WAKE UP MOSHER FAMILY! IT'S TIME TO EXERCISE

We woke up at 5:45 am to the sound of our trainer banging on our door. Wake up Mosher Family it is time to exercise is all we heard. My daughter and I thought she was here for my husband but little to our disbelieve she was here for us too. We ran up and down our street for 30 minutes. That was just what I wanted to do this morning. My legs were hurting. She gave us instructions for exercising on our vacation. Yes mame. I will be on vacation until Sunday, July 8 so you won't be hearing from me. Stay tuned for the next two weeks of filming . . . . Bonnie

Working out & the results

Today we did very little cardio and a lot of curcuit training. My legs were rubbery from yesterday but I did the exercises. I felt I would fall at any minute but I did them. After working out Cindy and I were going to go home, shower, eat, and then go grocery shopping for vacation. When didn't make it too far from the gym when Gena called and she was taking us out to dinner. Was this to test us. No it was all off camara but we would have passed anyway. Cindy and I both had a veggie wrap with no mayo and veggies (by special request) instead of fries or coleslaw. Then we went grocery shopping. I piece of info is if you are eating healthy you really only need to shop the outer aisles of the grocery store. Think about it you have produce, meat, and dairy. All on the outside aisles. You only need to go in the inside aisles for one or two things. Tomorrow is another day. I hope Alicia doesn't wake us up too early. We are tired and so aren't our legs and arms. Tomorrow night we go on vacation. Yes, no schedule for 8 days. Alicia we love you but we have had a very emotional and tiring week. Bonnie

Wednesday - BIKRAM YOGA

Today Cynthia and I worked out at the gym for the first time. They measured us and pinched our body fat. We then did 20 minutes of cardio. We had to rush out of the gym to get the boys. Why? We really didn't know. We thought what else could be so bad as last night. Maybe they were taking us to a cooking school. That thought ended when we pulled into a Patco and Alicia, the trainer and Brian, the producer went inside and came out with all of these giant water bottles. They gave each one of us a bottle and said, "Drink it. Drink all of it. I mean it. You need to drink the whole bottle. You will need to have drunk the whole bottle for the place we are going. My thought now was were would we be going that we would need to have a whole bottle of water in us. This was crazy. I don't drink this much water in a short time. We were back on the road and pulled into a plaza I have never been at in Farmington. The first thing I saw was a Dunkin Dounuts and I knew she wasn't taking us there. We parked and when we got out I saw a sign that said BIKRAM YOGA. I thought great we are doing Yoga. I have done yoga a few time. Bikram must be the name of the guy who owns it. Little did I know. Then all of a sudden we see people coming out of the building soaked in sweat. Our trainer proceded to tell us it wasn't ordinary yoga. It was yoga that you do in a 105 degree room for 90 minutes. Well this sounded like fun, NOT. The main objective for your first time is not to leave the room (or lose your lunch, ha, ha). If you leave the room you lose the effect of the cleansing process. You do feel dizzy at times and yes you get nausea. All four of us never left the room. Of course Chris Jr. did the best. He is so flexible and fit. Cindy did the next best. Then it was me just stopping a few times for water and to relax. Chris Sr. had the hardest time. He sat out for a while because he was feeling so sick. I am so proud of us. This was a very intense thing. Our trainer had never even done this type of yoga before. I spoke with the nutritionist today at the gym and she said she would never do that type of yoga because she hates heat. Well honey so do I. I really think it is something everyone should try at least one. You feel so powerful at the end because you made it. Will I do it again, probably not. Well only if MTV makes me or maybe if I have to bring my extended family there to get detoxed. What will Thursday bring? Bonnie

BIKRAM YOGA

Look this up on the internet. It was hell. I hate heat. I guess we cleansed our house on Tuesday and on Wednesday we cleanse our body. I will not say anymore about it. If you read about it you can imagine what we went thru. Thursday we worked out and found out about our BMI. The results for the BMI were bad, very bad. Friday is our last day before vacation. I will not be blogging until Sunday, July 8th. I will be on vacation in Old Orchard Beach. I went shopping tonight. All the food was nothing but fresh and healthy. Until I see and talk to you all again I hope I am lighter. Bonnie

Bye, Bye, Food

Can't say much other than we have no more food in our house except for the few things they bought us last night. I mean NO FOOD OR DRINKS. Empty refrig, empty beer refrig, empty pantry. Another emotion, intervention night. I feel like we are drug or alcoholics. Just know that I am recording everything for all of you to read at the end. Our family would like all of you that are following us that we are all o.k. It has been a emotional week but we are all o.k. and excited about our new situation. Todays hi goes out to my grandparents in Florida that are following our story. We will see you much lighter. Until tomorrow . . . toodles, bonnie

