Manage Your Halloween Candy Cravings

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With Halloween around the corner, you might be gearing up for a fun-filled week of costumes, parties, and treats, all culminating with a sneaky invasion on your child’s Halloween stash! Don’t scare your diet away this season with all those spooky high-calorie, high-sugar candies! To help you tackle this fall celebration, here are five helpful diet tricks for managing Halloween treats.

1) If you haven’t purchased your Halloween candy yet, wait until the very last minute to get treats so you won’t be so tempted to open the bag early! Waiting for Halloween can really haunt your diet with all that candy just sitting around.

2) A great way to manage your cravings is to quite simply get candy that you personally don’t like. When I was a kid, I always picked out the Candy Corn and rock-hard taffy, whereas if I had anything chocolatey around, I’d really have to practice self-control! Choose something you don’t like and you’ll be less likely to want to dig in to the candy dish before, after, and during the holiday.

3) Put Halloween candy in cupboards and drawers out of reach and out of sight to tame your candy cravings. If you can’t see it, you won’t think about it, and you can worry about more important things, like perfecting your Halloween costume!

4) When Halloween night finally happens, trade in those mini candy bars for healthier options, like individual dark chocolate pieces, roasted pumpkin seeds, little boxes of raisins, or small bags of popcorn. Or bag tempting candy all together and go for non-food items like Halloween-themed pencils or stickers. Your diet will thank you, whether or not the neighborhood kids think your house is this year’s candy hotspot!

5) Finally, everyone always ends up with pounds of leftover candy after a fun night of trick-or-treating, but what to do with it all? Enjoy a piece as a small part of your day and either give the rest away to co-workers and friends, or, like I mentioned earlier, at least keep it out of sight and out of mind.

Don’t let candy haunt your diet. Remember overall to have a plan before heading off to different festivities this Halloween. If you’re going to indulge one night, compensate earlier by adding extra exercise and eating lighter meals. Have a fun, healthy, happy, and safe Halloween this season.

If you have any comments or suggestions about today’s podcast, or any fun health diet or fitness tip, please feel free to email me at LadyDietPodcast at dietdotcom.

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