Holy Cow! Day 1

So, I'm like blown away about how many people read blogs!  I never guessed anyone would read this stupid little thing, but holy cow, it's cray cray.  I have received so many positive emails, messages, and texts it's unreal!  Thank you all for your encouragement. Now I REALLY feel like I have to do this!

I also feel like I need to explain something.  Although I have a degree in Language Arts and taught English for a few years, I am NOT a writer.  I am not eloquent, creative, or talented in any way.  But if you're looking for sarcastic, honest, and whiny- I'm your girl.  No but really, I've already spotted many grammatical/spelling errors and they are reallllly bugging me, but I'm not going to fix them.  This is just supposed to be fun for me.  So please don't make fun of my writing mistakes behind my back even though I laugh out loud in my husband's face when he messes up!! ;) (love you, Nate)

Ok, so moving on to the real reason I'm doing this. Day 1 was so much easier than I thought it would be.  I held back a little too much because I thought it was going to be so intense I would die.  But it really wasn't.  I think I'm actually quite prepared to do the workouts after doing the Jillian Michaels DVDs for four months.  So that was encouraging!  And I'm so glad Nate is doing this with me.  It makes getting up at 5 a.m. a whole lot easier.  I am definitely tired right now, but it will just make it easier to go to bed tonight.

I had eggs and kiwi for breakfast, paleo granola and carrots for lunch, an apple for a snack, and I'm making grilled chicken, sweet potatoe fries (with coconut oil), and asparagus for dinner.  Easy as pie.  Oh, I want some pie!

Here's the paleo granola recipe.  It is really good.  I baked it a touch too long, so that's the only thing I would change.  The instructions said to bake for 20-25 min and it didn't look done to me so I left it in for 35 minutes.  I would say 25 minutes probably would have been perfect.  I had this for lunch with coconut milk.  I have always loved cereal so this is a great substitute. 

http://paleomg.com/paleo-granola/

Thanks again to all that have been so kind and encouraging!