Eating Healthy This Halloween

By Dr. Margaret Lewin, Medical Director of Cinergy Health

Careful as we are all year, we seem to lose our inhibitions against junk food when Halloween rolls around – snacking on the sugar-laden treats we bought for neighbors’ children as well as the ones our own children bring home from their trick-or-treating. Here are some tips for resisting temptation:

Buy treats only a day or so before Halloween – so they’re not around long to tempt you
Keep the treats in an inconvenient, difficult-to-reach place till Halloween arrives
Buy treats which you don’t particularly like, making it easier to resist
Buy healthy mini-packs of

Raisins or other dried fruit
100% juice
Sugar-free hot chocolate mix
Trail mix
Cheese and crackers
Sugar-free gum

Buy non-edible treats such as

Stick-on temporary tattoos
Mini bottles of bubble bath or blow bubbles
Costume accessories such as wax false teeth or a stick-on mustache
Sidewalk chalk

Take your children out after dinner – when you’re not hungry
Go through the “goodie bag” when you arrive home – discarding any outrageously unhealthy treats or those with questionable packaging
Put the remaining edible treats in that same difficult-to-reach place – to be dispensed one at a time on a scheduled basis (such as dessert time)
When you yourself get that urge to indulge, take a look at your watch and wait ten minutes (if you’re lucky, you’ll get distracted and forget about the urge)
Set a date – maybe two weeks after Halloween – when you’ll dump the leftovers

So… plan ahead and – when it comes to the leftovers – think “waist” instead of “waste”!

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