Re: I may be mean, but I'm gonna stay lean!

[Guest guest]

Bag? We used pillow cases.

I didn't used to be about candy. I was al about bread, pasta, rice--anything

butter would melt on. But it made a nice bargaining chip with my parents,

and later, my sister.

NOW, it would be about the candy. LOL!

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Re: I may be mean, but I'm gonna stay lean!

> In a message dated 11/2/03 1:24:17 PM Central Standard Time,

> tuesdynite@... writes:

>

> > It's the collecting part that's the most fun. Afterwards is

anti-climactic.

> >

> --------

>

> Wow, not for me - the collection of the stash was always exciting,

but

> never as good as actually HAVING all that candy that belonged to ME. I

used

> to be almost sick with excitement and anticipation on the afternoon of

> Halloween - imagining that bag of candy. I HATED having to go to the

doors and get

> it... heaven forbid if it was someone who actually made me TALK to them to

get

> the candy! Some of those folks who wanted to see my " trick " were

especially

> irritating. Didn't they know they were getting between me and the candy

and

> that was a dangerous thing?

> Raking through the pile of candy after getting home and gorging on

> it... it was a sensuous pleasure. Of course, it's apparent that my food

issues

> have been with me always!

>

> Beth

> Houston, TX

> VBG - Dr. Srungaram

> 05/31/00 - 314 lbs.

> 11/01/02 - Abdominoplasty

> 11/29/02 - 160 lbs.

> 5'10 "

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Same with me. When my hubby's out of town, lights go off, no candy

in house. When he's home, he insists on giving out candy to kids.

Grrrrrr. I was never a sweet eater, but if it is in my house, I would

eat it, especially chocolate stuff.

Even before weight loss surgery, I was anti sugar. Read the book

Sugar Blues when I was pregnant & vowed to keep my children from the

dreaded evil. LOL I would let them go trick or treating, but we had

separate bags for people we knew & folks we didn't know. When they

came home, folks we didn't know, ALL that candy got dumped. Then I'd

let them select a small -I mean small- amount of stuff from the bag

of known folks & the rest got nixed. They survivied.

Of course, you realize I was overboard on the overprotectiveness

thing. As a therapist I had worked with & therefore knew the reality

of so many folks who had been damaged by psycho folks giving out

dangerous stuff to kids that I went a bit over the bend in being

careful. LOL

Lorraine

> I buy no treats and give none out. I turn off all the lights inside

and don't

> answer the doorbell if I'm at home. Better yet, I take myself out

for a nice

> decaf at Caribou Coffee and read for 2-3 hours till the li'l

goblins have

> retreated and gone to bed. I don't feel guilty about that. It's

self-preservation.

> Of course, if you've got li'l goblins of your own, it may be

harder. But you

> can make a pact with a friend or nabor to have them accompany your

kids on

> their rounds, and when they get home, you can substitute the " bad "

treats (throw

> them out immediately so you're not tempted) for good ones, either

home-made,

> or sugar-free, or non-edibles. What kid wouldn't rather have some

super-duper

> toy than a bag full of candy? It's the collecting part that's the

most fun.

> Afterwards is anti-climactic. I remember as a kid, it was great

just to get to be

> someone OTHER than myself for a few hours.

>

> Carol A

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I find the entire idea behind Halloween, and what it stands for so heinous that

I never allowed my kids to go out and extort candy or anything else from the

neighbors. Call me scrooge or whatever, but my kids never suffered from the

lack of Halloween in their lives. They had masquerade parties that they went to

at other times of the year, and also had candy when I deemed it was okay for

them to have it. I join Carol in not participating. Not mean, and not as lean

as I was after my bounceback....despite not eating candy. But I'm still in my

size 6 pants...and size small tops. I just fill them out better!

Regards~

Jacque

I hate that, but it holds true. I'm single, and live in an area with

lots of those little goblins. I refuse to buy the candy and leave it at

my place! NO WAY!. So I'm the scrooge of Halloween . . oh well . . at

least I'm still thin . .he he.

3/7/2002

565/552/228

[Guest guest]

We did pretty well with Halloween. You may remember that we are all following

the South Beach way of eating (I refuse to say the " d " word) and it is

working well for the whole family. Basically it means we watch the glycemic

index

and eliminate all white things - sugar and white flour - while upping protein

and veggies. In other words, everyone else in the family now eats like me! It's

great.