OUT WITH THE OLD, In with the new

Today, Alicia, our trainer, brought over a dietician, Carla, and they went thru our refrigerator and pantry and analyzed everything and then processed to throw everything out. They even went into the basement refrigerator where Chris Sr. keeps his beer and threw everything out in there and the freezer too. If you could have seen the look on my children's face. Cynthia held back from crying at this point. Chris Jr. was riping mad. He actually stole a big box of various little bags of chips and two boxes of oatmeal creme pies and brought them up into his room. Stealing food within your own house. Doesn't that sound desperate. Cynthia had an answer for why we had every food and what we use of did with that food. She was so funny. Right in front of Alicia and Carla she reaches into one of the 20 or so garabe bags and pulls out a breakfast bar and a juice box and starts eating and drinking. The producer got their attention and it was a funny scene with them asking Cynthia what she was doing. Getting in my last meal she told them. Don't we sound like we are addicted to food. Yes, we are. Then they made us load it all into the back of my pickup and take it to the local food kitchen. Now mind you my husband during all this was shopping for a new pair of sneakers and they wouldn't let him into the house so he had no idea what they were doing. He was so shocked when we came out with the food and this beer. Alicia and Carla took us girls grocery shopping. They only bought enough food for us to have 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches and 3 dinners. That would be enough until we went on vacation. Cindy later broke down when she saw there was only 3 or 4 items in the pantry and like 8 in the refrigerator. Alicia, counceled her on what she was feeling. She felt like someone took the rug and pulled it out from under her. Chris Sr. was angry for the most part but starting letting go of his angry feelings and replacing them with happy ones. Alicia gave me my assignment for the night. It was to make my family their first healthy dinner. Since it was 9:30pm at night I created a nice salad with tomatos, cukes, horseradish hummus, and a few small rolled up pieces of Boarshead turkey. In the end we all were o.k. We knew this was a fresh start and we needed it.

The (very expensive) Boutiques

Alicia, the trainer, arrives and tells us she is going shopping with us to some boutiques in town. The trick is we are getting "goal" outfits. Outfits that we need to fit by September. We haven't even been in some of these shops because we can't afford even one dress in these shops. The first shop they only had knit dress that Cindy already fit into. The second shop had really cute teenage clothes but no dresses that she could wear to a Sweet 16th birthday party. The last shop, The Workshop, is where both Cindy and I got our dresses. They are 100% silk so you can imagine how much they cost. O.K. that is your guess, a little higher. We won't tell you how much they cost in case we don't reach our goal to fit into them. Short day of filming.

Meeting the trainer

So while we were eating baked mac & cheese on our back deck (for the 4th time this week) out pops our trainer, Alicia Marie, with her 4" Gucci pumps and skin tight spandex pants. We knew we had to be getting a trainer because the nature of the show but didn't didn't who she was. We live in a small town so it did leak out that she was colored, and looked mean and tough. That is the way she appeared to us too when she first popped out told us who she was, all her credientials, and what she was going to do with us to get our family fit. She "lived" with us for the day to see what it was like to be A MOSHER. First she rode around the yard on Chris Sr. John Deere tractor and then learned a little bit about how to fix trucks. Both scenes were so funny. Imagine this buff women with Gucci heels trying to put the pedals with her heels to get the tractor moving. It was hilarious. She later revealed that it was the first time she has ever mowed a lawn on a tractor or has not even ever pushed a lawn motor in her live. I asked her if she was some kind of primadonna or something. She laughed and said, "No my dad just always mowed the lawn." They filmed her and Chris Sr. laying off the fenders with their butt cracks showing. O.K. so this is going to be a redneck MADE show. By the way she grew up right here in CT. Her parents still live here. Then she spent time with Chris Jr. going 4-wheeling in his Toyota truck and skateboarding on a half pipe. Then it was mom's turn to spend time with her. Bet you can't guess what mom did with her. That's right, we stamped a card together. We did a card that had ribbon on it that looked like a ruler with a image of a girl sitting on a couch eating. On the ground there is soda, popcorn, candy, etc. The saying on the card said "you stuffeth, you puffeth" It fit the situation. Cindy was last but not least. She spent time listening to music and reading on the couch. That night she did a scene with marshmallows all over our living room table explaining how many calories we ate as a family that day. Then they taped us outside watching her doing exercises. We then followed her in my son's beat up truck (why couldn't they film our 1 year old Dodge extended cab pickup, redneckish again) with Chris Sr. and I in the cab and Cindy, Chris, the producer and of course the most famous boxer of all Tyson. Oh, I forgot to tell you something. Tyson is going on a diet with us. He is going on a raw food, organic diet. We won't be able to call him Fat Boy after this they tell us. At the end of the night Alicia tells us, I will be back tomorrow Moshers and you'd better be ready to shop.

