how to cope with Easter?

I say just eat in moderation and log in everything on MFP. Good luck!

I am going to eat a whole chocolate easter egg, and I am going to enjoy it all

Nothing like self control :laugh: :drinker:
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I'm going to enjoy it and not worry! It's just one day out of the entire year. I have been eating my Easter eggs in bits for the past two weeks, so I probably won't have too much left by Easter Sunday. But I plan on feasting at our Easter Sunday dinner and eating ALL the desserts.

There was a similar thread yesterday and a few people suggested breaking them up, keeping some to eat, then freezing the remainder?

I usually get one (which I don't eat) and my son gets about 4 or 5, which he tires of very quickly so I used to bring the rest into work (where they disappeared very quickly!) or use them in baking.

I plan to eat chocolate, make not-too-terrible food choices, enjoy some time with family and move on.

Ignore it ... tis .... meaningless to me.

I'll be buying my boyfriend a chocolate Easter egg, but that will be the extent of the Easter 'celebrations' as far as I'm concerned. Not expecting to receive any eggs myself, and we're not having a big family meal or anything like that. I think Easter hype has died down an awful lot over the years; or maybe it's because I've got older and stopped believing...

Chocolate is available 365 days a year so why the compulsion to eat it on one particular weekend?

You could always eat a real bunny instead of a chocolate bunny.

I got my Easter Rabbit, broke it into a gazillion pieces, got out my scales, weighed it into 30 grams lots.

160 calories for a treat every few days, makes it last for ages, tastes better than eating it all at once

And not missing out on Easter.

Score on every front

I'm flying to Paris this Saturday for holiday and even if I live in the UK and can see the chocolate madness around me, I'm Spanish and we never used to do chocolate or big meals for Easter so... it won't change. I'm going to substitute chocolate for proper French cheese and red wine :drinker: :drinker:

I also gave up chocolate for Lent - will have small amount on Easter Sunday.
Am going away for Easter weekend - will log everything as accurately as possible - might go over calorie allowance some days but I log it anyway and then move on.

So, I don't know about where you are but in Australia, Easter is just a never ending supply of chocolate and big lunches and dinners.
How are you going to cope with it? Are you going to log/or not? Or maybe go for a 10 mile run after lunch?

Any ideas would be great because I am totally freaking out about it right now :ohwell:

There are temptations around me each day, Easter is no different. I have a dinner planned. Turkey, veggies, rolls for the family, potatoes for the family. I will have turkey and a salad. Dessert is cake. I will have hot cocoa with whipped cream and pecans. They can have the candy; it doesn't serve me; it only makes me eat more and then hate myself:/ I don't wanna feel that way. Plan ahead; that is the very best thing you can do. For those whose bodies CAN process it, a few pieces of candy---go by the serving size, will not be of harm to you. I gain weight rapidly and just choose to back away from all of it. Log accurately and try to get a workout in early in the morning or in the evening. Orrrrrrr………work out on Friday and saturday, used Sunday for a recovery day, and back to the working out on Monday.

Easter in Canada, it's chocolate, big family dinners, lots of food, lots of chocolate.

So basically just a normal weekend for me.
I log everything, including my daily chocolate.

Not logging it doesn't affect anyone but you.

Enjoy the little things, moderation is key!

I told everyone to not buy me any eggs, and if they have them, don't offer them to me.
Also, I have enough willpower to not eat them

I say don't log for a couple days and eat whatever you want and then go back to the "grind". I find it more unhealthy worrying about food during holidays than eating some chocolate for a couple days a year!