I've lost a few pounds and several inches, my dh has lost 25 pounds, and my

almost 14-year-old son has lost 19 pounds and GROWN TWO INCHES TALLER in the

month we have been doing this. Needless to say he looks like a different kid

altogether!

Sooooo for Halloween we were going to get pencils with pumpkins on them to

hand out. BUT I waited too long to order them and buying them at the store would

have been pricey. (We live in a neighborhood with LOTS of kids). We finally

decided to hand out (gag, choke) grape bubble gum. No problem finding four

buckets of that!! We handed out 1405 pieces. Exact count. None of us was the

least

bit tempted to try that stuff.

When my daughter (age 9) and I got home with her haul, she bagged it in

5-piece baggies and labeled them by date. No one else is allowed to touch them

as

she knows EXACTLY what is in each bag and in what order each day she will eat

them. Funny kid. So it's not out in front of us every minute and we are not

tempted. I did get a box of Stover sf chocolates in case someone has a

weak moment.

So that's the report from this house. Good news all around.

hugs,

Ann

[Guest guest]

I played hookie. My husband and I went out to dinner and went to a

movie...no candy in the house...I just could not face it and neither

of us need it. LOL

Terri in Temecula

> No one (that I've noticed) has uttered the dreaded " H " word this

past week

> (??? unless I missed something????) I am referring to

Halloween. How

> brutal is this " holiday " to get through? Just wrapping up the

little treat bags

> and smelling the candy is an ordeal. Last year, at about one

year postop, I

> was still in that " honeymoon " phase where I had little appetite,

and not much

> taste for sweet things, so surviving Halloween unscathed wasn't a

problem.

> Well this year, as I approach my 2 year anniversary, things are

MUCH

> different. So I thought I would be a clever treatster and buy

only those candies

> that I could resist (and let me tell you, there isn't much that I

can resist).

> I actually felt GUILTY that I wasn't getting what I considered the

most

> choice and luscious candies for the kiddies (like Snickers and

Peanut Butter Cups

> and other decadent stuff). Yes, I felt MEAN, like I was letting

the team

> down! LOL! Well, I swallowed my guilt (better than swallowing

Peanut Chews)

> and grabbed another bag of Blow Pops (who eats that stuff

anyway????) This

> approach worked well for the 3 days the poison sat in my house

(just my pug

> Chloe sniffed the treat box), and I even survived bagging

everything without

> dipping in. But last night, at about 2 in the AM (the hour Sugar

Satan is at

> his most devilish), I woke up to answer nature's call and cracked

open a

> leftover treat-bag, and took a nip out of a Kit Kat bar (I don't

even LIKE those

> things! LMAO). So today I think I figured out what wore me

down: (,

> listen up, you will appreciate this): yesterday, for the first

time in weeks,

> I ate a Detour bar, with a big bowl of blueberries (my old lunch

menu).

> This was during a time I was having a real battle with nightime

eating, which

> has since gotten better. The funny thing is, I didn't enjoy the

Detour bar as

> much as I used to, but I think it got my sugar-jones a cookin' just

the same.

> Did I take a little detour, because of Detour. Is the name

prophetic? Or

> was I just finally possessed by the evil spirits eminating from

those Blow

> Pops?

>

> Next year, I may have to resort to stuffing the bags with items

that

> literally make me gag: like hard-boiled eggs. At least, if the

kids decide to take

> their Halloween revenge on me, the cooked eggs can't do much too

damage when

> hurled at my front door.

>

> How did everyone else survive last night?

>

> Lucille

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Well, I give you all alot of credit for not indulging at all. I did

indulge but in limited amounts and am OK with that. Heres what I did

to limit it: I don't have kids, so do not have to endure their

Halloween buckets living at my house, but I do enjoy giving it out to

the kids and seeing the little cuties in their costumes-tons of

spidermen and princesses this year... So, this year, I waited until 2

days before Halloween to buy the candy (less time in the house), had

hubby hold the candy bowl and give out most of the candy, and the

leftovers went to work with hubby on Monday. Over the 5 days the

candy was in the house, I probably had 3 or 4 mini fun sized Snickers

and a small pack of M & Ms, which I consider good in my book, as I do

not swear off sugar totally, just limit it. To limit the total

amount of candy I bought, we also had mini snack packs of pretzels.

