I just have to say this....WHY MUST THERE BE CANDY EVERYWHER?! hahaha I'm telling you, its everywhere I look...and taunting me. I have done sooo well staying away from sweets and sugar (60lbs since 5/20!) but I just don't know if I can hold strong till halloween. hahaha one of my clients brougt me a "goody bag" yesterday...more like an "everything in here is naughty bag". oh goodness. I need to go put on my blinders.....

Not sure what to do this year about candy. I live in a very rural neighborhood with only like 8 kids. First two years I bought a box of full size candy bars from Costco. I don't want to be that old witch on the corner! Last year NOBODY came. ZIP. Returned my unopened box to Costco. Last Easter I had a bag of Snickers on the counter that sat there for 3 months. I wanted to toss them figuring they were stale. My mother said "You are not throwing those away." She brought them to her church's fellowship hour. Not sure if they were stale or not!

Wouldn't you know my kids just got "boo'd" so now there is candy in the house plus I have to go buy candy so she can boo three other kids:mellow:

Wouldn't you know my kids just got "boo'd" so now there is candy in the house plus I have to go buy candy so she can boo three other kids:mellow:

LOL, okay "outside", what do you mean by your kids got "boo'd" and why do you have to buy more candy so your kids and "boo" other kids???? LOL I've never heard of this, but it sounds fun -- for the kids -- lots of candy to be bought. LOL

Please explain. :smile2:

To be boo'd is when a bag of candy and note mysteriously shows up at your front door (dropped off by a neighbor kid who sneaks up, knocks and then run away like their pants are on fire before you get to the door). Along with the bag of candy is a note explaining that you have been "boo'd" and you need to in turn "boo" three other friends. There is also a picture of a ghost to hang on your door to let other kids know that you have already been "boo'd".

:smile2:

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Must be a southern thing.

I have been a little bad, I must confess. I had a couple of the mini candy bars on Friday, and Saturday then last night and today! I only had one or two but I really wanted more! I know I am getting ready to enter "that time of the month" which is the hardest time for me because I want to eat everything in site! I know I was bad for eating it, but I have been doing well, and I keep thinking I'll just have to walk an extra 1/2 mile tonight! I just have to remember that everyone has a time when they get off track, and before my surgery I wouldn't have rebounded. But now I am diffrent and I will get right back on that track! So for those of you who have "cheated" don't fret and freak out, get right back on that track and keep going!

OMG...Halloween candy sounds so good! I came home last night and a Reese's cup was staring me in the face, it took all my will-power to not just take one little bite. I didnt do it, but I am not going to lie, I was so pathetic, thats what I was thinking of when I went to sleep. But I didn't do it, I keep telling myself that I didn't go through the pain of this surgery just to ruin it. Although my nutritionist did say that once a week, a small treat won't hurt. Eventually I will treat myself to something, I am just to scared to do it now. I feel like an alcoholic...one day at a time.

Would you say cut some slack to a person who brought in alcohol when there was a recovering alcoholic in the house??

I'm not saying they can't eat it, there's plenty of places other than the house they can have it.... just don't bring it home.

I do the same thing.

There's lollies and junkfood stashed around the house now because I've asked everyone to hide theirs.

There's no shame in trying to help yourself.

We're lucky to live in Australia where it's not as big here. I turned the music in my living room up so I couldn't hear the door. I'm sure there was only a couple of them anyways.

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1 King Size chocolate candy bar (Snickers, Hershey, etc.) 500 calories!!!

GEEZ LOL.

I wouldn't be able to eat any of that stuff - it'd send me into a sugar craving spiral of doom.