Tips for Halloween

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Today is the day.... Halloween.

 

  A day completely devoted and focused around SUGAR and candy and chocolate, and kids in cute little costumes.

 

If you've been focusing a lot on healthy meals and feeding your body with nutritious foods, today can be a little... tricky and frustrating right?

So I did some research to maybe help you out a bit.  If you are truly wanting to stay on track I have a few tips for you and some things to think about before you dive into that bowl of candy.  Because remember, today will become a yesterday and just ask yourself, how do I want to feel tomorrow?

 

Okay so here's some tips that I have found that might be helpful if you want to stay on track and not do too much damage in one day.  What to splurge on, what to avoid and some tricks to prevent turning today into a full on Sugar Fest.

 

• Buy your candy at the very last moment - When you need it.  I just bought mine yesterday, but what I used to do was buy it a week before.  That candy would be in my house and we would totally have that bag or box broken into and eaten by the end of the week.  Do yourself a favour and avoid the temptation all week by shopping for candy at the last minute.  Hey, you may even end up with a discount!
• Choose a nut-filled piece of candy over gummy bears or licorice.  The later is made up of just straight sugar.  At least with the nut stuff, it feels more substantial and you've got some fat and protein in there.  When eating just sugared candy, there's no fat or protein so when your blood sugar drops back into the normal range, you're going to feel more tired and sluggish and will feel like you need MORE sugar to get a boost.  The cycle continues
• Eat dinner first.  This might be obvious but it's true.  Make sure you've got a healthy dinner in you before reaching for candy.  If you're starving and the first thing you're eating is candy, you are going to over indulge.  After dinner pick your top two favourite pieces from the bowl and eat them SLOWLY.  Savour each bite. 
• Stick everyone's candy in the freezer.  After the kids bring home treats there's excessive amounts of candy in your home.  Sometimes it helps if it's just completely out of sight and not convenient to get at.  This week we will allow our kids a couple pieces a day, and then it will go into the freezer for next week.  After after 2 weeks, we dump it.  Just because we have it, doesn't mean we need to consume it all, the fun was in the actual event of going out there in costume and getting it.  The kids will have picked their favourite things over the next two weeks and then it can get out of the house.  Lets be honest too, our kids don't need to have daily doses of sugar either right.  They have growing bodies that need NUTRITION.  With it being away and in the freezer, out of sight, we can forget about it.  When it's out on the counter day after day, week after week, right in your sight, you're going to eat it. 

 

Thought I would share our little munchkins pumpkin carvings this year.
Minion, Spiderman, Kitty <3

The biggest trick of all? “Fun-sized” candies. They might seem innocent – after all, you can devour them in a single bite! But that makes them devilishly easy to consume in mass quantities, and before you know it, you’ve eaten two king-sized bars worth of chocolate.

 

I don't want to put a downer on things but I do want you to know the facts. 

 

Keep yourself in check this Halloween by putting candy into perspective with how much exercise it takes to burn it off. Although exercising doesn’t eliminate some of the issues that come with eating mass quantities of refined sugar, it can help you better visualize what you’re eating.

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