Beware Easter will be hear sooner than you think!

Merkavar

i haven't been watching what I eat long enough to have had to deal with easter.

What do you guys do or suggest I do.

Not sure about everyone else but for me I normally get some small chocolate eggs, a few larger ones and 1-2 rabbit or bilby.

If you celebrate Easter and generally get chocolate do you guys eat it and just go over for a few days, eat a little bit for days or weeks as a treat and stay in your limits or do you give it away or even throw it away and not eat it.

Just curious.

I will probably just eat a little bit and try to stay in the limits.

Misshelgeson

I share my treats with my two children that way I don't eat too much and I do more exercise or cut back on a meal like no mashed potatoes if I want a couple pieces

shadow2soul

Easter, will be a day where I will probably go over and I'm perfectly fine with that. It happened on Thanksgiving and on Christmas. You know what though, I still lost weight, because I didn't let the single day events turn into weeks.
I will also probably end up with left over chocolate around the house. I won't be avoiding it, I'll just leave room to have a little bit everyday after Easter till it's gone. I also won't object if my husband or oldest son want some (youngest is too young for chocolate..no teeth yet).

Wiseandcurious

I have Eastern orthodox upbringing so for me Easter has nothing to do with chocolate. It's traditionally rather a protein feast actually - lamb roast, lots of (hand-coloured) boiled eggs Yes, it will be high calorie and high fat. Yes, I will thoroughly enjoy it, I plan to eat at maintenance for a couple of days (until we finish the lamb roast).

auddii

Can't wait; it means Korean bbq!

CrabNebula

I don't plan to eat more calories than normal on Easter. Just another day, but with a tasty lamb roast. I may have a Cadbury Creme Egg. That's about it.

nicsflyingcircus

For me, easter means glorious glorious ham and probably devilled eggs! My kids are all about the candy.

jenncornelsen

most holidays i keep my favorite one or two chocolates then give away or...toss the rest. i ask people to not give me any. well don't always listen! with 4 different gatherings for each holiday not going overboard is a challenge

KarenB927

No little kiddies in the house and my granddaughter lives in another state, so I'm saved from the chocolate fest. My husband is partial to lamb, so if I can find a nice small boneless leg of lamb, I'll make that for dinner for the two of us. I would rather go out to an Easter buffet somewhere, but since being diagnosed with celiac disease a couple years ago, a buffet has too high a chance of cross contamination and I can't eat the desserts anyway, so why pay for food I can't eat. I might make a nice gluten free cake or maybe gluten free chocolate chip cheesecake, that way I can freeze it in slices and not get stuck eating it for days on end after Easter. But we will probably go into the next town to the chocolate shop and splurge on a little chocolate. We go maybe twice a year and get a half pound each. Gotta have some good chocolate once or twice a year, right?

JordisTSM

Meh. It shouldn't be a drama. Easter should not be an excuse to pig out. I will be doing an egg hunt for my daughter like I do every year, and will get a few cadbury creme eggs for myself. However, I will build one egg a day in to my calories.

cosmo_momo

My 21st birthday is on Easter Sunday...so needless to say I probably won't log that weekend. (More so bc I'll be distracted, not because I'd be ashamed)

go2grrl

I eat about an ounce of dark chocolate a day so don't feel the need to stock up at Easter. We do, however, have a tradition of going out for deep dish pizza. Once a year and we're done. Enjoy your holiday!

LAWoman72

Can't wait for my white chocolate bunny, cross or lamb (whichever I can find)! I leave room each night for chocolate anyway, so there will be room for my Easter chocolate too.

azulvioleta6

I'm not sure that I understand the problem here.

Does your religion mandate the consumption of candy?

arditarose

The easter bunny stopped visiting me around 13 years old so...non-issue. I'll eat the same amount of chocolate that day as I do every day.

ana3067

Why should I beware? I think I only JUST finished my Christmas chocolate, and I still have valentine's day chocolate. Gotta love getting new chocolate stashes, and for all I know my Easter stash will last me like 6 months LOL

Christine_72

My kids are grown, and don't have grandkids yet. So I don't have to worry about Easter

Christine_72

azulvioleta6 wrote: »

I'm not sure that I understand the problem here.

Does your religion mandate the consumption of candy?

I was wondering the same...

booksandchocolate12

I'll put together a basket for my daughter. I'm sure she'll take the contents back to college with her, so I'll have nothing here to tempt me.

marissafit06

We do lamb for Easter as well. However, the Cadbury chocolate eggs have been out for over a month and I have already started to indulge.

