Halloween Holiday Candy Crisis Prevention

As most of you already know, yesterday was Halloween in the U S of A. We went trick-or-treating and managed to collect a ton of candy and junk food. Of course my daughter wants to eat all of it, but this time around she wanted to share her candy binge with me. That’s were things got ugly.

My favorite chocolate candy is Nestle Crunch. I used to buy the giant size bars and eat each square one by one. I would make sure to hold each piece in the same two fingers so that I could lick the melted remnants of it from my fingers once I finished the entire bar. Each bar must have contained 1000 calories or more. I have always loved eating chocolate, but alas, I must stop myself. I had to turn down my daughters urging binging demands. I felt weak at first, but was steadfast with my decision to not give in to the candy temptation.

I even had to remove myself from the room with all the candy. I went out to get some air and did some push ups. This sounds weird, but I was feeling like an addict being tempted with his favorite drug. I was getting flash backs of all the tasty Halloween candy memories I had had as a kid knocking on doors and getting M&M’s, Kit Kats, Crunchs, Snickers, and what ever else we were offered. I was the one to not really care about my costume, for me it was all about the junk food. I would usually consume a third to half of all of my candy booty the same night. Yes, it was bad. Now that I think about it, I even managed to sneak in a giant size Nestle Crunch into boot camp! My drill instructors didn’t even have a clue. I enjoyed that bar for weeks since I had to practice stealth and could only eat one square of it each night. It was well worth it.

So back to yesterday and my struggle. There was one point at which I almost caved in. We had just got home and my wife placed all of the candy on the counter. I looked at the nutritional facts for a fun size M&Ms plain and saw that it only had about 80 calories per 3 servings. All of which were bad. But 80 is not that much, especially since I was only planning on eating one bag, which would have made it 26.6 calories. I can burn 27 calories with my eyes closed. At that point I looked at my wife (she thought it was fine since I have been doing so well) and then looked at the candy, then I put it down and said, “No. It’s not worth it.” I said it out loud and my wife was proud of me. So was I.

I was confronted with one of my favorite temptations and managed to get through it unscathed. This was a check mark in the win column of weight loss. It also helped that we didn’t get even one Nestle Crunch bar. That would have made things turn out differently.