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It is not like the temptation isn’t always there. Every grocery aisle, every gas station, every video store we go in has candy bars right there, calling out to me. But I never give in. I haven’t in years. I literally do not remember the last time I ever bought a candy bar.
But then Halloween comes and I lose all control. I go mad actually. I eat the sugar stuffed, calorie bombs by the handful – for days! I don’t just pick up one. No, I eat three or four at a time and yet I am still not satisfied.
I held off this year until the afternoon of Halloween. Then I just picked up one to taste. But one turned into four and many have followed since.
The excess around my stomach – a little spare tire of flesh – warns me that my sin has serious consequences. Usually that little reminder is enough to keep me sane. But it doesn’t have enough power to deal with the Halloween temptation – tons of candy bars, delicious chocolaty wafers and chewy caramel lingering in my house, waiting to be eaten.
Sometimes I go for the over-eating, nauseous effect. Maybe if I eat so much that I feel sick I will be done with it until next year. But it doesn’t work. Four or five hours later the urges resurface even stronger.
I could throw it out – all of it. But somehow that seems so wasteful. (As if putting unnecessary food in my body isn’t wasteful!) And what will I do with Jackson’s bag of it. He would notice if it all went missing.
I wonder if there is a twelve step program for treat size candy bars…
Ok – here is the plan. I will get Jackson to go through his and choose out some of his favorites. I will go through the other leftovers and choose out a few more for me and Phil. And then the rest is going in the garbage! I think I’d rather the landfills get fat instead of me.
What about you? How are you doing with the Halloween leftovers?
dawn says
Re your comment to me: I tend to carsickness, too, but the ship was so smooth, you hardly knew it was moving. I didn’t have a moment’s discomfort.
claire says
I was at the supermarked last week buying Halloween candy and it occurred to me that all I had to do was pick candy I didn’t like, which meant anything that wasn’t chocolate. Haven’t eaten one. Of course, it took me about forty years to have this “duh” moment…
KellyC says
We don’t do a lot of trick or treating, so we never have a whole lot to start out with. That seems to be the best plan for us. Our kids finish it off easily within a week.
I liked Shannon’s (Rocks in my Dryer) idea, too – Freeze it!
Christie says
Oh boy I understand! We took our 6 month old out for Halloween, and you know as well as I do that that candy isn’t for him, it’s for us! But I’m on the wagon, trying to eat healthy because I’ve got some serious baby fat to lose. So I’m sending the candy to my brother-in-law in Iraq. I am proud to say I haven’t touched a single snack-size candy except for one. This is the first time ever! Now I’m hungry.
dawn says
I totally understand! I usually buy candy I don’t like so I won’t be tempted – didn’t work! I ate it anyway. And at work yesterday it was ridiculous! This just starts the frenzy from now through Christmas. I wish I had good answers!
Jennifer, Snapshot says
What a great application! You are so right that the bite sized nuggets are so easy to just stuff in. And I really love the application that putting excess food into our bodies is just as wasteful as throwing it away. That is so true, and throwing it away doesn’t have the ramifications that eating it does.
samantha says
Ahh…the horrors of halloween candy! I seperate my kids’ candy. Suckers and hard candy in one bag; chocolate in another; chewy stuff in yet another. I then tell the girls that they are allowed 2 pieces a day, after school (they are only almost 4, so 2 pieces is plenty in my opinion!). I put the chocolate in the freezer, so it gets really hard, and I’m not so tempted, I put the rest of it up really high! I’m not much on candy, but boy oh boy do I love chocolate! My husband takes the hard candy to work with him, because he is a painter, and he also smokes. Some of the new houses cant be smoked in , so he’ll pop a piece of candy 🙂
Fiddledeedee says
“I’m livin’ large. I wrote a post about this very subject today”, she types, as pieces of Almond Joy fall from her mouth onto the keyboard.
Laura Peric says
I wasn’t going to do it this year. I wasn’t going to buy any halloween candy. We don’t give out candy since we live in a basement apartment and our door to the outside world is attached to a garage. I don’t know about you, but I don’t enjoy hanging out in a smelly old garage waiting for kids to come take all my yummy, yummy candy away. So yeah, no need for us to have candy lying about…and then they put the stuff on sale the next day!! Can you believe it, it’s like they’re totally out to get my resolve not to get the stuff…I admit it, I caved, I bought the hundred or so box of chocolate bars. I was so fiendishly happy with my purchase, that my husband and I both sampled each type of chocolatey goodness..ohhhh yummmmmmm! And you know what I did this morning? I had a banana and an Aero bar…mmm I love the bubbles…Hmm, don’t you wish that if you ate something healthy that it would cancel out the bad stuff in junk food?!
Faerylandmom says
We went to our church’s festival, and “lucky” for us, all of the candy games were too advanced for our toddlers, except one. They each got one piece of candy from that, but we accidentally (no, I’m not lying) left the candy there.
*shrug* The kids didn’t even notice!
Barb says
A huge part of maintaining a good weight has always been my rule of not eating after 7 p.m. But right after Halloween I take leftover candy bars to BED with me. How’s that for disgusting? I read somewhere this morning about a mommy out here who lets her child have some of the candy and freezes the rest of it to use as stocking stuffers. That would help you out, right?
Nikkie says
I stash away candy. I’ve always been good about not over eating it, or eating much of it. I put it away for that time of the month when a little treat keeps me sane. With it out of sight it doesn’t get eaten fast.
Diana says
I don’t mind most of it being in the house, but the chocolate stuff…. mmmm… watch out! LOL!
Susanne says
Instead of throwing it in the garbage can you give it to the food bank? I can ususally resist if it’s a kind I don’t care for like the caramel kind but look out if it’s a coffee crisp or skor. but I have to say I am way worse with stuff like potatoe chips.
Jessica says
Candy…my husband is tempted by it more than me…but I like it too! LOL
Adventures in Babywearing says
I guess this is when I am thankful that I can’t have dairy (due to baby’s allergies)- this is the only time in my life where I CAN’T cheat!!! But, I feel your pain and extra flab… been there done that too many times!!
Angee says
I could have wrote that post!!! I never eat sweets – but if there is a bowl on the counter I cannot control myself.
I have no problem throwing candy away, lol. Usually though, I let the boys pick out a few pieces then I have DH hide the rest (where I cannot accidently happen upon while I am cleaning!!!) and then he occasionally pulls it out on a movie night and he and the boys have at it. It makes the evenings a little more special for them. The boys love that!!
I was reading on your site yesterday (somewhere) a suggestion to take the candy that does not have a halloween wrapper and freeze it for the Christmas stocking.
I thought that was a really good idea.
Janet a.k.a Wonder Mom says
Ugh…I’m the same exact way.
I can go all year without candy but then Halloween comes rollin’ around and I’ll chew your arm off for a Hershey’s bar.
The Treadmill is gonna whelp when I step on it this week.
Cheri says
Our school has a fundraiser in the middle of November. From 1-10 November, kids bring in all the candy they don’t want, then the PTSA runs a Candy Gram fundraiser where the kid can pay to send encouraging messages and a piece of candy to other students/teachers/workers at the school. Hey, I’ll trade in that candy any day for that!
Gattina says
Reading this, I am lucky I don’t like sweets so much only occasionally.
The cat pill story was almost true, only my husband didn’t brake his arm and the firemen didn’t come. That was my phantasy ! Don’t worry it’s fun !
Kilikina says
yeah my baby is too young for candy so I don’t deal with that yet…