Well halloween is over, and we have a month to work up the willpower to turn downs the pies, shurk the candy, and memorize correct portions.

I think I did okay, treat wise. I had 2-3 small candy bars and a sucker, not too bad.

How'd you fair up against the candy giant?

And what are your stratigies for maintaining weight loss thorughout the holiday season?

I managed to stay away from the candy all together. Although yesterday I went on a rampage looking for leftover candy but didn't find any luckily!

Last holiday season I maintained, so I am not too worried this season. Since I have more time off school I get to workout more, so it works out well! Last year I just ate what I wanted on the actual holiday days and left it at that! It worked well for me.

I had a couple of pieces of sugar-free chocolate. Oh baby, were they good! They were truffles from the local chocolate shop. I'm pretty proud of myself considering it was Halloween and TOM. Hee, I did have to put sticky notes with angry faces and the word NO on the few pieces of leftover candy.

And as for the feasting season... I have no idea how I'm going to deal with that. I'm hoping some of ya'll will have better ideas!

I didn't eat any candy this year. I've been without candy for so long, it just didn't sound good to me.

As for the holidays, I don't really pig out. I am a little worried about this Thanksgiving, though. We normally have a low key meal without all the before-hand snacking. This year, however, we're going to some relatives of mine that I haven't seen in 10+ years. They're all overweight, so I can only imagine the goodies they'll be serving. My 5 month old and 2 year old will be keeping my hands full, so I doubt I'll be able to eat much of anything We're staying at home for Christmas, so no worries there.

I caved a little. They had skittles, m&ms and tootsie rolls at work, and those are my faves, so I had some. Mmm...so good.

I'm usually lenient on holidays. I eat well for the nonessential meals, and then I just let myself eat the rest of the meals. That doesn't make me feel as bad, like someone else has already said.

I had a toostie pop candywise and that was it. No major sugar cravings.

For the holidays, since I will have more time, I am going to extend my workouts to burn some extra calories. I am going to try and stay on plan before and after the actual day and then on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's will eat whatever I want. As for the annual cookie making weekend, Saturday evenings are my splurge meal, so cookies for dinner one Saturday.

I did eat a lot, and I keep eating. It's funny but everytime that I get sad I keep eating

i say...eat whatever u want....as long as it fits in ur calorie limit....always count calories even for those little itsy bitsy hard candy drops....

lets just say ive been battling with my sons candy bucket and im not sure which one of us won... The buckets empty and im full sooo yeah... lol... well the good thing is most of the candy is gone. My son still had a fair share (hes only 2 so i didnt want him to have TOO much). im just feeling extra guilty XD

I discovered that not allowing myself is a big mistake. I allowed in moderation, and I'm okay. I have enough trouble struggling with those days that I slip-up, that worrying about the holidays isn't on my agenda. I also discovered that if I surround myself with people, I'm less likely to slipup. It's always harder for me to let other people down than to let myself down. In the past I've always been used to letting myself down, so I go quietly in to the night. But when I slipup infront of (soontobe)DH or MIL, I feel bad because I know that they know what my expectations of myself are. And I'm a chatterbox, so it all works out!

This Christmas (being the next major holiday up here in the cold north) I will just bring my measuring cups, my measuring spoons, and making sure that I don't completely fill my plate. It's okay to have a little of this, and a little of that, and instead of sitting down to watch a movie (being away from my side of the family this year, that is usually our tradition), the (soontobe)DH and I will just out for a walk, or build a snowman, make snowangels, something, anything other than sitting and letting it all pack to my hips and arse!

Overall, I feel good that I didn't totally binge like every other year! Especially with all the left over candy we had! We only had between 15-20 kids come by this year!!!

~Mande