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Ky.hen

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carolyn24seven    11

carolyn24seven
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Boo! have a spice tea. HEY, It just dawned on me, I have no craving for sugar at all. Me, the jelly belly, or, spice drop queen. wow, amazing, not even chocolate! Just wow.

I can not believe it, no candy corn, no mini snickers or hersheys. Does this last?

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Malaika    50

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We went to the bank yesterday and they gave us candy - 2 candy bars (mini-size) - Bearded ate the Hershey and I took the crunch - omg - it was so sickening sweet I thought I was going to gag -- I took Water and swished it around and around in my mouth to get the taste out -- I told Bearded -- DON'T EVER LET ME DO THAT AGAIN! I'm almost 5 months out and I still can't stand anything sweet -- I hope it lasts a lifetime!

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shanda7182    5

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Oh my gosh,

We bought candy today for the trick or treaters and the smell of the Snickers and Twix bars was soooo overwhelming. I know I have a keen sense of smell since surgery but I could literally smell it before I opened the large package that the mini candies were in! Gosh, it smelled so good, what I would do for just a bite of the candy....But I resisted and I will continue to resis (at least this Halloween) he he!:help:

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Malaika    50

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Oh my gosh,

We bought candy today for the trick or treaters and the smell of the Snickers and Twix bars was soooo overwhelming. I know I have a keen sense of smell since surgery but I could literally smell it before I opened the large package that the mini candies were in! Gosh, it smelled so good, what I would do for just a bite of the candy....But I resisted and I will continue to resis (at least this Halloween) he he!:help:

We must have bought the same bag of candy Shanda (well, not the SAME bag, but you know what I mean!) I gave in and took a Twix bar - I didn't even enjoy it so wasn't the least bit tempted to have another ... now Bearded on the other hand .......

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cajun    46

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I decided to not buy candy this year (maybe ever again) for haloween...instead I found cute little boxes of stickers in haloween colors. I rarely have any trickortreeters on my street, so usually ended up eating the entire bag of what ever I bought myself! Yikes. (not all in one sitting at least!). But this year, I'll be taking the left over stickers to work for the peds patients.

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Malaika    50

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I decided to not buy candy this year (maybe ever again) for haloween...instead I found cute little boxes of stickers in haloween colors. I rarely have any trickortreeters on my street, so usually ended up eating the entire bag of what ever I bought myself! Yikes. (not all in one sitting at least!). But this year, I'll be taking the left over stickers to work for the peds patients.

That's an AWESOME idea Cajun - I think I will look for something like that next year - all kids like stickers and they get so much candy it'll be a nice change -- thanks for putting that out there!

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