Surviving Halloween

AlanaTedmon
AlanaTedmon Posts: 105 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
For some reason suddenly I turned into a food zombie a little bit ago. It became very clear to me that every piece of chocolate existing in my apartment needed to be eaten. I've come back to my senses finally and I thought I'd feel super guilty about it but I don't.

Chocolate is delicious and wonderful and I think it should be allowed on Halloween.

I hope everyone gets to enjoy a guilt-free sugar high too. Just for today!
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  • cmsgrant
    cmsgrant Posts: 22 Member
    For the first time, I am distributing treats that are not sugar!
  • AlanaTedmon
    AlanaTedmon Posts: 105 Member
    cmsgrant wrote: »
    For the first time, I am distributing treats that are not sugar!

    You're going to get teepee'd!!

  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    AlanaTedmon wrote: »
    cmsgrant wrote: »
    For the first time, I am distributing treats that are not sugar!

    You're going to get teepee'd!!

    And egged!!! :s

    What will you be handing out @cmsgrant?
  • strangewebby
    strangewebby Posts: 72
    I'm the candy giver this year and am currently sitting next to a pretty large selection of chocolate treats. I can go months without candy bars but if someone puts a selection of miniatures in front of me they might lose a hand in my haste to get some. So far I've only stolen two and I don't feel guilty, ask me at the end of the night when the supply is dwindling...
  • nikiduddy
    nikiduddy Posts: 9
    out of curiosity what are you handing out for treats that are not sugar?
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    cmsgrant wrote: »
    For the first time, I am distributing treats that are not sugar!

    This would be the house to skip or TP
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    strangewebby wrote: »
    I'm the candy giver this year and am currently sitting next to a pretty large selection of chocolate treats. I can go months without candy bars but if someone puts a selection of miniatures in front of me they might lose a hand in my haste to get some. So far I've only stolen two and I don't feel guilty, ask me at the end of the night when the supply is dwindling...

    You'll be handing them out :"One for you, one for me" to every trick or treater ;)
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    I e eaten more than my fair share!!

    So glad these kids will be taking it. I'm giving the last one EVERYTHING that is left. :grinning:
  • iwillthistime1988
    iwillthistime1988 Posts: 25 Member
    I am not only a food adict but a chocoholic ....rediculous to some...but everyone has an addiction..weather its chocolate,sports,tv,potatoes chips,fb,movies,video games.,exercise etc.....I have gone to my husband's AA meetings n find that most of them turn to amother addiction (cigarettes)--I find it hypocritical....but if im going...to break down in an addiction...I preffer chocolate... yummmy..
  • Ruzuki
    Ruzuki Posts: 136 Member
    Oh, tonight isnt my problem. Trick or treaters dont come to my house anyways for some reason (I guess they learned that the previous people at this house dont have candy...)
    Tomorrow is going to be the problem when I go shopping and the candy is all on sale. I told myself I can buy ONE bag of fun size twix and have one or two a day...
  • tchell99
    tchell99 Posts: 434 Member
    This is the first year I remember that I haven't bought any candy corn. Because I will eat half a bag at a time. No moderation at all.
  • pinksyringes
    pinksyringes Posts: 21 Member
    Staying in and watching Frankinweenie. I don't like chocolate.... :neutral_face:
  • mike_ny
    mike_ny Posts: 351 Member
    I haven't eaten much all day knowing I'd be having some candy tonight. I know I'll go way over my limit on carbs, but calorie-wise I should be OK. If I do go over, it still won't matter much over the course of the whole week. One bad day out of a week or two is really no big deal, but a few days can end up being a disaster.

    I do low carb cycles and do a high carb re-feed day every week or two, so today is my high carb day. Tomorrow is back to lower carbs again and definitely getting a good workout in.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    cmsgrant wrote: »
    For the first time, I am distributing treats that are not sugar!

    blasphemer…

    let me guess…sugar free gum????
  • AliceDark
    AliceDark Posts: 3,886 Member
    cmsgrant wrote: »
    For the first time, I am distributing treats that are not sugar!
    Halloween Grinch much?

