Jenn’s 3 Tricks to Enjoy Treats This Halloween | Jenn Edden Coaching

Dear friend,

Happy October Is Almost Gone!

I can hardly believe it myself but it’s happening….and so is the beginning of the holiday season starting with Halloween.

This particular holiday always brings on the SUGAR and given that I consider myself a recovering sugar a holic + sugar cravings expert, ahem,  I felt the urge to offer tried and true tips as the sugar craze begins!

Now if you happen to be immune to all the EXTRA sugar lining the shelves of pretty much every store in the United States then good for you. This one’s for all those who see it, buy it, bring it home, swear they won’t eat it and then find themselves in a sugar coma of some sort and don’t know how to get back out quickly…

YES?

If you have kids like I do you may have prepared yourself for the sugar rush and all the other fun stuff that goes along with feeding kids WAY too much sugar in a short period of time….also known as trick or treating!

 

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I don’t mean to be the party pooper by any stretch of the imagination on such a fun day of ghouls, goblins and professional football players (yeah that is what my son chose to be this year!!) after all I enjoy a good treat now and again for sure!

In fact I was the kid who ate rows of oreo cookies like it was going out of style pretty much every week and on Halloween and well into November I would eat myself into a sugar coma. Looking back I think I even went trick or treating in college so I could get my fix for free!!

But now as a mom of 3 kids I’ve come to realize that there is a time for eating candy and enjoying the fun that goes along with wearing a costume & trick or treating and then there is a TIME TO STOP.

I would like to focus on the STOPPING part today because that is where most of us have trouble – yes?

Soooo here are my 3 sweet tips to make this Halloween (and holiday season) more of a TREAT then a TRICK on you ….when 5 days after Halloween you can’t get your hand out of the left over candy bowl yet you feel so anxious and frustrated you can’t bring yourself to stop.

I’ve been there waaaaaay too many Halloweens so trust me, I know.

 

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JENN’S 3 SWEET TIPS:

1. Get all the candy sitting out in the open at your house PUT AWAY until the trick or treaters are showing up + when they’re gone chuck the rest.

I know it used to be a habit of mine to break out the candy 3 weeks early and leave some in a little bowl on the kitchen table thinking somehow that would make my house more “festive”!

Stop the temptation. Get it out of your face up until the moment the trick or treaters arrive.

2. Halloween Day – eat a really good high protein breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Focus on you AND your kids eating good real food and let the candy be the “icing on the cake”. There is NO way that one day of eating candy can cause you to gain weight or make you feel that miserable..really. Have them enjoy the day and MOVE ONE.

Which brings me to my next tip…

3. The Day After Halloween – Have your kids and YOU pick your favorite 10 candies + get rid of the rest.

Yup – make it less if you think it won’t cause a civil war 🙂 and DUMP THE REST… slowly. They may not even notice they’re gone over time and for sure you will be so grateful you did the same for yourself. The last thing you need is to have your kids or you eating candy, like a slow IV drip, for the next 2 weeks. Get it out of sight, out of mind, out of body! You will be SO happy you did. After all sugar stores as belly fat very quickly and there are no amount of ab workouts that are making that go away. Abs are made in the kitchen baby!

And if that wasn’t enough reason sugar causes anxiousness in us and hyperactivity in kids but it ALSO compromises the immune system (why do you think everyone always “catches” the flu in January — too much sugar perhaps?). The last thing we all want is finding ourselves or our kids laid up with yet another cold or worse, the flu.

 

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I truly hope this Halloween finds you and your family enjoying your TREATS without any tricks.

xoxo

P.S. Yummy Earth brand treats have awesome chemical and dye free candy that are quite delish!