{"id":24987,"date":"2011-10-19T12:33:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=24987"},"modified":"2011-10-19T12:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:33:52","slug":"repost-how-to-survive-halloween-candy-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=24987","title":{"rendered":"Repost: How to Survive Halloween Candy Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time again.<\/p>\n

“Fun Sized” candies are everywhere. In the grocery store, in your house, at the office…So what happens when sugar and candy is your trigger food?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This has always been a hard time of year for me. I love candy. I love chocolate specifically. And Halloween, Christmas…those are all holidays that revolve around bagged candy!<\/p>\n

So what do you do to resist the temptations? Here are my tips:<\/p>\n

1. Out of sight, out of mind.<\/strong> Don’t keep the bowl of candy within reach or eyesight. If it’s packed away in the pantry and not noticeable, maybe you’ll forget about it.<\/p>\n

2. Buy bags of candy that you don’t like.<\/strong> I actually do dislike a lot of candy. Milky Ways, Twizzlers, Baby Ruth, Whoppers, chewy caramels…Yuck. On the other hand, I CANNOT have mini Butterfingers, 5th Avenue bars, Candy Corns, or Snickers in the house. Those are my favorites.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Skip the candy.<\/strong> You could be that house that passes out boxes of raisins or tooth brushes…but be prepared to have your house toilet-papered.\u00a0 Or fire-bombed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Buy less. <\/strong>Instead of buying a bunch of Costco sized candy bags, buy one bag and when the candy is gone go to bed. Sorry kiddos, this candy store isn’t open all night.<\/p>\n

5. Wait until the last minute to buy. <\/strong>Having a big bag of candy in the house for several weeks is just asking for trouble.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

6. Put some candy in a bowl on the porch and then go for a walk. <\/strong>You get some exercise, resist eating candy, and get to see the cute kiddos trick-or-treating.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Freeze the leftover candy.<\/strong> I used to put the remaining candy bars in the freezer and take one or two out at a time. Once they defrosted, some time had passed and I wasn’t going to gorge myself.<\/p>\n

8. Eat a big, healthy dinner before it’s time to pass out candy.<\/strong> Eat a lot of vegetables and food with fiber in it to fill you up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, don’t beat yourself up if you do indulge. Chances are the fun sized candy you ate was about 100 calories a pop so if you had a few it’s not the end of the world.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What tip or trick do you use to avoid overeating on Halloween?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that time again. “Fun Sized” candies are everywhere. In the grocery store, in your house, at the office…So what happens when sugar and candy is your trigger food? This has always been a hard time of year for me. I love candy. I love chocolate specifically. And Halloween, Christmas…those are all holidays that revolve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,75,1193,314,101,104,1684,1960,1683,1864,2663,152,154,193,194,258,298,3212],"tags":[3177,8817,1685,1793,8662,8837,2985,8758],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/trick-or-treat.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40482,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987\/revisions\/40482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}