No Good Ever Comes Out of Buying Halloween Candy A Month Early

Halloween is a double-edged sword for me. I both love it and hate it. I love it because it’s great fun living in a small town and trick-or-treating with my family and a group of girlfriend‘s families. I hate it because I have enormous difficulty not consuming vast quantities of those little candy bars. I was at a relatives this weekend and there, sitting on the kitchen table, were 3 opened bags of Halloween candy bars. She had them all…Snickers, Milky Ways, Babe Ruth’s, Twix, and the ultimate evil… Butterfingers. I could feel my willpower slipping away. I am a serious chocoholic but I’m usually able to restrict myself to small portions of dark chocolate, sugar free pudding, or protein/fiber bars while I’m doing WW. I decided to let myself have a couple and checked out the back of the bags to figure out which ones would do the least amount of damage. Apparently my favorite, Butterfingers, are so delectable because they’re chock-full of extremely fattening deliciousness. I ended up with a Twix, a Milky Way and a Snickers. Because these were just bite-size (bite-size for who?) and not snack-size (which are actually closer to bite-size ), they calculated to 1 point each. I would have loved to just dive in, but I knew that the regret and disappointment I’d feel after definitely wasn’t worth it.

Well, I made it through my first weekend since being back on WW. All-in-all I did pretty well. I even attended a baby shower today but luckily, the mother-to-be is a strict vegetarian and they decided to serve soups along with cheese and bread; there wasn’t a fatty-dip or fudgy brownie in sight. I went for the vegetable soup instead of the creamier soups (although I did have a tiny taste of the potato leek and it was exquisite) and only had a nibble of cheese. I was even able to turn down the pumpkin cheesecake when a piece was actually placed in my hands. I opted instead to have a cup of coffee. That, in itself, was a super-human feat for me; I love me some cheesecake!

Now if I can just get off my ass and start exercising.