Well Easter is finally over. And like all candy-loving people who eat too much of it, I now breathe a sigh of relief that my temptations will (hopefully) lessen. Think about it. If you have a candy vice/addiction, the year is divided-up by holidays for you.
Let's start in the fall with the biggest candy holiday of all: Halloween. Most stores start marketing Halloween candy in September. So that's two whole months of taunting, teasing and tantalizing nostalgia stuffed inside a big pillowcase (the carryall of choice for the serious-we'll-hit-everyhouse-trick-or-treater). Some people actually stretch this Halloween candy consumption to Christmas. My theory is that you are either a binge eater-- scarfing all of it until it's out of sight; or a squirrel--rationing it daily for as long as it lasts. Either way, you have a small breather until Christmas. Don't pat yourself on the back just yet--you did have that Thanksgiving pie to tie you over.
Christmas is full if candy and sweets, remember "visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads"? What are sugar-plums anyway? In addition to candy canes, peppermint bark, peanut brittle and fudge, you now have cookies to fend-off. Once Christmas is over, you don't have long to wait before the Valentine's candy hearts and chocolates hit the shelves. After Valentine's day, it's just a skip and a hop until the Easter Bunny delivers those scrumptious eggs.
Then here we are, post Easter. No candy holidays until the fall. It's a great time to shed those winter candy pounds. Not only are the holidays cooperating, but we are heading into warmer weather. Hello fruit, salads, and exercise. Wish me luck, won't you? I have a good 4 months before the next candy holiday.
weight: sorry, still in my sugar coma--I'll weigh in tomorrow.
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