Mama Jean's- My New Favorite Place

Good morning friends.  A long weekend that was completely FULL has kept me from posting in a few days.  My weekend started out GRAND with getting up early and making my first ever trip to Mama Jean's Natural Foods.  I've been wanting to hit up this place for quite awhile now and finally got to.  I didn't really know what I'd be walking in to, but was pleasantly surprised, to say the least.  I was immediately attracted to their produce section.  And can I just say WOW!  My mouth was watering lol.  The fruits and veggies were in a word, beautiful.  HA!  It's true though.  As a long-time shopper of, well, I won't say the name, but it rhymes with schmall schmart :).  Anyway, after years of shopping there, it's a shock to see what locally grown, organic produce looks like.  I stocked up on so much of it and have already been eating up the gorgeous, perfect tomatoes! (And a few other things too.)  My dad just so happened to call me as I was just starting to pick out some stuff to bag up and put in my cart.  I babbled to him for about an hour (almost the entire shopping trip) cuz I was just overwhelmed with excitement for the journey I'm starting.  We got to talk the whole time I was going up and down the aisles of this unknown health food store and that made it even more enjoyable.  (Just wanted to share that :))  Anyway, I ended up with 2 cart-fulls of food.  So much I want to try and so much I want my boys to try.  I'm not just trying to lose weight, I'm trying to change my lifestyle.  And this was just one of many of the first big steps in doing so.  I will definitely be frequenting this store often now.  I also wanted to brag on the staff at Mama Jean's.  The woman that checked me out was so friendly and down-to-earth in helping me out with it being my "first time."  Another woman helped me out to my car and we discussed weight-loss, eating clean, and getting healthy.  I told her I'd recently started this and about the blog and turns out she's recently lost 75 lbs.  Her name was Rose and she looked amazing!  Anywho, such a great experience and I'd recommend it to anyone I know.  Great place with a great staff!  This was the start to a great weekend which I will have to share more about later :)  Thanks for reading and hope you all had a great weekend as well!!