Eating Easter Eggs

82EC
82EC Posts: 123 Member
edited December 20 in Health and Weight Loss
Generous colleagues and family have been giving me Easter eggs. Just wondering how it’s best to eat them: small portions everyday for months on end or all at once over Easter and then work off the extra weight afterwards?
What are your thoughts?
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  • ceiswyn
    ceiswyn Posts: 2,256 Member
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    I believe there's actually an upper limit to how many calories your body can get through as far as storing the excess as fat, so I say go crazy :D

    I've actually been wondering about that, given that I don't seem to gain as much permanent weight from binges as the arithmetic suggests...
  • FinntheVeggie
    FinntheVeggie Posts: 74 Member
    I'd say a little bit of both! I have a somewhat large chocolate bunny that my mom mailed me, and I plan to eat it all on easter sunday regardless of the calories (I won't be counting anyway as I'll be enjoying a HUGEEEE homecooked meal with the extended family). Anything/everything else (candy/leftovers from said dinner) I will be mindful with and log over the following week or two.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I eat as many as I feel like eating and leave any ones left to the next day, then the next day if any are left, until I finish them. Some years they lasted a couple of weeks, other years they were gone in a day. I always set my calories to slightly gain during major holidays, anyway, and since I average my calories for up to a month, my high holiday budget allows me to absorb any major overeating streaks over time.
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    ya wheres your option to eat as many as you want. Theres eat a few for days or eat them ALL. Id say try to relax your mindset, Eat what you want. Going in with the mindset your going to eat it ALL cant be good and would cause me to binge. Your enjoying chocolate no need to make it negative.

    That said id eat it all until its gone slowly /not so slowly picking at it if its in my house i need to deal with that about myself or else ruin/ give away my snacks.
  • missysippy930
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    If they are boiled eggs, refrigerate and eat as desired.
    Chocolate doesn’t seem to go bad. I just ate a Halloween Kit Kat yesterday from my candy dish. I still have a few Christmas and Valentines chocolates left as well. Easter chocolates will join them this weekend and will be enjoyed one or two at a time and accounted for in my calorie budget.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    82EC wrote: »
    Generous colleagues and family have been giving me Easter eggs. Just wondering how it’s best to eat them: small portions everyday for months on end or all at once over Easter and then work off the extra weight afterwards?
    What are your thoughts?

    1. You are not required to eat any or all of them. You could give them away or toss them.
    2. If you want to eat them, you can do so in a way that does not cause weight gain. You can have chocolate every day in small portions that fit your calorie goal. It might be something to look foward to each day.
    3. If you eat all at once and exceed your calorie goal for the day you can eat lighter or exercise a bit more the rest of the week. Or plan to have a maintenance calorie week.
    4. I don't know how much you have but is it really enough to cause much weight gain? I'd guess maybe 1-2 lbs is the risk of eating them all at once along with regular meals. That is a big deal to some people but not others.

    I would eat a few a day or give them away.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    edited April 2019
    pinuplove wrote: »
    I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist :frowning:

    Yeah, no one ever gives me Easter eggs. To be fair they don't seem all that appealing to me anyway, but Easter hasn't been a big sweets holiday for me since I was a kid (we had Easter baskets). I'll probably make some kind of dessert for Easter dinner.
  • rachaelgifford
    rachaelgifford Posts: 320 Member
    My partner and I had limited ourselves to one egg each - except they were on 3 for £10 so we have one to share as well.
    I am going to try to be good and portion mine off - but who knows. If I eat less than half a shell a day I'll class it as a win :-)
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited April 2019
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist :frowning:

    Yeah, no one ever gives me Easter eggs. To be fair they don't seem all that appealing to me anyway, but Easter hasn't been a big sweets holiday for me since I was a kid (we had Easter baskets).

    Easter is a sweet holiday for us. Not exactly the classic shell chocolate eggs, more like egg shaped and Easter themed chocolate truffles. Actually, all holidays are sweet holidays lol. Friends and family visit each other and are served sweets (mostly chocolate) and coffee (and wine for Christmas). We actually have a weird unspoken system where some people go out to visit on the first day of a holiday and others go out the second day. You would spend the whole day visiting and go through maybe 10 or more households. Any visits after day 2 (if you couldn't visit everyone) need to be arranged through the phone to make sure people are home and accepting visitors. Sweets are basically served, not gifted.

    Long story short, after holidays we have all the leftover stuff we bought (or made, in case of Christmas cookies) plus many of the sweets we collect when we visit. I usually eat them very sparingly during the holiday (limiting myself to what we get from visits) to make sure we have enough for all the visitors, after that I get to eat as many as I want.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    I am still working on my Christmas stash, a few squares or pieces of chocolate a day can last a longggg time :smiley: I have no doubt my Easter stash will probably last until the end of the year...if it doesn't go out of date first.
  • littlegreenparrot1
    littlegreenparrot1 Posts: 702 Member
    I cannot leave chocolate alone if its in the house :D

    I have tried to cut it off at the source by asking family not to give me any, any gifts from others will probably be passed on.

    If I have it, it all gets scoffed at once!
  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    Chocolate creme filled easter eggs are amazing and apparently the ones in the UK are better so I'm jealous but also glad I don't have access to them.
  • lilithsrose
    lilithsrose Posts: 752 Member
    edited April 2019
    I originally thought that you meant hard-boiled dyed eggs. I was gonna say that I dye them and then eat them within the next week.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    ceiswyn wrote: »
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    I believe there's actually an upper limit to how many calories your body can get through as far as storing the excess as fat, so I say go crazy :D

    I've actually been wondering about that, given that I don't seem to gain as much permanent weight from binges as the arithmetic suggests...

    There's a YT channel I dip into infrequently which did a super deep dive into the math of one of those "10,000 calorie cheat days." She's a fitness type but also just got her PHD and is good on the technicalities. If anyone is interested I'll see if I can unearth it again.
  • missysippy930
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    RelCanonical wrote: »
    rhaiin wrote: »
    I originally thought that you meant hard-boiled dyed eggs. I was gonna say that I dye them and then eat them within the next week.

    I thought that at first too. Somehow I managed to survive as a child eating dyed hardboiled eggs that had sat out in my basket this week. I was not a smart child.

    I have 6 sisters. Growing up, we dyed 4 dozen hard boiled eggs at Easter, and we had them in our baskets until we finished them. Never refrigerated. I don’t remember any of us ever getting sick from them. I guess things change over time🙂🐣
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Are we talking about boiled eggs or plastic eggs with candy in them?? :D If we're talking about candy, my kids pretty much eat most of it. I typically put it all in a bag and eat a few pieces here and there...
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    missysippy930 wrote: »
    RelCanonical wrote: »
    rhaiin wrote: »
    I originally thought that you meant hard-boiled dyed eggs. I was gonna say that I dye them and then eat them within the next week.

    I thought that at first too. Somehow I managed to survive as a child eating dyed hardboiled eggs that had sat out in my basket this week. I was not a smart child.

    I have 6 sisters. Growing up, we dyed 4 dozen hard boiled eggs at Easter, and we had them in our baskets until we finished them. Never refrigerated. I don’t remember any of us ever getting sick from them. I guess things change over time🙂🐣

    The egg's shell itself, provided it isn't cracked, probably serves to keep bad stuff out. Not that I'd recommend it or anything, but I can see how you didn't die :lol:
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