DATE CHANGE - OCT. 7th at 12 noon

Hello Everyone, They have done it again. Our episode is not airing on Saturday now but on SUNDAY, OCT. 7th at 12 noon (that is the latest update). I will be calling them next week to make sure the date and time hasn't changed yet again. All four of us are doing good. Starting on Monday we are going back to The Litchfield Athletic Club to work out. We have missed going to the gym since MTV left. Getting up at 5am to run/walk was getting too hard for us. Plus the cold weather is coming and 5am runs would be brutal. Cynthia is working at the club babysitting so she is getting her membership for free. Sunday mornings Chris Sr. and I use to go to the club and play racquetball so we are very excited to be able to do that again. A big hi goes out to the women at CHH blood drawing station. Thanks for still being interested in our story. Bonnie

WHEN WILL THE EPISODE AIR?

Hi Everyone, I just got the word that our episode of MTV MADE airs for the first of many times on Saturday, October 6th. I am not sure what time so you will have to go to MTV once and a while before then to see the commercials. We are the first episode of Season 8. Come join us for a episode of a tight knit family who took on a intense summer long weight loss journey to getting fit. We haven't even seen it yet but we hope we can make families around the world realize that you can do anything if you stick together and do it together. This journey would not have worked if we all didn't do it together. I will talk with all of you real soon. Bonnie

CYNTHIA'S OFFICIAL SWEET 16

Hi Everyone, Just letting you all know we have been "MADE" fit this summer. We have rapped up the filming and are going to New York City this week to finish up some voice stuff. Look for our episode to air real soon. As soon as the episode airs I can chat with all of you about it and post some great pictures of Cynthia and the rest of us. We have not forgot all the people who helped us get to where we are today. That includes the hospital staff and doctor's offices who worked VERY HARD to fit us in for many doctors appts to the hairdresser for our big reveal. Talk with all of you soon. Bonnie

Hello Everyone, Just a quick note to say hi and tell everyone we still don't know the date of the first airing. Talk with all of you real soon. Bonnie

WILL I SURVIVE EDDIE?

Before we left Eddie last night he said he would see me in the morning. So what do you think happened? That's right I didn't sleep at all last night. I was literally up every hour waiting for him and the TV crew to come blasting thru our front door to get us to go running early in the morning. He worked us so hard last night I don't even want to think about working out in the gym and doing a workout with him.

How Famous Is This Trainer?

Friday, we worked out all by ourselves while Alicia watched us. Alicia is going to a fitness festival in Italy for the next 10 days. I guess she thinks we need to step it up a notch because on Saturday when she came to say her good byes to us she told us she didn't think we could manage this week without her and was bringing in someone who wasn't going to be as nice as her. He (first clue) knows what he is doing and how to get the weight off us. She brought presents (or so we thought) for us. What could be in the bags? All four of us thought it was a picture of Alicia with a voice thing that would yell at us to work out but it wasn't. She made me open the big bag. It was a plastic replica of 5 lbs. of fat. It was discussing. Cindy named our fat, George. What was in the individual little bags. It was our very own pet fat. A l oz. piece of plastic fake fat. It was to remind us not to overeat and lose weight while she was away. Sunday was a new day and we were suppose to be meeting our trainer at 3pm. Gena (the producer) called and asked if we knew where there was a football field (#2 clue). O.k. so now we know it is a male, and a football player. Gena later tells us you don't need to be a sports fan to know who this person is because he is that famous. Guess what? He wasn't so famous to us because we didn't know who he was. He played for the Tennessee Titans (#3 clue). He is second in line to Patan for starting the most games in the NFL. If you aren't a big football fan and can't guess. . . Eddie George. Eddie brought his trainer, Joe, along with him. We were in for some hard workouts. We played football with him and then did workout drills. We had to re-do reps of things if he felt we weren't trying hard enough or we stopped for a second. At the end he had us running around the track and if we stopped we were going to have to run it again. I almost felt like I was going to throw up. What will tomorrow bring???? Bonnie

VISIT US ON THIS WEBSITE THIS FALL!

