No Easter Candy Pledge
 

Anyone in?

:easter::bunny2::bunny::easter3::egg::easter2:

The hardboiled eggs will be fine. The, um, Reese's eggs are not.

No Easter junk food
 

Count me in. I've been tired of seeing Easter candy in the stores since Valentine's Day.

No chocolate eggs. No marshmallow eggs. No jelly beans. No HFCS.


[But maybe a small square of high quality dark chocolate to celebrate such celibacy.]

Me too! I bought one candy item for my granddaughter, the rest of the basket will be filled with toys. Neither one of us needs it.


edit: Woops! how'd I get in maintainers!

Hey, Suzanne, if I'm here, ANYone can be here! It's all in the wanting to not regain, IMHO, not necessarily in the successful action of not regaining alone. But what do I know? :lol:

I'm in!

Saying NO to all of it is so much easier for me. Even my beloved Peeps (5 years and COUNTING).

I'm in, too.

Yes, even to Jelly Bellies. Those would happen to be my personal downfall. I ate them one by one, to savor the individual flavors, but I ate them all day, for hour after hour after hour. I shudder to think what that nearly IV-line supply probably did to my blood sugar.

Count me in!! :wave:

And Midwife -- what do you know? You know lots! And you hit the Maintainers nail on the head. We're delighted to have you, Suzanne! :)

Count me in! I bought peeps last year, I thought i was going to just eat one a day. Well I didn't eat any at all and 5 mo. later I ended up throwing them away. So I didn't buy any this year cause I won't eat them anyway. I can do this!

I'm buying myself flowers instead of candy this Easter.

Dagmar :bunny:

Oh, and the spring flowers are so beautiful! Ranunculus in so many colors! Lilac! Lilies!

I'm up for this!

I got the family some of the cutest little Lindt chocolate bunnies and chickies. Argh! I haven't touched any unplanned sweets for many months,and Easter is a potential disaster...

Count me in. I'm not a maintainer. (Still have a long way to go.) But I am definitely not indulging in the Easter candy this year. My dad always buys me an Easter basket filled with candy and eggs. So I have already asked him to please not to. Instead I have planned on getting a new workout outfit. The sweat pants I have been working out in are huge. I can use the draw string to make them tighter but the legs are so baggy it's probably not safe to be on exercise equipment in them.

So, anyway, I am not going to eat Easter candy this year. I will probably go to church etc. but no candy for me. The candy just isn't worth getting off my diet.

I'm using the run-roll-dodge technique I perfected last month while avoiding tables of little :devil:s selling thin mint and samosa deliciousness (er, girl scouts) to avoid the Cadbury egg displays at the end of the aisles at CVS. I don't even like Cadbury eggs that much, why do they hold such a draw? Why are egg-shaped snickers so much better tasting? Why are pastel-colored peanut m&m's so much yummier? I've avoided CVS entirely for the past 2 weeks, and will keep it up! I'm not eating sweets anyway right now, but I don't need the extra temptation.

I'm going to my friend's son's 2nd birthday party this Saturday. She has made the theme an Easter egg hunt. I will only eat the real eggs (she has chickens so the eggs are plentiful!), no candy.

I'm in, but I'm in with a guilty secret. I bought my (adult) son some Easter candy and then I had a stress breakdown and ate it this past weekend. So I will buy him ONE piece of chocolate (because he's not even that crazy about it) and I will have no more Easter candy this year. I took a long, hard look at the Cadbury eggs the other day but did manage to resist buying them. Those things are my downfall.

So....count me in. No jelly beans, no pastel M&M's, no chocolate bunny, no Easter candy of any kind. I will allow myself one small slice of my Mom's cake (white with sticky white icing) for after dinner, and that's it.

Count me in, too. I did this last year on 3FC and it worked like a charm. Even told my family that I had taken a no Easter candy challenge. I could tell they were watching me to see if I would keep to my word. That helped motivate me too because I didn't want to not do what I said I was going to do. My hubby loves jelly beans. I bought him a bag last weekend and helped him scarf it down. That's the end of the candy. No more going forward. I mean it!

