Today is a great day.

Why is it a great day?! Because it's weigh-in day, it's farmer's market day, and it's get to hang out with D all day' day!

The scale was very kind to us this first week and makes us very eager to push on.

Me 242 (-5)
D 283 (-7)

Wait? WhAT?! YAY! *happy dance* I was so excited to see 5 lbs gone and D was amazed at his 7. More water, watching what we eat and taking an hour out of our day to take a walk.

Our walks are getting easier (except we had an injury today =(! ) and more enjoyable. We bumped it up to 3.6 mi the last few days. I think once D's ankle is feeling better, or when I'm at home during the day with no D, I may start trying to keep the distance the same, but try to walk faster as it took us an hour the last few times. Endurance is great, but I don't want to take all day to exercise by trying to go 8 miles at that slow of a pace. Point is to make it challenging, right?

We got fresh muffaletta (I'm sorry I can't spell) bread from a lady that bakes it with no sugar, eggs or dairy, red romaine, sweet peppers, and 4 really delicious cucumbers. We got there late so we missed out on the spinach from the farmer's market. But all in all got some great produce.

We also stopped by the local church's pumpkin patch and got 2 nice sized pumpkin, one for cooking, one for carving. Will definitely have leftovers and have to avoid that pumpkin pie, but I'll somehow cope.

With all the cooking we've been doing, a dishwasher was really needed so we bought one today after doing a few weeks of research and finding one we liked but was out of our price range on sale. We ended up with a savings of $80. That may be lazy of me, but we have a tiny kitchen, with a tiny area to dry off dishes, so I'm enjoying it.

I'm tired after a busy day and our walk, but it's time for dinner. Steaks and roasted potatoes. We've been good all day, so we'll indulge just a tiny bit with our red meat.

We're so excited for this journey. Maybe another 5 lbs this week?