Hi Everyone, Please visit our blog in November! Thank your for your support. Bonnie, Chris Sr., Chris Jr. & Cynthia

5k Race, Thursday night

O.K. I didn't finish the race. Not even close. Last night they thought they (MTV's Story Producer) would do a test on how well we have been doing. They thought we should enter this 5k race along with runners who run every weekend in races or at least 2x/month. Every Thursday there is 3 races, 3k, 4k & 5k thur White Memorial. MTV found out about this and entered us in it as a test. It wasn't a test at all. We knew Chris Jr. and Chris Sr. would do fine. Cindy ran/walk with the trainer and finished. The paths for the race were very unclear especially for first time runners so Chris Jr. ended up doing 10k and Cindy and the trainer did a little extra. I was last of all the runners and decided about 1 1/2 into it that I was lost and didn't even know were to find the right path. This is the only thing I made my mind up about so far that I was not going to finish. I am very positive and go into everything that way but this was crazy. MTV made us look absolutely like this fatty family. I was not going to let them make us look this way so I ended the race for myself. I don't mind going into something and not know how to do it and look like a beginner but I was just looking dumb and I will NOT put up with that. Me not finishing the race really upset my daughter. I will not even tell you everything that happen after the race because it was a lot of stuff that runs deep in my sole about how I feel about myself and my family and it was a big situation. MTV filmed it so I am sure it will make it on MTV and if it doesn't (which I hope it doesn't) that will be great. Just know that I am the core of this family and if things don't turn out good it usually is my fault. Me not finishing the race put my daughter over the edge. I wrote into MTV and told them that I thought they were wrong to put us in a situation with very advanced runners and let us compete. This is crazy. I wonder what they think of me now. I write into our Series producer almost every day so I am sure what he thinks of me?? Today better me a better day of filming or else. Todays big hi goes out to all of you that leave me comments. I really do appreciate them and thank you for reading my blog. Bonnie

JUST WORKING OUT

Today I got up at 5am and went with my mom walk/running since they told me the weight is only coming off if you do more cardio and then we did water aerobics. Then I did 30 minutes of cardio with Cindy and the trainer. She had us doing us funky things on the treadmill. I sweat like I never have sweat before. Then we did some abs. Filming hasn't been so bad this week because we are doing individual training. So it is only a hour to hour and a half per day. Not so bad. Lets see what the weekend will bring on. Todays big hello goes out to my Mom and Dad. My mom has been my workout partner this week. She has been getting up early every morning just to work out with ME. Thanks mom. I love you. Bonnie

WHO LOST THE MOST WEIGHT?

Who do you think lost the most weight in two weeks? Chris Sr., Bonnie or Cindy? If you guessed me you were wrong. If you guessed Cindy you were wrong. It was Chris Sr. with a total weight loss of 11 lbs. He has worked hard at his diet. He runs almost every day with Tyson. As for me I have to do more cardio. I came in last with only 3 lbs. Cindy lost a whopping 7 lbs. You go girl. She is doing so well. I am down because I have worked just as hard as the others. I do take two medicines that make it harder to lose weight but I am still sad. I have a goal for myself of 2 1/2 lbs per week. If I do that I will meet my goal of 30 lbs by Sept. 8th. Now I have to lose about 3 pounds per week. I am already discouraged. Any one out there got words of encouragement for me. Hint, Hint, this would be a good time to leave a nice comment for me. LOL. Todays big hello goes out to my sister, Tina, who is always checking up on me and telling me I am doing a great job. Thanks, sis. Bonnie

MTV IS BACK IN TOWN!

One producer came tonight and filmed Chris Sr. getting his breakfast ready. He was trying to tell them he didn't eat breakfast before this. I guess coffee break eating a dounut and a coffee is not breakfast. Please, give me a break. She only came to say hi and do a quick interview on how our vacation was. See you tomorrow at the gym she told us. Wait, where is the trainer? Getting ready I guess for all of us to go to the gym at different times tomorrow. Todays big hello goes out to Lisa, one of my friends from my TOPS group. I hope we are motivating you Lisa. We can be thinner yet. Bonnie

Exercise or Not?