Merkavar

azulvioleta6 wrote: »

I'm not sure that I understand the problem here.

Does your religion mandate the consumption of candy?

You don't have any traditions that involve the consumption of larger than normal amounts of food?

No large Christmas lunch? No thanksgiving dinner? No birthdays?

Just about every celebration/ tradition that I'm involved with seems to involve food, and normally food that even in small amounts adds up fast and can cause you to go over.

Like Easter, wouldn't take much chocolate on top of lunch to go over for the day.

So I was asking what others do, seems some give away or throw away chocolate while others eat a little.

Sure you could not eat the chocolate, I could also not celebrate Easter at all but where is the fun in that?

Christine_72

Chocolate has got nothing to do with Easter. Unless you have little kids that enjoy the easter egg hunt, like mine did

arditarose

christinev297 wrote: »

Chocolate has got nothing to do with Easter. Unless you have little kids that enjoy the easter egg hunt, like mine did

Yes.

There are no kids in my family, so no easter baskets filled with chocolate.

runningforthetrain

Usually Easter chocolate is milk chocolate- which I don't like- I find it easy to throw out or give away. I eat a little dark chocolate practically everyday.

Christine_72

christinev297 wrote: »

Chocolate has got nothing to do with Easter. Unless you have little kids that enjoy the easter egg hunt, like mine did

Or it could be a great excuse to stuff your face with chocolate

lemurcat12

Merkavar wrote: »

i haven't been watching what I eat long enough to have had to deal with easter.

What do you guys do or suggest I do.

Not sure about everyone else but for me I normally get some small chocolate eggs, a few larger ones and 1-2 rabbit or bilby.

If you celebrate Easter and generally get chocolate do you guys eat it and just go over for a few days, eat a little bit for days or weeks as a treat and stay in your limits or do you give it away or even throw it away and not eat it.

Just curious.

I will probably just eat a little bit and try to stay in the limits.

I do a fast on Good Friday and found last year that I ended up under for the week even with the Easter extras. (I fast for religious reasons, not dieting, obviously.) I just didn't go totally crazy with either the Easter feasting or the chocolate. I did eat some chocolate (and rack of lamb and a fancy Easter brunch)--I've celebrated the food elements of every holiday during the year I've been losing weight.

tibby531

tell me about it! I've been stalking up on cadbury eggs since they hit the shelves the week before valentine's day. I'm hoping to have a large enough stash to tide me over to have maybe one a week until the halloween ones hit the shelves. same stock-up plan is in effect for russell stover eggs. I'm pretty sure after this, the holidays become more bbq-themed, so... I have to stock up while I can. time is of the essence!!

also debating picking up one of the tie-dyed egg-coloring kits once they go on clearance. they look purdiful.

lemurcat12

azulvioleta6 wrote: »

I'm not sure that I understand the problem here.

Does your religion mandate the consumption of candy?

Anyone who has not read the David Sedaris piece on "the rabbit of easter" really should:

http://casadelogo.typepad.com/factesque/2005/03/the_rabbit_of_e.html

zyxst

I work any chocolate into my daily goal. Easter isn't a huge chocolate/sweets day for me. Halloween otoh...

lemurcat12

Easter is really more of a strawberry and rhubarb pie day for me (along with lamb, yum, and devilled eggs, and sometimes these lemon and lavender cupcakes) than chocolate, because I don't have children. Last year my compromise was to do some chocolate because I didn't want to make a pie that I wasn't sure I wanted to eat, but I'm now totally up for it. Can't wait.

I also do always get roped into a post Easter Vigil party at my church that has lots of chocolate and alcohol, but I don't drink (I usually bartend) and am too picky about sweets to find most of what's on offer tempting, so makes it easy.

Merkavar

christinev297 wrote: »

christinev297 wrote: »

Chocolate has got nothing to do with Easter. Unless you have little kids that enjoy the easter egg hunt, like mine did

Or it could be a great excuse to stuff your face with chocolate

Or it could be a tradition that has been around for years. Chocolate and Easter have been connected as long as I have celebrated Easter. That's like saying presents have nothing to do with christmas.

Sure 1000 years ago they might not have celebrated the same way we do today but traditions have to start somewhere.

Anyway I'm not religious, so Easter is more about a family get together, a BBQ, chocolate and throwing eggs at a cameraman.