Posted a decent loss today despite being sick for the past week. So it has been a rough week to say the very least in terms of eating anything at all.... but still encouraging to know that I was able to not gain anything back!

I have been down and out for seven days now and today is the first day I woke up feeling almost back to my normal self. I am anxious to get back into the gym after this time off and that is something I never thought I would say.

My clothes are fitting so much better and when I am down 25 pounds total I am planning on a shopping spree! I am halfway there.... so that is encouragement for me to keep doing what I am doing and even step up the cardio so maybe I can catch in on some of those great Labor Day and back to school sales!

It is amazing how much eating organic has become a part of our life now....

She's down 10.8 pounds! :) That's a whole dress size! Way to go Jaime!! :)

Tomorrow marks two weeks since Alana came into my house and literally cleaned out my kitchen! First of all let me mention how unbelievably grateful I am to Alana for offering up this opportunity. I am more than thrilled that she chose me to embark on this journey with her.

One of the contingencies of being a part of this program with Alana is that we would have to make an effort to do clean eating. She wanted me to watch the documentary Food, Inc so that I was aware of what is going into our bodies. Friday night my husband Shawn and I sat down to watch the movie and we were BLOWN AWAY by what we saw. We had been eating organic meats for a ten days and I was so glad that I could say we will not be returning to our previous lifestyle anytime soon!

If you haven't seen the movie I HIGHLY recommend watching it. We had already been tossing around the idea of planting a vegetable garden, but this gave us the push in the right direction.

Saturday afternoon we planted a garden in our yard. We bought as many fruits and vegetables as we could find that would grow in our yard- eggplant, tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, celery and many more! We also planted several herbs that we can use while cooking.

A few photos of our new garden... will take better ones sometime this week~

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I've never, ever had someone do more burpees than I asked them to do. Then, there was Jaime. :) Looking forward to kickin' it up a notch!

She's down 6.2 pounds after one week!!!! Yay!!!!

Week 1 weigh-in tomorrow! The suspense is driving me crazy! I can't wait!!! :)