EMAIL THREAD how will you handle Halloween? I used to really pig out with a lot of candy at Halloween, in my still very child-centered life: eat dozens of mini candy bars and other stuff. How are folks with this issue going to handle it this year? Thanks. Fri. Oct 24, 10:47pm

This makes me a big hit with the kids (yeah right!) but most years I give toothbrushes for Halloween. Actually parents laugh. It might be too late for thins year but ask your dentist if you add on a few boxes when they place their order. They buy in bulk and get a good price. Used to work in that industry. Another possibility is to give pennies. Not a bad idea given the state of the economy. Friday, October 24, 2008, 11:58 PM

I'm going to handle Halloween the same way I do every year, and the same way I deal with Christmas and Valentine's: waiting for a week after so I can get candy at 75% off. After all, if I'm going to gain weight, I don't want to be paying full price for it. Damn, EVIL Hershey, Mars, and Nestle... Seriously, I do think I will buy one of those giant bags and, since I've started a good workout program through PT I plan to stick to, I'll try to actually succeed at eating only one mini-candy per day, for the first time in my life. That will truly make me feel good. It's dangerous, as I've tried it before, and failed. So I might not if I haven't been following my workout schedule religiously this next two weeks. Saturday, October 25, 2008, 12:10 AM

STEP AWAY FROM THE CANDY I promised a group-mate that I wouldn't eat even one piece of halloween candy this year. Because I never can eat just one, and once the first one has been eaten, well, you know. And that's just the beginning of the candy season. Like I said to her, I don't want it to be January and regret all the junk I ate and the weight I didn't lose. Worse yet, I don't want to wake up New Years day ten pounds heavier than I was at Thanksgiving. For me, this year I am going to try avoiding the landslide. I will say that if my children were still small that might not be possible. In those days I would buy candy I didn't like, and wait till it was on sale that day so it wasn't hanging around the house, but nothing worked. So I say, Good luck! Saturday, October 25, 2008, 2:59 AM

I'm going to handle it the Beck way: No Candy - NO CHOICE!!! Saturday, October 25, 2008, 3:32 AM

3:32 - thanks for reminding me of Beck's point about choice! The struggle lies in wavering. I decide NO CANDY FOR ME!! And, really, this is all crap we can buy at any store 24/7 - it ain't special!! Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8:19 AM

Ignore it. It's not a real holiday anyway, it's just an excuse to eat candy and drink alcohol. Things I'm not into now that I have my new life changing plan. I'm not even buying candy to give out to trick or treaters. Saturday, October 25, 2008, 9:40 AM

I too will ignore it. Saturday, October 25, 2008, 2:46 PM

It doesnt tend to phase me much. I enjoy being generous to others and so I do buy candy to hand out, but I have good will power. If it is not mine then I dont touch it. And the candy is not mine, I buy it for others. I also find the smell of all that candy mixed together very nauseating. Whatever is left over will be consumed by my kids, their friends or I take to work. Saturday, October 25, 2008, 3:55 PM

I buy candy that I hate....less likely to eat it if it's not something I want. Sunday, October 26, 2008, 4:16 PM

I'm with the PP, I buy candy for the kids so I don't feel like I'm cheating them but I buy the stuff I could care less about like lollipops, taffy, gum, hard candy and stuff like that. No chocolate! Nothing to tempt me! My kids come home with their own bags and I would never take anything from them because they walked their butts off for it so that's not an issue there. They offer it to me but I usually have the willpower to just say NO! Monday, October 27, 2008, 6:56 AM

My non-candy Halloween will involve dropping "The Witches' Ball" from Lush into my running bath water. I might even paint my nails black (for the first time ever!) or blood red. That should help keep my fingers out of the candy bowl! Monday, October 27, 2008, 12:04 PM

I love giving out candy! This is a tough one for me, because I love the trick or treaters. I want to be the house that gives out the good candy, too. I counted my trick or treaters last year, so I will get just enough candy for them, with a small amount of back-up just in case there are new goblins in the nieghborhood. That way there will be no leftovers for me, but I can still participate. Monday, October 27, 2008, 12:19 PM

I love handing out candy too! but I won't have a single piece either. i'll have some dark chocolate to help with the cravings-- fruit dipped in choc. Monday, October 27, 2008, 5:00 PM

I always buy candy that I don't like, like Butterfingers and Reese's Peanut Butter cups. Trick-or-treaters seem to love 'em, which is great. Also, because I use my kitchen all the time and my living room relatively little, and because my SO is allergic to peanuts, I'm storing the candy in my living room. That definitely works on the "out of sight, out of mind" level. Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:29 AM

We are actually doing a new thing this year w/ our neighbors. This year we're opening our garage and spookifying it (ok I made up that word, but you get the idea), and having a table with a bowl of candy, some doughnut holes, cider, and "grown up cider" aka "spiked" for the adults. The kids come in, take what they like, and off they go. Next year it will be our neighbors turn. It's genius because it eliminates the back and forth to the door, and I'm not left alone with a bowl full of candy. I find restraint when in the company of others, and I won't be jamming 50 3 musketeers in my mouth knowing that my neighbors would be watching in horror!!!! Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:50 AM

I am sticking with tootsie products: tootsie roll pops & misc tootsie rolls. I don't go manic for them like to do chocolate bars, and the pops are only 1 WW point. Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 2:58 PM

by drinking a lot of red wine and then throwing out all the kids candy at night. I'll find a way of distracting them. I always do. Saturday, October 31, 2009, 12:02 PM

Halloween Candy Sugar is a no-no... It doesn't matter if it is Halloween, Christmas, a birthday... It is so unhealthy... I ate a half dozen Hershey's kisses, a couple of very small homemade cookies and twenty pieces of Indian corn (ugh... the absolute worst thing going... but very nostalgic for me...)... I spread the above out over Thursday, Friday and today... The past three days I have felt terrible... Like I have a very bad hang over and something else as well! I just thought, I feel like I have been mildly poisoned... Walnuts in the shell and tangerines... Now that speaks to me! Saturday, October 31, 2009, 3:40 PM

you are exactly right! Let's not give in to the "mood" and advertising, etc....I associate Halloween w/ hot dogs and Lay's potato chips.....a low fat way to indulge is Nature's Own white wheat hotdog buns and Oscar Myer 97% fat free wieners w/ Lays fat free chips...but I am not going to buy any of it because I will eat the whole bag of chips, and though fat free, the calories and carbs add up! Saturday, October 31, 2009, 4:29 PM

Staying Healthy On Hallowween I think what we did this year for Halloween was awesome! My husband took me out to eat at a very healthy place then he took me to a movie. He wanted to go to DQ after the movie and I sat and watched him eat a hot fudge sunday. Came home and watched World Series! Sunday, November 01, 2009, 12:43 AM

“watched him eat a hot fudge sunday” oh wow! props to you my PT friend. Myself “Not quite there yet” but reading everyone’s successes is so positively reassuring Sunday, November 01, 2009, 1:17 AM

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