PUREfit: Trick or Treat: Halloween weight gain

Friday, October 22, 2010

Trick or Treat: Halloween weight gain

Halloween is a spooky time of year — especially for your waistline — which will give you a good scare when you can’t fit into your jeans a week after this sweet treat filled day. Not to mention Christmas is only 10 weeks way
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If you don’t want to give yourself a scare this Halloween season its important to follow these 5 tips to help you avoid an expanding waistline and keep your flat stomach.

Tip #1 – Drink Water

Drinking water before a meal will help to fill you up — the same works when you are tempted to dive into the candy bowl. Drinking fluids will help you feel full leaving less room for sugary treats.

Tip #2 – Don’t Hand Out Your Favorite Candy

Having your favorite candy in a bowl to hand out to the trick-or-treaters only leaves the temptation right in front of you making it harder for you to say no. Instead, pick out one of your least favorite candy’s to give out – leaving you less tempted to eat the leftovers. My alternative is to hand out mini puzzles, playdough or stickers!

Tip #3 – Keep the Candy Out of Sight

Out of mind….keeping the candy in another room, in a cupboard – in a place that is hard difficult for you to get to when you are sitting on the couch will keep you away from munching the night away – and leaving an empty bowl – a full tummy – and full of regrets.

Tip #4 – Workout the Morning of Halloween

Getting a good sweat in will help you stay focused on your goals — remind you of where you are going and why you are trying to get there. Sitting down and eating candy after a workout only defeats the purpose of a sweat session. Our time is valuable — why would you want to waste your workout for a Reeses?

Tip#5 – Halloween is One Night

If the stores by you are anything like the ones here — the Halloween candy has been in the aisles since the beginning of September. However, Halloween is only ONE night. Its not a month long adventure that allows you to eat candy every night leading up to the 31st of October. No — the candy is only meant for one night. So, keep the candy out of the house until that ONE night — allow yourself a piece or two of candy that night and then get rid of it — since Halloween is over.

Halloween can be a scary night — a night that can haunt you for the rest of your life — don’t let your candy binges be the reason why you turn as white as a ghost when you step on the scale — instead follow these five tips to ensure you have a fun yet scale friendly Halloween.

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