We have done it! We signed up for the Million Pound Match-Up contest!

Here's how it works for the contest:

The top 5 entrants who chronicle their weight loss & fitness journey via Windows Live Spaces will be eligible to win an all expenses paid trip to Los Angeles to see "The Biggest Loser: Couples" season finale live!

One winning team will also receive a personal fitness trainer for a year - for each team member!

Then there are the rules... you have to team up with a partner and you must chronicle your weight loss on Windows Live Spaces at least once a week.

They say to be honest, creative and share your journey frequently.

The judging is based on the quality of the content, the visual design, and the frequency of each participants updates.

Here is why we want to do it:

The reason that we want to do the weight loss challenge is because we both realize that we both need to loose weight and lead more healthy lifestyles.   Dean would like to do it to be more fit, and also to help me and be my moral support and to get below the weight that the military requires him to be.  I on the other hand have to do this for my health, if not I realize that I am going to be dead before I am supposed to be.  I have tried every fad diet that is out there and everything else along the way and none of it has worked or I have given up.  I have always been over weight for as long as I can remember.  There is not a certain size that I want to be or a certain outfit that I want to wear, I just for once in my life would like to be the one that everyone looks at because I am skinny, not because I am the one that they point at and whisper about.  I am tired of trying to squeeze into booths when we go to eat, or not even being able to wear my seatbelt in my car when I drive.  Or having to tell my girls that I can’t do something with them because I am too tired or I can’t ride that ride with them because I am to fat.  I am ready to do this.  I want to make myself proud of me.  I need to do this for myself along with my family so that I don’t have to worry about them ever telling me that they are embarrassed to be with me.    That we need to lead a more of a healthy lifestyles for our girls so that we are both around to see them grow up.