Average Jane vs. the Halloween Candy

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For the last couple of months, I’ve been doing a pretty good job keeping my weight down. One of the cornerstones of that endeavor has been a studious avoidance of sugary snacks. Naturally, all that went out the window yesterday.

It turns out my new company likes to give its employees treats at holidays. Yesterday morning, we each received a little cup-shaped metal jack o’lantern filled with candy. It wasn’t that much candy: one each of a mini sized Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, Reese’s Pumpkin, Snickers, packet of M&Ms and a watermelon Jolly Rancher lollipop. I mowed through the entire thing, except for the lollipop (ick).

We have candy, cookies, and crackers made with excessive amounts of high
fructose corn syrup in our office kitchen all the time. Usually I just
ignore them. Yesterday, however, once I was on a roll I had to have a couple of the mini Snickers bars. When I get going with the sugar, I have very little self control.

Then there was our home Halloween candy: KitKat bars and Nestle Crunch nuggets in various flavors. I didn’t make it home until after dark, and thus missed most of our potential trick-or-treaters. Therefore, it didn’t seem to matter that I ate two of the KitKats and one each of the flavored Nestle Crunch squares.

There’s still a substantial amount of candy lingering in the bowl this morning, but I refuse to give in again…yet.

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4 responses to “Average Jane vs. the Halloween Candy”

November 1, 2005

Stacie

I can completely related to the problem of stopping once I’m started. Once that first bar is unwrapped, it’s like a free for all until the day is over.
Oh willpower, where art thou?

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November 2, 2005

Jenn

Is there anything worse than the call of the candy bowl? I think not.
The only reason I am able to resist temptation is that we don’t actually have any candy. When we went to buy cheap candy the day after Halloween, it was all gone and pretty much the only thing left at the store were Smarties. Ick.

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November 2, 2005

Suzanne

Want to hear something rather pathetic? My most important duty at my place of employment is to keep the office candy dish filled. I kid you not. I’m an important woman.
The dish sits on my desk. All day. Tempting and taunting. Taunting and tempting. Of course I tend to fill it with candies I particularly like. Because I’m a glutton that way.
It’s evil, I say.
Pure evil.

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November 4, 2005

Toby

Me too. Can totally relate. I bought “good” candy this year – chocolate. However, didn’t give it all away and have hidden the rest..well it’s out of site. Lesson learned – buy candy you don’t like!

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