I have been giving this some thought. We are a trick or treat family, we all get into it. I cook a special dinner, one of my late gramma's specialties, have family over, my husband hooks up the stereo in the garage so we can have scary Omen music playing, we put a graveyard up in the yard, dress up the doggies, and we hand out THE BEST candy! Trick or Treat is a major celebration for us!! Woo WOO!!!
I have decided that I will have 2 (snack size!) pieces of my very absolute favorite candy, and be done with it. And I'm not counting into my calories for the day, either. I'm going to have my usual meals (which I love and fully satisfy me), and then I'm going to have a treat. Let's just hope that I can keep this promise to myself, or I may have to rethink it next year. But I'm confident.
Edit -- BTW, I think it's going to be a Reese's cup and an Almond Joy.
I agree with every word EvilGidget said! Hi, I am goal4agirl and I am a candy- chocolate junkie! If I had one small amount of candy I would be like a mad woman!! When I go into the stores now the candy bags are everywhere. I have to know what I am going into the store for- make a plan and walk as fast as I can through there. I try not to look or think as I am walking. I am doing deep breathing all the while. My husband does not get it, he thinks I am a crazy woman. He keeps asking what is wrong? I tell him there is candy. He says so? He is a full person all the time. He weighs 170 Lbs. soaking wet. He doesn't understand this candy is calling me. All it will take is one piece to start a huge binge with me. Thank you for letting me vent. This is how I feel about candy
We live in an apartment that gives you a piece of paper to hang on your door if you are handing out candy. We discussed it and decided that it simply isn't worth the temptation for me to have candy in the house.
I bought the candy, brought it home and put it in little treat bags along with the other little goodies I bought for trick or treaters. Then I closed those and put them in the bucket we're putting outside our door on halloween. I was left with about 3 mini pieces of candy, which I split with my kids.
The real test for me is going to be when my kids get back from trick or treating with all that candy...
I'm not even bothering this year. I live in a neighborhood that has a lot
of houses and is well lit so people drive in their kids from other parts of town. I get hundreds of kids I have never even seen before. Last year I was new to my healthy way of life so saying no was easy. This year - not so much. My friend and her 2 kids moved out of the neighborhood, the neighbors and their 4 kids moved and the ones across the street are late teens now. I don't have kids - so I called my parents and said hey want to have me and hubby over for dinner? So I'll be trick or treating for baked ham and homemade baked beans and coleslaw. Not necessarily diet food - but better than candy. But they said we don't get our treats unless the dog comes in a costume
I've had about 10 bags of candy I picked up on a good sale in the house for almost a month now, and they're still unopened. I'm proud to say I'm just not that tempted by them. A couple years ago, I ate so much halloween candy (before I started getting healthy!!) that I broke out in hives for days, ended up having to be treated with steroids. I finally linked it back to chocolate. Just chocolate. We found I'm mildly allergic to it (doesn't stop me from eating it), but I had consumed so much in a short period of time that it caused a more severe reaction. I'm VERY careful with chocolate now! At that time, I was probably eating 8-10 snack bars spread out over the day. It makes me sad to even post that, because it's recognizing how unhealthy and out of control I was.
My sister is going trick or treating, she doesn't like skittles so I'm getting all her skittles, putting them in a bag, and giving them to my mom to hide. If I want some I can ask her. Because I LOVE skittles.
Oops, sorry if I don't "belong here" I never actually look at where I'm going- I just reply all over the place without realising it.
I'm avoiding it by living in Japan, lol. Halloween isn't such a big deal here, though there are all sorts of ADORABLE pumpkin shaped chocolates everywhere. At my special ed school this Friday the kids are making cookies.
I suppose I'm at the point in my regimen where I know having a couple pieces of candy won't kill me or stall my progress. I just compensate for them the next day/the rest of the day.
I LOVE the idea of buying candy I hate!
Let's see...
licorice/twizzlers
root beer barrels (anyone remember those?
gum drops
skittles
jelly beans *gag*
anything banana flavored
I live in an apartment complex that doesn't do trick or treating in the complex (the first year I bought two bags of candy, had no kids, so I ate it all myself) so I don't have to be around it as much. I am going to my mom and dad's this weekend and will hand out candy there, but none for me. I'll be fine, candy is a completely off-limit food for me and I've accepted that this year. Every time I have that small twinge of missing the candy, I remind myself that this isn't the last Halloween ever, there will always be more Halloween candy. And if not, they sell the same stuff in regular packaging at every store (not that I am going to go buy it).
A few years ago, my family gave out little party sized playdoughs. It was a huge hit and no candy in the house to eat. My old neighbors always give out glow necklaces, which is also a huge hit. It's fun and healthy (even though none of the kids thought of it as being healthy).
We live in the country too, so no trick or treaters; I don't buy candy. My kids go trick or treating, though, and they'll share their Coffee Crisp, Wunderbars, and plain chips with me, but I hoard their little treats. :lol
Halloween takes a CRAPLOAD of willpower, IMHO. Especially to NOT buy the 1/2 price candy on Nov. 1
I, too, live in an apartment that doesn't welcome trick-or-treaters, and there are fewer than five children living in the whole complex, so I don't need to keep candy around. This is a holiday that I can pretty much safely ignore, except for store displays.
Just haven't bought any. We'll get halloween pencils or something this week to pass out to the kids. I know I won't eat any pencils.
Besides, I promised myself something better than the kiddie candy typical of the holiday and so far I'm holding out for a good green & black.
Though I've been ignoring holiday candies for a few years now -- with practice it isn't a big deal any more. I remember how hard it was when I started.
When I go into the stores now the candy bags are everywhere. I have to know what I am going into the store for- make a plan and walk as fast as I can through there. I try not to look or think as I am walking. I am doing deep breathing all the while.
My husband does not get it, he thinks I am a crazy woman. He keeps asking what is wrong? I tell him there is candy. He says so? He is a full person all the time. He weighs 170 Lbs. soaking wet. He doesn't understand this candy is calling me.
All it will take is one piece to start a huge binge with me. 
