Trick or Treat: Steps to Make Your Halloween More Healthy
Halloween is a hard time to stay healthy—there’s candy everywhere! Your kids come home with it, your co-workers bring it in to work and by the end of the day, you’re inevitably left with half a bowl of candy at the front door. Not sure how to survive the holiday without packing on the pounds? Try these tactics for staying strong and cool in the face of nightmarish temptation:
- Buy Late: The closer to Halloween you buy candy, the better—it’s not sitting around your house for days in advance tempting you to try just one.
- Choose Candy You Don’t Like: Hate coconut? Load up on Mounds and Almond Joy.
- Plan Your Strategy: Start giving out more candy to each kid as the night wears on, sothere’s less left over.
- Manage the Kids’ Haul: When the candy comes home, work with your kids to decide what to do with it. Have them ick out their favorite 10 pieces and save the rest for lunches or parties.
- Keep Things in Perspective: Eating a little bit of candy on Halloween is OK—it’s constant overeating that can pile on the pounds. So, relax and enjoy a couple pieces of your favorite candy.
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