Like Kitty, the pledge helped me control the potential damage that would have been done sans pledge (in 2007 & 2008 I totally abstained, dunno what was different this year?? Why did I make different choices?). Great job to all who abstained or who moderated intake! I have 2 almond joys and 1 butterfinger last night. Today is November 1! Halloween is over and the candy is dead to me! Dead to me!
I'm ready for a new month and to start thinking about Thanksgiving. I'm packing healthy food for work today and it's good cause I'll be in a controlled environment.
The cookies I made, though, for my daughter's party. . .I didn't do so well. Too many cookies yesterday! Suffering a well-deserved sugar hangover today. I make really good cookies. . . so good they are evil. . .EVIL I TELLS YA!!
I've recommitted to my healthy food and fitness plan today.
I think next year I will start a thread for no Halloween cookies. The no candy thread helped me; perhaps a no cookie thread will work the same magic.
I didn't have any halloween candy. I honestly wasn't interested ... much ;-)
I did make a big batch of blueberry-oat cookies the other day, mostly for my husband to take to a work presentation he's giving. Had one Friday night after dinner (counted in the day's calories) and it was good. Froze what was left (not much) for us to take one here and there.
I think the real challenge may begin for me now - Halloween is over but one of my roommates always brings home lots of sale candy to share - MUST SAY NO even though Halloween is over!
No candy eaten. We had no candy, no kids, so home is safe (and I froze the rest of the cookies after our party on Friday). I'm hoping no one brings leftover candy to work - ha! fat chance of that!
Made it, no candy eaten. Halloween night wasnt great (There were french fries involved) but 0 candy. On to Christmas - stay away from me festively wrapped Hershey's Kisses!
I didn't *quite* make my pledge. I said I would only eat Halloween candy on Halloween, but I ate some Sunday too. The rest of the bag came to work today though and is safely out of sight in the break room, along with the cookies we had left over from our Halloween party.
Total damage isn't much. I'm only up 1lb today from Saturday's weight, which is my normal weekend water gain. I think this calorie cycling business is working pretty well for me.
I kept repeating to myself the maintainer's mantra: holi-DAYS, not holi-MONTHS. While I admit my Halloween turned into 2 days, I'm proud of myself for not squirreling away candy to eat over the next week or two.
Not perfect, but huge improvement over last year. Would have to guess less than 10 pieces. Have to guess because journaling did not happen as faithfully as it has when I was losing - gee, could there be a correlation there?
Well, so far I did pretty well...I had those 5 "fun size" pieces (400 calories total) I told you guys about the day before Halloween, and then "it" happened. "IT" was really weird. Halloween day I was getting my healthy snacks ready for the party we were attending that night and for some crazy reason, I reached for another bag of M&M's. My DH & DS were standing there when I did it, so I felt better not eating it in private. They didn't say anything with the first pack but when I opened the 2nd one, my son started to get worried...he said "Mom what are you doing??, look at the clock!!" I glanced at the digital clock on the microwave and it said...3:33. (My starting weight). Spooky. I put down the candy and haven't had another bite.
he said "Mom what are you doing??, look at the clock!!" I glanced at the digital clock on the microwave and it said...3:33. (My starting weight). Spooky. I put down the candy and haven't had another bite.
We had no candy, no kids, so home is safe (and I froze the rest of the cookies after our party on Friday). I'm hoping no one brings leftover candy to work - ha! fat chance of that!
