Halloween and Your Weight Loss Plan

I guess since I run a blog about weight loss, I feel a little obligated to talk about the mother of all candy holidays – Halloween.

I have no doubt that there are hundreds of sites giving you all the same advice on this. Stuff like: only buy the candy that you don’t like or ask your co-workers to keep their candy hidden away and out of your site at work. While that is not bad advice this takes all the fun out of the whole event.

Remember when you were a kid and couldn’t wait for Halloween night. The excitement and the planning involved. Who you were going to go trick or treating with and which streets you thought would give the best candy etc…

I say get that excitement back and lose the Halloween stress by planning for that 1 day. Allow yourself to indulge a little and enjoy some of the Halloween treats. Plan for it though. What I do is commit to a number like 7 pieces of candy for that day which is roughly 700 calories.

At lunch and snacks that day I might cut back a little on the amount of food I have or for the week leading up to Halloween I will cut back by 100 calories a day. You can also increase your workouts by 10 – 20 minutes to accommodate the increase in calories. By planning in advance I can enjoy some candy with the kiddie’s guilt free.

Halloween is 1 day. If you can’t resist the temptations or work this holiday into your diet/weight loss plan then how are you going to handle Thanksgiving, Christmas, your birthday, office parties, vacations etc… You can’t avoid life events.

As far as handling the actual candy I have 3 tips:

1. Before Halloween keep the Candy in the trunk of your car. Bring it inside when you get home from work on Halloween night.

2. Give it all away that night. Don’t have any left in your bowl; if you do leave the bowl on your porch (it should be empty in the morning).

3. Avoid Wal-Mart for the week following Halloween. They have left over candy on sale for up to 80% off the regular price.

How do you handle Halloween? Does it stress you out?

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