So do you think we exercised everyday on vacation? YES, we did. Chris Sr. ran every day down to the beach and back along with Tyson. You know Tyson has a 6 week exercise plan too. He needs to run for 20 minutes per day with his dad. Cynthia and I ran two days and the rest of the days we did water aerobics. I really felt great doing water aerobics each morning. I got up and went to the pool at 8am right when the pool opened. I felt great for the rest of the day after doing water aerobics. I am going to try and still do that each morning. My mom and dad live 5 minutes from me and 1 minute from work so I shouldn't have an excuse right. Our trainer contacted us today about getting together and doing a hour of personal training with each of us tomorrow. I thought we had another week without her?? Who knows when the producers are coming back? Tomorrow too?? Oh, Chris Sr. will be so mad if that is the case. He needs another week off from shooting. I think it really exhausted him out the first couple of weeks also. Who is use to getting up at 5:30am and going to bed at 11 pm without ever stopping your day. Hopefully we can keep up the good work exercising when the trainer is not in town. Today's big hello goes out to all the campers we met this past week at Bailey's RV Resort. Hopefully Chris Sr. didn't talk your ears off. He even took pictures with some of you and signed autographs. LOL. What will tomorrow bring? . . . . . .Bonnie

Was It Really Vacation?

We are back from vacation in Old Orchard Beach, Maine and we are all well rested. It didn't start out that way. We were all very sore from the three days of exercising with our trainer. We later found out that she had us doing very advanced moves for filming purposes. Personally my body and mind were so exhausted. I didn't realize how tired I was until I went vacation. We arrived on vacation dragging our feet we were so sore. I felt like I was tired for the first third days of vacation even though I slept good. One of the producers came up to shoot us supposely for one hour a day for two days of vacation. WRONG! He filmed us Sunday afternoon until Sunday night. Then we had a 14 hour day on Monday. We were playing a bean bag tossing game Monday afternoon when out pops, yes you guessed it, the trainer. We were more surprised to see her on vacation then the day we first met her. What the hell was she doing on our vacation and how did she get here. Let me answer the first question first. She was checking up on us. She checked the refrigerator and found nothing but fresh produce and fruit. Whew, I am so glad that we were sticking to our diet (and we did for the whole vacation too) because if she found out we weren't then she was there to make us work out. She said she had spies (the producer and our son Chris Jr.) watching us and because we were doing so well she decided we didn't have to work out. She then took us on a trip. A trip to a spa called Fabu in Porland, Maine. Our trainer and I got body wraps and Chris Sr. and Cindy got full body massages. Chris Jr. decide he was going to the beach and really didn't want any part of the filming on vacation. That was o.k. but he missed the spa. Tuesday was just one hour of filming while we were doing water aerobics. Good thing the trainer and the producer left Tuesday morning or Chris Sr. was going to boot them out of the campground. Monday was the longest day yet of filming. We had our trainer picking up dog poop. She said she wanted to help us. She had a couple of firsts again; First time camping, first time picking up dog poop, and the first time ever making shishkabobs (however you spell it). The weather was not the greatest for a beach vacation but my family did find a lot of sand dollars. I think my mom and dad found 45 and my sister and her family found 43. My daughter only got in the action of finding them later in the week when the weather was bad but she found 6. Baby on the way home stepped on them and broke 3 of them. Sorry Cindy, dad didn't put them in a very good place. We are going to enjoy our next week off! Or do you think the MTV crew will pop in and show up early and see how we are doing???? We hope not. We need to live like a normal family for another week. What is normal? I am going to tell you a little each day about things on our vacation that have to do with MTV and exercising. Our big hello today goes out to Linda, the bartender at The Clam Bake. She gave Chris Sr. a stuffed toy lobster with a pink bandana. Bonnie

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.