bags that capture my attention every time I pass them in the grocery store. Every one looks unique and beautiful and fun!

  78. Whoah, that last part about the “is she fatter than me?” game really struck a chord with me. I am horrible at that! I don’t wear skirts because I don’t want people to see my legs, and I’m always staring at other women thinking, is that what I look like? or I wish I had her [insert body part here]. I have a bunch of skinny sisters-in-law, and I feel horribly out of place at family functions, even though my shape/size doesn’t matter- it’s who I am that’s important. Ugh, I am such a work in progress, LOL.

    About the pasta thing, I am so horrible at these name games. But I would have to say tortellini, because they’re kind of twisted, and totally cheesy! Mmmmm pasta- now off to make dinner. = )

  79. I think I’d like to read this one….I may check it out.

    It’d be the wacky mac with differen colors and different shapes 🙂

  80. I think I must be spinach tortellini — slightly twisted, kinda good for you, but sort of indulgent, too.

    Thanks — now I want a big bowl of pasta. At 9:35 p.m…..

  81. I have been reading Jeanetts blog for a while now and I also enjoy her writting, and most times I laugh out loud. I LOVE pasta, and I think I would be macaroni & cheese (Kraft) straight and narrow but with lots of powdery good cheese all over! extra butter, extra milk

  82. I’m Rotelle. I’m like a wheel sort of round, and always on the go (like a wheel)… with it’s running to WW meetings, working on my projects, running after my daughter, and bf… there is always something going on. I’m a wheel…. Rotelle

  84. just love the name of that book…good for her! So many creative people in the blogosphere. I am between ghocchi b/c it’s full of carbs and squishy , like me or rotini b/c it’s twisted..going round in circles (how I feel often)…Thanks for the info Miz. Another must read! Will check out the blog too.

  86. Hmmm, what kind of pasta would I be? I’d love to say “quinoa pasta” – unusual but full of good things! – but more likely I am plain old spaghetti dreaming of quinoa….

  87. Guess I missed the pasta contest – I’m new to this blogging stuff – but I am loving your site and Pasta Queens’ too.

    So – if I was a pasta – I guess I would be a homemade Amish Dumpling. Plumped up and finally in the ball park – but not quite sure what the game is yet….. 😉

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