I can't believe we are 8 weeks in and I am still here. Even after I had to stop working out for 2 weeks. I started something new this week. I am doing the 1 minute cardio with heart rate 95%, rest to 65% and do it again 5 times routine. Boy you have to stay focused!!! We are still here. Good luck everyone. I am looking forward to a good weigh in this week.

Ugh.....I am glad to be working out again. I didn't have all of my food several days last week and didn't get in workouts do to the boot. Boy it showed. This week it is back to working out. I was able to do upper body work out and 20 minutes on the SM before my foot started bothering me. I'm back!!!!

After a week trying to recover it was good to see 3.4 lbs lost. I am under 300!!! My foot is still painful, but i am hoping to get out of this boot soon. I can't wait to start excercising again!!! Who said that? Was it me? We are still eating healthy and perticipating after 6 weeks. Go US!!! I can't remember the last time I ate healthy for 6 weeks.

I am ding of boredom!! I can't even play with my clay much. Sigh. I just keep thinking 1 more week. I left the boot off yesterday for awhile to let it stretch. What a mistake. It felt like day one of the injury. I notice I am thinking of food more these days. It is the boredom. Sitting at the comp isn't an option cause it isn't elevated. So I am going to take care of this thing the right way!!! I just need to learn to be patient.

Well what do you call a woman in her mid 40s who excercises heavily at 328 with out a trainer??? Injured. I have been to the doc and it is tendonitis. I now realize what an important gift MPM is offering. To be able to have a trainer now to tell me what I can and can't do would be a unsurmountable gift. To have had one before I injured myself would have also been fabulous. I know my number won't be great this week. Now is when I have to say do I talk the talk or walk the walk. I have been to many sites of people who had a low number and let them know I was routing for them. Telling them that this is just 1 week and to keep going. I am routing for myself also. My food is good. I am stopping the urge to cut down, to compensate. I can do this. My doc said sure go ahead and do cardio...just don't remove the boot. Well after a few minutes my hip was killing me. The boot makes my right leg much higher then my left. Was he crazy? I am lucky my DH has been giving my leg lengthy messages through out the tendon. I think I'll keep him!!! I am still here and still doing it. I will not give up on myself.

Thanks to all for the encouraging words. I do know that 1 lb down is 1 lb closer to goal. Really enjoyed the big game. just had a veggi platter and really didn't miss the cheese and crackers and chips and all the super bowl junk I usually eat. Felt good to know I wouldn't wake with the usual Monday after hangover and bloat. Gonna miss football though. Hope everyone has a great week:)

Today begins the end of an old cycle. For years I have been able to diet for the first month then take a break and not go back. There is no break for me this time. This is life changing. Not a diet. The 6th will be exactly a month, and during a great super bowl I only had veg plate and dinner. Go Giants Go us. I am still here holding strong to this new life!!! I hope everyone out in MPM land is having a great beggining to a new week!!!!

WOW How is everyone this Super bowl morn? I am doing great. Today was my weigh in and you won't believe it...I am 303.4. That means I lost 6.2 pounds. WOW I still can't believe it. I made 2 adjustments this week that made all the diff. First I started measuring my salad dressing. 1 Tablespoon. Sigh I like a lot of salad dressing. So I began to mix it with salsa. The second adjustment I made is that I made sure I ate all of my food. Every couple of hours, I made myself take the time. I have the BL to thank for this week. Whenever Paul said he cut way back on cals and did so poorly at weigh in, I knew that was me too. I wouldn't be hungry in 2 1/2 hours so sometimes I wouldn't take the time.I learn so much from the show!!! Thank you Paul. This BL program has changed my life. I can learn from there mistakes, and gain from there accomplishments. I wonder if the individuals who perticipate on this show know how they affect people who watch the show. The benefit of "regular" people doing it, helping "regular" people do it, is astounding. I know I say it a lot, but the BL and the people doing the MPM have changed my life. THANK YOU!!!!

