It’s that time of year again people! The time of year when festive, ornate candies and treats seem to be everywhere we turn.
I tweeted the other day that I always say I’m going to give up candy for good but I always tend to come up with that brilliant idea around Halloween which is a BIG MISTAKE considering I have the world’s biggest sweet tooth.
However, I will say this, just because candy and treats are everywhere around you, doesn’t mean you’re excused from eating everything in sight!
Of course, this idea of making sure you don’t eat everything in sight is a year-round thing you should be doing anyhow, but for some reason holidays always get us in the “eating-spirit”. In my last post, I wrote about how we need to stray away from “mindless eating” so it’s a similar aspect in the sense that you’re eating more than you should/eating and you’re not even hungry, except in this case you KNOW you’re eating more than you should/too many unhealthy things.
I’m here to tell you that you CAN have that candy….just not as much as we would “ideally” like to consume. If you’re craving a candy you can have 1, but make sure you actually savor every single bite! Drill into your head that this is the only candy you can have for a couple days. This is seriously the ONLY thing that helps me keep my sweet-tooth at bay—well that, and the fact that it’s unhealthy on so many different levels to eat so much sugar!
Besides, studies even show after the first couple of bites of whatever food you are eating, your brain automatically tells you your craving has been fulfilled. This means that the last couple of bites don’t feel as great as they did when you first took a bite of your food, so this helps when trying to limit your sugar intake.
So while all these treats will be floating around, you will have read here how to combat the the desire of returning to the candy bowl for the “last” piece of candy. You only get 1 so make it last! Remember that!
-Chanel T.
