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Sinful

Let's face it. Halloween is the beginning of the holiday feasting that leads to serious weight gain for many people.

Even before Halloween, I started breaking into the fun-size candy packages, taking a few to work everyday for that hunger/boredom pick-me-up, in the form of a yummy snack-sized piece of chocolate goodness. I'm not a crazy chocolate fan or anything, but if it's around, you can be pretty sure I'll want to eat it. The so-called seafood diet.

Now, at the end of the Halloween Day proper, I can already see a number of mistakes made this year (and apparently made year after year -WAY TO LEARN) that I will form into a post to remind myself to be less stupid better next year.

Mistake #1: Buying extra candy for the One-for-Them, One-for-Me Mentality.

We went to Costco and placed a MEGA pack of Halloween candy into our MEGA cart. I wondered aloud, "Should we get another one for us?" To which JP said, "Why not?" And that's how the second MEGA pack of Halloween candy landed in our MEGA cart. In retrospect, this was a VERY BAD IDEA.

Mistake #2: Buying candy that I like.

Had I decided to purchase a vat of Dots or Good 'N Plenty's, I might not have been so happy to stick a second MEGA pack into our cart. What's more, I wouldn't be tempted every time I passed that MEGA pack to grab a miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cup or Kit Kat or Snickers for a "small piece of chocolate". As I see it, I am doomed.

Mistake #3: Leaving the house on Halloween night for an extended period of time, thereby missing Trick-or-Treaters and those who would otherwise eat our candy.

Why is it that every year, we buy a metric ton of candy, only to end up being out somewhere and missing the main waves of children, leaving us with an embarassing excess of candy? Tonight, we decided last minute to drive to my in-laws who live close by so they could see Joles in all of her GROWR Tiger Glory. Of course, we ended up coming home later than expected, to a dark house which looked like we were pretending not to be home to not have to give out candy. IF ONLY THEY KNEW. Candy! Take it! All of it!

Mistake #4: Believing in the snack-size candy fallacy (the small fun size pieces are not neglible in calories).

It's way too easy to think nothing about popping several of these babies since they are so small, they probably aren't many calories. In actuality, eating 2 or 3 of these is like eating a full-size candy bar, and everyone knows what can happen to your hips after eating an extra full-sized candy bar every day. NOT PRETTY.

Mistake #5: Believing in the pregnancy fallacy (Who cares? I'm pregnant!).

Despite being massive already, I don't really need these extra empty calories and it's much harder coming off than coming on! Get a hold of yourself, woman!

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