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  • HereLieWe
    HereLieWe Posts: 233 Member
    I took that into consideration and budgeted my calories so that I could gorge on candy guilt-free...

    turns out I still feel pretty guilty about it
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Yay its chocolate night!!!
  • AlanaTedmon
    AlanaTedmon Posts: 105 Member
    Lasmartchika wrote: »
    strangewebby wrote: »
    I'm the candy giver this year and am currently sitting next to a pretty large selection of chocolate treats. I can go months without candy bars but if someone puts a selection of miniatures in front of me they might lose a hand in my haste to get some. So far I've only stolen two and I don't feel guilty, ask me at the end of the night when the supply is dwindling...

    You'll be handing them out :"One for you, one for me" to every trick or treater ;)

    Lol!!
    One for you, one for me.
    One for you, two for me.
    Half of one for you, three for me.

  • AlanaTedmon
    AlanaTedmon Posts: 105 Member
    HereLieWe wrote: »
    I took that into consideration and budgeted my calories so that I could gorge on candy guilt-free...

    turns out I still feel pretty guilty about it

    Yeah, I decided to take the Oatmeal route for tonight.
    Did an hour of crazy intense Elliptical machine workout and insanity and then went and bought reeses!
  • AlanaTedmon
    AlanaTedmon Posts: 105 Member
    edited November 2014
    MrM27 wrote: »
    Amazing how just 1 week apart the same person creates a thread about the awesomeness of Atkins and how easy it is to do now a we love candy let's eat all of it. You've come a long way in such little time.

    You're still a sarcastic jerk who adds nothing to the many threads he lurks around!

    I can be on the Atkins and be allowed Halloween candy for a day.
    Go be obnoxious somewhere else.
  • myheartsabattleground
    myheartsabattleground Posts: 2,040 Member
    You can't survive halloween when we're already dead.
  • AlanaTedmon
    AlanaTedmon Posts: 105 Member
    pinksyringes wrote: »
    Staying in and watching Frankinweenie. I don't like chocolate.... :neutral_face:

    But but chocolate is sex you don't have to shave your legs for!!
  • AlanaTedmon
    AlanaTedmon Posts: 105 Member
    tchell99 wrote: »
    This is the first year I remember that I haven't bought any candy corn. Because I will eat half a bag at a time. No moderation at all.

    Actually, I'm with you there, I didn't bother with candy corn this year. I learned my lesson last year.
  • AlanaTedmon
    AlanaTedmon Posts: 105 Member
    Wow. This thread actually awarded me some hate mail.
  • Linnaea27
    Linnaea27 Posts: 639 Member
    I heartily agree, chocolate is a fabulous invention! I adore it. I would have eaten more had I not had mulled cider which put me over my calories for the day! :s
  • 7elizamae
    7elizamae Posts: 758 Member
    It's dumping huge massive rain here, so I'm going to have a lot of candy leftover...

    :o
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    The Power Ranger who got a whole shopping bag full of candy was speechless! It was so cute! His dad laughed.

    Poor kid couldn't carry his bag after that. :)

    But it's out of my house, which was necessary. :)
  • sunburntgalaxy
    sunburntgalaxy Posts: 455 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    The Power Ranger who got a whole shopping bag full of candy was speechless! It was so cute! His dad laughed.

    Poor kid couldn't carry his bag after that. :)

    But it's out of my house, which was necessary. :)

    That is so cool. We actually tried to do something like that on purpose (bought 1 big bag to give to one poor kid who had to trick or treat on their own - usually we have one like that) and I think it was way too cold so we had a few big groups and that was it. So not only do we have all the regular left overs we have the special bag left too (every time we try it we don't get a kid like this, and when we don't we get a couple that would be perfect - I think we are jinxed). That kid is going to be back to your place next year for sure.
  • mike_ny
    mike_ny Posts: 351 Member
    edited November 2014
    Well, my numbers are in for the day and even with eating 12 snack size candy bars out of the Halloween bowl and a couple glasses of wine, I only went 98 calories over my target calories, still running a deficit, but only around 150 instead of 250.

    12 candy bars? For me, that's an awful lot of sugar, but then I compared it to what many people eat daily and it really wasn't much more in total calories, carbs, and sugar than a couple bowls of Honey Nut Cheerios with vanilla almond milk and a glass of orange juice. Tomorrow it's back to about 25 grams of sugar total for the day and I won't even want to look at a carb.

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