Who is our trainer?

Sunday we met our trainer (can't tell you her name, but I wasn't going to anyway). We had a long day filming. She spent a little time with each of us getting to know us. She is very nice but I know will kick our butts in the gym. I am going to blog but not show all of you until the end because you will really laugh at all the stuff that happen this day and all the days. Monday, we went shopping for our goal outfits. Yes, outfits that we don't fit into now but will in a few month. I big hi to the CHH registration department who is following us too. A really big Hi to my eight year old nephew, Aaron, who is following us and has made a comment on our site. We love you Aaron. Bonnie

A DAY IN THE LIVES OF MOVIE STARS

Today was all hype and no action. We are trying to get used to this life. Many times this week MTV has told us we were doing something and then it changes in 5 minutes or doesn't happen. We have invited our family and/or friends to do something and then had to uninvited them. This feels weird for us because we are a family of our word. We don't do these kinds of things. Last night we were asked not to have our tag sale today because Saturday was going to be a big day. They couldn't tell us what was happening, just that it would be best not to have the tag sale. We wanted to be complient and were told it was a big day so why wouldn't we cancel the tag sale. The short filming that was done today was me getting out of bed and waking up the kids with the dogs help. The scene was suppose to be the three (four, Lisa, Chris' girlfriend was here) of us making the famous baked mac and cheese for BREAKFAST. I think MTV thinks we make baked mac & cheese for every meal and definately more than once every other week that we normally make it. They shot us making the baked mac & cheese and putting it in the oven to cook. Then the producers said some people were late getting on the conference call and left supposely for a hour and a half. We got a call saying we were going to kill them because what ever was suppose to happen was being postponed until Sunday. O.K., nothing we can do. I took a nap since I was up to 2am last night rubber stamping. Cindy says she doesn't know what we are going to do when we have a break from shooting every 2 weeks. We are so used to them telling us what our next move is. I know how she feels. Tomorrow . . . . should be exciting??

COLD WEATHER, COLD STONE

Today I was at the hospital with the kids getting their echocardiograms and stress test for medical clearance for the show. A special hi going out to all our fans at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital especially the blood drawing department that has our article copied and is handing it out to people. HI! Right after the hospital we went to my mother and father's pool. Yes, MTV picked the coldest day to shoot a pool scene. We jumped in the pool and just about had a stroke. I made a comment that we should race each other to get warm. I was kidding but Brian the associate producer wasn't. We raced and played games for a while. Then I taught Cynthia how to do a back dive off the diving board. I told her if she learned how to do the back dive I would take her to Cold Stone Creamery in Torrington. Shhh don't tell her but we were already planning on going there tonight. When we came back home we bleached Cindy's hair. Her hair is now the color of mine, blond. Hey, gram this is now two times you got your wish of Cindy having blond hair. MTV didn't want her to dye her hair any color because then they can edit the filming and put in all together and not worry what sequence the hair color was in. Then we all got interviewed again about the same things we get interviewed about every day. Repeat, Repeat. They ask us the same questions but different ways every day. I guess they will edit the tapes and find the best day, with the best answers, with us in our best outfit. LOL. After dinner we went to Cold Stone. It took us over a hour to get the approval to film in there. Of course once we got the approval we walked in and the owner was saying, Welcome to Cold Stone Creamery. No one has ever welcomed us before. Did you know if you tip them the employees sing? Once they started singing people were tipping them left and right. We had our favorite employee, Joe, waiting on us. I told you Joe, we were going to be famous. Maybe you will be now too. If anyone was planning on coming to our Tag Sale tomorrow, it is cancelled. That is another story in itself. MTV has something big tomorrow they tell us. We will see . . . . . . . Bonnie