Given a choice, most kids chose the candy over the pretzels-no

surprise there. I had not heard of the little stuffed bags

before...dollar store?

Cindy in VA

lap RNY 2/8/03

> No one (that I've noticed) has uttered the dreaded " H " word this

past week

> (??? unless I missed something????) I am referring to

Halloween. How

> brutal is this " holiday " to get through? Just wrapping up the

little treat bags

> and smelling the candy is an ordeal. Last year, at about one

year postop, I

> was still in that " honeymoon " phase where I had little appetite,

and not much

> taste for sweet things, so surviving Halloween unscathed wasn't a

problem.

> Well this year, as I approach my 2 year anniversary, things are

MUCH

> different. So I thought I would be a clever treatster and buy

only those candies

> that I could resist (and let me tell you, there isn't much that I

can resist).

> I actually felt GUILTY that I wasn't getting what I considered the

most

> choice and luscious candies for the kiddies (like Snickers and

Peanut Butter Cups

> and other decadent stuff). Yes, I felt MEAN, like I was letting

the team

> down! LOL! Well, I swallowed my guilt (better than swallowing

Peanut Chews)

> and grabbed another bag of Blow Pops (who eats that stuff

anyway????) This

> approach worked well for the 3 days the poison sat in my house

(just my pug

> Chloe sniffed the treat box), and I even survived bagging

everything without

> dipping in. But last night, at about 2 in the AM (the hour Sugar

Satan is at

> his most devilish), I woke up to answer nature's call and cracked

open a

> leftover treat-bag, and took a nip out of a Kit Kat bar (I don't

even LIKE those

> things! LMAO). So today I think I figured out what wore me

down: (,

> listen up, you will appreciate this): yesterday, for the first

time in weeks,

> I ate a Detour bar, with a big bowl of blueberries (my old lunch

menu).

> This was during a time I was having a real battle with nightime

eating, which

> has since gotten better. The funny thing is, I didn't enjoy the

Detour bar as

> much as I used to, but I think it got my sugar-jones a cookin' just

the same.

> Did I take a little detour, because of Detour. Is the name

prophetic? Or

> was I just finally possessed by the evil spirits eminating from

those Blow

> Pops?

>

> Next year, I may have to resort to stuffing the bags with items

that

> literally make me gag: like hard-boiled eggs. At least, if the

kids decide to take

> their Halloween revenge on me, the cooked eggs can't do much too

damage when

> hurled at my front door.

>

> How did everyone else survive last night?

>

> Lucille

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I always find it harder to resist things *after* a holiday. I went

to a big drugstore yesterday to scope out markdown decorations,

etc., and had to avert my eyes from the large collection of half-

priced Halloween candy. Somehow having it half off makes it much

harder to resist since it appeals to my love of a bargain, as well

as love of candy. I have the same problem after Easter. There's

also the bowls at work when everyone brings their leftovers. The

odd thing is, I'm resisting the candy reasonably well but doing

poorly with other forms of carbs. I think keeping my guard up about

one " food group " makes it easier to slip on others. I'm glad I've

got a support group meeting in a couple of days!

Celia

[Guest guest]

I use to get so frustrated about resisting stuff. I have a grandfather

that use to eat quite a bit of ice cream and never seemed to gain an

ounce. I would think of ice cream and felt like I gained 10 lbs. What I

realized is that in my attempts to avoid the one thing I was craving I

was eating tons of other stuff. I would eat chips, crackers, and other

high carb stuff. I keep having to remind myself that a carb is a carb is

a carb. I do occasionally indulge but I certainly don't eat the quantity

I use to before surgery.

Lori Owen - Denton, Texas

SRVG 7/16/01

Dr. Ritter/Dr. Bryce

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:48:56 -0000 " c_raia " writes:

> I always find it harder to resist things *after* a holiday. I went

> to a big drugstore yesterday to scope out markdown decorations,

> etc., and had to avert my eyes from the large collection of half-

> priced Halloween candy. Somehow having it half off makes it much

> harder to resist since it appeals to my love of a bargain, as well

> as love of candy. I have the same problem after Easter. There's

> also the bowls at work when everyone brings their leftovers. The

> odd thing is, I'm resisting the candy reasonably well but doing

> poorly with other forms of carbs. I think keeping my guard up about

>

> one " food group " makes it easier to slip on others. I'm glad I've

> got a support group meeting in a couple of days!

>

> Celia

>

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