Hi everyone out there in MPM land. What a great morning it is. I have been visiting many of your sites, and see that some of us are having a difficult time as we come to the end of the month. Please do not despair. Together we can do what we could not do alone. Remember when it seems tough that some of the biggest losers on BL had bad weeks. Some put on weight on bad weeks, yet they stuck to it. Matt even won after he had a 0 weight loss week, and a 12 pound gain one week. If he can do it so can I, and so can YOU!!!! Today is "last chance workout" for us. I use this phrase every week like clock work. So today I have done an hour of total body weight lifting, and my first 1/2 hour of my Ski machine. I am up to the final 3 minutes going as fast as I can with using the arm pullies and skiing. To be honest it feels great. Like omg this is me actually doing it. I love the BL for inspiring me to finally be able to do this. Everyone stay strong, and just remember TOGETHER WE CAN LOSE 1 MILLION POUNDS!!!!!GO US.

Well another week gone by and we are still doing it. It is so awesome that so many success stories are being shared here. Jodi is getting around and doing so much more than she could just three weeks ago. It makes my heart smile to see. I am also feeling so much more energetic. Sometimes I just have to get up and do something. Used to be I dreaded the thought of having to get up and do something. It's just amazing what a proper diet and 20 lbs has done. Well good luck everyone and keep up the awesome job. Jim.

Just a note....I just did Jim's ticker. It is weird that we are losing the same. Also that he is not excersizing.....sigh to be 6ft6. That must be my problem...I am too short!!!!Maybe some heels?

Hi all,<br> I am so glad last nights bl included the part where they cut cals. and put on weight. I need to remember that. I have been eating everything, but somedays it seems like it is too much. I missed Mon. workout, but I am back on track. Moving up on weights, and tightening the arm pulls on my ski machine. Something amazing happened on my ski machine. I got on and the pad was resting on my thighs. It started on my stomach. I can't believe my stomach has gone down so much. People used to stare all the time. I wanted to say it was a tumor it was so large. Today I do not need to lie. I am still large, but my stomach it much more in proportion to my size. MPM and BL rock. Thank you all for being here and letting us know you are doing it too.

Boy, what a week so far. I started adding the hands on my Ski Machine, and what a diff. It seems to keep my mind off of the pain in my legs, and lower back. I am too busy with the new pain in my arms. During the last 2 minutes of my work out I attempt to go as fast as I can. This morning when I checked the timer it read 29:28. I was so shocked I hadn't realized that the time was over. I have been doing "heavy and slow" weight training, and I have to admit after cleaning the house yesterday I hurt all over. The great thing is, what used to take me all day (because I would have to take a break when my back hurt so much) took me no time at all. I did realize though that my ham strings are so tight I think it is what is giving me the back pain. So I am stretching them all day today. I am not going to kill myself with working out today, and keep it simple, and stretch, stretch stretch!!!!

Jodi's day <br>

Hi  Everyone, <br>

   I hope everyone out in MPM land is working strong and feeling strong. Together we can do what we could not do alone. GO US!!! I see all the weight slipping off of people around the sites, and try to get to as many as I can at least weekly. I saw about 60 of you over the week end and it was so inspiring. I got a big kick of inspiration. Thank you all. <br>

    Tonight is the BL. After I watch the show I am always in high gear for days after. Maybe increase it to 2 times a week? I think that will cover me. I use diff things I hear on the show to drive me further in my mission to become healthy. Why didn't I find this show sooner. sigh.  I begin my week on Mon. after my weigh in. I could use a kick on Sun. night to keep the defeatist at bay.