THE KLUMPS

Today started off with MTV coming to my work with my daughter, Cynthia. They taped both of us telling one of my co-workers, Debbie, about our goal. What is our goal? The goal is for three of us to lose 30 pounds by Sept. 15th and hopefully get Chris Jr. off of sugar. This is going to be hard but even if we don't reach our goal we will be healther and weight a lot less. Next they took Cynthia to meet a friend she hasn't seen in a couple of months and tell him about her goal. Then they taped me making baked mac & cheese. The mac & cheese recipe goes back to my aunt, Janice. It is not your basic mac & cheese recipe. I have never had mac & cheese better than this. My aunt thinks this recipe came from her grandmother. My aunt use to make this for me when I was a kid and I absolutly loved it. When I had kids I started mading it for them. This is there all time favorite meal. I alway make 2 lbs. of it so the kids can have left overs for the next night. Aunt Janice, I am going to make this dish famous. MTV taped me making this same dish in the green light taping. Aren't I get so technical saying green light. That means when they come to film/shoot you for a couple of days before they make a decision if this is the episode they want to shoot full time. While making the mac & cheese I had to talk into the camara and tell every ingredient and every step I was doing. I like had my own cooking show. NO MTV, I do not want a cooking show. I hate to cook. When it was done cooking we went to my parents house and met with them and my sister and her family. The first thing that came to mind about this dinner situation was it truely was like watching Eddie Murphy in "The Klumps" except we are a different colored skin. No we weren't passing gas but we were all talking at the same time, making fun of each other and ourselves. One of the directors had to tell us to talk one at a time. We did calm down and got serious. One thing the four of us learned and now my sister and parents learned is it is hard work being on film. Every one thinks it is easy. You have to repeat yourself a lot or re-word what you just said because they may not have heard you or didn't have the right angle. Somethings we are walking in or driving in places 2 or 3 times over and over. Tomorrow the kids are off to finish up the rest of their medical tests so we can start the fitness part. It is 10:15pm and I am whipped. I think we are going to look forward to our vacation in a week and a half to just sleep. Bonnie

The Night Off

7 pm and Gena just left. She spent the afternoon with Cindy just filming her doing every day things like walking around with Baby. We went to our TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meeting that I am the leader of. My chapter is the oldest one in CT. I only joined in September but the women there have been a good source of inspiration. I hope I am doing the same for them. Some of the members didn't feel right being tape so they choose to sit this meeting out. Hope they weren't too mad about me bringing MTV. I told them last week I had a guest speaker. My mom even came to the meeting. She always says she is going to come but never has until tonight. Nice to see you Mom. Before MTV taped anything Gena explained who she was and had everyone sign releases so the women got to choose to stay or not. Sorry to the two members who chose to sit out. Brian spent the day with Chris Sr. and Chris Jr. at work. Brian loved going to Chris Sr.'s work. Chris took him around on the payloader moving junk cars. He interviewed Chris' uncle, Jeff, and cousin, Brandon. Tomorrow the TV crew meets the whole family. Bonnie

11 pm

9pm and the MTV producers are here. We got to meet the two producers that will be working with us all summer, Gena and Brian. They are both young and sassy like us. This should be a good match for our family. They came tonight instead of tomorrow morning to meet us because we are all busy in the morning and they wanted to meet us as a family. We had to eat dinner together at 9pm while they were filming. After two hours of filming and Chris Sr. getting interviewed they have left for the night. The producers are staying in a hotel in Waterbury. I e-mailed them some other options for bed & breakfasts/hotels/inns in the Litchfield/Torrington area. They will be back tomorrow morning to see Cindy and then off to everybody elses work. Tomorrow is another day. Bonnie

Prior to MTV Coming

What were we doing prior to MTV coming? We were all getting physicals, stress tests, and echocardiograms. No, we are not sick. Maybe we are not physical fit but our insides are healthy. We have done a lot of things before we got to this point with MTV. The first thing was Cindy auditioned at her school. She had a 30 minute video taped interview with a girl named Lauren. Lauren liked Cindy and said, "I am going to push for you to get this." Oh, by the way is your family as outgoing and funny as you. YES. Could they afford to lose weight and get healthy. YES, except for my brother, Chris. Forward a few weeks and Rebecca, from casting called Cindy while she was on vacation in Florida. They needed pictures of the whole family and our house. Well, mom, dad, and Chris Jr. took pictures of the house and the three of them. They sent pictures of Cindy they had on the digital camara. A couple of days later Rebecca called again and said they wanted to send a producer out to do a green light at our house in TWO DAYS. She was really pushing for us too. O.K., two days away. Cindy got home from vacation later that night and we wrote up a exact schedule of what we would be doing Friday and Saturday. Justin, a producer came Friday morning bright and early. He miked Cindy up and off to school he went with her. They had a great day filming at Cindy's high school. The green light was filled with us eating every imaginable fattening food we ever eat. It was fun but tiring. We were all interviewed for two days straight. Then the waiting began. They said we would hear something between 2 to 4 weeks. On Thursday of the fifth week we got an e-mail from Rebecca, to call her when we got a chance. She said that she is always the one having to call people and tell them they didn't get the show, but not this time. WE MADE IT. That was a couple of weeks ago. O.K., don't tell anyone MTV says. Oh, can we tell our immediate family like the grandparents and great-grandparents. Yes. So we did. Bonnie

Two Days Before MTV Comes

06/18/07 Hello Family and Friends, We thought we would take you on our journey with getting fit as a family. Today is Monday and the official word is MTV is coming Wed. morning. All we really know is that we will be meeting two producers Wed. morning, Gina and Brian. The taping will begin. MTV likes to keep us in the dark about everything. Everything is a surprise. Bonnie