I survived. And cheated.

This Paleo thing is harder than I imagined it would be. Don't get me wrong, I knew it would be hard to completely change the way that you think and eat. Not to mention that I have been eating this way for 20+ years. But yesterday, on day 1 of becoming Paleo, I hit a roadblock. Roadblock = my job.

Now I'm sure you are wondering what my job is. If you haven't read my profile  yet, please go and read it now.
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Now that you have seen that, you will know that I am not just a cake decorator, but rather a cake decorator extraordinaire. I'm a bad ass. I'm kind of a big deal. Kind of. Anyway, I've been decorating for almost 2 years now, and I'll just say that it a love/hate(morehatethanlove) job. I work for a big box retailer, and I get to make some pretty awesome cakes. So while I have been trying multiple times to become healthy, my job hasn't been getting in my way too much. Honestly, after looking at cake for 40 hours a week for the past two years (if you do that math that is (40 hrs x 52 weeks) x 2= 4,100 hours holyshit), the last thing on this earth that I would ever want to eat is cake. Unless forced. And if I must, I will eat the cake. Not the icing. Wayyy too much sugar in that shit. Another horror joy of my job, is to hand out cookies to hooligans kids. Lemme just say, after I was done with work yesterday that is ALL I could think about. IJUSTWANTEDADAMNCOOKIE!

So I caved. I had a damn cookie. Times 5. Plus a few pieces of dark chocolate.
Then I was done, I promise.

Good lord, I had no idea that the smell of cookies would hit me like that. I'll just give you a brief overview of my heritage- I am German, Norwegian, Swedish, and I grew up with a father who grew up on a farm. All of this translates to me loving three main food groups: dairy, bread, and dairy. Hooolly cow I love my dairy. If you add some bread in there, I am so overjoyed I may pee. Oddly enough, that hasn't bothered me too much, and instead I severely miss my sweets. Aka, one of the worst things for your body. More importantly, they are overly processed sweets usually. That smell sent me off on a cookie rampage, so I will have to figure out what to do at work so it doesn't throw me into a tailspin like that again. I may just force all of my coworkers to open the cookie packages for me until I can restrain myself. Otherwise who knows what might happen. It will be an adventure.

Besides the huge cookie debacle, the main thing that I need to do is buy more of the staple foods, and look up recipes so I can make a better variety of food (not that I don't love having chicken everyday...). My rents said they would be willing to make the Paleo foods (until they decide they need their bread), so we will see what things we can come up with.

Right now I'm craving sweets hardcore, so I made some cocoa-coconut mounds, made via inspiration from Juli over at paleomg.com.
I have been learning a lot about Paleo from Juli, so check her out. Her recipes are awesome.
Anyway, here is a picture of on of my mounds

I didn't have all of the ingredients that she had, so I won't post my variation of the recipe until I play with it a little more, adding in other ingredients that are deemed appropriate. One thing that I noticed is that after not having hardly any artificial sweetener for the past two days, this recipe was a little too sweet and threw me off. Obviously they will get eaten, but next time I will figure out how to tame down the beast.

Cross your fingers for me that tomorrow will be better for me regarding the cookie aroma inhalation. It's a killer.

Stay classy.
Cookie Monster Megan