   What a diff. a day makes. Yesterday I did not want to get on my SM. The good part is I realized I was trying to defeat myself and my goal to become healthy. It seems that part of me that thrived on a defeatist attitude is getting weaker, and weaker. I got up and got on any way. Then I did my lower body kick, punch, stuff for 45 minutes. By the afternoon it was back to feeling good about getting on my SM. for the second time. I love how I feel while I am working out. I love how I feel all day after. Then why would I try to sabatoge myself by not doing it? That is not an option for me today. I feel good. My cloths are fitting better. My stomach is shrinking, I can do many more things then I could just 2 1/2 weeks ago. <br>

  I love weight lifting days. It just gives me that "yea baby" feeling. I love the burn, the increased strength. All of it. It is addicting. Wouldn't that be a nice swap.....food addiction....turned in to weight lifting addiction.

Well, we have joined the ever exclusive club of the "terrible 2nd week weigh-ins". That's ok I have seen some awesome people in our "club!!! I don't feel too bad though I had a loss of 3.2 lbs. That is normal weight loss. I remember the winner of the season I watched even had a 0 week. I believe for me now is when it comes down to it. Am I commited? It is easy to commit with high weekly weight loss. Do I give up? Not even close. I am feeling so renewed. I am doing it and not giving up. It feels so GREAT. I am so excited I am still doing this. Today is my relax day and boy my poor muscles needed it. I am lucky to have Jim he gave me a deep muscle massage, and boy do I feel better. He goes to school next week so instead of having to leave at 5am he doesn't have to leave untill 6:30. It will be nice to have a work out buddy. I am going to get that bowflex hand weights thing that you dial the weight. That way when I need to go up in weights I don't need to go out and get new ones all the time. I hope everyone out in MPM land is going great this weekend. It is about -32 here with the wind chill, so it will be a bundle under the covers on the couch and get ready for some football!!!

Isn't Jim so cute!! I think I'll keep him a few more days. We'll have to see on weigh in day how many of those burgers he had.

    Well it is before 7 am here and i have done my workout for the morn. My SM ( ski machine) and 45 minutes of upper body. I can't believe it, 2 weeks ago I was in a lot of pain just bending over do empty the dishwasher. Today I'm doing dead man lifts with 5 pound weights and thinkin I need to go up to 10. I'm not kidding. I am so grateful. I love this MPM. Who cares who wins we all win in the end. Now to let you in on a secret code I am learning to decifer. If you hear the words "Maximum fiber recruitmant" step away. What they are really saying is that they are going to attempt to kill you and lets see if you survive the attatck they have convinced you to make on your self!!! OMG how is it recruitment if you have no muscle fiber to begin with?

  I hope everyone out there in MPM land is having as great of a time as we are.

January 18 4:53 AM

Wow how inspiring was the show last night? Whwn we did the math we realized we would have come in 3rd place. I never imagined I could do as well as they are, and eat so healthy. It's all in the work. When Jillian said you need to push your self to accomplish more, I took it to heart. I did 2....1/2 hour sessions on the ski machine, and worked my upper body and core for a 1/2 hour each. After watching them do it i truly believe I can too. I just need to push myself, and it has been getting easier and easier all the time. I actualy got off the skier and proceeded to vaccume. Who is this masked woman who is impersinating me? This MPM is actualy changing our lives! I hope every one out there in MPM land was as inspired as we were.

Hi everyone,  How was your week? Isn't it great we are doing it? I have visited many sites so far and plan on visiting more. It sounds like we all Rock. Go us!!! New week new program!! I woke up and realized the weight I lost last week has nothing to do with this one, except that I did it last week so I know I can do it again this week. I am commiting to some changes for my new week. No more sugar or flour. Makes grocery shopping easy. Just the outside aisles, and I'm done. My work outs are getting an update also. (see excercise updates.) All I have is this one day to be the best me I can.

had a good week. jodie is working so hard it gives me incentive, not exercising like I should. work is hard cause everyone eats. Not giving in to temptation though.

eat good just for today seems to be working. Lost 11 pounds. Jodi lost 12. Go us.

We are doing it. Together Everyone Accomplishes More. TEAM.