Eating Easter Eggs
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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?
What are your thoughts?
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All at once. Until I feel sick. Weight gain is minimal anyway from one massive Easter egg binge.
As in - not going to gain kilos from eating a *kitten* load of chocolate in one sitting until you feel sick and don't want to eat them anymore anyway.22 -
I’m planning a wonderful chocolate binge. Followed, probably, by taking the leftovers into work for colleagues to help with.8
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Boiled hen eggs last a long time and are good in green salads and soups
Chocolate eggs should be left in the sun or inside pocket while you sweat off an equal amount of extra exercise calories22 -
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 crazy8
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Chocolate, or boiled?
I’m assuming the former...
I prefer to have a small amount of something sweet nearly every day, rather than a large amount on rare occasion. DH brought me a big bag of Starburst Jellybeans from the US & I have been thoroughly enjoying them... 1oz at a time... for over a month now!6 -
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
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...2 -
Tell them thanks and give them away or throw them out if you're concerned about weight gain from the additional calories.
There's no law that says you have to eat all of them.
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I tend to be a eat a bit over time, fitting it into your calories person.
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I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist8
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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.1
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All holiday candy (Xmas, valentines, Easter, Halloween) has been going in a big bowl. This way i don’t have to buy desserts! I just take between one and three mini chocolates to go with my spoonful of peanut butter I usually have after dinner. I JUST finished the Halloween and Xmas candy from last year. Still have some valentines candy left mid-April and expecting an influx of Easter candy next weekend. I make it last 😂 also bring some to work as a mid-afternoon snack on occasion.5
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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.2
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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.3 -
A recent study (in some countries) showed that all those X - mas chocolate things left over, which haven't been sold are melted down and end up as Easter eggs in the shops again. Reason enough for me not to buy them / eat them.14
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neugebauer52 wrote: »A recent study (in some countries) showed that all those X - mas chocolate things left over, which haven't been sold are melted down and end up as Easter eggs in the shops again. Reason enough for me not to buy them / eat them.
I doubt it happens here, but even if it did, I always eat chocolate that has been remelted, like when I melt chocolate chips or chocolate bars for a recipe. Nothing gross about remelted and reshaped chocolate.16 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »neugebauer52 wrote: »A recent study (in some countries) showed that all those X - mas chocolate things left over, which haven't been sold are melted down and end up as Easter eggs in the shops again. Reason enough for me not to buy them / eat them.
I doubt it happens here, but even if it did, I always eat chocolate that has been remelted, like when I melt chocolate chips or chocolate bars for a recipe. Nothing gross about remelted and reshaped chocolate.
That's what I was thinking. While I doubt this is even true (picturing a room full of women in smocks and 50s hairstyles unwrapping mounds of foil wrapped Christmas chocolates ), tempering chocolate involves melting and cooling it. How is that gross or a reason not to eat it? It's not even as if Christmas and Easter are that far apart. I have chocolate chips in my cupboard that are older!17 -
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.3 -
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.4 -
I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist
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.0 -
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 :-)0
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