Pam

I am sooooo in...just because it's a holiday doesn't mean I have to succumb to poor eating choices and pay with the sugar-lows and instant belly fat!!

Here's to a healthy Easter Sunday 2010!!!

I'm in for a modified pledge. I pledge that I will not eat more than TWO (2) Cadbury eggs and ONE (1) small chocolate bunny. Everything in moderation, right? ;)

Yes, yes, yes. I am maintaining a 27 pound loss, and I will not go through another relapse. No jellybean is worth it. I'm in!

I'm doing good so far! I have not had any Easter candy this month! Of course, it's not in the house, so that makes it easier.:bunny2:

The only candy I have had is those soft peppermints... Not too many, but I am trying to quit smoking, so I use those as an aid.
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I'm not in maintenance but I am taking this pledge too!!!

Yay! I've been candy free! :carrot:

Gosh, taking the pledge really helped keep me from mindlessly taking a chocoloate egg here or a jelly bean there. I am so relieved to have made it through the holiday without going overboard on candy/food. I know if I had started and had even one piece, it may have started me off on a bad road of overeating/gaining for a few days or even weeks. I feel great today! Thank you for starting the pledge!!!
Pam

It could have been a lot, lot worse. I was fine all weekend. Today of all days, I broke the pledge. It's gone, it's over, and I'm moving on. :)

I have done it so far - not one bite. There is still some in the house, but I'm staying away from it. And the birthday cake.

I'm proud of myself, believe me! Let's hope I last until it's all gone. :)

Good grief. I took the pledge. I avoided all the heaps of candy at the stores. I avoided all the offered candy. No candy came into my house. Made it to noon Easter Sunday.

When two teenage friends were in a verbal tiff about whether the pink jelly beans were too hot to be consumed. Asked me to referee; so I popped three jelly beans. Completely forgot they were candy and I wasn't doing candy.

No, they're quite spicy, but not too hot to be consumed. Teenagers leave chasing whatever the next thing was on their mind.

I guess three jelly beans for the season wasn't so bad - but I'm annoyed that they slipped in my mouth so easily.

I was right on track with my plan -- small amount of chocolate bunny & 2 creme eggs.

Until my aunt unexpectedly mailed us a solid chocolate bunny from the specialty chocolate shop near her place in NJ. I think DH and I ate about half of it last night. I have the willpower to avoid bringing sweets into the house, but once they're in, I can't resist. And it's from the special shop all the way in NJ! How could I throw it out? :p

Well, my announcement was premature. About 2 hrs later, I ate a mini kit kat in a pink wrapper. Perhaps it was a Valentine's kit kat? Bill, it was kind of auto-pilot for me, too.

Old habits and all.

Could have been worse. I hate that motto, but it's been close to my nutrition/exercise choices lately.

I may not be out of the woods yet... My mom, whom I didn't see this weekend, has an Easter basket for me at her house that she is saving until she sees me next... If I don't get it until Mother's Day does it still count as Easter candy? :dizzy:

I had none. Nothing. In spite of being alone in a hotel room that night with my mother's opened bag of Jelly Bellies lying right on the kitchenette counter, with the beans spilled out in a colorful array. I moved myself away & tried not to look at them. I thought of having one & decided that was a bad idea. I never stop at one. I had an orange & took a long time peeling it, getting the pith off it. Then I brewed a cup of decaf & drank that. Then it was bedtime.

I made it through and even have tons of candy left over...thank God this year I just don't want t!! i have been working out so hard and recording everything I eat so I just don't want to blow it!!

This never ends, does it? Today at the grocery store there were shelves full of leftover candy, marked down. Even the Cadbury eggs. I rolled my cart past & actually had a physical memory of biting into an egg & my mouth being flooded with creamy goodness. (Oh dear. This sounds so sexual. :-O) I kept going. I didn't buy anything. I'm vulnerable to sale items. It comes from my frugal family & particularly from my mother ("How much did you pay for that? Was it marked down?"). But I kept going. And my mind was soon on other things.

I'm happy to see this is the first year I didn't indulge. My daughter's sugar sensitivity kept me away.