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Tips to use now to avoid gaining weight on Halloween
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These should help keep you from "gobblin'" up too much candy:
1. Buy Halloween candy on Halloween. Even if stores are offering two-for-one deals on bags of candy, the amount of money you will save is meager. How much is a larger pair of pants going to cost you when you gain the candy weight? The savings don’t seem too sweet any more, do they? If buying last-minute is too hectic for you, place the candy in the trunk of your car and leave it there until the night you hand it out.
2. Buy candy you don’t like. I've never understood the idea of giving a gift to someone that you’d actually like to receive. Why torture yourself?
3. Don’t overbuy candy. It is better to run out of candy and turn off your light early than it is to be left with a huge bowl of candy that beckons. Decide what your “turn off” time is for trick-or-treaters. Fifteen minutes before that time, start giving out more candy to get rid of it. Leave any leftovers in a bowl on your doorstep.
4. Avoid “drive by’s”. Temptation can be everywhere, be it a bowl of candy on a co-worker’s desk to cupcakes at a preschool party. Your best line of defense is to avoid the location of the temptation altogether. E-mail your co-worker instead of dropping by her desk for a chat, or ask her to come to your office instead. Better yet, go for a walk and catch up at lunch. While at the classroom party, steer clear from that table of treats. Talk with other parents AWAY from the food. Be mindful not to do the opposite and talk while eating treats.
5. Don’t skip meals. If you plan to eat candy for dinner you'll be hyper, listless and hungry all within an hour. Instead, eat a normal meal, then eat a snack-sized version of your fave candy bar, or cut it in half. Make it dessert.
6. Take the kids trick-or-treating for at least an hour. Walk fast and cover a lot of ground.
7. Recycle your kids’ candy. An hour's worth of trick-or-treating means a lot of candy. Encourage your kids to dump some of their stash in the bowl and let them hand it out to older kids who drop by as it gets later. Little kids love this.
8. Let kids choose pieces of candy based on their age. For instance, a 12 year-old would get to keep 12 pieces. Send one or two pieces to school with them in their lunch every day until it's gone. If they only have a few pieces, it makes it super difficult to say, “Oh they won’t miss this one if I eat it.”
9. Treat yourself. Halloween wouldn’t be half as fun if you couldn’t indulge just a little bit. Before your kids recycle their candy, choose one of your favorites from each of their piles and set it aside for yourself. See? You didn’t have to go out and buy a bag of your favorites because your kids already had them waiting for you.
10. If you have leftover candy, donate it. Dental offices love to collect Halloween candy to donate to homeless shelters and assisted living centers. Other places include schools who collect to give to others.
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