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Share your Tips for keeping Halloween Candy away from the lips and off the hips
Hi Botts,
Less than a wee****il the little tricker treaters will ring that door bell. I still dump on oil/grease but not sugar. So candy can be an issue for me. How do you keep from eating Halloween Candy?
1.) Buy only candy I don't like (yes there are some I don't like LOL)
2.) Buy sugarless gum
3.) Have spouse to give our candy
4.) Have spouse hide candy until 10/31
5.) Make sure you give out all candy
6.) If you have left overs give to neighbor kids that night
If you work in an office then you have to deal with all the left over candy that is brought in. Make sure it's far way from you if you can control that. Also take lots of high protein snacks you can nibble on when office co-workers are eating candy.
Shhhhhhh, I have (when no is looking) thrown it away in the trash.
Happy Halloween Botts!
Take care,
Kathy
Less than a wee****il the little tricker treaters will ring that door bell. I still dump on oil/grease but not sugar. So candy can be an issue for me. How do you keep from eating Halloween Candy?
1.) Buy only candy I don't like (yes there are some I don't like LOL)
2.) Buy sugarless gum
3.) Have spouse to give our candy
4.) Have spouse hide candy until 10/31
5.) Make sure you give out all candy
6.) If you have left overs give to neighbor kids that night
If you work in an office then you have to deal with all the left over candy that is brought in. Make sure it's far way from you if you can control that. Also take lots of high protein snacks you can nibble on when office co-workers are eating candy.
Shhhhhhh, I have (when no is looking) thrown it away in the trash.
Happy Halloween Botts!
Take care,
Kathy
HW:330 - GW:150 - MW:118-125
RW:190 - CW:130
I have three kiddos who will also be bringing in the candy too! So, in addition to waiting until right before the tricker treaters arrive and getting candy that won't be as tempting to me (non chocolate lol), we will be mailing our excess candy to a group that makes care packages to send to troops overseas! This is our first year doing it, and even the kids are happy about it! The kids will each pick out a sandwich baggie full of their favorites, to do with as they wish, and the rest goes into a package to be shipped out to The Soldier's Angels. Then they will add it to their care packages sent both to active troops overseas (in addition to boosting morale, the soldiers also hand it out to the local children in an effort to communicate and let them know they are their to help...candy is universal lol) and also to injured soldiers (in various hospitals). My kids learn about helping and sharing, and I have no temptations sitting around in the days ahead. Win, win! LOL If anyone else is interested, you can mail your candy to their warehouse in San Antonio Texas:
Soldiers' Angels Warehouse
4408 Pan Am Expwy.
San Antonio, TX 78218
Regards, HIGHEST / CURRENT / CURRENT GOAL / FINAL GOAL
Lisa 361 202 195 175
I can do all things through Him who gives me strength. ~ Philippians 4:13
Lisa 361 202 195 175
I can do all things through Him who gives me strength. ~ Philippians 4:13
I live in a kid friendly neighborhood and usually have between 80 to 100 trick or treaters. I buy the large bag of tootie rolls from Sam's Club and pass the bowl. By the end of the evening it is empty. I have had the bag in the pantry for 3 weeks now unopened. Does not bother me. Now, if that bag had been 3 Mustateers or Almond Joys, there could have been another outcome.
Tess
Starting Wt 306; Losing Wt 155; Goal Wt 145: Regain Wt 225; Current Wt 157
PS: FDL Tummy Tuck, Hernia Repair 5/17/12, TT Revision, Butt and Thigh Lift 4/18/13
I just don't buy or give away any candies. If they are not in the house - I will not eat them.
I go to the movies, to the gym, visit a friend or go shopping on that day. Come home after 9...
But - I will buy some for work people... the last day ...on my way to work... lol... and put that in a break room I do not go to..
I go to the movies, to the gym, visit a friend or go shopping on that day. Come home after 9...
But - I will buy some for work people... the last day ...on my way to work... lol... and put that in a break room I do not go to..
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
This is a very serious issue for me. In 2002 the week following Halloween I had a tiny blister on my toe. I attacked my kids candy. 2 days later I had cellutitis up to my knee. I went to the doctor weekly for months so that she could debreed my toe and ultimately saved my toe. I am a diabetic. I crash dieted from 276 lbs. to 167 lbs. over the next 7 months. Since then I do not keep candy, cookies, cake etc. in my house....ever. Family members must eat that stuff out of my house...at work or school. Halloween I have given out McDonald's gift certificates, microwave popcorn, Nature valley nut crunch bars, no sugar added cocoa mix etc. Kids actually like that stuff too. 
Happy Halloween everyone. Just me
Happy Halloween everyone. Just me 
I just completely fail at the whole thing. I do buy early so that I can catch the sales, etc. Can't give it to the hubby to hide as he would then sneak and eat it all. Perhaps I need to start waiting til the day to get it or hiding it in the garage somewhere so it won't be so easily accessible.....
Courtney 305/155/150/225 high/goal/low/current 
**The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat...Albert Einstein **
the savings you get by buying early are gone by the time you or your household eats 1/2 of what you get. That was me. one year. Then I checked how much candies I had left and realized that we ate 1/3 of all bought.
savings were 20%.... so at the end the candies for Halloween cost me more... lol.. not less... that and health issues...
savings were 20%.... so at the end the candies for Halloween cost me more... lol.. not less... that and health issues...
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
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