How did everyone do on Halloween???

I survived!! I am proud to say I have not eaten a single bit of candy in the past few weeks. Yay, me!!

I must say in my 5 years post-op, I do go in phases. There are times when I want to eat everything in sight and other times where food does not interest me, like now. One think that I believe helped me stop the cravings was eliminating artificial sweeteners. I do still use them on a rare occasion, but overall I'd say I've eliminated 95% of the time.

I think I will give my kids a few days to eat their candy then bring the rest to school to give to my students.

And since I am an AW, here is our pic

Gorgeous family!

OMG you and your girls are SO beautiful! Such a wonderful family you have!!

I did fine for Halloween. I was off all day with my Dad at the hospital (he had a short outpatient surgery) and then decided NOT to go to the store to buy candy to give out last night. I knew that since I had been up since 3AM and super tired, that I was going to be in a more vulnerable place and not caring about what I ate! So, I decided to avoid it altogether!

Congrats on doing well too!

Awe, thanks. I hope your dad is doing well.

Sounds like you had a good plan for Halloween. Now we must get ready for the big holiday season where food is everywhere!! lol

Laura, first I have to tell you that you and your daughters are so adorable! :-)  That's great that you survived yesterday candy-free!

I am so happy and amazed that I survived as well. I was surrounded by an obscene amount of candy, cupcakes, cake, and other sugary snacks at work. I am so grateful that nothing was calling to me. We did give out candy at our house but I made sure to buy all non-chocolate candy. Fortunately, skittles, lollipops, starburst, gummy candies, etc have never been tempting to me. We managed to give it all away so no candy was in the house. I don't have any children so I don't have to deal with temptation from more candy.

I'm just so grateful for my RNY and my new life. I've been sugar free now for over a year, and life is so amazing without the sugar addiction ruling my life. I know the sugar demons may try to rear their ugly heads in the future. But for now, I'm just so grateful.

Hope you all are doing well and have a great weekend!

Kim

Thanks!! I think my kids are the cutest things ever and I can say that without sounding too conceited because they do not share my DNA...lol.

Good for you!! You are such a success story!! And yeah, avoiding the sugar all together is the best plan. When I eat it I want more of it so I avoid it, too.

Have a great weekend, yourself!

Awesome job, Laura! You deserve to be an AW for that. ;-)

I've also tried to cut out artificial sweetners but it's hard because they are in a ton of stuff!

I did good these past few days and been back on plan for a few days now. Lost 3 pounds over the last 3 days so I'm happy with that and Halloween didn't derail me!

Thanks!!

Good for you on the loss!! Keep at it!!

It definitely is hard to limit artificial sweetener, but I know for me it made a difference. I am in another group on another site and there are a lot of whiners there who have had regain or never got to goal. I try to suggest they they at least try to limit them, but then they turn rude and tell me artificial sweeteners do not affect them. Well allrighty then. Nevermind!!