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What Is Your Halloween Strategy?

Alex Brecher

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Alex Brecher    10,516

Alex Brecher
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Happy Halloween! And now, to the important part: candy! More specifically, how are you going to avoid it this year? It can be staring you in the face at home as you get ready for trick-or-treaters, and at work as your coworkers bring in their leftovers.

How are you going to pass up the sweet stuff this year? Are thoughts of weight gain, dumping syndrome, and guilty feelings enough to keep you away? Or do you need some more tangible strategies? Maybe you hand out a type of candy that you do not like, or arm yourself with a stash of frozen grapes to satisfy your sweet tooth during the evening.

What are your plans this Halloween, and how are you going to “be good?” And, just for fun…what did a typical Halloween look like before WLS?

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emardee    192

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candy was never my thing (although I would cheerfully blow up a busload of nuns for a bag of potato chips). So around here, the bag of candy from costco is still in the trunk of the car and it can/will stay there until Monday late afternoon when the trick-or-treaters come out.

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Fredbear    397

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Ever since I stopped drinking Diet Coke earlier this year, there's no appeal to candy. It doesn't even register as a foo d, so it's really easy to ignore.

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Dairymary    533

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Taking my grandkids to the corn maze and then trick or treating and gonna steal some of their candy like I always do. A couple mini chocolate bars and Peanut Butter cups certainly aren't going to do any irreparable harm.

Typical Halloween before surgery wasn't nearly as much fun. My husband wasn't much on dressing up and going to parties, so we usually just stayed at home and passed out candy.

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this sucks    557

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I'm happy to say that the candy will not be an issue for me this year. I am a little shy of two weeks post op so there will not be any choice about "staying good". I'm thrilled to get to start puréed tomorrow-that's my Halloween treat

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Dub    10,018

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Easy time for me this year. Working night shift.

Son is going over to friends house.

Wife is planning on keeping the front lights off and not entertaining trick or treaters.

No candy laying around the house.

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sc101071    398

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Just don't want any. That's much different than pre-surgery.

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theantichick    2,204

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Turning off the porch lights.

Hubby and daughter are trying to eat healthier with me, none of us need the bags of candy sitting around after. :) I'm finding that even if I think I want candy, it doesn't taste as good as I thought it would, so one or two bites, and I'm done.

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KeepCalm    223

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Should be easy for me - didn't buy any candy for trick'r treaters cause I won't be home - I'll be working lol delivering pizzas for PJs, which is gonna be busy because Texan's won last night AND its all Hallow's Eve.

Roommate woulda just ate the whole bag anyhow if I had bought some - and well he's not exactly the passing out candy kinda guy *shrugs*

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
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