When I was growing up, I don't recall there being the abundance of Halloween candy there is now. This week many of my clients have come in with food journals peppered with a mini O'Henri bar here a mini Twix there. Some days even a lovely sitting filled with 5 mini bars of some sort. It's like little mini things don't count the way a whole chocolate bar does.
Well you're kidding yourselves! Chances are that you're eating more than a whole chocolate bar a day if you decided to be VERY well prepared for Halloween and stocked up a month before the hallow-day hit. And our friendly neighborhood stores know you're just waiting to be duped and live in denial that in fact you're buying those treats for the little ones that you may or may not even open your door to. And if you are going to open your doors to trick or treaters and you bought all your candy well in advance, you might find you're racing to the store to buy more because you ate so darned much of the stuff.
Now here comes the goods. I am one of you...but I have a better excuse. I didn't buy candy thinking it was for Halloween. I had a pinata to stuff and all of the candy didn't fit so I had leftovers. And I shamefully confess I ate four mini smartie packets, not even good chocolate. Yuck and when I woke up I was ashamed of my food fuck up because I should know better. I'm the one who coaches people towards self control and look at me! Smarties!
So what's the solution here? Don't have it in the house. Don't buy it until the day before Halloween. Don't get sucked into the Halloween candy extravaganza. And mostly, don't kid yourself that you are the master of self-control and put it out in a huge bowl just waiting to be picked at daily. Now, I'm going to go and curl up into a little ball and weep about my inability to walk the talk.
Be good!
Jane
www.urbanfitt.com
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