Ugh! Halloween candy is here.

[Healthy_life 1,437]

Happy Halloween!

Another year of candy temptation. Wow, pre surgery I could not wait for the leftover halloween treats. Things have changed and it's a great feeling. I've managed not to hand out andy each year. I'm taking the grand kids trick or treating at the zoo.

What are your ways of dealing with the temptation? Anyone rocking costumes after weight loss? photos please!!!!

Edited October 28, 2018 by skinnylife

[FluffyChix 17,415]

Like you we just don't hand out candy. We usually go out to dinner somewhere, then come home and watch something like Rocky Horror.

[Healthy_life 1,437]

1 minute ago, FluffyChix said:

Like you we just don't hand out candy. We usually go out to dinner somewhere, then come home and watch something like Rocky Horror.

Love Rocky Horror~!

[FluffyChix 17,415]

Hehehe...but I do say in passing...one of my old candy faves was butterfinger. I figured out a pretty smashing work around:

Crush 2 Werther's sugar free Hard Caramels in a plastic bag and transwer to a small microwave bowl. Nuke in intervals and stir in between, until melted. When melted, stir in 2 tbps Peanut Butter.

Separate peanut butter candy into 4 pieces and place on parchment. Freeze for about 20-30 minutes.

While candy freezes, in separate bowl melt Lily's sugar free dark choco chips with a tiny bit of cream until thick and melty.

Drizzle with melted chocolate. Put back in the freezer for a butterfinger attack. Eat 1 at a time.

[CrankyMagpie 509]

My household will be handing out candy from one plastic pumpkin and little toys and temporary tattoos from another, so that kids with allergies still get something. I figure 1) the children didn't have weight loss surgery, and 2) I'm not willing to give up on my favorite holiday or let those kids down just because I did.

My partner will take any leftover candy to work. He might also be the one in charge of the pumpkin with the candy, although, honestly, I can say no to mini Snickers for an hour or two. (Or much longer, given how badly peanuts and that much sugar would likely settle for me right now.) It's fine.

[clsumrall 535]

Let’s do the time warp again. 🎼🎹

[elcee 3,341]

I moved 3km outside of a small country town in a street that has no small children and in a country where Halloween is only just catching on. It seems to have worked

[J San 1,071]

This will be my first and we will be handing out the candy. There is always leftovers but I'm pretty sure I'll be ok. I havn't really had any craving or temptation that came even close to getting the better of me as of yet.

[kimberlymi 113]

We have lived in our home for 25 yrs and have never handed out candy. We leave the deck lights off and watch horror movies on Halloween.

[GirthyGirl 79]

We will be handing out candy at my house. I just don’t eat any of it. As long as I don’t have that first piece I’m fine. It’s not a temptation for me. But if I take one bite all bets are off.

[Frustr8 7,886]

My trick? I am allergic to chocolate so I buy that to hand out. Now if you have Peanut Butter taffy- l8ke kisses I will. be following you most anywhere. But you, know since the remodel8ng,i may even lost a taste for that.

[elcee 3,341]

I think I need to be allergic to chocolate! The only thing it makes me break out in is fat!

[Frustr8 7,886]

Yep blubber,and fat, it is a pain. You,look at your naked body and think "This cannot,be ME! I have lost,over 50 pounds since The End of July, started out good, extremely,optomistic and then a couple of weeks in, I started saying I think I might,her a strictute, because I could not m9ve into the next diet sequence. And,the bariatric staff,kept,telling me, Early Days, you are just swollen, you'll be,just fine! Look,how nicely your weight is going,down! Yeah,People,but I have not had joy in THIS process!!
So on the 12th of October an repeat EGJ was done, and my,guess was correct, I do have a strictute of my stoma and,I have developed 5 additional ulcers, I had 1 already, Hector, asleep in the walled-off section of my stomach, two of the new ones are in my stomach -pouch, the,other 3 on the back wall of the jejunem, the area,of the small intestine now attached to,my stomach pouch. And PRECIOUS,POUCH is a cranky soul, she,only keeps down liquids, no purees, no soft solids. Since,i am doing,my best to get,there? Vitamins, minerals, Zofran for nausea, Carafate and omeprazole to calm down myself ulcers and company, sufficent,fluids and Protein Shakes, my surgeon and. his partner think I can go on with this liquid limited diet, but it will be 8 weeks Wednesday since,my surgery. And last Friday, the 26th, Dr Noria, my surgeon's partner, went down again and opened me another mm? but,told,me to continue my diet as it is, and we will be trying,once again, November 9th?. read a study from Cleveland Clinic and some people need to be reopened 3 or more times. Trying to remain upbeat and positive in such a position, wonder if i will require a stent or something there? But Happy Holloween, maybe,my TREAT will be a little late this year!😟🎃-😝🍀

[ProudGrammy 8,322]

On 10/28/2018 at 12:01 PM, skinnylife said:

ways of dealing with the temptation?

@skinnylife

It's hard to find but - I don't buy any candy that i like!!

ie i buy kit kat - my DH loves them. i don't!!! no prob

boooo!!

kathy

[elcee 3,341]

5 hours ago, proudgrammy said:

@skinnylife

It's hard to find but - I don't buy any candy that i like!!

ie i buy kit kat - my DH loves them. i don't!!! no prob

boooo!!

kathy

You don’t like Kit Kats? Lucky you

Did you know that there are now hundreds of flavours. In Melbourne we have a speciality shop that only sells Kit Kats