Marissa and I laughed pretty hard during our portrait shoot at sunrise. Marissa has lost 87 pounds in the past 22 months and her friend Angie bought her the photo session as a birthday present. I have yet to meet Angie, but I am working on that for sure in November ….

Anyways, Marissa and I talked about our kids and how great they are and how sometimes they don’t listen to us. I kept trying to get her to pose when a person would walk by … then she would laugh hard and then I would get the best expression. In the chair we had a bit of an audience with maintenance staff. They were the only other people around and the hotel was a big, clean, fresh studio.

The we did the powerful pants photo and the audience and interest grew. When we wrapped, we went inside and all the staff swarmed Marissa like a celebrity asking all kinds of questions about what she is doing and how she did it.

Clean whole foods, nothing canned or in a box and lots of cardio 4-5 days a week. I’m sure there is much, much more ….

I’ve cut down considerably the Kraft Dinner and cans of baked beans …. AND I’ve started walking the beach.

Marissa wrote me this lovely note:

“Hi! Love the photos … they are my favourites too! It’s great and so are the photos and I am honoured to have your name at the bottom of my picture …. how very, very cool!”